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The First Year at School: A Quantitative Investigation of the Attainment and Progress of Pupils (1997)
Journal Article
Tymms, P., Merrell, C., & Henderson, B. (1997). The First Year at School: A Quantitative Investigation of the Attainment and Progress of Pupils. Educational Research and Evaluation, 3(2), 101-118. https://doi.org/10.1080/1380361970030201

In England children must start school after their fifth birthday, but it is common for children to start when they are four in what is known as the Reception class. The Performance Indicators in Primary Schools (PIPS) project collected data on 1700 p... Read More about The First Year at School: A Quantitative Investigation of the Attainment and Progress of Pupils.