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

Authors

Pam Sammons, University of Oxford
Kathy Sylva, University of Oxford
Edward Melhuish, University of WollongongFollow
Iram Siraj-Blatchford, University of WollongongFollow
Brenda Taggart, University of London
Rebecca Smees, University of Oxford
Diana Draghici, University of London
Katalin Toth, University of London

RIS ID

109735

Publication Details

Sammons, P., Sylva, K., Melhuish, E., Siraj-Blatchford, I., Taggart, B., Smees, R., Draghici, D. & Toth, K. (2012). Influences on students' dispositions in Key Stage 3: Exploring enjoyment of school, popularity, anxiety, citizenship values and academic self-concepts in Year 9. London, United Kingdom: Department for Education.

Abstract

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.