Changes in Examination Performance in English Secondary Schools over the Course of a Decade: Searching for Patterns and Trends over Time

Autor/inn/en	Mangan, Jean; Pugh, Geoff; Gray, John
Titel	Changes in Examination Performance in English Secondary Schools over the Course of a Decade: Searching for Patterns and Trends over Time
Quelle	In: School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 16 (2005) 1, S.29-50 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0924-3453
Schlagwörter	Secondary Schools; Academic Achievement; Achievement Tests; Scores; Foreign Countries; Secondary School Students; Student Evaluation; Grades (Scholastic); Educational Improvement; Educational Trends; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sekundarschule; Schulleistung; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Ausland; Sekundarschüler; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Notenspiegel; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Bildungsentwicklung
Abstract	The article explores changes in the examination performance of a random sample of 500 English secondary schools between 1992 and 2001. Using econometric methods, it concludes that: there is an overall deterministic trend in school performance but it is not stable, making prediction accuracy poor; the aggregate trend does not explain improvement over time at school level, where there is very considerable variation in improvement paths; there is a degree of persistence with respect to changes in performance at school level but it is short-lived; whilst there is evidence of a general upward trend across schools, there is a large amount of year-to-year variation and little evidence of sustained improvement at school level; and the model applied has little ability to forecast the direction of change for particular schools in the following year(s). (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10