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Mafalda Campos; Nurullah Eryilmaz; Rolf Strietholt – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2025
Background: Comparative educational research has studied inequality in educational outcomes through large-scale assessments like PISA and TIMSS, by identifying achievement gaps within social groups (e.g., gender, parental education, and immigrant gaps) to inform investment in intervention programs and educational policies. However, the focus of…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Equal Education, Gender Differences, Parent Background
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Rožman, Mojca; Liaw, Yuan-Ling; Chen, Minge – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2023
Background: The global outbreak of the novel COVID-19 virus presented a significant threat to students' well-being across the globe. In this paper, we construct a measure of student psychological distress related to COVID-19 disruption. We then examine the variation in students' psychological distress as a function of student demographic…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Predictor Variables, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Michael, Demos; Kyriakides, Leonidas – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2023
Background: Research has shown that students from socially disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to have lower academic performance compared to children from better-off families. However, the way that socioeconomic status (SES) influences student learning outcomes has not yet been fully examined. Thus, this study explores the indirect effects…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Courtney, Matthew Gordon Ray; Hernández-Torrano, Daniel; Karakus, Mehmet; Singh, Neha – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2023
Much debate exists concerning the factorial dimensionality of student well-being. We contribute to this debate by drawing on PISA 2018 data from a total of 61,722 students, 2528 schools, and nine countries. For our investigation, we test multiple associated measurement models for convergent, discriminant, and concurrent validity, model fit, and…
Descriptors: Well Being, Factor Analysis, Goodness of Fit, Life Satisfaction
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Tse, Shek Kam; Xiao, Xiao-yun – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2014
Background: This study examined the impact of the reading-related affective factors "home environment" and school "environment" on predicting the likelihood of students being either high-proficiency or low-proficiency readers. Data from 3,875 Hong Kong SAR Grade 4 students participating in an international comparative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Reading Skills