Sentence examples for native pupils from inspiring English sources

As a consequence of the double comparative design, native pupils cannot be included in our analysis, since for native pupils the origin country equals the destination country.

In addition to the negative effect of differentiation, our results show that migrant pupils perform better in destination countries that have a higher student-teacher ratio, also with control for the average score of the native pupils.

The latter conclusion deviates from results found by Pfeffer (2008) and Dunne (2010) for native pupils from lower classes, who perform also less in differentiated educational systems (see also Dronkers, Van der Velde & Dunne, 2012).

Therefore the educational achievement of migrant children have to depend more on the resources provided by the educational systems and schools of their destination countries than native pupils have to (Scheerens & Bosker, 1997).

Information on destination countries' educational systems has been derived from PISA 2006, by aggregating these school characteristics to the destination country level, also using schools with only native pupils.

Whereas former research has repeatedly shown that the effect of social class origin on the educational performance of native pupils is larger in countries with differentiated educational systems (see e.g. Dupriez et al., 2008; Duru-Bellat and Suchaut, 2005; Pfeffer, 2008; and Schütz, Ursprung, and Wössmann,2005), we find the opposite pattern for migrant pupils.

In the primary school setting, ethnic diversity does not affect generalized trust and even has a positive impact on out-group trust of native Danish pupils (i.e., their trust in immigrants).

Some insights also emerge from the QR results when addressing the gap between native and immigrant pupils in second grades.

In some schools no pupils are native Swedish speakers, Johannson says, so more mixed schools are needed.

Nine-year-old Joshua was taking part in a class exercise at his primary school, in Moore's native Northamptonshire, in which pupils were asked to write a letter to their favourite author.

Figure 4 shows average grades for second-generation pupils and natives for Danish and math.