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3 weeks ago | 
ffteducationdatalab.org.uk | John Jerrim
While not attending – or being excluded from – school is a problem for any pupil, it may be particularly concerning amongst young people from disadvantaged backgrounds who were excelling when they left primary school. These young people – despite being raised in challenging circumstances – developed a firm foundation from which one would hope they would flourish. The last thing they – and society – needs is for such potential to go to waste.
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2 months ago | 
ffteducationdatalab.org.uk | John Jerrim
All children have the right to education. They also have the right to feel safe at school. Unfortunately, this is no longer the case in England – particularly amongst teenage girls. My new academic working paper out today uses data from the TIMSS study to track the emotional engagement of young people before and after the pandemic. It also investigates changes in their engagement between Year 5 and Year 9. The results are stark.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
ffteducationdatalab.org.uk | John Jerrim
Research has shown pupils compare themselves academically to their school peers. For those in grammar schools, this will mean comparing themselves against a disproportionate number of high-achieving pupils. Studies from the US have suggested that this may increase the academic pressure on young people who – in such a high-achieving environment – feel they need to “be the best of the best”.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
tes.com | John Jerrim
The education sector is never short of evidence, particularly around interventions and achievement. We use this evidence to inform our strategies, approaches and - importantly - our future research to better our provision and ensure that all children and young people receive the highest-quality learning experience. However, an aspect of this that seems fairly novel to the sector is forward-looking evidence on pupil engagement.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
ffteducationdatalab.org.uk | John Jerrim |Pupil demographics
Being a teenage parent brings several challenges. For those in education, it will bring a disruption to learning and educational progression. Yet it may also lead to young people leaving the education system at a relatively young age, to deal with the financial, social and health burdens of becoming a parent.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
tandfonline.com | Christian Bokhove |John Jerrim |María Carvajal |Sam Sims
?Mathematical formulae have been encoded as MathML and are displayed in this HTML version using MathJax in order to improve their display. Uncheck the box to turn MathJax off. This feature requires Javascript. Click on a formula to zoom. ABSTRACTInspectors are tasked with judging the quality of provision based on visits to schools. They conduct these inspections sequentially, completing one before moving on to the next.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
ffteducationdatalab.org.uk | John Jerrim
Many schools collect test score data across a range of subjects on a regular basis. These data can then be used to try to predict how well a student should be doing in a subject in a year’s time. It perhaps seems obvious for schools to base such predictions on the most recent test score data available within a given subject. For instance, to predict pupils’ achievement in English at the end of Year 8, one would perhaps intuitively use their scores on an English test taken at the end of Year 7.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
ffteducationdatalab.org.uk | John Jerrim |Pupil demographics
Mental health has become a major challenge in schools, with some studies indicating that low levels of wellbeing may be a bigger challenge in England than other countries. Previous research has suggested that children from disadvantaged social backgrounds are two to three times more likely to develop such problems. Yet there are certain issues – such as eating disorders – which have also been linked to higher levels of academic achievement.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
ffteducationdatalab.org.uk | John Jerrim
In England – as in many countries – there has been long-running challenges with recruiting and retaining enough teachers. During my recent secondment to Ofsted, we undertook a “proof-of-concept” study matching data from the School Workforce Census back to teachers’ school and university records to provide new insights into this issue. The data focused on a single school cohort who sat their GCSEs in 2011.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
ffteducationdatalab.org.uk | John Jerrim |Sam Sims |Christian Bokhove
It has always been quite a challenge to analyse written text. One popular approach for ‘document analysis’ is to do a lexical analysis, for example by counting particular words. Another approach is to take documents and then analyse the content manually with coding and theming. The former approach is quite scalable, but gives little insight into the actual content of long documents. The latter approach is very time-consuming and therefore not feasible with large collections of text.
