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TRANSITION TO SECONDARY — AN EXPERIMENT IN A SCOTTISH COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL
Author(s) -
DUTCH R. D.,
McCALL 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.tb00781.x
Subject(s) - psychology , friendship , developmental psychology , personality , secondary education , social psychology , pedagogy
S ummary . The attainments, attitudes, personality characteristics and friendship relations of three successive year groups of children (N=254, 252 and 234) were assessed towards the end of their first term in secondary school, the first group having transferred direct to the secondary school from their various primary schools whereas the other two groups had spent one year in a transition department. The children from the transition department were found to be better adjusted in the social and emotional domains than those who had not had this experience. These differences were more pronounced in the case of girls, children of average and low VRQ and children coming from small primary schools.