Young People and School GCSE Attainment: Exploring the 'Middle'

Citation

Connelly R, Murray S & Gayle V (2013) Young People and School GCSE Attainment: Exploring the 'Middle'. Sociological Research Online, 18 (1). https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.2880

Abstract
The term 'missing middle' has been used to describe the position of ordinary young people in youth research.  There have been recent appeals for youth researchers to concentrate upon the lives of ordinary young people and to better document their educational experiences through the secondary analysis of large-scale social surveys.  This paper presents a series of exploratory analyses that attempt to identify the school-level educational attainment and social characteristics of ordinary young people using contemporary survey data.

Keywords
sociology of youth; educational attainment; GCSE; mising middle; British household panel survey

Journal
Sociological Research Online: Volume 18, Issue 1