This open access book focuses on trends in educational inequality using twenty years of grade 8 student data collected from 13 education systems by the IEA’s Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) between 1995 and 2015.
1. Socioeconomic Inequality and Educational Outcomes: An Introduction.- 2. A Review of the Literature on Socioeconomic Status and Educational Achievement.- 3. Methodology: Constructing a Comparable Socioeconomic Index for 20 Years of TIMSS.- 4. Socioeconomic Achievement Gaps: Trend Results for Education Systems.- 5. Trends in Socioeconomic Achievement Gaps in the Macroeconomic Context: Discussion and Future Research.- Appendix.- References.