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Direct linkIannelli, Cristina – Oxford Review of Education, 2008
This paper examines trends in social class inequalities in young people's educational attainment and HE [Higher Education] entry between the mid-1980s and the end of the 1990s in England and Scotland. Using time-series data derived from the Scottish School Leavers Surveys and the England (and Wales) Youth Cohort Study, changes in both absolute and…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Educational Attainment, Social Differences, Foreign Countries
Thomas, Sally; Peng, Wen Jung; Gray, John – Oxford Review of Education, 2007
This paper looks at underlying patterns of school effectiveness through analysing a GCSE examination data-set over a period of ten cohorts (1993-2002) in one very large English school district. Both value added and raw score approaches were explored by employing different statistical multilevel models to examine time trends of school and pupil…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Raw Scores, Academic Achievement, Portfolio Assessment
The "Conveyor Belt Effect": A Re-Assessment of the Impact of National Targets for Lifelong Learning.
Download full textGorard, Stephen; Selwyn, Neil; Rees, Gareth – 2000
Although the National Targets for Education and Training in England and Wales include indicators for lifelong learning, and the progress towards the targets set for these indicators has been lauded by politicians and other observers, much of this apparent progress is actually accounted for by changes in these same indicators. However, once the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Adult Education, Adults
