HMI 9-13 Middle Schools Survey (1983)

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Preliminary pages (i-vii)
Contents, Tables, Preface

Chapter 1 (1-4)
Introduction
Chapter 2 (5-17)
The main characteristics of the schools
Chapter 3 (18-31)
The management and organisation of the teaching arrangements
Chapter 4 (32-35)
The schools' contribution to children's social amd personal education

Chapter 5 (36-38)
Provision for children with special educational needs
Chapter 6 (39-49)
The curriculum: planning, assessment and liaison
Chapter 7 (50-119)
The content of the curriculum
Chapter 8 (120-131)
Some issues for discussion

Appendix 1 (132-147)
Background to the schools
Appendix 2 (148-152)
Statistical notes
Appendix 3 (153-182)
Heads' questionnaires
Appendix 4 (183-196)
Summaries of HMI schedules

Index (197-204)

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1983
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Notes on the text

Background

The 1967 Plowden Report Children and their Primary Schools recommended (in chapter 30, page 426, para. 1164) that surveys of the quality of primary schools should be conducted at least once every ten years.

In response, HMI produced, between 1978 and 1985, five surveys covering the whole school age range, of which this survey was one. The others in the series were:

1978 Primary education in England
1979 Aspects of secondary education in England
1982 Education 5 to 9
1985 Education 8 to 12 in Combined and Middle Schools

The text

The full text of the survey is online, including the Appendices.

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I have corrected a handful of printing errors and tidied up some inconsistencies in spelling - cooperation/co-operation, coordination/co-ordination for example. The former were used more often in each case and are therefore used throughout in this version. There is one error which I have not been able to correct: in chapter 3 there is no paragraph 3.10!

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