What should an index of school segregation measure?

Oxford Review of Education

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 643-668

  Allen, Rebecca ^a   Vignoles, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 35148835542     PISSN: 03054985     EISSN: 14653915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03054980701366306     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Blackburn, R. M., Jarman, J. & Siltanen, J. (1993) The analysis of occupational gender segregation over time and place: considerations of measurement and some new evidence, Work, Employment & Society, 7(3), 335-362.
2. Bourdieu, P. (1997) The forms of capital, in: A. H. Halsey (Ed.) Education: culture, economy and society (Oxford, Oxford University Press).
3. Bowe, R., Ball, S. & Gewirtz, S. (1994) 'Parental choice', consumption and social theory: the operation of micro-markets in education, British Journal of Educational Studies, 42(1), 38-52.
4. Cortese, C. F., Falk, R. F. & Cohen, J. K. (1976) Further considerations on the methodological analysis of segregation indices, American Sociological Review, 41, 630-637.
5. Croxford, L. (2000) Is free-meal entitlement a valid measure of school intake characteristics? Educational Research and Evaluation, 6(4), 317-335.
6. Duncan, O. & Duncan, B. (1955) A methodological analysis of segregation indexes, American Sociological Review, 20, 210-217.
7. Gibson, A. & Asthana, S. (2000) What's in a number? Commentary on Gorard and Fitz's 'Investigating the determinants of segregations between schools', Research Papers in Education, 15(2), 133-153.
8. Gibson, A. & Asthana, S. (2002) Understanding social polarization: a possible research agenda, Research Papers in Education, 14(2), 309-315.
9. Goldstein, H. & Noden, P. (2003) Modelling social segregation, Oxford Review of Education, 29, 225-237.
10. Gorard, S. (1997) Market forces, choice and diversity in education: the early impact, Sociological Research Online, 2(3), U116-U125.
11. Gorard, S. (1999) 'Well, that about wraps it up for school choice research': state of the art review, School Leadership and Management, 19(1), 25-47.
12. Gorard, S. (2000) Questioning the crisis account: a review of evidence for increasing polarization in schools, Educational Research, 42(3), 309-321.
13. Gorard, S. (2002) The missing impact of marketisation, Research Papers in Education, 14(2), 409-415.
14. Gorard, S. (2004) Comments on 'Modelling Social Segregation' by Goldstein and Noden, Oxford Review of Education, 30(3), 435-440.
15. Gorard, S. & Fitz, J. (1998) The more things change. The missing impact of marketisation? British Journal of Sociology of Education, 19(3), 365-376.
16. Gorard, S. & Fitz, J. (2000a) Investigating the determinants of segregation between schools, Research Papers in Education, 15(2), 115-132.
17. Gorard, S. & Fitz, J. (2000b) Markets and stratification: a view from England and Wales, Educational Policy, 14(3), 405-428.
18. Gorard, S. & Smith, E. (2004) An international comparison of equity in education systems, Comparative Education, 40(1), 15-28.
19. Gorard, S. & Taylor, C. (2002a) Market forces and standards in education: a preliminary consideration, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 23(1), 5-18.
20. Gorard, S. & Taylor, C. (2002b) What is segregation? A comparison of measures in terms of 'strong' and 'weak' compositional invariance, Sociology, 36(4), 875-895.
21. Gorard, S., Taylor, C. & Fitz, J. (2002) Does school choice lead to 'spirals of decline'? Journal of Education Policy, 17(3), 367-384.
22. Gorard, S., Taylor, C. & Fitz, J. (2003) Schools, markets and choice policies (London, Routledge-Falmer).
23. Halsted, J. M. (1994) Parental choice and education: principles, policy and practice (London, Kogan Page).
24. Hutchens, R. (1991) Segregation curves, Lorenz curves, and inequality in the distribution of people across occupations, Mathematical Social Sciences, 21, 31-51.
25. Hutchens, R. (2001) Numerical measures of segregation: desirable properties and their implications, Mathematical Social Sciences, 42 (July), 13-29.
26. Hutchens, R. M. (2004) One measure of segregation, International Economic Review, 45(2), 555-578.
27. James, C. & Taeuber, K. (1985) Measures of segregation, in: N. Tuma (Ed.) Sociological methodology (San Francisco, Jossey-Bass).
28. Karmel, T. & MacLachlan, M. (1988) Occupational sex segregation-increasing or decreasing? Economic Record, 64, 187-195.
29. Massey, D. S. & Denton, N. A. (1988) The dimensions of residential segregation, Social Forces, 67, 281-315.
30. Moir, H. & Selby Smith, J. (1979) Industrial segregation in the Australian labour market, Journal of Industrial Relations, 21, 281-292.
31. Noden, P. (2000) Rediscovering the impact of marketisation: dimensions of social segregation in England's secondary schools, 1994-1999, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 21(3), 371-390.
32. Noden, P. (2002) Education markets and social polarization: back to square one? Research Papers in Education, 17(4), 409-415.
33. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (1980) Women and employment (Paris, OECD).
34. Shuttleworth, I. (1995) The relationship between social deprivation, as measured by individual free school meal eligibility, and educational attainment at GCSE in Northern Ireland: a preliminary investigation, British Educational Research Journal, 21(4), 487-504.
35. Taylor, C., Fitz, J. & Gorard, S. (2005) Diversity, specialisation and equity in education, Oxford Review of Education, 31(1), 47-69.
36. Taylor, C., Gorard, S. & Fitz, J. (2000) A re-examination of segregation indices in terms of compositional invariance, Social Research Update, 30. Available online at: http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/sru/.
37. Whitty, G., Power, S. & Halpin, D. (1998) Devolution and choice in education (Buckingham, Open University Press).
38. Zoloth, B. S. (1976) Alternative measures of school segregation, Land Economics, 52(3), 278-298.