Sentence examples for background of pupils from inspiring English sources
It reports that, when account has been taken of the socio-economic background of pupils, state schools in the UK outperform private schools by a considerable margin.
One little reported finding from the last PISA results was that, once account has been taken of the socio-economic background of pupils, state schools in the UK outperform private schools by a considerable margin.
On Thursday, on publication of its report, the commission will demand more action from Oxbridge and, in particular, the greater use of contextual data – information on the background of pupils that can be used to judge the merits of an applicants' grades and their predicted A-level grades – to increase the quota of pupils from state schools.
There is a still a law which requires schools to have a daily act of worship that is "wholly or mainly" of a "broadly Christian" character; but it also lets head teachers take into account "circumstances relating to the family background" of pupils.
We assume that the immigration background of pupils is another aspect of parental background and thus that the relation between educational outcomes and immigration background is also strongest influenced by these three aspects of educational systems.
But a detailed analysis of entry patterns, pass rates, ethnicity and family backgrounds of pupils who took the test last year has been shown to the Guardian.
The association is backing an investigation by the Academies Enterprise Trust, which runs 29 academies, asking schools across the country to send it anonymised information about the backgrounds of pupils who missed out because of the grade boundary decisions on the English GCSE.
In contextual value added data (CVA), the background characteristics of pupils were used to help predict their later qualifications, and so decide whether an individual had done better or worse than expected.
"But they are generally independent, grammar or former grammar schools and they do well because of the ability and social background of the pupils".
In 2013 tests sat by 15-year-olds across the UK showed state schools outperformed private schools by some way once the wealth and background of their pupils were taken into account.
