In this article, John Williamson
. and his colleagues from the School
Education of the University of Newcastle follow up on their work
reported in this journal in Williamson
and Fitz-Gibbon (1990). This focused
in the impact on secondary school
nglish departments of a performance indicator project known as COMBSE. since then COMBSE has grown into
another, ALIS (A Level Information s ystem), and this article explores
be extent to which the limitations
COMBSE have been overcome ?ALIS.
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