Technical report with Growing independence: Competent Learners @ 14

This technical report has been written to stand alongside the fourth report on the Competent Children, Competent Learners study at 14, Growing Independence (Wylie & Hipkins, 2006). The report tells the story carried in the data, and this technical report provides the basis of the story: it describes the methodology used to analyse the data (and the software used to do so), and provides more detail of the results (more numbers to ponder over). The actual report probably includes less detail than previous reports in the series, allowing the story to be told more clearly and with fewer interruptions. The ordering of the material in the two reports reflects their two different functions. In the report, Growing Independence, the findings are ordered according to the story. In this technical report, the findings are ordered according to the research questions as they were originally stated, as that is the order of our investigations, and so best tells the story of what we did and why (rather than that of what we found).