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Government intervention in the control of school has changed as the 1990s have proceeded. Beginning with policy innovations centred on the system, the concerns are with the classroom and such issues as teaching methods and skills of good teachers . The quality of learning and the quality of teaching are designated categories of evaluation in the inspection of school's performance. This text reports on the five year research project that aimed to capture the views of secondary school pupils and teachers on how they defined key aspects of quality in learning and teaching. Based on interviews with 207 pupils and 133 teachers in 10 British comprehensive schools with socially and geographically different catchment areas, this book describes and compares their perspectives on topics such as: what constitutes good teching, successful lessons and why pupils learn more in some classes.

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Colin Morgan is a senior lecturer at the school of education at the Open University. Prior to joining the Open University he taught in secondary school, college of education and institutions of further education. He has been extensively connected with headship and school evaluation studies, and has written widely on school management and teaching studies issues. He has co-authored two best selling books on the subject of quality Total Quality Management and The School (1993), Stephen Murgatroyd and Colin Morgan, Open University Press; Total Quality Management and the Public Sector (1994), Colin Morgan and Stephen Murgatroyd, Open University Press. Glyn Morris tutors a range of courses at the Open University in Wales. He has been head of both the departments of education and sociology at Brighton College of Education, and became Head of the Department of inservice education at Brighton Polytechnic after its merger with the college of education. He originally trained as a primary school teacher but later taught in secondary schools before moving to teach in a number of colleges of education. He has been a secondary adviser to the Falklands Islands Government, played a lead role in the Leverhulme project concerned with sixth form study skills and the TVEI extension project concerned with management development materials for collaboration between schools.

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