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Autor*innen: Gerecht, Marius; Schuster, Alexander
Titel: Dokumentarische Aufbereitung: Chapter 05 - Social Background. Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015 Field Trial - Core 6, Context
Erscheinungsvermerk: Frankfurt am Main: Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung ; Forschungsdatenzentrum Bildung, 2016
DOI: 10.7477/150:162:1
Dokumenttyp: 5. Arbeits- und Diskussionspapiere; Dokumentarischer Beitrag
Sprache: Englisch
Abstract (english): This study includes a fraction of the context assessment in the PISA 2015 field trial that covers topics of "Social Background": Assessing and measuring students' social background characteristics and relating their background data to achievement is pervasive in international large-scale assessments (ILSAs). Our review focuses on two strains of research: the use of socio-economic status (SES) on the one hand, and the use of cultural and social capital on the other. With regard to SES, we provide a brief overview of theoretical concepts, contrasting unidimensional and multidimensional views. We discuss the variety of measures of SES that researchers use in their studies, highlighting the lack of consensus on their conceptual meaning and measurement. We then outline how key indicators of SES (e.g., parental occupation, parental education, parental income) are assessed in ILSAs. This is followed by a section on the quality of students' reports of parent's SES characteristics. With regard to cultural and social capital we discuss the mechanisms that underlie the relationship between social background and students' achievement. In addition, we give a brief overview of research applying the theory of cultural and social capital in the context of ILSAs. Finally, practical implications for the assessment of social background characteristics in ILSA are discussed, and recommendations are offered. Some of these background characteristics were tested in the PISA 2015 field trial.
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