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SUBJECT PREFERENCE AND CHOICE IN CO‐EDUCATIONAL AND SINGLE‐SEX SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Author(s) -
ORMEROD M. B.
Publication year - 1975
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.2044-8279.1975.tb02963.x
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , preference , psychology , single sex , mathematics education , secondary education , social psychology , developmental psychology , pedagogy , library science , statistics , mathematics , computer science
S ummary . The subject preferences and subject choices of 1,204 pupils in 19 secondary schools were investigated. Sex‐linked polarisation of subject preferences were more marked in co‐educational than in single‐sex schools. An investigation of the effect of attitudes towards teachers showed a relationship between liking for teacher and subject preference, but not subject choice. The results are discussed in relation to the current reorganisation of secondary schools along co‐educational, as well as comprehensive, lines.