attainmentat‧tain‧ment /əˈteɪnmənt/ ●○○ AWL noun formal 
- Moral reasoning similarly reaches full development with the attainment of formal operations.
- The South East is the leading region in terms of the educational qualifications of its work force and the level of school attainment.
- Their educational attainment was also being affected because their rooms were too cold to study in.
- They were men and women of attainment and style.
- Thus, the whole question of the attainment of metanoia revolves around receiving and registering impressions in a new way.
- With the attainment of concrete operations, the ability to reason logically about and solve conservation problems emerges.
ADJECTIVE► educational· A personal philosophy is something which all people have nomatterwhat their background, class, or educational attainment.· We have already seen that output cognition is closely related to level of educational attainment and socioeconomic Position.· As well as such differences in educational attainment, there are differences in the characteristic linguistic behaviour of various groups.· Even the lag in educational attainment that continued to mount from the late 1970s did not account for the differences.· Their educational attainment was also being affected because their rooms were too cold to study in.· Among those with lower educational attainment the national differences are greater.· Nor have there been many recent sample-survey investigations of the relationship between social class and educational attainment.· Both talking politics and feeling relatively unrestricted about with whom one can safely discuss politics are closely related to educational attainment.
► low· These are also the areas with high infant mortality rates, child accidents, morbidity rates and low school attainment rates.· Among those with lower educational attainment the national differences are greater.
NOUN► level· We wonder what attainment level of today's national curriculum one needs to reach before spotting that these are howlers.· Monitor Appropriate Indicators At this stage mechanisms for collecting information about attainment levels need to be designed and implemented.· In earlier times the former had been underachieving educationally whereas the latter are now near the peak of their attainment level.
► target· Pupils with physical disabilities Pupils with physical disabilities should in general have the same attainment targets and programmes of study as their peers.· All of the attainment targets can be assessed at various levels, with corresponding programmes of study leading towards them.· Good historical practice will usually ensure that the attainment targets are covered many times over in the course of the work.· On several occasions we spent weekends working furiously hard in small groups at drafts of attainment targets and programmes of study.· For each attainment target we have recommended statements of attainment and programmes of study at up to 10 levels.· The process demands simpler information than a collection of attainment target scores.· This simplification is achieved through the aggregation of attainment target assessments into profile components, and into results on each subject.
nounattainmentadjectiveattainable ≠ unattainableverbattain
a low level of educational attainment2[countable] something that you have succeeded in achieving or learning, such as a skill SYN achievement: