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Measuring Education and Skill

Muller, Chandra - Personal Name; Education - Personal Name; Measurement - Personal Name; Higher education - Personal Name; K–12 education - Personal Name;

This article reviews recent developments in measuring education and skill that need to be taken into account in any new initiative to monitor social mobility. Over the past half-century, patterns of educational participation and attainment have become more heterogeneous, a trend that has been accompanied by increases in assessment and testing practices, and the availability of electronic data sources and other administrative records, including official school transcripts that are generally held indefinitely. This article describes the most promising approaches to measuring education and discusses some of the possible challenges for using the information to study social mobility. Measures of educational concepts fall along at least one of several dimensions: credentials earned, qualities of the schools attended, the amount and nature of curricular exposure, and the development and acquisition of skills. Selected data sources, with an emphasis on school transcripts and administrative records, and their possible uses are described.

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Series Title: THE ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
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Publisher: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications., 2015
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Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-4833-9181-6
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Edition: Volume 657, Januari 2015, pager 136-148
Subject(s): Education
Higher education
Measurement
K–12 education
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