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Does Early Tracking Affect Learning Inequalities? Revisiting Difference-in-Differences Modeling Strategies with International Assessments
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Contini, Dalit; Cugnata, Federica – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2020
The development of international surveys on children's learning like PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS--delivering comparable achievement measures across educational systems--has revealed large cross-country variability in average performance and in the degree of inequality across social groups. A key question is whether and how institutional differences…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Scores, Family Characteristics
Distributional Properties of the PIRLS-Home Resource for Learning Scale and Observed Effects on Reading Achievement: Are Measurements of Educational Inequalities by Latent Indices without Bias?
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Walzebug, Anke; Kasper, Daniel – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2018
In "Progress in International Reading Literacy Study" (PIRLS) educational inequalities are measured, amongst others, through the relationship between students' reading achievements and the home resource for learning (HRL) scale. By applying the partial credit model and using the WLE estimates for the person parameters it is accepted that…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment