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Measuring Student Home Background in Large Cross-National Studies: Conceptual and Methodological Issues

Mon, April 16, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Vancouver Convention Centre, Floor: First Level, West Room 116&117

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In this session we explore multiple perspectives on how to construct and employ valid and reliable measures of student socioeconomic status (SES) in conducting educational research with large cross-national datasets like PIRLS, PISA, and TIMSS. Our objective is to describe and inform current research in this area. The session features both conceptual and empirical work and includes participants from diverse institutions in the United States and Europe. After a review and critique of recent research using cross-national data, we present two empirically oriented papers that seek to inform the measurement of student SES in TIMSS and PIRLS. The fourth and final paper engages with sociological theories that have contributed significantly to the conceptualization and measurement of home background in cross-national studies.

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