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The measurement of educational inequality : achievement and opportunity (English)

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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Ferreira,Francisco H. G.; Gignoux,Jeremie D..

The measurement of educational inequality : achievement and opportunity (English). Paper is funded by the Knowledge for Change Program (KCP)|Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5873 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/682131468162543606

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