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T1  - Home resources as a measure of socio-economic status in Ghana 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/174082 
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A1  - Bofah, Emmanuel A; Hannula, Markku S. 
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PB  - Springer US 
Y1  - 2017 
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              In large scale international assessment studies, questionnaires are typical used to query students’ home possessions. Composite scores are computed from responses to the home resource questionnaires and are used as a measure of family socioeconomic background in achievement comparison or for statistical control. This paper deals with profiling the socio-economic status (SES) of Ghanaian students’ in the context of the TIMSS 2011 study. Latent class analysis was used to pro... 
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KW  - TIMSS; Ghana; Socio-economic status/profiles; Latent class analysis; Discriminant analysis; Home possessions/resources 
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