International Journal of Educational Research
Volume 33, Number 4
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 8
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School transitions: beginning of the end or a new beginning?
Lorin W Anderson, Jacque Jacobs, Susan Schramm & Fred Splittgerber
Moving from elementary to middle/junior high school or from middle/junior high to high school is difficult for most students and especially problematic for some. This chapter explores the reasons... More
pp. 325-339
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Transfer and transition in English schools: reviewing the evidence
Maurice Galton, Ian Morrison & Tony Pell
The study of the transfer of pupils from primary to secondary schools in England and Wales has been a continuing pre-occupation of administrators, teachers, and researchers during the past three... More
pp. 341-363
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Transfer from middle to secondary school: a New Zealand study
Richard Ward
Issues related to pupils’ transfer into secondary schools have been well-documented (Brown and Armstrong, in: M.B. Youngman (Ed.), Mid-schooling transfer: Problems and proposals, NFER-Nelson,... More
pp. 365-374
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Students’ views of environments for learning from the primary to the secondary school
Pam Pointon
Research on transfer has alerted us to the anxieties that students experience as they move from a smaller school to a bigger school, and how the sudden differences in space, size, and their own... More
pp. 375-382
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Transfer to and study at secondary school in Finnish school culture: developing schools on the basis of pupils’ experiences
Janne Pietarinen
This chapter is a based on a study that examined, first, Finnish comprehensive school pupils’ transfer to secondary school and, second, the ways in which pupils’ experiences of schooling can... More
pp. 383-400
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The transition from primary to secondary level in smaller and larger rural schools in Norway: comparing differences in context and social meaning
Rune Kvalsund
Research on the transfer of pupils from primary to secondary schools in Norway hardly exists. In this chapter the transfer from the primary to the secondary level is analyzed within the life course... More
pp. 401-423
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Academic performance, transfer, transition and friendship: listening to the student voice
Helen Demetriou, Paul Goalen & Jean Rudduck
Research and practice have tended to focus on the “entrance and exit” years in schools. Transfer (that is, the move from one stage of schooling and from one school to another) has received more... More
pp. 425-441
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Concluding comments. Transfer and transition: the next steps
Maurice Galton & Ian Mornson
The chapters in this edition of the journal provide a set of remarkably coherent findings. The effects of transfer, apart from the question of dips in pupils’ academic progress, have been... More
pp. 443-449