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Alan Smithers

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#82

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#142

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Pedagogy

#199

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#260

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Bachelors Psychology University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Alan George Smithers is an English academic psychologist and public policy advisor best known for his research and publications in the field of education. Early life Smithers was born in the East End of London, the son of a Billingsgate fish porter. His mother worked in a sweet factory, and he claims he lived on fish and Turkish delight during the war. He was educated at Barking Abbey Grammar School then King's College London, gaining a first class honours degree BSc and a PhD in plant physiology in 1966. He later gained an MSc in the psychology and sociology of education and a PhD in education in 1974 from the University of Bradford. Since all professors at the University of Manchester, where Smithers taught, are required to be graduates of the university, an MEd was conferred on him in 1981. He became a Chartered Psychologist in 1988.

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Alan Smithers's Published Works

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Factors affecting teachers' decisions to leave the profession (2003) (170)
All our futures: Britain’s education revolution: a dispatches report on education (1993) (79)
THE PARADOX OF SINGLE-SEX AND CO-EDUCATIONAL SCHOOLING (2006) (76)
Should the sexes be separated for secondary education ‐‐ comparisons of single‐sex and co‐educational schools? (1999) (59)
The growth of mixed A levels (1988) (38)
Measurement of Human Values: an Appraisal of the Work of Milton Rokeach (1975) (33)
COPING WITH TEACHER SHORTAGES (2000) (30)
Further education re-formed (2002) (29)
Dogmatism, social attitudes and personality. (1978) (27)
An Attempted Validation of the Joyce-Hudson Scale of Convergence and Divergence. (1973) (22)
Person orientation and science choice (1984) (22)
Mature Students at University: entry, experience and outcomes (1986) (21)
Personality characteristics of syllabus-bound and syllabus-free sixth-formers. (1975) (19)
Recruitment to Physics and Mathematics Teaching: A Personality Problem?. (1989) (19)
Some Cognitive and Affective Factors in Subject Choice (1971) (18)
Educating the Highly Able (2012) (15)
Sandwich courses, an integrated education? (1976) (15)
Further education reformed (2000) (13)
Co‐education and science choice (1982) (13)
ENGLAND'S EDUCATION what can be learned by comparing countries? (2004) (12)
Personality patterns and levels of dogmatism. (1970) (12)
Psychological Profiles of Physical and Biological Science Choosers. (1983) (11)
Occupational Values of Students (1969) (9)
Success and failure among social scientists and health scientists at a technological university. (1970) (9)
Confusion in the ranks : how good are England’s schools? (2013) (9)
OCCUPATIONAL ASPIRATIONS AND EXPECTATIONS OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS ON SANDWICH COURSES (1969) (8)
What Do Students Expect of Lectures (1970) (7)
The Science and Mathematics Teaching Workforce (2013) (7)
Convergers and divergers: different forms of neuroticism? (1974) (7)
Commitment to Teaching of Postgraduate and College‐trained Students (1973) (6)
SUCCESS AND FAILURE AMONG ENGINEERS, PHYSICAL SCIENTISTS AND LINGUISTS AT A TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (1974) (5)
Some Factors in Lecturing. (1970) (4)
Open‐mindedness and the University Curriculum (1970) (4)
Personal development on sandwich courses (1973) (4)
Syllabus-Bound and Syllabus-Free Orientations in a Technological University (1975) (3)
A structural study of the occupational value orientations of engineering students (1969) (3)
Teaching for Teachers (1971) (3)
14-18 - A New Vision for Secondary Education (2013) (3)
Prospective mature students: Those who did not apply (1984) (3)
The Supply of, and Demand for, Scientists and Engineers (1997) (3)
Attitudes to Industrial Training of Students on Sandwich Courses. (1969) (3)
Teacher shortages and the supply of physicists (1991) (2)
The growth of mixed a level courses (1984) (2)
Cognitive Style and Linguistic Style (1977) (2)
The Coalition Effect, 2010–2015: The coalition and society (II): Education (2015) (2)
Laboratory Investigations in Plant Physiology 1. Metabolic Absorption of Mineral Salts (1968) (2)
The paradox of A levels (1994) (2)
Some similarities and differences in the occupational values of male and female students (1975) (1)
Education Policy. In The Blair Effect. Ed Anthony Seldon, pp 405-426, London: Little Brown, 2001. (2001) (1)
Follow-up studies in a technological university (1973) (1)
Occupational Orientations at Bradford and Warwick Universities (1970) (1)
Book Review: The self-teaching process in higher education (1977) (1)
Trends in Higher Education (1996) (1)
Conceptions of School Among Pupils Affected by the Raising of the School Leaving Age (1974) (1)
Occupational choice among undergraduates: A comparison of the universities of Bradford and Warwick (1973) (1)
Book reviews (2010) (1)
The Bearing of the Sandwich Course on the University Education of Biologists (1969) (1)
Book Review: Assessment in Higher Education (1979) (0)
Norms for the A.C.E.R. Mechanical Comprehension Test (1975) (0)
Increasing educational opportunity (2001) (0)
Blair's Britain 1997–2007: Schools (2007) (0)
Changes in the Educational Opinions of Student Teachers Associated with College Experience and School Practice (1974) (0)
Dogmatism Scores of Polytechnic Teachers in South India (1980) (0)
Occupational interests and cognitive style in relation to subject choice and university attainment (1979) (0)

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