Exploring the robustness of country rankings by educational attainment

Carsten Schroeder () and Shlomo Yitzhaki
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Carsten Schroeder: Free University Berlin
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Journal of Economics, 2020, vol. 129, issue 3, No 3, 296 pages

Abstract: Abstract The measurement scale of exam scores is ordinal. This ordinal measurement implies that monotonic transformations of published scales convey the same information. Hence, countries should not be ranked according to averaged scores because there may be transformations that would change the mean-based rankings. We suggest alternatives to the mean-based ranking procedure that yield informative and robust rankings. An implementation of these procedures, using PISA 2012 math scores, suggests that previous mean-based country rankings are sensitive to the aforementioned transformations.

Keywords: Latent ability; PISA; Test scores; Education; Schooling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C18 D04 D30 D63 H52 I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s00712-019-00682-8

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