In the Australian mathematics curriculum, Year 12 students (aged 16-17) are asked to solve conditional probability problems that involve the representation of the problem situation with two-way tables or three-dimensional diagrams and consider sampling procedures that result in different correct answers. In a small exploratory study, we…

The Monitoring the Future (MTF) study is an ongoing series of national surveys of American adolescents and adults that has provided the nation with a vital window into the important, but largely hidden, problem behaviors of illegal drug use, alcohol use, tobacco use, anabolic steroid use, and psychotherapeutic drug use. For more than a third of a…

Article attempted to determine the variables related to overall satisfaction with graduate school and to determine the significance of two sets of variables, one set intrinsic and the other set extrinsic to students' graduate education, in predicting overall satisfaction. (Author/RK)

The Monitoring the Future study has provided the nation with a window into the important, but largely hidden, problem behaviors of illicit drug use, alcohol use, and tobacco use. It has provided a clearer view of the changing topography of these problems among adolescents and adults, a better understanding of the dynamics of factors that drive…

Article considered the preference students have for companies and the criteria each has for accepting employment on the one hand and for employing students on the other hand. (RK)

The study was designed to ascertain whether or not attitudes held by college students toward certain proposed social actions were significantly favorable or unfavorable and whether or not there was any relationship between social class designation and the attitude variables. (Editor)

Using the Semantic Differential, 274 first-year university students rated four concepts concerning university, producing scores on evaluation', potency' and activity'. For comparision these concepts were each paired with a concept relating to school. (Author)

The relation in schoolchildren of duty and efficacy to trust is the principal topic of this study. (Author/RK)

The purpose of the study was to test the effectiveness of two related strategies for changing a measured disposition of intolerance toward cultural diversity to one of significantly less intolerance. (Editor)

The present research again demonstrates the strong link between social class background and early leaving, but, interestingly, when stated leaving preference was controlled for, no relationship between social class background and conceptions of school was detected. (Author)

This paper presents and discusses the results of an empirical study of value orientations of a sample of students entering three different programs of study at a college of advanced education. (Editor)

The major hypothesis of this article was that there will be a positive relationship between custodialism in teacher pupil control behavior and unfavorable student attitudes toward school. (Author/RK)

This report on pupil, staff, and parent attitudes toward career education presents data obtained from a January 1972 inventory of sample populations in the six participating Local Education Agencies (LEAs) in the Comprehensive Career Education Model (CCEM) project. These data serve as a baseline for the CCEM installation efforts, and this initial…

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of the alternative school on high school students' attitude toward school, career expectations and aspirations. (Editor)

In this paper we hope to show that the continuing question of whether or not attitudes have an effect on behavior can be answered. (Editor)