Rutter Michael Maughan Barbara Mortimore (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Third Printing. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. 285 pages; some edge wear to jacket and boards; Fifteen Thousand Hours gives a remarkable account of what goes on in schools, and what the effects are likely to be. It is vital reading for all those professionally involved in teaching.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Clean firm copy, light edge and corner wear.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good condition paperback pictorial laminated cover, no DJ. 279 pages good and clean with clear print, indexed. No foxing, no previous names.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition 4th Printing. Light Creasing on Front Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. SUB-TITLE: Secondary schools and their effects on children. CONTENTS: Preface and Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: previous studies 2 Background to the study 3 The schools and the area they serve 4 Research strategy and tactics 5 School outcomes: children's attendance, behaviour and attainments 6 Physical and administrative features of schools: associations with outcome 7 School processes: associations with outcome 8 Ecological influences 9 Composite analyses of all main variables 10 Conclusions: speculations and implications. Appendices; A Pupil behaviour scale; B School goals; C Ten naughty children: examples; D Format of pupil questionnaire; E Details of process items; F Observations; G Additional tables; H Analysis of multiway contingency tables by log linear models; I Attainment at the end of the first year in the sixth form; J Intake and administrative variables; K Comparison between 12 "research" schools and 8 other schools which took part in 14 year old survey. References; Name index; Subject index. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Michael Rutter is Professor of Child Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. Barbara Maughan and Janet Ouston are researchers at The Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. Peter Mortimore is Director of Research and Statistics at the Inner London Education Authority. REVIEWS: "This important document should be taken seriously by all who are concerned with schooling . . . [It] confirms common sense: that approximately 15,000 hours spent in schools does matter. It says that schools are complex social institutions in which many factors merge to create an atmosphere that can influence pupil outcomes differentially, regardless of pupil background. It offers hope that schools can be improved no matter where they are located. And it offers provocative findings that beg for serious attention and further research investigation." - American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. "[Rutter's] findings, backed up with impressive statistics, fly in the face of a popular American theory that holds that if a student body has too many social disadvantages, there is not much that can be done for it educationally." - New York Times. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.