Assessing the evidence for the comparability of socioeconomic status between students with and without immigrant background in Norway and Sweden

Large-scale Assessments in Education

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Table 6 Regression coefficients reflecting the relationship between HOMEPOS and reading achievement across approaches and groups

	Approach 1: Ignore DIF \({\varvec{\beta}}\) (SE)	Approach 2: Delete DIF items \({\varvec{\beta}}\) (SE)	Approach 3: Delete non-uniform DIF items \({\varvec{\beta}}\) (SE)	Approach 4: Account for DIF \({\varvec{\beta}}\) (SE)
Norway
Native	0.253 (0.021)	0.239 (0.027)	0.235 (0.023)	0.257 (0.021)
2ndGen	0.227 (0.073)	0.378 (0.075)	0.243 (0.074)	0.213 (0.069)
1stGen	0.313 (0.067)	0.384 (0.074)	0.310 (0.069)	0.303 (0.070)
Sweden
Native	0.319 (0.021)	0.369 (0.022)	0.322 (0.022)	0.325 (0.021)
2ndGen	0.246 (0.059)	0.259 (0.077)	0.256 (0.066)	0.209 (0.058)
1stGen	0.259 (0.069)	0.247 (0.141)^#	0.342 (0.077)	0.251 (0.069)

^#The regression coefficient of the 1stGen group was found to be significantly different from that of the native group within this approach (p < .05)