«If it is the case that pupils from
the same year group have been marked more harshly if they entered later, that would be patently unfair,» shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg declared earlier.
However, in learning areas such as mathematics and reading, students in
the same year group vary in their achievement levels by as much as five or six years of school.
Positive attitudes towards teachers fall from 93 to 84 per cent and towards attendance drops from 90 to 82 per cent over
the same year groups.
Few surprises are expected from this year's crop of GCSEs, with results in England now tied to the performance of
the same year group of pupils in key stage two exams at the end of primary school.
Schools will be required to publish details of their pupils» progress, which will be measured against the average achievement level of all children in England in
the same year group.
PlayLive Maths is a super cool competitive mental mathematics game, where students from
the same year group race to answer as many questions as they can in 60 seconds.
Saying how younger children perform worse than their older peers in
the same year group, Hamond added that «it is noticeable also that Sutton Trust research shows that this issue affects not only the poorest areas in our society but some of the richest».
His work was exhibited frequently since 1978, including a solo show at Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, in 2014 and in
the same year the group show on American Photography since 1950 at Madison Museum of Contemporary Arts (US).