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Abstract
A comparison of mean scores for the first cohort of GCSE pupils with the last cohort of CSE/GCE pupils in one comprehensive school on a variety of measures of self‐perception and self‐evaluation fails to show any more than marginal differences. Correlations between examination performances and the self‐report measures were almost identical for the two sets of examinations. The most parsimonious interpretation would be that the changes in the examination system had not resulted in any changes in pupils.