文档介绍：Attitudes to Education,
and Choices at Age 16:
A Brief Research Review
Report to the DfES Advisory Panel
on Research Issues for the 14-19 Age Group
Joan Payne
Policy Studies Institute
April 2002
CONTENTS
1 Introduction 1
2 YOUNG PEOPLE’S ATTITUDES TO SCHOOLING 3
Overview 3
Key problem areas 4
Deterioration in attitudes with age 6
3 PARENTS’ ATTITUDES TO EDUCATION 8
4 SOCIAL CLASS DIFFERENCES IN ATTITUDES TO EDUCATION 9
5 ATTITUDES, ATTAINMENT AND ROUTE CHOICE 10
6 DECIDING ABOUT POST-16 PARTICIPATION 12
The decision-making process 12
The undecided 13
The influence of parents 13
7 OTHER FACTORS SHAPING ATTITUDES AND CHOICES 16
School culture 16
Friends 16
Local area effects 17
The wider youth culture 18
8 CHOICES WITHIN FULL-TIME EDUCATION 19
How choices are made 19
School sixth form or college? 19
A levels or GNVQs? 20
9 WORK-BASED ROUTES 22
10 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH 23
11 REFERENCES 24
1 Introduction
This research review missioned by the DfES as part of the work of its advisory panel on research issues for the 14-19 age group, which was established in autumn 2001. The brief for the review was, ‘to undertake a review on the attitudes of parents and young people to their experiences of education, and how that is influencing them to follow different routes pulsory schooling’. Fifteen days were budgeted to cover both reading and report-writing, and to make the review feasible within this very short time, the following limitations were set.
The literature search was restricted to the UK. The studies included in the review are mainly English, though some Scottish and Welsh work is covered.
The search was confined to the mainstream educational literature, and excluded the extensive psychological literature on educational motivation.
The emphasis was placed on research that had not been funded by the DfES, as being less likely to be already familiar to the advisory panel.
Research on gender and ethnicity was excluded. T