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Table 2 Distribution of students across ordinal background variables
High achievers | Non-high achievers | ||||||||||
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Variable | Categories | N | % | n | mean rank | % | n | mean rank | U | Z | η 2 |
PISA 2015 - science | |||||||||||
Student educational expectations | Lower secondary education | 721 | 1.9 | 14 | 3875.0 | 98.1 | 707 | 2756.4 | 1490634.5 | -13.26 | 0.031 |
Leaving Cert Applied, Transition year, VTOS and FÁS programmes | 258 | 1.6 | 4 | 98.5 | 254 | ||||||
Leaving Certificate and Vocational programmes | 791 | 1.6 | 13 | 98.4 | 778 | ||||||
Post-secondary, non-tertiary | 219 | 1.4 | 3 | 98.6 | 216 | ||||||
Tertiary (National Framework of Qualifications [NFQ] levels 6 (higher) and 7) | 1,070 | 4.2 | 45 | 95.8 | 1,025 | ||||||
Tertiary (NFQ level 8) | 2,613 | 12.5 | 327 | 87.5 | 2,286 | ||||||