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英語(yǔ)閱讀:夏天出生的孩子考不上頂尖大學(xué)!?

Summer-born children are considerably less likely to attend top universities than pupils with autumn birthdays, according to research published today。

今天公布的一項(xiàng)研究顯示，比起秋天出生的孩子，夏天出生的孩子考上頂尖大學(xué)的概率要小得多。

The youngest children lag behind older classmates and struggle to properly catch up throughout compulsory education, it was revealed。

研究表明，夏天出生的孩子通常是班里年齡最小的，他們往往落后于那些大一點(diǎn)的孩子，要想通過(guò)義務(wù)教育趕上其他同學(xué)，他們就得學(xué)得更辛苦。

Despite being given additional help by parents, those born in August are 20 per cent more likely to take vocational qualifications at college and a fifth less likely to attend an elite Russell Group university than those with September birthdays。

就算有父母提供的額外幫助，與九月出生的孩子相比，八月出生的孩子進(jìn)入職業(yè)學(xué)校學(xué)習(xí)的概率要高出五分之一，而進(jìn)入英國(guó)名校聯(lián)盟的羅素 集團(tuán)大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)的機(jī)會(huì)卻要少掉五分之一。

The study – published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies – also lays bare the extent to which a child’s date of birth influences their self-perception, social and emotional development and chances of being bullied at school。

這項(xiàng)研究是由財(cái)政研究協(xié)會(huì)公布的，同時(shí)，該研究還指出，孩子的出生日期會(huì)對(duì)他們的自我認(rèn)知、社交能力、情感發(fā)展，以及是否會(huì)在學(xué)校受欺負(fù)等 都有關(guān)系。

Ellen Greaves, IFS research economist and the report’s author, said: “It is clear that the consequences of the month in which you were born extend beyond educational attainment. We find evidence that, particularly at younger ages, summer-born children are more likely to report being unhappy at school and to have experienced bullying than autumn-born children。”

Ellen Greaves是財(cái)政研究協(xié)會(huì)的經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家，也是該研究報(bào)告的作者，說(shuō)道，“出生日期對(duì)你的影響不僅限于受教育的程度。有證據(jù)表明，在年齡較小的時(shí)候，夏天 出生的孩子比秋天出生的孩子在學(xué)校里更容易受到欺負(fù)并且過(guò)得不愉快�！�

It compared children born in September – at the start of the academic year – to those with birthdays in August to gauge the effect that this had on a range of issues relating to education and personal wellbeing。

由于新學(xué)年都在九月份開(kāi)學(xué)，因此，九月份出生的孩子與八月份出生的孩子會(huì)在接受教育方面和個(gè)人幸福感上存在差異。

Relative to peers with September birthdays, the study found that children born in August were:

與九月出生的同齡人相比，八月出生的孩子會(huì)有以下表現(xiàn)：

1) Likely to achieve “substantially” lower scores in national achievement tests and other measures of cognitive skills;

在參加全國(guó)考(微博)試和其他認(rèn)知能力方面的考試中，成績(jī)會(huì)明顯偏低;

2) 20 per cent more likely to study for vocational qualifications if they stay on beyond the age of 16;

16歲后仍繼續(xù)學(xué)習(xí)的人當(dāng)中，20%的人更有可能進(jìn)入職業(yè)學(xué)校學(xué)習(xí);

3) 20 per cent less likely to attend a Russell Group university aged 19;

19歲進(jìn)入英國(guó)名校聯(lián)盟的羅素集團(tuán)大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)的機(jī)會(huì)要少掉五分之一;

4) Between two-and-a-half and three-and-a-half times more likely to be regarded as below average by their teachers in reading, writing and maths at age seven;

在任課老師看來(lái)，八月出生的孩子在閱讀、寫(xiě)作和數(shù)學(xué)方面比平均水平低的概率要多出2.5到3.5倍;

5) More likely to exhibit lower social and emotional development;

更有可能顯示出更低的社交能力和情感發(fā)展水平;

6) Two-and-a-half times more likely to report being unhappy at school and twice as likely to report being bullied at the age of seven;

在7歲這個(gè)年齡段上，在學(xué)校過(guò)得不開(kāi)心的概率要大2.5倍，在學(xué)校受欺負(fù)的概率要大2倍;

The study said gaps in performance decreased as children grow up。

研究也指出，隨著年齡的增大，這些差距會(huì)縮小。

小編注：這項(xiàng)研究是針對(duì)英國(guó)學(xué)生的，不一定符合中國(guó)國(guó)情。不過(guò)，某八月出生的小編表示這研究簡(jiǎn)直說(shuō)出了她童年時(shí)的心聲啊!另一八月生小編表示對(duì)此研究結(jié)果無(wú)感。至于結(jié)果到底準(zhǔn)不準(zhǔn)，還是你說(shuō)了算。

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