Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
}
TY - JOUR
T1 - Modelling trajectories through the educational system in North West England.
AU - Penn, Roger
AU - Berridge, Damon
PY - 2008/12
Y1 - 2008/12
N2 - The main aim of this paper is to identify those school-level and locality-level factors that significantly affect each of the three stages in a young adult's educational trajectory in North West England: GCSE results, track taken at age 16 and 'A'-level scores. By applying three-level models to data collected as part of the EFFNATIS project, we find no evidence of any locality-level effects. Overall, none of the explanatory variables conventionally considered to affect educational attainment had a consistent effect across all three stages. Rather, each explanatory variable had a contingent effect at specific points within the overall trajectory of educational outcomes.
AB - The main aim of this paper is to identify those school-level and locality-level factors that significantly affect each of the three stages in a young adult's educational trajectory in North West England: GCSE results, track taken at age 16 and 'A'-level scores. By applying three-level models to data collected as part of the EFFNATIS project, we find no evidence of any locality-level effects. Overall, none of the explanatory variables conventionally considered to affect educational attainment had a consistent effect across all three stages. Rather, each explanatory variable had a contingent effect at specific points within the overall trajectory of educational outcomes.
KW - GCSE scores
KW - track taken at age 16
KW - 'A'-level scores
KW - multi-level models
KW - linear regression
KW - multinomial logit
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=55949135248&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09645290802024744
DO - 10.1080/09645290802024744
M3 - Journal article
VL - 16
SP - 411
EP - 431
JO - Education Economics
JF - Education Economics
SN - 0964-5292
IS - 4
ER -