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Tien-Hui Chiang; Pei-Ming Chiang; Su-Wei Lin; Allen Thurston – British Educational Research Journal, 2025
The structural approach of cultural capital theories neglects the idea that the impact of structural constraints on educational results can be reduced by agency. This predicament can be solved when the advantages of abundant educational resources available in schools are unpacked, since doing so can compensate for the paucity of such resources…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Socioeconomic Status, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests
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Wu, Hao; Saleh, Andi Rahmat; Molnár, Gyöngyvér – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2022
Indonesian 15-year-old students' educational achievement has proved to be significantly lower than the international average based on one of the most prominent international large-scale assessments, OECD PISA. This prompted our interest in Indonesian students' cognitive development during secondary schooling in comparison with that of students who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Development, Secondary School Students, Grade 11
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Williams, Daniel Grant – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2023
This paper introduces and uses Lakatos' idea of research programmes to summarise and critically evaluate academic discourse towards knowledge capital theory. The analysis uses rational reconstruction to formulate the components of the hardcore and protective belt of knowledge capital theory. By critically surveying the literature, it challenges…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment