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I need your help with this abbreviation. The document has no clue about it.
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The effective promotion rate for grade Gi and year t is defined as the ratio between promotes from grade Gi to the next grade Gi+1 between school years t and t+1 and the number of students enrolled in grade Gi each year who do not repeat that grade the following year.
I need your help with this abbreviation. The document has no clue about it.
TIA
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The effective promotion rate for grade Gi and year t is defined as the ratio between promotes from grade Gi to the next grade Gi+1 between school years t and t+1 and the number of students enrolled in grade Gi each year who do not repeat that grade the following year.
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Grade i (i is an integer, 0/1 to 12)
Here is a different wording of the same definition, without using variables:
https://ourworldindata.org/measuring-education-what-data-is-...
"The effective promotion rate (by grade) = number of new entrants to the following grade for the following year / number of students enrolled in the previous grade in the given year without the number of repeaters at that previous grade in that following year."
When talking about calculating statistical measures, it is common practice to use variables, especially if there is a definite formula involved. This is the case here, the text describes the calculation formula for a measure called "Effecive promotion rate".
Gi is an indexed form, where i is an integer number.
It is referring to grades in schools, so in the Western education system it would be 1-12, or 0-12 if Kindergarten is incuded as Grade 0.
The point of using Gi - or G(i) - is simply to be able to use it with Gi+1- or G(i+1) - to refer to two consecutive grades. If i = 2, then we are dealing with Grade 2 and Grade 3.
t is similar, it is referring to a year, such as 1989 or 2017 or 2022. "t" is commonly used as a variable in statistics to indicate time.
But they could have used y as well, here, it really doesn't matter.
Again, it is simply to be able to write shortly that we are talking about a given year and the year that follows that. Year t, and year t+1.
i and t are both variables, and are independent of each other.
For example, one could be interested in the promotion rate from 2007 to 2008 for all elementary grades, so G1, G2, G3, G4. In this case, 4 calculations would be done, for 4 different i values: i=1, 2, 3, 4, each using t=2007.
Someone else might be interested in looking at promotion rates from Grade 8 to Grade 9 over a longer period, let's say for each of ten consecutive years, so from 2010 to 2019. In other words, what ratio of 8th grade students were promoted to go to 9th grade in each of 2010, 2011, 2012, ... 2019?
In this case ten calculations would be done, each with i=8, and then 10 different t values, from 2010 to 2019.
The definition describes what "Effecive promotion rate" is.
It is a ratio showing that from the students that successfully finished a grade and were given permission to proceed to the next grade, what portion of students actually enrolled to continue their studies in the next grade.
It is different from the simple promotion rate (see the definition at the link I provided), which shows what ratio of students proceeded to the next grade out of the total number of students in the given grade.
So, to give an example, let's say in a given year, 2020, there were 20 students enrolled in grade 8. At the end of the school year, 2 students had dissatisfactory results and were required to repeat Garde 8. The other 18 students finished with satisfactory results and were given permission to continue (promoted to Grade 9), however, 3 of them decided to not continue their studies at all, and joined the workforce. So at the end, 15 students continued in Grade 9.
So, the effective promotion rate is the ration of those who actually enrolled in Grade 9 (15) over the students in the previous year who did not have to repeat (18). So the effective promotion rate is 15/18 = 83.3%.
Just for comparison, the (simple) promotion rate for this same class would be 15/20 = 75%, because the simple promotion rate does not take out the repeaters.
For most of the grades, especially below G8, the effective promotion rate is often 100% or very close to it, because students who are given permission, do continue in the next grade. It is more for high school years where dropping out starts to happen.
I hope this explains it.
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Note added at 4 days (2022-02-24 22:06:22 GMT) Post-grading
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One more addition:
"i" is a common variable to use for indexing, that is, to indicate the place of an item in a series of items. It is also a handy abbreviation for "integer". Integer numbers include negatives as well, this is why I specified in the answer that i here is an integer between 0 and 12 or 1 and 12, depending on whether they include Kindergarden as Grade 0.
https://ourworldindata.org/measuring-education-what-data-is-...
"The effective promotion rate (by grade) = number of new entrants to the following grade for the following year / number of students enrolled in the previous grade in the given year without the number of repeaters at that previous grade in that following year."
When talking about calculating statistical measures, it is common practice to use variables, especially if there is a definite formula involved. This is the case here, the text describes the calculation formula for a measure called "Effecive promotion rate".
Gi is an indexed form, where i is an integer number.
It is referring to grades in schools, so in the Western education system it would be 1-12, or 0-12 if Kindergarten is incuded as Grade 0.
The point of using Gi - or G(i) - is simply to be able to use it with Gi+1- or G(i+1) - to refer to two consecutive grades. If i = 2, then we are dealing with Grade 2 and Grade 3.
t is similar, it is referring to a year, such as 1989 or 2017 or 2022. "t" is commonly used as a variable in statistics to indicate time.
But they could have used y as well, here, it really doesn't matter.
Again, it is simply to be able to write shortly that we are talking about a given year and the year that follows that. Year t, and year t+1.
i and t are both variables, and are independent of each other.
