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Woolf, Katherine; McManus, I. Chris; Potts, Henry W. W.; Dacre, Jane – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Background: UK-trained medical students and doctors from minority ethnic groups underperform academically. It is unclear why this problem exists, which makes it dif?cult to know how to address it. Aim: To investigate whether demographic and psychological factors mediate the relationship between ethnicity and ?nal examination scores. Sample: Two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Cohort Analysis, Medical Schools
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Strand, Steve – Review of Education, 2016
Relatively little research has explored whether schools differ in their effectiveness for different group of pupils (e.g. by ethnicity, poverty or gender), for different curriculum subjects (e.g. English, mathematics or science) or over time (different cohorts). This paper uses multilevel modelling to analyse the national test results at age 7 and…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Children, Elementary School Students