Development of a Classroom Environment Scale in Hong Kong |
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| Authors: | Linda Croxford |
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| Affiliation: | 1. ITS – Institute for Applied Social Sciences , University of Nijmegen , the Netherlands;2. GION – Groningen Institute for Educational Research , University of Groningen , the Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | Free-meal entitlement (FME) is being used as a measure of the socio-economic characteristics of Scottish schools for the purposes of target-setting. This article examines the association between FME and the socio-economic circumstances of schools using a national survey of school-leavers. It also evaluates the extent to which FME provides a surrogate for socio-economic status in predicting attainment. It finds that FME is an inconsistent measure of poverty, and is only a partial proxy for socio-economic circumstances. It concludes that school comparisons using FME may give a spurious impression of validity. |
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