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Sandsør, Astrid Marie Jorde; Zachrisson, Henrik Daae; Karoly, Lynn A.; Dearing, Eric – Educational Researcher, 2023
We study a decade of achievement gaps for fifth-, eighth-, and 10th-grade students in Norway using administrative population data. Norway is a wealthy and egalitarian country with a homogeneous educational system, yet achievement gaps between students at the 90th and 10th percentiles of parental income and between students whose parents have at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Gap, Grade 5, Grade 8
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Robinson-Cimpian, Joseph P. – Educational Researcher, 2014
This article introduces novel sensitivity-analysis procedures for investigating and reducing the bias that mischievous responders (i.e., youths who provide extreme, and potentially untruthful, responses to multiple questions) often introduce in adolescent disparity estimates based on data from self-administered questionnaires (SAQs). Mischievous…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Bias, Adolescents, Questionnaires