Plowden (1967)

Notes on the text

Volume 2

Preliminary pages Foreword and Contents
Appendix 1 Teachers' questionnaire
Appendix 2 Health of school children

The 1964 National Survey:

Appendix 3 1964 National Survey
Appendix 4 Regression analyses
Appendix 5 Data from the schools
Appendix 6 Infant starters
Appendix 7 Standards of reading of 11 year olds
Annexes to the National Survey

Appendix 8 Social services and primary education
Appendix 9 The Manchester Survey
Appendix 10 National Child Development Study
Appendix 11 School organisation and effects of streaming
Appendix 12 Gypsies and education
Appendix 13 Management of primary schools
Appendix 14 Variation in LEA provision

Volume 1

Report (full text)

Articles

about Plowden

The Plowden Report (1967)
Children and their Primary Schools

A Report of the Central Advisory Council for Education (England)

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1967
© Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland.

Volume 2 Preliminary pages

Foreword
[Volume 2 page iii]

In this volume we have brought together accounts of some of the more detailed studies that have been made on our behalf, most of which have been commissioned, designed and written up within a period of two years.

The larger part of the volume consists of accounts of surveys and research commissioned at our request by the Department of Education and Science. We are grateful to the Department for meeting our requests for finance for this purpose. Most of all, however, we express our gratitude to the researchers who responded and produced studies, often at short notice within a given time limit. This has imposed great burdens on everybody concerned, including members of our own Secretariat. We should particularly like to refer to the distinguished contribution made to some of the studies by Mr GF Peaker CBE, who, although retired from HM Inspectorate, was retained by the Department to help us with our National Survey and to advise on other research matters. From amongst our full time Secretariat, Miss SMC Duncan HMI bore a heavy burden in contributing to and helping to carry out some of the research. Substantial help was also given by members of the Statistics Branch of the Department.

The research studies have enabled us to examine, in some depth, several issues within our field of interest. We are glad to learn that some of the research projects described in this volume will continue, and are pleased that the Central Advisory Council have been instrumental in helping them to get started. At the same time, it will be understood that because almost all the work here described has been done quickly, many of the conclusions must be regarded as provisional. In some cases we have published abridged versions in the knowledge that fuller accounts are to be published at about the same time as this volume.

In Volume 1 we have written of the contribution which research can make to primary education: the research described in Volume 2 illustrates the slow process by which knowledge is built up and forms the basis for further investigation.

Table of contents
[page v]

Appendix 1 A questionnaire to some teachers and tables of replies

Appendix 2 Health of school children and the School Health Service

Foreword

Appendix 3 The 1964 National Survey: survey among parents of primary school children: by Roma Morton-Williams, the Government Social Survey

Appendix 4 The regression analyses of the National Survey by GF Peaker

Appendix 5 The 1964 National Survey: data from the schools

Appendix 6 The 1964 National Survey: the infant starters

Appendix 7 Standards of reading of eleven year olds 1948/1964 by GF Peaker

Annexes to the National Survey

Appendix 8 The social services and primary education: a study of three local authority areas

Appendix 9 The Manchester Survey by Stephen Wiseman, Manchester University School of Education

Appendix 10 First Report of The National Child Development Study (1958 cohort)

Appendix 11 The organisation of junior schools and effects of streaming: National Foundation for Educational Research. A preliminary report

Appendix 12 Gypsies and education: Sociological Research Unit, Ministry of Housing and Local Government

Appendix 13 The management of primary schools: Research Unit on School Management and Government, University of London Institute of Education

Appendix 14 Notes on variation in LEA provision by BP Davies, London School of Economics and Political Science