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in 1928. At that time, there were no similar organisations anywhere in the world . The Council itself consisted of some 60 members drawn from a wide range of bodies with an interest in education . This Council appointed a director and arranged for some basic funding to come from government local
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In later years the council's research programme came more and more under government control with the Council itself finally being disbanded and the few remaining staff moved to an all-but non-existent renamed Scottish Center for Educational research within the Faculty of Education of
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Throughout these years and on into the 1980s Council staff and associates made distinguished contributions to educational research, often setting world standards. Two key reports were the reports of 1921 and 1947 nationwide assessment of age-11 IQ in Scotland.
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Some indication of the scope of the council's more recent work may be derived from the list below. Although several are not Council publications they indicate the nature of some of the work ... and refer to subsequent developments built upon it.
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Brett, C. E., Lawn, M., Bartholomew, D. J., & Deary, I. J. (2010). Help will be welcomed from every quarter: the work of William Boyd and the Educational Institute of Scotland's Research Committee in the 1920s. History of Education, 39(5),
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Deary, I. J., Whalley, L. W., Lemmon, H., Crawford, J. R., & Starr, J. M. (2000). The stability of individual differences in mental ability from childhood to old age: Follow-up of the 1932 Scottish Mental Survey.
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Ramsden, E. (2007). A differential paradox: the controversy surrounding the Scottish Mental Surveys of intelligence and family size. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 43(2), 109–134.
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authorities, but the EIS provided free accommodation and secretarial assistance. For more than 20 years, most of the work was carried out by groups of teachers on a voluntary basis.
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Wake, R. (1988). Research as the Hallmark of the Professional: Scottish Teachers and Research in the Early 1920s. Scottish Educational Review 20(1), 42–51.
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A short but comprehensive account of the council's work has been contributed by Powell and an earlier, but fuller, account by Morris.
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Uses and Abuses of Intelligence: Studies Advancing Spearman and Raven’s Quest for Non-Arbitrary Metrics
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The authors of the council's early publications make up a who's who of the greats in this field —
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The Level and Trend of National Intelligence: The Contribution of the Scottish Mental Surveys
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Hamilton, D., Jenkins, D., King, C., MacDonald, B., & Parlett, M. (Eds.). (1977).
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As Others See Us: Schooling and Social Mobility in Scotland and the United States
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As Others See Us: Schooling and Social Mobility in Scotland and the United States
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The Scottish Council for Research in Education 1928-2003: a Short History
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The intelligence of Scottish children: A national survey of an age-group
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Educational and other aspects of the 1947 Scottish Mental Survey
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A list of some 70 publications by a previous Director,
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The Scottish Council for Educational Research 1928-1993
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Scottish Council for Research in Education. (1958).
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Scottish Council for Research in Education. (1933).
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Educational Institute of Scotland
Association of Directors of Education
Godfrey Thomson
Drever
P.E.Vernon
Patricia Broadfoot
Ian Deary
Glasgow University
W. Bryan Dockrell
"Think again about research council"
the original
"The SCRE Centre"
Categories
Education in Scotland
University of Glasgow
Government research
Educational research
1928 establishments in Scotland
History of local government in Scotland

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