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Xu, Jun; Hampden-Thompson, Gillian – Comparative Education Review, 2012
We assess explanations for the associations between cultural capital (especially cultural activities and cultural possessions) and educational performance of schooled adolescents in 22 Western industrialized countries based on data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). We further ascertain variations in the effect of…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Models
Gibbons, Stephen; McNally, Sandra – Centre for Economic Performance, 2013
This report provides an overview and discussion of the past decade of academic evidence on the causal effects of resources in schooling on students' outcomes. Early evidence lacked good strategies for estimating the effects of schools resources, leading many people to conclude that spending more on schools had no effect. More recent evidence using…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Evidence, Outcomes of Education, Intervention