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| Other authors / contributors: | Bai, Yifan, author.
Fonseca, Frank, author.
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| ISBN: | 9783030119911
3030119912
9783030119928
3030119920
9783030119935
3030119939
3030119904
9783030119904
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file
PDF
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references.
Open Access.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 20, 2019).
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| Summary: | This open-access book focuses on trends in educational inequality using twenty years of grade 8 student data collected from 13 education systems by the IEAs Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) between 1995 and 2015. While the overall positive association between family socioeconomic status (SES) and student achievement is well documented in the literature, the magnitude of this relationship is contingent on social contexts and is expected to vary by education system. Research on how such associations differ across societies and how the strength of these relationships has changed over time is limited. This study, therefore, addresses an important research and policy question by examining changes in the inequality of educational outcomes due to SES over this 20-year period, and also examines the extent to which the performance of students from disadvantaged backgrounds has improved over time in each education system. Education systems generally aim to narrow the achievement gap between low- and high-SES students and to improve the performance of disadvantaged students. However, the lack of quantifiable and comprehensible measures makes it difficult to assess and monitor the effect of such efforts. In this study, a novel measure of SES that is consistent across all TIMSS cycles allows students to be categorized into different socioeconomic groups. This measure of SES may also contribute to future research using TIMSS trend data. Readers will gain new insight into how educational inequality has changed in the education systems studied and how such change may relate to the more complex picture of macroeconomic changes in those societies.
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| Other form: | Print version: Broer, Markus. Socioeconomic inequality and educational outcomes. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019] 3030119904 9783030119904
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| Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-3-030-11991-1
10.1007/978-3-030-11
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