Using Cross-National Student Assessment Data to Explore Human Flourishing from the Perspective of Educational Equality

• In Event: Education for Human Flourishing: Perspectives Across Cultures and Disciplines

Abstract

How do we use current student assessment data to monitor whether all students are flourishing through education? Much of the research on educational equality has focused on the magnitude of educational inequality, for example by examining the SES achievement gap or the SES gradient, but less attention is given to educational (in)equality for whom.

Perspective(s) or theoretical framework:
Jencks’s (1988) typologies of conceptions of equal opportunity serve as the theoretical underpinnings of this presentation. Jencks highlighted the different conceptions of equal opportunity, meritocratic distribution, compensatory distribution, and equal distribution of resources, and argued that these different conceptions would have different practical consequences, as they may shape policy makers’ choices and teachers’ behaviors in the classroom.

Author

• Yuko Nonoyama-Tarumi, Musashi University