This research study aims to examine secondary school students' mathematical problem-solving attitudes in terms of certain variables. The study was carried out to determine whether the students' mathematical problem-solving attitudes differ or not in terms of the variables of gender, grade, attending nursery school, parents' education level and…

Similarity of friends and the degree to which friendship selection criteria and similarity change as a function of age were investigated in this study. Subjects were 27 preschoolers, 34 third graders, and 30 sixth graders. Fifty-three percent were male, 47 percent were female, and 29 percent were black. Friendship choices were measured by…

This study examined the effects of early educational experiences on a group of inner-city children as they approached the transition to junior high school. Data on 249 sixth graders enrolled in 67 schools in a large urban school district were used in the study. The sample, about 62 percent of which was female, was 96 percent African American; 76…