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Measuring Socioeconomic Status at the School Level
Author(s) -
McMillan James H.,
Henry Gary T.,
Crosby Diane,
Dickey Kent C.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
educational measurement: issues and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.158
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1745-3992
pISSN - 0731-1745
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-3992.1995.tb00847.x
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , measure (data warehouse) , distribution (mathematics) , psychology , econometrics , statistics , demography , sociology , mathematics , computer science , mathematical analysis , population , database
Why is there an increased need for quantitative indicators of student socioeconomic status at the school level? What alternative approaches have been used to measure SES? Can principals accurately estimate the SES distribution of their student populations? How do their estimates correlate with other indexes o f family SES?