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- Uses 20 years of TIMSS data to investigate educational inequality in a novel way
- Uses a consistent measure of socioeconomic status (SES) over the 20-year period of TIMSS data
- Relates trends in educational inequality to the larger macroeconomic context
Part of the book series: IEA Research for Education (IEAR, volume 5)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This open access book focuses on trends in educational inequality using twenty years of grade 8 student data collected from 13 education systems by the IEA’s Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) between 1995 and 2015. While the overall positive association between family socioeconomic status (SES) and student achievement is well documented in the literature, the magnitude of this relationship is contingent on social contexts and is expected to vary by education system. Research on how such associations differ across societies and how the strength of these relationships has changed over time is limited. This study, therefore, addresses an important research and policy question by examining changes in the inequality of educational outcomes due to SES over this 20-year period, and also examines the extent to which the performance of students from disadvantaged backgrounds has improved over time in each education system.
Education systems generally aim to narrow theachievement gap between low- and high-SES students and to improve the performance of disadvantaged students. However, the lack of quantifiable and comprehensible measures makes it difficult to assess and monitor the effect of such efforts. In this study, a novel measure of SES that is consistent across all TIMSS cycles allows students to be categorized into different socioeconomic groups. This measure of SES may also contribute to future research using TIMSS trend data.
Readers will gain new insight into how educational inequality has changed in the education systems studied and how such change may relate to the more complex picture of macroeconomic changes in those societies.
Keywords
- Educational inequality
- Large-scale assessment
- Educational achievement
- Socioeconomic status
- TIMSS
- Trends in Mathematics and Science Study
- Educational outcomes
- Academic achievement
- TIMSS data
- SES
- Open access
- Achievement gaps
- Macroeconomic context
- Mathematics achievement
- Science achievement
- International large-scale assessments
- Trend analysis
- Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
- IEA
Authors and Affiliations
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American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC, USA
Markus Broer, Yifan Bai, Frank Fonseca
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Socioeconomic Inequality and Educational Outcomes
Book Subtitle: Evidence from Twenty Years of TIMSS
Authors: Markus Broer, Yifan Bai, Frank Fonseca
Series Title: IEA Research for Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11991-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-11990-4Published: 27 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-11993-5Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-11991-1Published: 15 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2366-1631
Series E-ISSN: 2366-164X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 83
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Sociology of Education, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Social Structure, Social Inequality