Teachers have access to measures of achievement, but not measures of opportunity.
Measures of opportunity provide useful context for interpreting achievement.
The Cambridge dictionary defines advantage as "a condition giving greater chance at success".
Although students can be described by specific advantages they may have, they are better described by the sum of a range of advantages.
Just like every student has measures of achievement, every student can have a measure of advantage.
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:
I provide a brief introduction to the Advantage framework below.
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