1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
RESEACH PROJECT ON OPEN ENROLMENT
| Project/Area Number |
09610305
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Educaion
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| Research Institution | NATIONAL CENTER FOR UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE EXAMINATION |
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Principal Investigator |
YAMAMURA Shigeru NATIONAL CENTER FOR UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS, RESEARCH DIVISION, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 研究開発部, 助教授 (30212294)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1997 – 1999
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| Keywords | UK / SCHOOL CHOICE / SECONDARY SCHOOL ADMISSION SYSTEM / OPEN ENROLMENT / EDUCATION POLICY / SECONDARY EDUCATION |
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| Research Abstract |
The general aim was to discover some of the objective and perceived effects of the open enrolment policy on secondary schools, approximately ten years after its introduction in England and Wales from 1989/1990. What has been the impact on schools? How have heads and schools reacted to open enrolment? Is open enrolment seen to be effective in raising educational standards? Subsidiary specific aims were firstly to evaluate the efficacy of the means adopted by the government to achieve its own declared aims and secondly to evaluate what the short-term and long-term consequences are likely to be in the light of the experience, actions and opinions of heads of secondary schools.
In the first year, a study was done to find out differences of secondary school admissions systems among Local Education Authorities and ideas behind the systems after the introduction of quasi-market in education by the Education Reform Act 1988 in England and Wales.
Based on the above mentioned study, forty-seven LEAs were selected and a questionnaire was sent to all heads in maintained and grant maintained schools in the LEAs in the spring of 1999.
Majority of the headteachers answered that open enrolment had led to more competition for pupils among schools, but parental choice of school was more unfair. These were relationships between oversubscription and the effects on open enrolment. Headteachers in oversubscribed schools see it as more effective in raising educational standards.
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