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Large-scale Assessments in Education

An IERI – International Educational Research Institute Journal

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From: Immigrant optimism or immigrant pragmatism? Linguistic capital, orientation towards science and occupational expectations of adolescent immigrants

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Net gains (optimism) in occupational expectations (ISEI) of immigrants compared to non-immigrants, based on Table 2. Comparisons of gains over non-immigrants for (1) students who speak at home the same language as the language of PISA tests and (2) students who speak a different language at home. Unstandardized regression coefficients from Table 2. PISA 2015. On the Y axis—the expected difference in ISEI points. It denotes by how much immigrant students are more optimistic relative to non-immigrants, net of control variables in Table 2

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