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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This text offers the reader a detailed picture of the attitudes and self-concepts of pupils and their growing achievements as they move through primary education. It includes: demonstrations with charts, diagrams and data to show how reliable measures can be used to track pupils' development; demonstrations of systematic data collection and interpretation based on the Performance Indicators in Primary School (PIPS) project; discussions of important policy and practical questions; and an examination of gaps in knowledge and ways to fill them.

This book explores an under-researched but vital part of education: the first year at primary/elementary school. The work shows that children’s progress varies enormously from school to school, class to class and child to child. This variation is important because the more progress that children make in that first year of school, the higher their academic attainment at the end of compulsory schooling.The iPIPS (international Performance Indicators in Primary Schools) project, upon which this book is based, has been able to provide deeper insights into some of the key issues within and...