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6. Does being at a single sex school have a positive or negative impact on examination performance?

  • Positive
  • Negative

7. Which of the following is not one of the Coalition government's five pillars for education?

  • increasing rigour of the curriculum
  • academies introduced
  • social services linked more closely to education
  • teachers as leaders (performance based pay)
  • schools should be self-improving
  • character and resilience of education - clearer links between ed and the labour market

8. What percentage of those eligible for FSM gained 5 A*-Cs and what percent of those non-eligible?

  • 31 and 59
  • 21 and 49

9. Who says that in quasi-markets 'providers have a freedom to act and to innovate in a way that other models do not allow, especially models that involve targets and performance management'?

  • Le Grand
  • Tilley
  • James
  • Marshall

10. When was OFSTED introduced?

  • 1979
  • 1992
  • 1997
  • 1988

11. When was the Standards in Scotland Schools Act, abolishing all self-governing status and raw-test scores, introduced?

  • 1998
  • 2000
  • 1999
  • 2001

12. Why is parental choice not as wide as thought?

  • all schools follow one curriculum
  • specialist schools cost extra

13. Who finds that in the 1960s and 1970s non-selective education did raise educational outcomes for the average and below average income child?

  • Hanushek
  • Glennerster and Low
  • Rutter et al.

14. What percent of their intake could GM specialist schools select on the basis of aptitude and ability?

  • 25%
  • 20%
  • 10%
  • 5%

15. Which of the following is not one of Taylor et al.'s steps in the development of school diversity?

  • neo-conservative increased marketization of schools 1980-1997
  • plurality of school provision 1944-1960s
  • introduction of free church schools
  • homogenization of provision 1960s-1980s
  • diversification under new labour

16. Who distinguishes between S-type (selection: cream-skimming) and E-type (efficiency improvement) competition?

  • Glennerster
  • Levacic
  • Mattei

17. Who found systematic and significant bias in teacher assessments compared with SATs, underestimating performance by Black Caribbean, Black African and Pakistani pupils?

  • Mattei
  • Burgess and Greaves
  • Glennerster and Low

18. When were City Technology Colleges introduced?

  • 1986
  • 1982
  • 1988
  • 1984

19. Who finds that competition between schools (5 or more perceived competitors) has a positive impact on examination results?

  • Glennerster
  • Levacic
  • Rutter

20. In 2007, what percentage of grammar school students were from the top quintile of the local area and what percent from the most deprived?

  • 35 and 6
  • 42 and 12
  • 40 and 8
  • 20 and 10