This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have typically been overlooked in the literature: the implications of the standardization of test scores for inequality indices, and the possible sample selection...
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2011/11/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS5873
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2011/11/01
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The measurement of educational inequality : achievement and opportunity
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test score
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