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Longitudinal and Cross-Country Measurement Invariance of the PISA Home Possessions Scale
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Lee, Selene Sunmin – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Measuring socioeconomic status (SES) is very important in educational research, as researchers often use this information to contextualize the results of an assessment or to control for SES when analyzing the relationship between academic achievement and other variables. However, any cross-country comparisons using SES data from international…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Foreign Countries
Critiques of Socio-Economic School Compositional Effects: Are They Valid?
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Sciffer, Michael G.; Perry, Laura B.; McConney, Andrew – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
School socio-economic compositional (SEC) effects have been influential in educational research predicting a range of outcomes and influencing public policy. However, some recent studies have challenged the veracity of SEC effects when applying residualised-change and fixed effects models and simulating potential measurement errors in hierarchical…
Descriptors: School Demography, Socioeconomic Status, Socioeconomic Influences, Context Effect
Cultural, Social, and Economic Capital Constructs in International Assessments: An Evaluation Using Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling
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Caro, Daniel H.; Sandoval-Hernández, Andrés; Lüdtke, Oliver – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2014
The article employs exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) to evaluate constructs of economic, cultural, and social capital in international large-scale assessment (LSA) data from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2006 and the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2009. ESEM integrates the…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Cultural Capital, Social Capital, Economic Factors
Comparing OECD PISA Reading in English to Other Languages: Identifying Potential Sources of Non-Invariance
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Asil, Mustafa; Brown, Gavin T. L. – International Journal of Testing, 2016
The use of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) across nations, cultures, and languages has been criticized. The key criticisms point to the linguistic and cultural biases potentially underlying the design of reading comprehension tests, raising doubts about the legitimacy of comparisons across economies. Our research focused…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Reading Achievement, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students
Household Possessions Indices as Wealth Measures: A Validity Evaluation
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Traynor, Anne; Raykov, Tenko – Comparative Education Review, 2013
In international achievement studies, questionnaires typically ask about the presence of particular household assets in students' homes. Responses to the assets questions are used to compute a total score, which is intended to represent household wealth in models of test performance. This study uses item analysis and confirmatory factor analysis…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Academic Achievement, Validity, Psychometrics
Measuring the Socio-Economic Background of Students and Its Effect on Achievement on PISA 2000 and PISA 2003
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Schulz, Wolfram – Online Submission, 2005
One of the consistent findings of educational research studies is the effect of the students' family socio-economic background on their learning achievement. Consequently, international comparative studies emphasis the role of socio-economic background for determining learning outcomes. In particular, PISA results have been used to describe how…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Family Environment