All Outputs (3)

Achievement and Educational Performance: A Cause for Celebration? (2001)
Book Chapter
Fitz-Gibbon, C., & Tymms, P. (2001). Achievement and Educational Performance: A Cause for Celebration?. In R. Phillips, & J. Furlong (Eds.), Education, Reform and the State: Twenty-Five Years of Politics, Policy and Practice. RoutledgeFalmer

A Test of the Big Fish in a Little Pond Hypothesis: An Investigation into the Feelings of Seven-Year-Old Pupils in School (2001)
Journal Article
Tymms, P. (2001). A Test of the Big Fish in a Little Pond Hypothesis: An Investigation into the Feelings of Seven-Year-Old Pupils in School. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 12(2), 161-181. https://doi.org/10.1076/sesi.12.2.161.3452

The feelings (self-concepts and attitudes) toward maths, reading and school of 21,000 seven-year-olds in England were investigated using multi-variate multi-level models. The most important explanatory variables were the teacher and the academic leve... Read More about A Test of the Big Fish in a Little Pond Hypothesis: An Investigation into the Feelings of Seven-Year-Old Pupils in School.

Inattention, hyperactivity and impulsiveness: Their impact on academic achievement and progress (2001)
Journal Article
Merrell, C., & Tymms, P. (2001). Inattention, hyperactivity and impulsiveness: Their impact on academic achievement and progress. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 71(1), 43-56. https://doi.org/10.1348/000709901158389

Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) have been found to achieve lower grades at school than their peers. Does this extend to pupils who are apparently exceptionally inattentive, hyperactive or impulsive, but have not been dia... Read More about Inattention, hyperactivity and impulsiveness: Their impact on academic achievement and progress.