The concealed middle? An exploration of ordinary young people and school GCSE subject area attainment
The concealed middle? An exploration of ordinary young people and school GCSE subject area attainment
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DOI：
10.1080/13676261.2015.1052049
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发表时间：
2016-02
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Christopher J. Playford;V. Gayle
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作者：
Christopher J. Playford;V. Gayle
普通中等教育证书 (GCSE) 是英格兰和威尔士学生在 11 年级（15 至 16 岁）结束时参加的标准资格考试。 GCSE 继续在年轻人的教育和就业途径中发挥重要和核心作用。在青年社会学领域，最近人们对记录“普通”年轻人的生活和教育经历产生了兴趣。在本文中，我们分析了学科领域层面的学校 GCSE 成绩。这是一种创新方法，我们的动机是探索实质性有趣的成就模式，这些模式可能隐藏在对整体成就或个别科目成就的分析中。我们使用潜在变量方法分析了英格兰和威尔士青年队列研究的数据。建模过程发现了四个独特的潜在教育群体。一个潜在群体的特点是总体成绩高，而另一潜在群体的特点是 GCSE 成绩较差。有两个潜在群体的 GCSE 成绩处于中等或“中等”水平。这两个潜在群体的综合成绩水平相似，但一组在科学 GCSE 中表现更好，另一组在艺术 GCSE 中表现更好。
The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is the standard qualification undertaken by pupils in England and Wales at the end of year 11 (age 15–16). GCSEs continue to play an important and central role in young people's educational and employment pathways. Within the sociology of youth, there has been recent interest in documenting the lives and educational experiences of ‘ordinary’ young people. In this paper, we analyse school GCSE attainment at the subject area level. This is an innovative approach and our motivation is to explore substantively interesting patterns of attainment that might be concealed in analyses of overall attainment or attainment within individual subjects. We analyse data from the Youth Cohort Study of England and Wales using a latent variable approach. The modelling process uncovered four distinctive latent educational groups. One latent group is characterised by high levels of overall attainment, whereas another latent group is characterised by poor GCSE performance. There are two latent groups with moderate or ‘middle’ levels of GCSE attainment. These two latent groups have similar levels of agglomerate attainment, but one group performs better in science and the other performs better in arts GCSEs.