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Frank Fonseca
Social Structure, Social Inequality
Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law
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A Review of the Literature on Socioeconomic Status and Educational Achievement
The foundations of socioeconomic inequities and the educational outcomes of efforts to reduce gaps in socioeconomic status are of great interest to researchers around the world, and narrowing the achievement g...
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Socioeconomic Inequality and Educational Outcomes: An Introduction
International large-scale assessments may be used to understand differences in average student performance across countries over time. Differences in achievement are associated with students’ background charac...
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Trends in Socioeconomic Achievement Gaps in the Macroeconomic Context: Discussion and Future Research
Using the 20 years of comparable data collected by the IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), this study aimed to identify and describe possible relationships between trends in th...
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Socioeconomic Achievement Gaps: Trend Results for Education Systems
This study compared the SES achievement gaps of 13 education systems in both mathematics and science over time. Each education system was initially categorized as either a system with “increasing SES achieveme...
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Methodology: Constructing a Socioeconomic Index for TIMSS Trend Analyses
To assess education system trends in the inequality of educational outcomes, a robust socioeconomic index for TIMSS trend analysis is needed. This chapter begins by outlining the TIMSS data and sample design, ...
