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Surveys in schools
Two small surveys conducted in schools, using self-completion questionnaires, are also relevant. Both replicate a selection of attitude scales which link back to work on values and QoL. Data from these surveys are downloadable, along with documentation, as SPSS saved files directly from the links below.
Trinians: Opinions and attitudes of senior girls at a public school was a survey of all senior pupils in a girls’ public school (ages 16 -18, Feb 1973, N=216)
Publications
Mark Abrams and John Hall
Attitudes of Girls in Senior Forms [pdf]
Internal SSRC Survey Unit working paper reporting on selected findings (mimeo 20pp, March 1973)
Sarah Abrams
Survey [pdf]
(Article in Folio, magazine of St Paul's Schools, Vol 20,1,1973: 5pp)
Playground to Politics: A study of teenagers' attitudes was a survey of all fifth formers (ages 15, 16) attending a North London comprehensive school (mixed 11 – 18) on a single day in Dec 1981.
Publications
Paul Ahmed, Harriet Cain and Alan Cook
Playground to Politics: a study of values and attitudes among fifth formers in a North London comprehensive school Report on 2nd year project for BA Applied Social Studies (Social Research) Polytechnic of North London 1982
John Hall and Alison Walker
User manual for Playground to Politics: a study of values and attitudes among fifth formers in a North London comprehensive school (mimeo 40 pp – codebook, questionnaire, coding notes)
Survey Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London 1982
Trinians: Opinions and attitudes of senior girls at a public school was a survey of all senior pupils in a girls’ public school (ages 16 -18, Feb 1973, N=216)
Publications
Mark Abrams and John Hall
Attitudes of Girls in Senior Forms [pdf]
Internal SSRC Survey Unit working paper reporting on selected findings (mimeo 20pp, March 1973)
Sarah Abrams
Survey [pdf]
(Article in Folio, magazine of St Paul's Schools, Vol 20,1,1973: 5pp)
Playground to Politics: A study of teenagers' attitudes was a survey of all fifth formers (ages 15, 16) attending a North London comprehensive school (mixed 11 – 18) on a single day in Dec 1981.
Publications
Paul Ahmed, Harriet Cain and Alan Cook
Playground to Politics: a study of values and attitudes among fifth formers in a North London comprehensive school Report on 2nd year project for BA Applied Social Studies (Social Research) Polytechnic of North London 1982
John Hall and Alison Walker
User manual for Playground to Politics: a study of values and attitudes among fifth formers in a North London comprehensive school (mimeo 40 pp – codebook, questionnaire, coding notes)
Survey Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London 1982