The UK's brightest pupils' chances of getting top GCSE grades are actually lower in grammar schools than in comprehensives, according to a major new piece of research.
, gender and the month in which they were born, all of which can affect exam performance.
The research also looked at how selective and non-selective areas fared in getting pupils five GCSEs at grades A*-C , and found no difference between selective and non-selective areas. While there was a slight positive effect for those attending grammar school, there was an equivalent negative effect for pupils in non-selective schools in those areas.
The 'big fish little pond effect'—pupils in selective schools might see themselves as less able in comparison to their classmates, and this might be demotivating.There might be wider issues which the research could not identify: for example, high performance in London, which does not have many grammar schools, could pull up the average for non-selective systems.
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