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Lord Desai
asked Her Majesty's Government:What are the average scores, as well as the maxima, the minima, the medians, the upper and lower quartiles and the pupil-weighted mean and standard deviations (all rounded to three decimal places) of:
using the GNVQ point score system currently adopted by the Department for Education and Employment. [HL2548]
The Minister of State, Department for Education and Employment
(Baroness Blackstone)
The information requested in respect of GCSE and GCSE/GNVQ point scores per 15 year-old pupil is shown in the following tables.
| (a) GCSE point scores for 1993 and 1997 | ||||
| (i) All schools | (ii) All maintained schools | |||
| 1993 | 1997 | 1993 | 1997 | |
| Average score | 33.106 | 35.824 | 31.745 | 34.870 |
| Maximum | 133.000 | 107.000 | 131.000 | 107.000 |
| Minimum | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Median | 34.000 | 37.000 | 33.000 | 36.000 |
| Upper quartile | 48.000 | 51.000 | 46.000 | 49.000 |
| Lower quartile | 18.000 | 21.000 | 17.000 | 21.000 |
| Mean deviation | 16.165 | 16.698 | 15.618 | 16.044 |
| Standard deviation | 19.195 | 20.097 | 18.576 | 19.359 |
| (b) GCSE/GNVQ point scores for 1997 | ||
| (i) All schools | (ii) All maintained schools | |
| Average score | 35.893 | 34.944 |
| Maximum | 107.000 | 107.000 |
| Minimum | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Median | 38.000 | 36.000 |
| Upper quartile | 51.000 | 50.000 |
| Lower quartile | 21.000 | 21.000 |
| Mean deviation | 16.706 | 16.057 |
| Standard deviation | 20.108 | 19.375 |