For example, one could be interested in the promotion rate from 2007 to 2008 for all elementary grades, so G1, G2, G3, G4. In this case, 4 calculations would be done, for 4 different i values: i=1, 2, 3, 4, each using t=2007.
Someone else might be interested in looking at promotion rates from Grade 8 to Grade 9 over a longer period, let's say for each of ten consecutive years, so from 2010 to 2019. In other words, what ratio of 8th grade students were promoted to go to 9th grade in each of 2010, 2011, 2012, ... 2019?
In this case ten calculations would be done, each with i=8, and then 10 different t values, from 2010 to 2019.
The definition describes what "Effecive promotion rate" is.
It is a ratio showing that from the students that successfully finished a grade and were given permission to proceed to the next grade, what portion of students actually enrolled to continue their studies in the next grade.
It is different from the simple promotion rate (see the definition at the link I provided), which shows what ratio of students proceeded to the next grade out of the total number of students in the given grade.
So, to give an example, let's say in a given year, 2020, there were 20 students enrolled in grade 8. At the end of the school year, 2 students had dissatisfactory results and were required to repeat Garde 8. The other 18 students finished with satisfactory results and were given permission to continue (promoted to Grade 9), however, 3 of them decided to not continue their studies at all, and joined the workforce. So at the end, 15 students continued in Grade 9.
So, the effective promotion rate is the ration of those who actually enrolled in Grade 9 (15) over the students in the previous year who did not have to repeat (18). So the effective promotion rate is 15/18 = 83.3%.
Just for comparison, the (simple) promotion rate for this same class would be 15/20 = 75%, because the simple promotion rate does not take out the repeaters.
For most of the grades, especially below G8, the effective promotion rate is often 100% or very close to it, because students who are given permission, do continue in the next grade. It is more for high school years where dropping out starts to happen.
I hope this explains it.
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Note added at 4 days (2022-02-24 22:06:22 GMT) Post-grading
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One more addition:
"i" is a common variable to use for indexing, that is, to indicate the place of an item in a series of items. It is also a handy abbreviation for "integer". Integer numbers include negatives as well, this is why I specified in the answer that i here is an integer between 0 and 12 or 1 and 12, depending on whether they include Kindergarden as Grade 0.
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| Thanks a lot for your informative and helpful answer! |
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Yvonne Gallagher
: An integer? Over-complicated answer
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Over-complicated? "i" is a common variable name for an integer in math. I can't write "a number between 0 and 12", because that would include rational and real numbers (e.g 2.5 or pi) which are not applicable in this case when talking about school grades.
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previous year's grade
I think it's quite clear in the link you gave
so grade gi +1 is THIS year's grade
"The effective promotion rate for grade Gi and year t is defined as the ratio between promotees from grade Gi to the next grade Gi+1 ..."
so grade gi +1 is THIS year's grade
"The effective promotion rate for grade Gi and year t is defined as the ratio between promotees from grade Gi to the next grade Gi+1 ..."
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| Thank you so much! |
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Katalin Horváth McClure
: No, Gi is any grade, it simply used as a formulaic way to indicate two consecutive grades, Gi and Gi+1. In any year, there are promotion rates for all pairs of consecutive grades. t and t+1 indicate two consecutive years. t can be any year, even long ago.
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asker wants to know what Gi refers to and quite simply it's "grade" as explained in the link given. I agree that I should not have included "THIS" as I agree Gi can refer to ANY year's grade with Gi + 1 the grade in the following year
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Reference comments
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Reference:
It seams t means teacher:
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Calculation method
The number of leavers is estimated by subtracting the number of teachers in year t from those in year t-1 and adding the number of new entrants to the teaching workforce in year t. The attrition rate is the number of leavers expressed as a percentage of the total number of teachers in year t-1. - http://uis.unesco.org/en/glossary-term/teacher-attrition-rat...
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Calculation method
The number of leavers is estimated by subtracting the number of teachers in year t from those in year t-1 and adding the number of new entrants to the teaching workforce in year t. The attrition rate is the number of leavers expressed as a percentage of the total number of teachers in year t-1. - http://uis.unesco.org/en/glossary-term/teacher-attrition-rat...
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Katalin Horváth McClure
: No, t is a year. t is a common variable name used in statistics for units of time. It can be used for various calculations, some may be reated to teachers, but t is the year.
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Yvonne Gallagher
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Discussion
Thanks for your input. I thought the same.
However, I believe that it stands for something. I am still looking for more-relevant results that support this understanding.
Thanks again
and t - teachers in year X an t+1 in Year Y (the following year)
https://findanyanswer.com/how-do-you-calculate-promotional-r...
As I noted under your other question:
It looks like it is a variable being used as a placeholder in the text...meaning that the number may change depending on the context...basically the same as saying Grade X and Year Y. As an example, Gi might stand for Grade 8, which would make Gi + 1 equal to Grade 9. Similarly t might be the year 2020, which would make t + 1 equal to 2021. But if t is 1999 (for example), then t + 1 would be the year 2000.
This is probably a piece of code associated with the text, which would allow one to specify somewhere that Gi = Grade 8 (or whatever grade), while t = 2021 (or whatever year)...so that the document does not have to be edited by hand every time a change needs to be made. For another purpose Gi may equal another grade, and t another year.