Abstract
The recently introduced national pupil database in England allows the tracking of every child through the compulsory phases of the state education system. The data from key stage 2 for three local education authorities are studied, following cohorts of pupils through their schooling. The mobility of pupils among schools is studied in detail by using multiple-membership multilevel models that include prior achievement and other predictors and the results are compared with traditional ‘value-added’ approaches that ignore pupil mobility. The analysis also includes a cross-classification of junior and infant schools attended. The results suggest that some existing conclusions about schooling effects may need to be revised.
Translated title of the contribution | Modelling the effect of pupil mobility on school differences in educational achievement |
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Original language | English |
Pages (from-to) | 941 - 954 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A |
Volume | 170 (4) |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Oct 2007 |