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ERIC Number: EJ1293956
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 31
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ISSN: EISSN-2196-0739
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School-Level Inequality Measurement Based Categorical Data: A Novel Approach Applied to PISA
Large-scale Assessments in Education, v9 Article 9 2021
This paper introduces a new method to measure school-level inequality based on Item Response Theory (IRT) models. Categorical data collected by large-scale assessments poses diverse methodological challenges hinder measuring inequality due to data truncation and asymmetric intervals between categories. I use family possessions data from PISA 2015 to exemplify the process of computing the measurement and develop a set of country-level mixed-effects linear regression models comparing the predictive performance of the novel inequality measure with school-level Gini coefficients. I find school-level inequality is negatively associated with learning outcomes across many non-European countries.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Program for International Student Assessment
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