The Influence of Family Capital on Academic Achievement of Rural Students and its Policy Implications —Based on the Mediating Effect of Boarding Choice
Under the background of urbanization, a large number of rural students choose to study and board in urban schools due to the multiple impacts of population mobility in rural areas and the difference in the quality of education in urban and rural schools. However, influenced by factors such as family capital level and boarding choice, rural students’ academic performance presents differences, reflecting the uneven quality of educational outcomes. Therefore, based on the perspective of family capital theory and combined with the data of China’s education tracking survey, this study uses structural equation model to deeply analyze the mechanism of family capital’s influence on rural students’ academic performance under the mediating effect of boarding choice. It is found that on the one hand, family capital has a significant impact on rural students’ academic performance directly; on the other hand, family social capital and family cultural capital have the most significant impact on rural students’ academic performance by influencing their choice of boarding. Furthermore, the paper puts forward countermeasures and suggestions from the aspects of improving the cultural capital of rural families and the quality of boarding schools.