Welcome

I developed the Advantage framework as part of my dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley. I began with a conceptual framework to define educational Advantage, relying heavily on the perspectives of educators, operationalized the model to generate individual-level measures of educational opportunity, and evaluated the Advantage framework using cross-sectional, longitudinal, and state-level data. 

The three papers had the following goals:

1. Paper One: Established the validity, reliability, and functional utility of the Advantage framework. 
2. Paper Two: Evaluated the Advantage framework using longitudinal achievement data for Grades 3–8.
3. Paper Three: Evaluated changes in the inequality of opportunity in California schools pre- and post-COVID (2015–2019 & 2022–2024) using measures of school-level mean Advantage.

I provide a brief introduction to the Advantage framework below. 

© David Stevens, 2025