Matthews, Valentine Olusegun;
(2019)
Matched panel data estimates of the impact of academy status on the 2002-2009 Sponsored Academies.
Masters thesis (M.Phil), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
The UK Academy School programme was introduced by the UK Government in 2002 through its Education Act. The aim of establishing these schools was to improve pupil performance and break the cycle of low expectations. Sponsored Academy Schools were established as public-private partnerships between the government and successful sponsors. This thesis focused on the achievement of the Sponsored Academies in comparison with the achievement of pupils of the predecessor schools of these treated schools. This is with an assumption that sudden change in achievement of the pupils of these treated schools could be attributed to increases in autonomy granted these schools compared to their predecessor schools. Such differences are referred to here as the “treatment effect”. To establish if the schools are achieving the set target of improving achievement, student key achievements measures in GCSE with and without necessarily including Maths, English and Science were queried. Changes in the quality of students admitted into year 7 in these schools was done using the KS2 SAT aggregate scores in key subject areas of Maths, English language and Science. The data is an extract of school-level record from the NPD dataset for every 16 year old student at a state-maintained school for the years 2002 through 2009. The difference between this work and others is however in the assumptions made. Key assumptions include exclusion of some schools and data due to gaps between opening and closing dates or locations, allowing time for “Academy Effect” to take place, looking only at the first two years of establishment of the school and allowing for the comparison schools. The conclusions are impaired by inefficiently matched group of treated and comparison. This was because of the comparison schools despite all efforts did not fulfil the necessary similarity in outcome before the date of conversion to Academies.
| Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Qualification: | M.Phil |
| Title: | Matched panel data estimates of the impact of academy status on the 2002-2009 Sponsored Academies |
| Event: | UCL (University College London) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2019. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10069663 |
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