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Yeseul Choi; JeeHun Sung – Youth & Society, 2024
This study aimed to compare key predictors of academic resilience in the distinctive socio-cultural contexts of South Korea and the United States, employing a machine-learning-based random forest technique. Using PISA 2018 data, we focused on students in the bottom 25% of family socioeconomic status, totaling 1,654 in South Korea and 1,175 in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Soh, Kay Cheng – New Horizons in Education, 2012
Background: In PISA 2009, seven East Asian countries rank high among the 65 participating countries, but some of the differences among the seven countries are small to be of substantive meaning. Aims: This paper is an attempt to fine tune the comparisons for better understanding of the situation in East Asian. Sample: Data of the seven East Asian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Effect Size, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement