The First Year at School and Its Impact on Equal Educational Opportunity

• In Event: 44.085 - Poster Session 9
  In Poster Session: 44.085-1 - School Effectiveness and School Improvement SIG Poster Session

Abstract

The impact of early interventions and pre-school on later outcomes have been studied extensively but there has been less research about the impact of effective schooling in the next phase of children’s lives; their first year of elementary school.
This study analysed a large longitudinal dataset from England to investigate the importance of the first year of elementary school for later academic outcomes.
Being in an effective class in the first year of school aged 4 was significantly related to attainment at age 16. However, it was unrelated to equity at age 16. Further, although equity decreased slightly during the first year the decrease did not vary from class to class.

Authors

• Peter B Tymms, Durham University

• Christine Merrell, Durham University

• Helen Cramman, Durham University UK

• Katharine Elizabeth Bailey, CEM-Durham University