Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION : UNIQUE BODIES NEGLECTED BY THE ACADEMY.... 5
CHAPTER 1 LOCATION OF THE THESIS IN RELATION TO THE
LITERATURE...........................................................................................................11
Identifying an Absence: A survey of the literature reveals the Boards as peripheral...................11
1 The History OfEngIish Secondary Education and its Examinations............................................13
2 Assessment as the focus....................................................................................................................20
3 Education Policy and its Critiques..................................................................................................22
4 The Social Impact of Examinations.................................................................................................23
5 Additional sources.............................................................................................................................25
CHAPTER 2 FINDING A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK, AND
CONSTRUCTING A METHODOLOGY...............................................................28
1 Finding a conceptual perspective.....................................................................................................28
2 Constructing a methodology............................................................................................................37
3 Constructing a coherent chapter structure.....................................................................................49
CHAPTER 3 LOCATING THE ENGLISH EXAMINING BOARDS IN
EDUCATION HISTORY.........................................................................................51
Prologue on the English Educational Mindset..................................................................................51
A The Origins and Development of the Independent English Examining Boards.........................64
B A golden age for educationists but not for pupils.......................................................................104
Coda: The English problem with vocational education..................................................................127
Looking beneath the narrative: what was really happening?........................................................135