The Measurement of Educational Inequality : Achievement and Opportunity

Two related measures of educational inequality are proposed: 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...

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Main Authors: Ferreira, Francisco H.G., Gignoux, Jérémie
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23539