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Roman Catholic Secondary Schools: falling rolls and pupil attitudes
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This article is published in Educational Studies.The article was published on 1986-01-01. It has received 33 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Primary education & Religious education.read more
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Measuring attitude towards Christianity during childhood and adolescence
TL;DR: In this article, the Francis scale of attitude towards Christianity, Form ASC4B, was completed by 3600 pupils attending non-church-related state maintained schools in England from the first year of the junior school through the fifth year of secondary school.
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Understanding the Attitudinal Dimensions of Religion and Spirituality
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the body of research which has refined concern with the attitudinal dimension of religion and spirituality and apply the research evidence to practice, and define and critiquing the concept of attitude and assess methods of assessing and measuring attitude.
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Personality and Attitudes Towards Christianity Among Eleven to Sixteen Year Old Girls in a Single Sex Catholic Schoo
TL;DR: In this article, a sample of 647 girls between the ages of eleven and sixteen years, attending a Roman Catholic voluntary aided single sex secondary school, completed the Francis scale of attitude towards Christianity and a short form of the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire.
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Independent Christian schools and pupil values: an empirical investigation among 13–15‐year‐old boys
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a survey of 13-15-year-old boys educated within independent Christian schools and found that they exhibited a distinctive values profile, in comparison with pupils educated in state maintained non-denominational schools.
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The relationship between social class and attitude towards Christianity among fourteen- and fifteen-year-old adolescents
TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between social class and attitude towards Christianity among 2717 14- and 15-year-olds, alongside personal and parental church attendance, and found that although parents and adolescents from higher social class backgrounds attend church more frequently and church attendance is associated with positive attitudes towards Christianity, after controlling for differences in parental Church attendance adolescents from lower socio-class backgrounds record a more positive attitude toward Christianity.
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The Education of Catholic Americans.
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School influence and pupil attitude towards religion
TL;DR: In this article, a study of attitudes towards religion of 2,272 third and fourth year junior pupils were studied in relation to the type of religious education provided by their school, and comparisons were made between Roman Catholic aided, Church of England aided, and Local Education Authority schools.