71.   In general Solihull secondary teachers have a neutral attitude towards professional development in connection with SSE.

72.   Attitudes towards professional development are also differentiated according to length of teaching experience.

73.   The Solihull booklet seems to have had a powerfully benign effect on the attitudes towards SSE of Solihull secondary teachers in general.

74.   Length of service is also significantly associated with attitudes towards the efficiency and threat of SSE and towards professional development.

75.   As noted earlier, the first part of the questionnaire included a short Likert-type attitude scale asking about attitudes towards the Oxfordshire scheme.

76.   These appeared to represent attitudes towards professional accountability, contractual accountability, and time taken.

77.   Oxfordshire teachers as a whole appear to have slightly negative attitudes towards the LEA scheme with respect to professional accountability.

78.   Willingness to repeat the process is not significantly associated with attitudes towards contractual accountability.

79.   The second part of the questionnaire consisted entirely of a Likert-type scale designed to investigate attitudes towards school self-evaluation as a general topic.

80.   The first factor is made up of attitudes towards the professionalism of SSE.