Boli, Despoina;
Golding, Jenefer;
(2024)
Mathematics GCSE resit students: heterogeneous patterns of affect, participation and attainment.
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Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics.
(pp. pp. 1-6).
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Abstract
GCSE Resit students in England are a subset of those who have reached the age of 16 without achieving a ‘standard’ (Grade 4+) pass in GCSE Mathematics. In recent years, except during the pandemic, such students have comprised around 30% of each cohort. They are therefore re-sitting the assessment, often as a condition of funding in post-16 education. We highlight the diverse and gendered characteristics of these students in relation to mathematics, drawing on two sources of data: a mixed methods study of students studying GCSE Mathematics in each of two Further Education colleges, focused on accounts of their engagement with GCSE word problems as a ‘threshold skill’ in GCSE Mathematics; and recent years’ GCSE Mathematics post-16 participation and attainment data in England. Taken together, these illuminate gendered and experience-related patterns of affect, participation and attainment within students resitting GCSE Mathematics.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Mathematics GCSE resit students: heterogeneous patterns of affect, participation and attainment |
| Event: | British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics day conference |
| Location: | Loughborough, UK |
| Dates: | 8th June 2024 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://www.bsrlm.org.uk/publications/proceedings-o... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | GCSE; resit students; gender; affect; participation; attainment |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10198250 |
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