Secondary School Selection: A British Psychological Society Inquiry

ability academic age-group allocation areas assessments attainments tests attitudes Authorities average battery better border-zone borderline Burt Butler Act candidates Chapter child coaching coefficients compared comprehensive schools considerable correlation criterion difficulties educational psychologist effects emotional English and Arithmetic English test entry essays evidence examination factors favour follow-up given grammar school grammar-school places group test Headmasters Conference individual intellectual intelligence quotients intelligence tests interview judgements junior school later less markers marks mean measure mental methods metic middle-class modern schools Moray House tests National Foundation normal objective tests obtained old-type panels parents points possible practice predictive primary school problem proportion psychological psychologists pupils quota quotients range record cards reliability reports scaled estimates scheme School Certificate secondary education secondary schools selection procedure social class standard scores standardized tests streaming subjects success suitable teachers technical techniques tend test scores tion validity variations varied verbal weight