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Hemmerechts, Kenneth; Agirdag, Orhan; Kavadias, Dimokritos – Educational Review, 2017
In this article, we explore the relationship between parental literacy activities with the child, socio-economic status (SES) and reading literacy. We draw upon the Bourdieusian theory of habitus development to explore this relationship. Multilevel analyses of a survey of 43,870 pupils (with an average age of 10 years) in 10 Western European…
Descriptors: Correlation, Socioeconomic Status, Elementary School Students, Literacy
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Byrne, Barbara M.; van de Vijver, Fons J. R. – International Journal of Testing, 2014
In cross-cultural research, there is a tendency for researchers to draw inferences at the country level based on individual-level data. Such action implicitly and often mistakenly assumes that both the measuring instrument and its underlying construct(s) are operating equivalently across both levels. Based on responses from 5,482 college students…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals), Cross Cultural Studies, Structural Equation Models