When: Thursday, 20 October 2022, 1-2 pm CET
Where: Online, Zoom
International large-scale assessments such as PISA are important data sources to access the development of skills among students. Thanks to it, it is now widely known that students’ achievements differ by the social background of their parents, particularly by parental education, and that this link is more pronounced in some than in others countries. However, as these data mainly describe the situation at a specific age or a stage in the educational career, it is not possible to identify when and why inequalities emerge, and how it changes over time. Consequently, it offers limited evidence for policymakers interested in reducing such inequalities.
In the framework of the project Development of Inequalities in Child Educational Achievement: A Six Country Study (DICE project), scholars explored different data sources to get insights on cross-national differences in causes of achievement inequality in primary and secondary school. Their results will be presented in this webinar, followed by a panel discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of several modes of cross-national comparisons in describing and explaining inequality in achievement.
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Speakers
- Thorsten Schneider, Professor of Sociology - Comparative analysis of contemporary societies, Leipzig University
- Anne Solaz, Senior Researcher at the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED).
Panellists
- Gary Pollock, Professor of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University.
- Silke Schneider, Deputy Head of the team Questionnaire Design and Evaluation at the Survey Design and Methodology Unit, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.
- Francesco Avvisati, Education and Skills Analyst at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
- Neil Kaye, Research Fellow at CLOSER, UCL Social Research Institute.