Books by Professor Andrew (IOE Pollard

The findings in this study have major implications for education practice and policy. It shows how supposedly objective assessment procedures depend on their contexts and are vulnerable to both bias and distortion. The study provides the definitive examination of assessment in the 5-11 ranges.

The result of a research project, this work, an attempt to report on what has actually been happening in our schools, answers such questions as: what difference have education reforms made to pupils' experience in schools? and how has recent education policy impacted on children today?

The second part of a seven-year ethnography of individual pupils from the ages of four to eleven in an English primary school. The book presents a sociological analysis of children coping with the social worlds of home, playground and classroom over the seven years of a primary school career.