Sentences with phrase «of average attainment»
The NSN research found that 33.2 per cent (3,802) of schools graded good or outstanding by Ofsted is falling short of average attainment.
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It was frequently the case that celibacy was almost unknown and the average age of marriage for women was far lower than in western Europe, often close to the attainment of sexual maturity.
As for educational attainment, 53.7 percent of the population had received a degree higher than a high school diploma, which was 12.1 percent higher than the state average of 41.6 percent.
This group on average scores much lower in terms of educational attainment and income and trends more female and minority in background.
Each additional year of neighborhood - average educational attainment increased the odds of participation by 69 %.
A design value is the three - year average of pollution concentrations measured at each monitoring location and is used to determine whether a county is in attainment with federal air quality standards.
Earlier research from Oxford University found that the attainment of EAL pupils varies widely and that average attainment figures mask a huge range of outcomes for different groups of EAL pupils.
At the other end of the scale, children with Chinese as their first language perform well, averaging between a B and a C at GCSE in Attainment 8 — despite having also entered secondary school in Year 9.
The provisional school results will include performance measures such as the percentage of pupils achieving five or more GCSEs or equivalents at A * to C, the percentage of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), and the Attainment 8 scores, showing average achievement across eight subjects, including English and maths, for those schools that have opted into the new accountability system a year early.
Tertiary attainment rates are also above the OECD average: 38 per cent of working - age Australians have graduated with a university degree whereas the global average is 32 per cent.
Indeed, in the face of recent findings by Education Policy institute, which found that 20 of the largest multi-academy trusts (MATs)-- running more than 300 schools — fall «significantly below» the national average for improving pupils» attainment, the importance of self - assessment not just within each school but right across the trust, is perhaps more important than ever before; and goes to the heart of addressing the issues raised in the all - party parliamentary group's (APPG) 21 questions http://www.nga.org.uk/News/NGA-News/Pre-2016/21Q.aspx
Still, our educational attainment is high: 74 per cent of people aged 25 to 64 completed secondary school, just below the global average of 76 per cent.
The New Schools Network (NSN) has raised doubts over the accuracy of Ofsted's judgements, after analysis found that a third of primaries given top ratings actually failed to meet the national average for Key Stage 2 attainment.
If conversion schools were better - than - average traditional public schools to begin with, they may be distorting the estimated impact of charters on educational attainment.
A study of 300 schools which increased their EBacc entry rates between 2010 and 2013 found that pupils» average attainment in GCSE English and maths increased following the curriculum changes and that pupils at these schools were also less likely to have left education after the age of 16, than peers at other schools.
Existing research suggests that these aims are being met, with pupils at schools that substantially increased their EBacc rates showing higher average attainment in GCSE English and maths and lower probabilities of leaving education after the age of 16.
We find that differences in achievement and attainment account for 20 to 35 percent of the current variation in per - capita GDP among states, with average years of schooling and achievement levels making roughly even contributions.
Wilshaw named 16 local authorities where less than 60 per cent of children attend good or outstanding schools and have below average «attainment and progress» at GCSE with 13 in the North and Midlands.
Defined as perseverance and passion for long - term goals, grit accounted for an average of 4 percent of the variance in success outcomes, including educational attainment among two samples of adults; grade point average among Ivy League undergraduates; retention among two classes at the United States Military Academy, West Point; and ranking in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
However, for Attainment 8 — which measures average achievement in GCSE across eight subjects — there will be no change: the attainment score gap of 11 points in 2017 will remaiAttainment 8 — which measures average achievement in GCSE across eight subjects — there will be no change: the attainment score gap of 11 points in 2017 will remaiattainment score gap of 11 points in 2017 will remain in 2021.
Applying their estimates of the causal effect of added spending to the actual increases in spending suggests that the average poor - nonpoor gap in school attainment should have been more than closed — which is not even close to what we observe.
Until 2015, when Ofsted Data Dashboard closed, Achievement for All collected average point score (APS) data each term from participating schools, as a measure of attainment across schools» target groups.
According to an annual report, out of 48 academy chains, only eight saw poorer pupils with high prior attainment go on to progress over the national average.
«Despite having the highest levels of educational attainment of any previous American generation,» writes ETS's Center for Global Assessment Director Irwin S. Kirch in the report's preface, «these young adults on average demonstrate relatively weak skills in literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology rich environments compared to their international peers.»
First, we looked just at the impact of average school attainment on the economic growth rate.
