the largest disparities in the perceived quality of material resources between schools with different socioeconomic profiles are observed in caba argentina lebanon macao china mexico peru and the united arab emirates by contrast in fyrom iceland and latvia yearolds attending disadvantaged schools enjoy greater access to educational resources than their peers in advantaged schools and in about half of the countrieseconomies that participated in pisa students in disadvantaged schools appear no more likely than students in advantaged schools to have access to better or more resources the relationship between access to educational resources and student performance is analysed in chapter of pisa results volume ii policies and practices for successful schools oecd c