Part 2 — PERFORMANCE OF SUBGROUPS - School Type Differences
School Type Differences

Results were compared for year 8 students attending full primary and intermediate schools. Across the first four years about fifty percent of students in the sample were in intermediate schools, 40 percent in full primary schools, and the remaining 10 percent in other school types (eg. composite and form 1 to 7 schools).

The first data column shows the percentage of tasks in each learning area for which there were statistically significant differences between intermediate and full primary schools, with students in intermediate schools performing best. The second data column shows the percentage of tasks for which there were no statistically significant differences. The third data column shows the percentage of tasks for which there were statistically significant differences with students in full primary schools performing best.
School Type Differences: Year 8
Subject
Int >
=
FP >
Science
0
100
0
Art
8
84
8
Graphs/Tables
0
100
0
Music
0
95
5
Technology
0
94
6
Reading
0
100
0
Speaking
0
100
0
Info. Skills
0
96
4
Social Studies
0
96
4
Mathematics
0
95
5
Listening
0
89
11
Viewing
0
100
0
Health
0
100
0
Physical Educ.
0
100
0
Writing
0
100
0
Average
0
97
3
   
Comment These analyses show a very small overall number of differences in student achievement in relation to the type of school attended at the year 8 level where there are two major alternative types of schools. There was only one instance of intermediate school students performing statistically significantly better on tasks than full primary school students. In turn, full primaries had very few instances of higher performance in relation to intermediate schools.