Influences on students’ dispositions in Key Stage 3: Exploring enjoyment of school, popularity, anxiety, citizenship values and academic self-concepts in Year 9

Report

The Effective Pre-school, Primary and Secondary Education Project (EPPSE) has investigated the academic and social-behavioural development of approximately 3,000 children from the age of 3+ years since 1997. This Research Brief reports on students’ dispositions when they were age 14 (Year 9) in six main areas: ‘enjoyment of school’, ‘academic self concept’ (English and maths), ‘popularity’, ‘citizenship values’ and ‘anxiety’. It examines how these dispositions have changed during Key Stage 3 (KS3) and the relationships between dispositions and a range of individual student, family, home, pre-, primary and secondary school measures. It shows how school experiences help to shape dispositions, and also explores the relationships between dispositions to school and students’ academic and social-behavioural outcomes.

Authors: Sammons, PM; Sylva, K; Melhuish, E; Siraj-Blatchford, I; Taggart, B

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Reviewed (other)
• Publisher: Department for Education
• Host title: Effective Pre-School, Primary and Secondary Education Project (EPPSE 3-14)
• Journal: Effective Pre-School, Primary and Secondary Education Project (EPPSE 3-14)
• Pages: 1-83
• Publication date: 2012-01-01
• Paper number: DfE RB 184c
• Keywords: SBTMR