Although word recognition tests continue to be widely employed by teachers, the application of out-of-date norms and varying methods of administration and scoring seriously reduce the usefulness of these tests. As a result, a restandardization of the Burt-Vernon and Schonell tests was undertaken to produce reliable norms and to standardize…

The various influences on educational performance, and, in particular, the influence of language are examined in relation to under-achievement of West Indian children in British schools. (Author/RK)

The advent of comprehensive education implies a search for a common culture, or a common treatment of culture, across the whole school population. This article reviews the present stage in this search, attempting to define a suitable treatment of culture by secondary schools. (Author)

The theoretical issue was whether a general motivation towards effectiveness or competence could be observed in the free activity of pre-school children. Implications of the concept of effectiveness-motivation were discussed. (Author/RK)

The problem of determining grades on a common scale for two groups offering a common paper in an examination was examined. Three theoretical methods were offered and the results of applying them to some data provided by the East Midland Regional Examinations Board were compared. (Author/RK)

The relationships between the delinquency rate of a school and the perceived behavior of its teachers and pupils were compared. The findings were discussed in the context of parental choice of school and questions concerning the tasks and activities offered to pupils and the nature of teacher/pupil relationships within the schools. (Author/RK)

Given that the learning environment in which the student was placed would influence aggression on the playground, it was felt that students would display less aggression on the playground of a pluralistic school, that is a school which offers several distinct learning environments and attempts to place students appropriately, than on the…

Ninety-two ordinal variables discriminated between secondary teachers divided according to their familiarity with or adoption of materials from 17 new science curriculum projects. (Author)

The range of assessments made by teachers of the performance of their students in the Nuffield Advanced Biology project and the Nuffield Advanced Physical Science project was subjected to a factor analysis. (Author)

Twenty-eight pre-school children, identified as having either a high or a low degree of interest in books and stories at nursery school, were compared by means of observations, tests, interviews with parents about activities at home, and questionnaires for staff about activities at school. (Author)

In recent years the importance of the teacher in the reading process has been repeatedly asserted. Examines some of the general implications of the relevant research and reanalyzes the only available British evidence on reading and primary education in Morris's "Standards and Progress in Reading". (Author/RK)

Considers aspects of verbal interaction in classrooms. Attempts to show that whether researchers approach classroom talk from the perspective of systematic observation, ethnography or sociolinguistics, their underlying theoretical assumptions determine the "facts" that they record and the interpretations they are able to offer. (Author/RK)

This is a third and final paper on aspects of multiracial education, derived from data collected by the National Foundation for Educational Research in England and Wales for the Department of Education and Science. (Author/RK)

An attempt was made to ascertain some of the main differences in attitudes towards school between offenders and non-offenders, specifically school-oriented pupils, nonchalant pupils and anti-school pupils attending comprehensive schools in high delinquency areas. (Author/RK)