Teacher Judgement on the Aptitude of Schoolchildren for Secondary Schools

Equal opportunities in the selection process for secondary schools. The
social origins of schoolchildren as determinants of decision of the
teacher.

Topics: The survey consists of five parts: 1. For all schoolchildren:
application of an intelligence test (achievement test system Horn,
LPS).

2. Written survey of teachers: judgement on individual schoolchildren
regarding their aptitude for secondary school graduation, first public
examination in secondary school or completion of elementary school;
character judgement on the schoolchildren by means of a semantic
differential; development disturbances of the schoolchildren; contacts
of teacher with parents; assumed attitudes of parents to school and
secondary schools; religious denomination and sex of schoolchild.

3. Interviewer determination from the files of the school: occupation
of father.

4. Oral survey of the teachers: personal social origins and training.

5. Also encoded were: school and city of school; religious
denomination of school; class to which the respondent belongs.

Demography: age (classified); sex; religious denomination; school
education; vocational training; social origins.