This volume addresses questions that lie at the core of research into education. It examines the way in which the institutional embeddedness and the social and

Are socioeconomic inequalities in education declining? Is socioeconomic background becoming less important for people’s occupational class or status? How impo

This book addresses problems and challenges that face educational measurement at a time when multipurpose usage of observational data from educational assessmen

Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progre

This book provides an overview of recent research on the relationship between noncognitive attributes (motivation, self efficacy, resilience) and academic outco