We therefore took measures of average educational attainment and average cognitive skill levels for as many countries as possible and examined their relationship to the average annual growth rate in the country's gross domestic product (GDP) per capita from 1960 through 2000.
Even economists, the people who think the most systematically about the way in which «human capital» affects a nation's economic future, have skirted the heart of the question by looking only at «school attainment,» namely the average number of years students remain in school.
Most obviously, the historic advantage of the U.S. in school attainment has come to an end, as half of the OECD countries now exceed the U.S. in the average number of years of education their citizens receive.
In one example of how the research has raised further questions for investigation, results indicate the genes associated with higher educational attainment were associated with decreased risk of Alzheimer's disease on average.
Increasing the average number of years of schooling attained by the labor force boosts the economy only when increased levels of school attainment also boost cognitive skills.
Most notably, schools with higher levels of per - pupil GCSE arts entries got above average results in the EBacc, Progress 8 and Attainment 8, suggesting that the best state secondary schools in England are those that combine high expectations in a core of academic subjects with a strong focus on the arts.
Using 2008 data for almost 5,000 pupils from the Millennium Cohort Study, it demonstrates biases in teachers» average ratings of sample pupils» reading and maths «ability and attainment» which correspond to every one of these key characteristics.
The top performing 500 comprehensive schools in England, based on GCSE attainment, continue to be highly socially selective, taking just 9.4 % of pupils eligible for Free School Meals (FSM), just over half the rate of the average comprehensive (17.2 %)
That study, «Education and Economic Growth: It's not just going to school, but learning something while there that matters,» discussed problems with using average years of schooling as an indicator of a country's human capital and analyzed the role of both school attainment and cognitive skills in economic growth.
Hethersett Academy is one of East Anglia's best performing schools, with both student progress and attainment well above the national average.
Schools with the highest levels of low prior attainment will gain an average of 1.8 per cent.
As well as large variations in the average per - pupil funding received by local authorities from government, the onward distribution to schools use local formulae that also vary considerably in terms of the relative importance given to different factors such as deprivation, prior attainment and sparsity.
In terms of the international context, the report says that schools in England already have unusually big primary class sizes for a developed country - but suggested that there was no clear correlation between average class size and attainment.
The Toolkit currently covers 34 pedagogical approaches, each summarised in terms of their average impact on attainment, the strength of the supporting evidence and their cost.
Datalab looked at the attainment progress of pupils, compared with a national average based on its own calculations, broken down by how long they have been claiming free school meals.
She emphasised that «examination results have been on a downward trajectory», pointing out the Attainment 8 score of 12.5, compared to a national average of 44.2, and a Progress 8 score of -2.3.
Michigan's postsecondary educational attainment rate has increased for six consecutive years, but at 39.3 percent it still lags behind the national average of 40 percent.
Second, as I predicted in July, many schools nationally have changed their curriculum so pupils are sitting more GCSE subjects in the EBacc3 «bucket», especially pupils of low and average prior attainment.
It was one of 16 where less than 60 per cent of children attend a good or outstanding secondary school and have lower than average attainment and progress at GCSE.
Twenty of the largest multi-academy trusts (MATs)-- running more than 300 schools — fall «significantly below» the national average for improving pupils» attainment, a major new analysis...
Sir Michael named 16 weak local authorities - where less than 60 % of children attend good or outstanding schools and have below average «attainment and progress» at GCSE - with 13 in the North and Midlands.
The authors pointed out some of the advantages of low poverty noting, «Children whose parents read to them at home, whose health is good and can attend school regularly, who do not live in fear of crime and violence, who enjoy stable housing and continuous school attendance, whose parents» regular employment creates security, who are exposed to museums, libraries, music and art lessons, who travel outside their immediate neighborhoods, and who are surrounded by adults who model high educational achievement and attainment will, on average, achieve at higher levels than children without these educationally relevant advantages.»
Trends and Racial and Ethnic Gaps in Educational Attainment of Young Adults (Aged 25 — 29), by Race and Ethnicity, 1980 — 2005 (Three - year averages)
During the 2014 - 2015 school year, the average student who attended a CICS elementary campus was achieving at or above the national average as measured by the NWEA Measure of Academic Progress (MAP) on both growth and attainment measures.
The level of students» attainment has declined considerably.The difference can be compared to a decline of Finnish students» attainment in PISA reading literacy from the 539 points of PISA 2009 to 490 points, to below the OECD average.