Sentences with phrase «end of secondary school»

By monitoring how well pupils progress between the end of primary and the end of secondary school, Wand Education can also support a school progress in line with the Progress 8 Scheme.

To the extent that performance at the end of secondary schooling is most important - because it represents the skills students have as they enter college, because it sets the stage for science and engineering skills, or because it is important in its own right for workers in the labor force - schools in the United States are not keeping up with the preparation of students.

Aimed at bridging the attainment gap for students, Progress 8 will capture the progress a student makes from the end of primary school to the end of secondary school, and as such level the playing field for all students.

According to findings by the Education Policy Institute (EPI), the attainment gap at the end of secondary school for persistently disadvantaged pupils has widened slightly by 0.3 months since 2007.

Compared with their peers in other major industrialized nations, proportionately fewer American students take and pass rigorous, high - level physics and chemistry exams at the end of secondary school, according to a study of science - examination systems in five countries.

The Progress 8 initiative was introduced in 2016 to try and capture all pupils» average progress from the end of primary school to the end of secondary school, information that is then translated into a rating for the school, but concerns have began to surface.

The attainment gap grows wider at every stage of education: it is already evident when pupils begin school, growing to 9.5 months by the end of primary school, and then more than doubling to 19.3 months by the end of secondary school

Previous research by the Education Policy Institute in 2016 found that the school readiness gap at five years old explains 40 per cent of the attainment gap at the end of secondary school.

Previous research has shown that the gap present at five years old explains 40 % of the attainment gap at the end of secondary school.1

Progress 8 assesses the progress pupils make between Key Stage 2 tests taken at the end of primary school and their performance in a specified mixture of eight subjects at the end of secondary school.