Sentence examples for previous attainment from inspiring English sources
The DfE data also contains a 'value added' measure, which is a figure that attempts to show how well pupils are doing relative to expectations inferred from their previous attainment - in other words, a sort of progress, or improvement, indicator.
Defending attempts to widen the pool of pupils going to top universities, he said recruitment should be "on the basis of an ability to excel, not purely on previous attainment".
He is part of a broader effort to involve businesses more closely with schools, especially in poor areas.Lilian Baylis is doing well: in 2005 it ranked in the top 2% of secondary schools in England for "contextual value added", ie, raising students' achievement above the level suggested by their background and previous attainment.
Does achievement independent of ability or previous attainment provide a purer measure of the added value of school?
The current study aims to investigate whether removing ability and previous attainment from school achievement does in fact remove the genetic influence on school performance.
A measure of academic achievement uncorrelated with ability or previous attainment is an appealing construct, relevant for several current controversies and goals in education [1], [2], [3].
We found that previous educational attainment was associated with current educational attainment (Table S2).
No single characteristic, previous educational attainment, school setting, subject focus, or licensure type described the majority of teachers.
Therefore, in order to reduce the problem of reverse causation we included previous educational attainment as a covariate in our model.
Previous educational attainment is measured at a time-point prior to initiation of these substances; high levels of attenuation within this covariate model would indicate a problem with reverse causation.
The results are sensitive to the imposed increasing level of correlation, especially in Model 3 (where we also control for previous GCSE attainments).
