Conference:
ECER 2010
Format:
Symposium Paper
Session Information
09 SES 11 A, Social Disparities in Educational Research (part 3)
Symposium, Continued from 09 SES 10 A
Time:
2010-08-27
14:45-16:15
Room:
P674, Porthania
Chair:
Tobias C. Stubbe
Discussant:
Pierre Foy
Contribution
Extensive research has clearly established a positive relationship between family socioeconomic status (SES) and academic achievement(Sirin, 2005; White, 1982). This relationship is referred to in the literature as a socioeconomic gradient because it is gradual and increases across the range of SES. Willms (2002, 2003) has developed a methodological framework for studying socioeconomic gradients. This paper applies the socioeconomic gradient framework to PIRLS 2006 data of countries in Eastern Europe. Specifically, it proposes a measure of family SES and evaluates critical hypotheses for policy research regarding socioeconomic gradients in reading achievement. The hypotheses are evaluated with hierarchical linear models (HLM). The results help to understand how achievement disparities related to family background are configured and can be shaped at the within- and between-country level.
Method
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Spain, Sweden
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