Cultural, social, and economic capital constructs in international assessments: an evaluation using exploratory structural equation modeling

School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 433-450

  Caro, Daniel H ^a   Sandoval Hernández, Andrés ^b   Lüdtke, Oliver ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b International Association for the Evaluation of Edu Achievement Data Processing and Research Center   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

cultural capital; exploratory structural equation modeling; multigroup analysis; PIRLS; PISA; social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904750871     PISSN: 09243453     EISSN: 17445124     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09243453.2013.812568     Document Type: Article

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