News Finding: The comparator group had a slightly higher proportion of pupils with free school meals, and the study did not find evidence that STEM interventions improved outcomes for less advantaged students.
Paper Finding: A value close to 0 indicates almost all the variance in the variable is explained by other variables.
News Context: Comparator schools had a slightly lower figure of students doing well at mathematics at first, but results soon caught up with those at schools who were taking part in intervention activities. The comparator group had a slightly higher proportion of pupils with free school meals, and the study did not find evidence that STEM interventions improved outcomes for less advantaged students. "Of course attainment is only one indication of the success of these programmes, but it important because students are more likely to continue to study STEM subjects when they get higher grades.
Paper Context: This value varies from 0 to 1, where a value close to 1 suggests other predictors do not explain the variance in that variable. A value close to 0 indicates almost all the variance in the variable is explained by other variables. For the predictors considered in this analysis all the variables had a tolerance higher than 0.8 (Table 6 ).