ethnicitygenderschool improvementeducational achievementkey stage performanceA vital element in school improvement is raising the levels of achievement of under-performing groups of pupils in schools. This short report examines the extent and reasons for underachievement throughout the key stage 1 and 2 ...
Conclusions: Poor achievement at school defines a substantial group of women in the UK who may be vulnerable. Many of these women have poor diets that are not simply a result of the level of deprivation in their neighbourhood, or of living at a level of poverty that entitles them to benefi...
'Education Diversity' refers to the variation in students' backgrounds, experiences, attitudes, and aspirations, particularly in relation to race/ethnicity, which leads to a diverse student body that enhances learning outcomes and promotes interactions with peers from different backgrounds. ...
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All individuals were of white British ethnicity, which minimized population stratification. The genotyping and its QC were performed in a consistent way. The pattern of the present study's results, whereby the educational attainment and verbal–numerical reasoning variables had higher heritability and ...
Selection of medical students in the UK is still largely based on prior academic achievement, although doubts have been expressed as to whether performance in earlier life is predictive of outcomes later in medical school or post-graduate education. This
Over recent years the moral panic that has surrounded 'boys' underachievement' has tended to encourage crude and essentialist comparisons between all boys and all girls and to eclipse the continuing and more profound effects on educational achievement exerted by social class and 'race'/ethnicity. Whi...
In many cases, studying the intergenerational economic integration of new immigrant groups into a receiving society effectively means addressing issues of ethnicity. In this context, some research chooses to focus on ethnic group-level analyses following “generations” defined not by actual parentage but...
Two demographic factors of continuing interest in medical education are sex and ethnicity. Non-white UK medical students perform less well both in medical school examinations [14,15] and in post-graduate examinations [15], including the MRCP(UK) [16]. Men and women also perform differently on...
Table 3 shows simple Pearson correlations of the measures of GCSE achievement with background variables. As in most complex social data there are correlations between very many of the measures. Of particular interest are that non-white ethnicity correlates with taking slightly fewer GCSEs and gaini...