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Comparing Cultural Capital Across Groups and Countries

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This chapter complements the previous chapter by demonstrating other nuances of cultural capital. It continues the review of the extant literature where researchers have taken advantage of the rich data on cultural capital and students’ academic achievement in PISA datasets to examine research questions pertaining to how different aspects of cultural capital are associated with students’ reading, mathematics, and science achievement. More specifically, it discusses results from published studies harnessing PISA data demonstrating how cultural capital levels and effects may vary across groups of students with various characteristics. These characteristics are namely, gender gaps and cross-national gaps in student achievement. In particular, cross-national attributes are exemplified by the degree of masculinity and Confucian values, and socioeconomic gradients of countries. Results from these studies underscore the moderating influences of student-and societal-level factors in the cultural capital-student achievement relationship.

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Tan, C.Y. (2020). Comparing Cultural Capital Across Groups and Countries. In: Family Cultural Capital and Student Achievement. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4491-0_5

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