AGE OF TRANSFER TO SECONDARY EDUCATION: A POSTSCRIPT

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Summary. Of the year‐group of 2,900 Aberdeen children who had been the subjects of a study on the age of transfer to secondary education, about one quarter went on to the fifth and sixth years of secondary education, and their careers were examined. The best prediction of final secondary school performance was given by assessments of attainment in the first two years of secondary school; next in order were verbal reasoning tests at ages 11, 12 and 13, with little difference among these; next, a verbal reasoning test at age 9; and, poorest, non‐verbal tests at ages 11 and 7. Correlations between tests and criterion were higher for girls than for boys; but measures of academic motivation showed higher correlation with performance among boys than among girls. Social class differences in the proportions of pupils staying on to fifth year, were greater for girls than for boys. Relatively few pupils with low scores in primary school tests achieved success in Scottish Certificate of Education examinations, and most of those with high scores who remained at school were very successful; but there were some exceptions which demonstrated the fallibility of early assessments in individual cases.
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