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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Can the Eleven Plus actually predict success?

Back in 1957 the educationalist Yates wrote `Admission to Grammar Schools’. The premise of the report was to do with the extent to which 11+ examinations correctly predicted success at secondary school.

Over sixty years later there must be a case for the ability of the eleven plus examinations to predict future success to be re-examined.

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