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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.
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M. B. Ormerod (1975) studied this question.
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