Journal of Educational Innovations

Journal of Educational Innovations

Investigating the Status and International Position of Iran in Educational Equity

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Associate professor at national center of TIMSS and PIRLS, Research Institute for Education
Abstract
Today, the concept of equity in education has evolved and has been upgraded from equality in access to school to equity in educational quality. Subsequently, new indicators for educational equity have been proposed according to the new definition. In this study, for the comparative measurement of the state of equity, the indicators of minimum standards, the effect of background factors, resilience, double disadvantage and variance separation have been used. For this purpose, the data of the fourth graders of the TIMSS 2019 and PILRS 2016 were used for calculations and the position of Iran in each of the indicators was examined. The results showed that although Iran's performance in terms of educational quality is not good compared to the participating countries in these studies, it is better than other indicators in the indicators related to the educational system configuration (i.e., indicators of variance separation and double-disadvantage). In the indicators related to the family and educational context (i.e., indicators of the influence of background factors and national resilience), educational equity in Iran is evaluated relatively average compared to other countries. Of course, educational equity in Iran is evaluated as weak in indicators that are largely related to performance (i.e., indicators of the minimum standards and international resilience).
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Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 18 August 2025

  • Receive Date 15 September 2024
  • Revise Date 29 December 2024
  • Accept Date 18 August 2025