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Marks, Gary N.; Pokropek, Artur – Oxford Review of Education, 2019
This study examines the influence of family income on student achievement in mathematics utilising data from the parents' questionnaire for nine countries participating in the OECD's 2012 PISA study. It finds non-trivial effects for family income that were consistently larger than, or comparable to, the effects of more commonly used measures of…
Descriptors: Family Income, Socioeconomic Status, Mathematics Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Fung, Dennis; Su, Angie – Oxford Review of Education, 2016
This paper reports an investigation into how secondary student participants in Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement related this particular political experience to their learning of Liberal Studies. Questionnaire-based surveys and interviews were conducted to probe their interpretations of Liberal Studies' impact on their political involvement and their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Liberal Arts, Student Participation, Secondary School Students