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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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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