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ATTITUDES TO SCHOOL SUBJECTS: A REPERTORY GRID TECHNIQUE
Author(s) -
DUCKWORTH D.,
ENTWISTLE N. J.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1974.tb00769.x
Subject(s) - repertory grid , psychology , grammar school , rank (graph theory) , social psychology , grid , mathematics education , developmental psychology , mathematics , geometry , combinatorics
S ummary . The attitudes of 600 second‐year and fifth‐year grammar school pupils towards their school subjects were investigated using a repertory grid developed specifically for this purpose. Attitude dimensions of ‘interest,’ ‘difficulty,’ ‘freedom,’ and ‘social benefit’ were isolated. Rank orders of mean scores of pupils on these four scales were produced together with inter‐correlations indicating the extent to which attitudes were specific to particular school subjects.