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The Curriculum for English 15‐year‐old Pupils in 1984. Was There a Common Core of Subjects?
Author(s) -
Bell John F.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
british educational research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1469-3518
pISSN - 0141-1926
DOI - 10.1080/0141192900160104
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , mathematics education , curriculum , psychology , pedagogy , computer science , library science
In this paper, the subject uptake of the pupils who took part in the 1984 Assessment of Performance Unit (APU) Age 15 Science Survey is described. More than 200 different subject names were listed by the pupils, but more than half were studied by just a handful of pupils. The most common subjects, in descending order of frequency, were English, mathematics, geography, history, art, French, physics, biology and chemistry. The sex‐related and ability‐related differences in uptake are described for the more common subjects and for some of the commonest combinations of subjects. Detailed accounts of the uptakes of science subjects and modern foreign languages are also given.