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Socioeconomic Inequality and Educational Outcomes : Evidence from Twenty Years of TIMSS.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Broer, Markus.
Other Authors: Bai, Yifan., Fonseca, Frank.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:IEA Research for Education Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Socioeconomic Inequality and Educational Outcomes
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1: Socioeconomic Inequality and Educational Outcomes: An Introduction
  • References
  • Chapter 2: A Review of the Literature on Socioeconomic Status and Educational Achievement
  • 2.1 Socioeconomic Status and Related Constructs and Measures
  • 2.2 Family SES and Student Achievement
  • 2.3 Differences in Education Systems and Changes Over Time
  • 2.3.1 Homogeneous Versus Heterogeneous
  • 2.3.2 Centralized Versus Decentralized
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Methodology: Constructing a Socioeconomic Index for TIMSS Trend Analyses
  • 3.1 TIMSS Data and Sample Characteristics
  • 3.2 Construction of a Proxy Measure for Socioeconomic Status
  • 3.2.1 Components of the SES* Measure
  • 3.2.2 Multiple Imputation of Missing Values
  • 3.2.3 The SES* Index
  • 3.2.4 Defining High- and Low-SES* Groups
  • 3.3 Analytic Approach
  • 3.3.1 Plausible Values and Imputed Datasets
  • 3.3.2 Measuring Educational Inequality
  • 3.3.3 Country-Level Indicators in the Educational Systems and the Macroeconomic Context
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Socioeconomic Achievement Gaps: Trend Results for Education Systems
  • 4.1 Overall Findings
  • 4.1.1 Increasing SES* Achievement Gap
  • 4.1.2 Decreasing SES* Achievement Gap
  • 4.2 Education System Specific Findings
  • 4.2.1 Australia
  • 4.2.2 Hong Kong
  • 4.2.3 Hungary
  • 4.2.4 Islamic Republic of Iran
  • 4.2.5 The Republic of Korea
  • 4.2.6 Lithuania
  • 4.2.7 New Zealand
  • 4.2.8 Norway
  • 4.2.9 Russian Federation
  • 4.2.10 Singapore
  • 4.2.11 Slovenia
  • 4.2.12 Sweden
  • 4.2.13 United States
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Trends in Socioeconomic Achievement Gaps in the Macroeconomic Context: Discussion and Future Research
  • 5.1 Summary of the Findings.
  • 5.2 Relating the Findings to Country-Level Indicators in the Educational Systems and the Macroeconomic Context
  • 5.2.1 Tentative Pattern 1: Reductions in the Achievement Gap Tend to Accompany Improvements in Overall TIMSS Performance
  • 5.2.2 Tentative Pattern 2: Education Systems That Observed Increases in Achievement Gaps Tend to be Decentralized
  • 5.2.3 Tentative Pattern 3: Education Systems That Reduced Investment in Education Tended to Observe an Increased Mathematics A...
  • 5.3 Limitations of the Study and Recommendations for Future Research
  • 5.4 What Have We Learned from Twenty Years of TIMSS Data?
  • References
  • Appendix Sensitivity Check
  • A.1 Index Sensitivity Check
  • A.2 Cut-off Sensitivity Check
  • References.

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