A Bit of a Curate's Egg? Three Decades of Official Thinking About the Quality of Schools
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8405489 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Gray (0000-0003-3373-9453, Homerton University Hospital, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 4-21 |
| Publication date | 1997-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Educational Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1005 • E-ISSN: 1467-8527 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-8527.00033 |
| OpenAlex | W2085455450 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
For more than three decades judgements of schools' quality have been dominated by the frameworks, developed by members of Her Majesty's Inspectorate (HMI). This article reviews the approaches employed in the national survey conducted for the Plowden Committee, subsequent surveys undertaken by HMI during the seventies and eighties and the changes brought about by the advent of the Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) in the early nineties. The frameworks employed appear to have changed from one decade to the next, sometimes subtly, at other times more radically. Overall, such changes have been sufficiently major for it to be difficult, if not impossible, to make anything other than the broadest statements about changes in the state and quality of the nation's schooling over time
Bit (key) · Epistemology · Majesty · Political science · Public relations · Quality (philosophy) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism · Computer Science · Impact of Education Environments · Law · Public Administration · School Choice and Performance
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2004 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |