The School Effect
A Study of Multi-Racial Comprehensives
David J Smith, Sally Tomlinson, with the assistance of Lucy Bonnerjea, Terence Hogarth, and Hilary Thomes
This book is the outcome of a research project which followed a group of children who transferred to secondary school in 1981 to the point at which they took their public examinations at the end of the fifth year.
1989 ISBN 0 85374 388 6
Report number 688
Contents:
Part One: Context and methods
1 Introduction: The study of multi-racial comprehensives
2 Attainment of racial minorities
3 Studying schools and their effects
Part Two: Children parents and schools
5 Social and economic variables
Part three: school effects at the end of the second year
9 Attainment in absolute terms
Tables
10 Attainment in reading and maths:
variance components analysis
Tables
11 Outcomes other than attainment
Tables
Part four: Third year options
12 The process of option choice
Tables
13 Determination of subject and
level
Tables
14 Pupils' attitudes to choice of
subjects
Tables
Part five: Fifth year examinations
16 The results in absolute terms
Tables
17 Variance components analysis
Tables
Part six: Conclusions
Appendix 1: Variance Component Analysis
Appendix 2: Proportion of Variance at the School Level References