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Francis, Leslie J.; Village, Andrew – British Journal of Religious Education, 2020
This study employs multi-level linear statistical modelling to examine the power of school-level and individual-level factors to predict individual differences in scores recorded on the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity by 6,036 students (who self-identified as either Christian or no religion) in year-seven, year-eight, year-nine,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individual Differences, Predictor Variables, Religion
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Francis, Leslie J.; Village, Andrew; Parker, Stephen G. – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2017
This study set out to explore the trajectory of personal, moral and spiritual values of students taking Religious Studies at A level in the UK. A sample of 150 students completed a battery of measures at the beginning of their period of A level study and again at the end. The data found no difference over this period of time in personal values…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Christianity, Death, Religious Education
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Francis, Leslie J.; Brockett, Adrian; Village, Andrew – Research in Education, 2013
Alongside a family of instruments designed to measure the attitudinal dimension of religion within specific faith contexts (Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism), the Astley-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Theistic Faith was designed to assess the attitudinal dimension of religion within a multifaith context. Drawing on a sample of 4338…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attitude Measures, Early Adolescents, Religion
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Francis, Leslie J.; Village, Andrew – Religious Education, 2014
The Young People's Attitudes to Religious Diversity Project was established to compare the attitudes of students (13-to 15-years of age) educated within the state-maintained sector in church schools (Catholic, Anglican, joint Anglican and Catholic) and in schools without a religious foundation. Data provided by 5,402 students recruited from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Religious Cultural Groups, Cultural Pluralism
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Francis, Leslie J.; Village, Andrew – Irish Educational Studies, 2015
Northern Ireland has been and remains a religiously divided community. This study sets out to examine outgroup prejudice among a sample of 1799 13-15-year-old students attending Catholic or Protestant schools and employs both bivariate analyses and hierarchical modelling to chart the associations between outgroup prejudice and personal factors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Catholic Schools, Protestants
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Village, Andrew; Baker, Sylvia – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2013
A sample of 661 churchgoers from a range of Christian denominations in the United Kingdom was asked about Darwinian evolution (defined as the common origin of all species, including humans). Respondents were categorised as those who accepted the idea, those who rejected it, and those who were unsure or neutral. People in each category were given a…
Descriptors: Churches, Christianity, Religion, Rating Scales
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Francis, Leslie J.; ap Siôn, Tania; Village, Andrew – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2014
From the late 1960s independent Christian schools have emerged in England and Wales, initiated either by churches or by parents. Many of these new independent schools are linked through the Christian Schools Trust. The impact that these schools are exerting on their students may be of interest for the churches with which they are associated and of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Christianity, Religious Education, Foreign Countries
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Village, Andrew; Francis, Leslie J.; Brockett, Adrian – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2011
A sample of 3783 11- to 16-year-old secondary school pupils completed the Astley-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Theistic Faith and the abbreviated form of the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised together with information on personal religious practice (prayer), public religious practice (attendance) and religious identity (secular,…
Descriptors: Muslims, Personality, Religious Factors, Adolescents
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Brockett, Adrian; Village, Andrew; Francis, Leslie J. – Research in Education, 2010
The Outgroup Prejudice Index is a six-item scale that uses social distance to assess prejudice towards ethnic and religious out groups among Asians and whites. It was developed among a sample of 2,982 teenagers attending schools in northern England who indicated their religion as "Muslim", "Christian" or "No…
Descriptors: Asians, Religion, Construct Validity, Measures (Individuals)