Issues in the Conceptualisation and Measurement of Socioeconomic Background: Do Different Measures Generate Different Conclusions?
Issues in the Conceptualisation and Measurement of Socioeconomic Background: Do Different Measures Generate Different Conclusions?
复制标题
社会经济背景的概念化和测量中的问题：不同的测量会产生不同的结论吗？
DOI：
10.1007/s11205-010-9741-1
复制
发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
G. Marks
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
G. Marks
父母的职业和教育被广泛用于分析教育中的社会经济不平等以及随后的社会和经济结果。本文的目的是检验衡量社会经济背景的不同方法是否会实质性地改变关于学生成绩社会经济不平等的跨国差异的实质性结论。父亲职业群体的影响在各国基本一致，在许多国家，有教师背景的学生得分很高。虽然母亲接受过职业教育的学生的相对表现在各国之间存在差异，但母亲受教育群体的学生表现在各国之间非常相似。尽管存在这些差异，对父亲和母亲的职业和教育的连续测量，以及由这四个指标和其他指标组合组成的综合测量，在学生表现的社会经济不平等方面得出了相似但不相同的国家排序。然而，通常的单一指标衡量，母亲的教育和父亲的职业并没有显示出特别高的对应关系，跨国家。在理论和实证的基础上，首选的措施是父母的职业和教育的组合。
Parental occupation and education are used extensively in the analysis of socioeconomic inequalities in education and subsequent social and economic outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to examine if different ways of measuring socioeconomic background substantially alter substantive conclusions on cross-national differences in socioeconomic inequalities in student achievement. The effects of father’s occupational group are largely consistent across countries, with students from teaching backgrounds scoring very highly in many countries. Student performance by mother’s educational group is quite similar across countries although the relative performance of students whose mothers completed vocational education differs between countries. Notwithstanding these differences, continuous measures of father’s and mother’s occupation and education, and composite measures comprising combinations of these four indicators and additional indicators produce similar, but not identical, orderings of countries in terms of socioeconomic inequalities in student performance. However common single indicator measures, mother’s education and father’s occupation do not show a particularly high correspondence, cross-nationally. On theoretical and empirical grounds, the preferred measure is a composite of both parents’ occupation and education.