Innovatie Project Amsterdam 1971-1978

<p>The Innovation Project Amsterdam ( IPA ) was a large scale educational project. The longitudinal project, which lasted from 1971 until 1978, was realised as a cooperation between Amsterdam primary schools, the Advice and Guidance Centre for Education in Amsterdam ( ABC ) and the Research Institute for Applied Psychology of the University of Amsterdam. It's aim was to improve the educational facilities for working-class children in the old districts of Amsterdam, by establishing - among other things - close relationships between school, family and neighbourhood. Based on then popular principles of action-research, the research staff of the project was strongly involved with the actual changes in the field. The project started with some 15 schools and covered some 40 during it's existence. The project yielded many hundreds of raw data-files, some on punched cards and some on magnetic tape. Most of these files contained the results of educational tests and were poorly documented when transferred to the Steinmetz archive. The amount of material and the state it was in, left the archive no other choice than to "keep as is", which in turn has led to serious losses over time, due to deterioration of tapes and cards.</p>阿姆斯特丹创新项目（Innovation Project Amsterdam, IPA）是一项大型教育项目。该纵向研究项目存续于1971年至1978年，由阿姆斯特丹小学、阿姆斯特丹教育咨询与指导中心（Advice and Guidance Centre for Education in Amsterdam, ABC）以及阿姆斯特丹大学应用心理学研究所合作开展。其宗旨是改善阿姆斯特丹老区工薪阶层子女的教育条件，具体举措包括构建学校、家庭与社区之间的紧密联结等。基于当时盛行的行动研究（action-research）原则，项目研究人员深度参与实地的实际变革工作。项目初期仅覆盖约15所学校，在整个存续期间内覆盖规模扩展至约40所。该项目产生了数百份原始数据文件，部分存储于穿孔卡片（punched cards），部分存储于磁带（magnetic tape）。其中多数文件包含教育测试结果，在移交至斯坦梅茨档案馆（Steinmetz archive）时，相关文档记录并不完善。鉴于这批材料的体量与保存状态，档案馆只能选择“原样留存”，而随着时间推移，因磁带与穿孔卡片的老化损坏，造成了严重的数据损失。