How attainment gaps in literacy change over time
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 9:00 am
By Dave Thomson|19th September 2024|Exams and assessment, Literacy
In this article we return to earlier work in which we examined attainment in literacy from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 2 to GCSE.
Briefly, this work tracked how the attainment brazil rcs data of pupils changed over time, identifying key benchmarks at each Key Stage that corresponded with a high probability of achieving grade 4 or above in GCSE English language.
We also examined variation in attainment over time for groups of pupils defined by gender, disadvantage and term of birth.
Whereas last time we based our analysis on data from 2019, this time we use data from 2023. However, broad patterns remain the same.
As a bonus, we look at how attainment gaps in literacy change over time for different groups of pupils based on gender, disadvantage and term of birth.
Data
We link data about pupils who completed Key Stage 4 in state-funded schools[1] in 2023 to their attainment at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. There were 604,000 pupils in the cohort in total but we mainly concentrate on the 543,000 (89%) with results at KS1, KS2 and KS4. The majority of those not included would not have been attending schools in England at either KS1 and/ or KS2[2].
In this article we return to earlier work in which we examined attainment in literacy from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 2 to GCSE.
Briefly, this work tracked how the attainment brazil rcs data of pupils changed over time, identifying key benchmarks at each Key Stage that corresponded with a high probability of achieving grade 4 or above in GCSE English language.
We also examined variation in attainment over time for groups of pupils defined by gender, disadvantage and term of birth.
Whereas last time we based our analysis on data from 2019, this time we use data from 2023. However, broad patterns remain the same.
As a bonus, we look at how attainment gaps in literacy change over time for different groups of pupils based on gender, disadvantage and term of birth.
Data
We link data about pupils who completed Key Stage 4 in state-funded schools[1] in 2023 to their attainment at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. There were 604,000 pupils in the cohort in total but we mainly concentrate on the 543,000 (89%) with results at KS1, KS2 and KS4. The majority of those not included would not have been attending schools in England at either KS1 and/ or KS2[2].