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In view of the vast scope of the IEA studies,Prospects decided to review them in two parts. The first part, covering Volumes 7 to 9 of the reports, was written by David Hamilton of the University of East Anglia and published inProspects, Vol. VII, No. 3, 1977.—Ed.
T. Husén in: L. C. Comber and P. Keeves,Science Education in Nineteen Countries, p. 10, Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1973. (International Studies in Evaluation, I.)
J. V. Torney, A. N. Oppenheim and R. F. Farnen,Civic Education in Ten Countries, p. 24, Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1975. (International Studies in Evaluation, VI.)
Literature education, civic education, science education, the teaching of French and the teaching of English as a foreign language, and reading comprehension education.
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J. S. Coleman et al.,Equality of Educational Opportunity, Vols. I & II, Washington, United States Government Printing Office, 1966.
Comber and Keeves, op. cit.T. Husén in: L. C. Comber and P. Keeves,Science Education in Nineteen Countries, p. 10, Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1973. (International Studies in Evaluation, I.) p. 300.
The order of inclusion of variables within blocks was left to the computer to determine on statistical grounds.
Torneyet al., op. cit.J. V. Torney, A. N. Oppenheim and R. F. Farnen,Civic Education in Ten Countries, p. 24, Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1975. (International Studies in Evaluation, VI.), p. 127.
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See, for example, Thorndike, op. cit.R. L. Thorndike,Reading Comprehension Education in Fifteen Countries, p. 121, Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1973. (International Studies in Evaluation, III.), p. 177 and Comber and Keeves, op. cit. T. Husén in: L. C. Comber and P. Keeves,Science Education in Nineteen Countries, p. 10, Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1973. (International Studies in Evaluation, I.) p. 13.
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The countries included were Finland, the Federal Republic of Germany, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden and the United States of America. (The Iranian data was later withdrawn from the analysis.)
C. A. Anderson, ‘Interpreting National Contrasts in School Achievement’, in: D. A. Walker,The IEA Six Subject Survey: an Empirical Study of Education in Twenty-one Countries, Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1976. See also Comber and Keeves, op. cit. T. Husén in: L. C. Comber and P. Keeves,Science Education in Nineteen Countries, p. 10, Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1973. (International Studies in Evaluation, I.), p. 300.
op. cit.C. A. Anderson, ‘Interpreting National Contrasts in School Achievement’, in: D. A. Walker,The IEA Six Subject Survey: an Empirical Study of Education in Twenty-one Countries, Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1976.
op. cit.A. C. Purves,Literature Education in Ten Countries, p. 313, Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1973. (International Studies in Evaluation, II.), p. 315.
Comber and Keeves, op. cit.in: L. C. Comber and P. Keeves,Science Education in Nineteen Countries, p. 10, Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1973. (International Studies in Evaluation, I.), p. 295.
See, for example, Carrell, op. cit., p. 279 and E. G. Lewis and C. E. Massad,The Teaching of English as a Foreign Language in Ten Countries, p. 300, Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1975. (International Studies in Evaluation, IV.)
op. cit.R. Mitchell,Modern Languages in Scotland, No. 13, May 1977, p. 195.
op. cit.R. L. Thorndike,Reading Comprehension Education in Fifteen Countries, p. 121, Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1973. (International Studies in Evaluation, III.) p. 99. The reference is to the reading comprehension survey, but in view of the shared methodology of the studies, can be reasonably taken to refer to the IEA in general.
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F. Susi and S. Meghnagi deal with an idea which I have treated more amply elsewhere. See F. M. De Sanctis,Educazione in Etá Adulta, Florence, 1975.
A. Lorenzetto,Lineamenti Storici e Teorici dell'Educazione Permanente, Rome, Studium, 1976.
She writes that ‘the greatest criticism which can be made of the functional literacy of the experimental projects is that in many cases the funds of UNDP and of Unesco...were used to pay for the training of a labour force which was of the greatest assistance to the big industries, companies, and national and international concerns which exploit the Third World's (p. 210).
T. De Mauro, ‘Educazione Linguistica’,Didattica delle 150 Ore, Rome, 1976. It should be remembered that 76.6 per cent of the population have not completed full compulsory schooling, and are thus ‘below the minimum level which has been required by the Constitution for the last thirty years’.
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Broadfoot, P.M., De Sanctis, F.M. Book reviews. Prospects 8, 121–131 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02220353
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