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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.
Duckworth et al. (Fri,) studied this question.