[PDF] Top 20 Evaluation of Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge : longitudinal pupil analysis report

... do Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge activities have in promoting such positive attitudes? Is there any indication that such activities also change young people’s behaviour? ... See full document

... The evaluation of the Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge programme (formerly Excellence Challenge) is being carried out on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) ... See full document

... Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge, initially introduced as Excellence Challenge, is closely linked to Excellence in Cities (EiC) and has been introduced in the Phase 1 and 2 EiC ... See full document

... The Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge programme was initially established in 2001 (when it was known as Excellence Challenge) with the aim of improving access to higher education for able ... See full document

... quantitative evaluation of Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge is being undertaken using pupil level data collected in the Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge ...from ... See full document

... The evaluation of the Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge programme is being carried out on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) by a Consortium comprising the National ... See full document

... economic analysis that has been conducted for this evaluation (see Emmerson et ...the Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge policy may have had an impact on young people’s attainment at Key ... See full document

... school-leaving. Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge is one of these policies and was introduced in the same areas as those targeted for a programme to improve standards in schools, ‘Excellence in ... See full document

... Aimhigher:Excellence Challenge to become embedded and continue, and for the outcomes to be captured and assessed through developing systems for monitoring and data ...Aimhigher:Excellence Challenge ... See full document

... The Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge programme was initially established in 2001 (when it was known as Excellence Challenge) with the aim of improving access to higher education for able ... See full document

... full-time Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge partnership coordinator, a part-time coordinator was also employed by Connexions together with a part-time coordinator who worked at the local higher ... See full document

... It should be remembered that the data used in this paper, as in the paper produced in 2003, was drawn from a non-representative sample of post-16 respondents who, in Year 11, had attended schools in EiC Phase 1, 2 and 3 ... See full document

... The Aimhigher set of initiatives are aimed at increasing participation in Higher Education among young adults, in particular among groups who historically have had relatively low Higher Education participation ... See full document

... in Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge, indicates that the views of the respondents may not be fully representative of all young people who experienced activities and interventions, organised through ... See full document

... programmes, Aimhigher: Excellence Challenge, in existence since 2001, and Aimhigher: Partnerships for Progression, since ...of Aimhigher is designed to facilitate the development of a ... See full document

... available pupil-level attendance data has hampered any detailed understanding of the relative impact of such schemes on groups of pupils, or, indeed, of any comprehensive awareness of the relationship between ... See full document

... process evaluation section of this report describes many of the challenges that were faced in the start-up of the CEC program which made them difficult to ...detailed analysis of why the original ... See full document

... 6.20 One case study looked at the role of an education support officer funded at LA level who was responsible for arranging alternative curriculum provision and visits to colleges and learning events for LAC and ... See full document

... the evaluation in this first year has had to adjust to ...the evaluation is often attempting to gather evidence where EECs are not yet fully ...of evaluation which are new to ...costing ... See full document

... the evaluation of the pilot projects in the first year of their implementation, as mentioned in the Interim ...2002/03 evaluation, an assistant headteacher commented that: ‘From the college perspective, I ... See full document