Ivy Brember

Biographic Data

ID6154490
NAMEIvy Brember
GIVEN NAMESIvy
FAMILY NAMEBrember
SIGNATUREBREMBER I
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Manchester
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
H-INDEX1

  • Monitoring Reading Standards in Year 6

    Open AccessJulie Davies, Ivy BremberARTICLEBritish Educational Research…1997Cited by: 1References: 5

    This article assesses the value of looking closely at reading scores of cohorts of children in order to pinpoint where, within the groups, attainment is rising, falling or static. This article analyses the reading standards of seven cohorts of Year 6 children from five randomly selected primary schools within one local education authority (LEA) (n = 1293). The results of this cross‐sectional study of a sample of Year 6 children are presented. Exa…

  • A Response to Sainsbury, Schagen & Whetton

    Open AccessJulie Davies, Ivy BremberARTICLEBritish Educational Research…1995

  • The First Mathematics Standard Assessment Tasks at Key Stage 1

    Open AccessJulie Davies, Ivy BremberARTICLEBritish Educational Research…1994Cited by: 4References: 1

    This paper assesses the value parents can put on the mathematical Standard Assessment Task (SAT) score as an indicator of what children are achieving in mathematics. The results of a study of a sample of all the Year 2 children (176) from five randomly selected primary schools within one Local Education Authority (LEA) are presented. Pupils' scores on Mathematics 7, a standardised mathematics test for 7 year‐olds (National Foundation for Educatio…

  • The Reliability and Validity of the ‘Smiley’ Scale

    Open AccessJulie Davies, Ivy BremberARTICLEBritish Educational Research…1994Cited by: 1References: 1

    The ‘Smiley’ scale was devised to measure primary school children's attitudes to school as part of the Junior School Project by the Inner London Education Authority in 1986. It appeared potentially useful, in both content and format, for our purpose. It was found that no reliability or validity study had been carried out on it. To rectify this, one was done. Internal consistency reliability was found to be satisfactory when tested on 641 Year 2 a…

  • Comics or Stories? Differences in the Reading Attitudes and Habits of Girls and Boys in years 2, 4 and 6

    Julie Davies, Ivy BremberARTICLEGender and Education1993References: 1

    A random sample of six schools within the primary schools of one local education authority (LEA) was chosen comprising 216 Year 2 children (109 boys, 107 girls), 189 Year 4 children (99 boys, 90 girls) and 206 Year 6 children (104 boys, 102 girls). A self‐report questionnaire was administered to explore each cohort's attitudes to reading, the source and type of their reading materials and the places at home where they read. Results indicated that…

  • The Effects of Gender and Attendance Period on Children's Adjustment to Nursery Classes

    Open AccessJulie Davies, Ivy BremberARTICLEBritish Educational Research…1991References: 6

    This paper analyses the effects of gender and attendance period on children's adjustment to nursery classes as measured by the teachers using the Child at School Schedule. The sample consisted of 778 children in 16 nursery classes attached to primary schools in one Local Education Authority. The results of a two‐way analysis of variance showed that boys were perceived to be less well‐adjusted to school than girls (at F 1% level) and the afternoon…