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Alejandra Miranda; Tim Gill – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2025
This report is focused on the uptake of General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) subjects in England in 2023. Uptake in a GCSE subject is defined as the number or percentage of students at the end of Key Stage 4 (KS4) taking the subject. This report was produced using publicly available data from the Department for Education's (DfE). The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Exit Examinations, Data Analysis
Carmen H. J. Lim; Tim Gill – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2023
This report is focused on the uptake of GCSE subjects in England in 2022. Uptake in a GCSE subject is defined as the number or percentage of students at the end of Key Stage 4 (KS4) taking the subject. This report was produced using publicly available data from the Department for Education's (DfE) "Find and compare schools in England"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Selective Admission, Colleges, Secondary Education
Grosz, Michel – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
I estimate the effect of attending an associate's degree in nursing program on nursing licensure. I use student-level academic data for all California community college students, matched to public records on all nursing licenses earned in the state. I produce causal estimates using random variation from admissions lotteries at a large nursing…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Community Colleges, Certification, Associate Degrees
Tim Gill; Carmen H. J. Lim – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2023
This report is focused on the uptake of GCSE subjects in England in 2021. Uptake in a GCSE subject is defined as the number or percentage of students at the end of Key Stage 4 (KS4) taking the subject. This report was produced using publicly available data from the Department for Education's (DfE) "Find and compare schools in England"…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Colleges, Private Colleges, Educational Attainment
Carmen H. J. Lim; Tim Gill – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2023
This report looks at the provision of A level subjects in England in 2021. Provision in a subject is defined as the number or percentage of schools with at least one student taking the subject. This report was produced using publicly available data from the Department for Education's (DfE) "Find and compare schools in England" service…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Degrees, Elective Courses, Gender Differences
Alejandra Miranda; Tim Gill – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2024
This report looks at the provision of A level subjects in England in 2023. Provision in a subject is defined as the number or percentage of schools with at least one student taking the subject. This report was produced using publicly available data from the Department for Education's (DfE) "Find and compare schools in England" service.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Curriculum, Gender Differences
Backes, Ben; Cowan, James; Goldhaber, Dan; Theobald, Roddy – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2023
This paper examines how different measures of teacher quality are related to students' long-run educational trajectories. We estimate teachers' "test-based" and "nontest" value-added (the latter based on contributions to student absences, suspensions, grade progression, and grades) and assess how these predict various student…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Outcomes of Education, Learning Trajectories
Andrés Barrios-Fernández; Christopher Neilson; Seth Zimmerman – Centre for Economic Performance, 2024
Do elite colleges help talented students join the social elite, or help incumbent elites retain their positions? We combine intergenerationally-linked data from Chile with a regression discontinuity design to show that, looking across generations, elite colleges do both. Lower-status individuals who gain admission to elite college programs…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Social Capital, Universities, Selective Admission
Rebecca Montacute; Carl Cullinane – Sutton Trust, 2023
This report looks at trends since 1997, uniquely combining several data sources to give the most comprehensive view available on how patterns in access to higher education have changed in the years between 1997 and 2022. A major study of higher education trends over the past 25 years reveals persistent access gaps for disadvantaged students,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Trend Analysis, Access to Education, Higher Education
Nathaniel A. Dewey, Compiler; Rachel E. Durham, Compiler; Zyrashae Smith-Onyewu, Compiler; Curt Cronister, Compiler; Marc L. Stein, Compiler – Baltimore Education Research Consortium, 2023
This digest provides descriptive, aggregated statistics related to the experiences of 10 cohorts of graduates of City Schools from school years 2010-11 through 2019-20. The compilers use multiple indicators of college access, including the process of applying for college and financial aid, enrollment in the fall following high school graduation,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, College Attendance, High School Graduates, Public Schools