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Educational Studies Contents of Volume 22, 1996 Editors DEREK CHERRINGTON (Editor in Chief), Professor in Education, International Centre for Advanced Studies, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of H.E. CHRISTOPHER BRANNIGAN, Professor in Education, University of Central England in Birmingham GEOFFREY BROWN, Professor of Education, University of East Anglia LOUIS COHEN, Emeritus Professor of Education, Loughborough University of Technology WILLIAM CURR, formerly Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of Birmingham DAVID HARRIS, Senior Lecturer in Education, University College Chester BOOK REVIEWS EDITOR: David Harris, Senior Lecturer in Education, University College Chester Educational Studies aims to provide a forum for original investigations and theoretical studies in education. Whilst the journal is principally concerned with the social sciences, contributions from a wider field are encouraged. The editorial board intends to publish papers which cover applied and theoretical approaches to the study of education and its closely related disciplines. Such papers may take the form of reports of experimental research, review articles, shorter notes and discussions. Editorial correspondence should be addressed to the Editor, Professor Derek Cherrington, International Centre for Advanced Studies, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of H.E., Fullwood Park, Suffolk Square, Cheltenham, Glos. GL50 2EB, UK. Books for review should be addressed to David Harris, Senior Lecturer in Education, University College Chester, Cheyney Road, Chester CH1 4BJ, UK. Business correspondence, including orders and remittances relating to subscriptions, advertisements, back numbers and offprints, should be sent to the publisher: Carfax Publishing Company, P.O. Box 25, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3UE, UK. ISSN 0305-5698 CARFAX © 1996 Carfax Publishing Ltd Contents of Volume 22, 1996 Number 1 Family Socialisation and Children’s School Outcomes: an investigation of a parenting model KEVIN MARJORIBANKS Motivation and Attribution at Secondary School: the role of gender PAULINE LIGHTBODY, GERDA SIANN, RUTH STocKs & DAviID WALSH Gender Differences in Teacher Response to School Inspection NICOLA BRIMBLECOMBE, MICHAEL ORMSTON & MARIAN SHAW The Genetic—Environmental Influences on Individual Cognitive Functioning or IQ B. R. SINGH Children’s Estimations of the Sizes of the Continents PATRICK WIEGAND & BERNADETTE STIELL Differentiation and its Problems: the views of primary teachers and curriculum support staff in Northern Ireland BRIAN MCGARVEY, VALERIE MORGAN, STUART MARRIOTT & LESLEY ABBOTT Making Meaning: the voices of children talking about a dramatised story SUSAN LYLE Changes in Initial Teacher Training Students’ Perceptions of the Effectiveness of School-based Mentoring over Time TREVOR KERRY & JUDITH FARROW Evaluating Subject Attainment in Secondary Schools without a Prior Measure of Pupil Potential STEVEN SHARP Book Reviews Number 2 Gendered Career Choice: is sex-stereotyping the cause or the consequence? PAULINE LIGHTBODY & ALAN DURNDELL Effects of Tutor—Tutee Intimacy, Tutoring Conditions and Tutor Background on College Student Tutor Satisfaction BARBARA FRESKO Basic Skills, Early Problematic Behaviour and Social Maladjustment BERTIL TORESTAD & DAVID MAGNUSSON Pupils’ Subject Preferences at Key Stage 3 in South Wales DAVID HENDLEY, SIAN STABLES & ANDREW STABLES Decentralisation as and for Education Reform in Trinidad and Tobago NORREL A. LONDON Who Counts; Who Cares? Scottish children’s notions of national identity BRUCE CARRINGTON & GEOFFREY SHORT Implementation Effects of a Pre-service Training Course for Secondary Education Teachers SIMON VEENMAN, JESKA BAKERMANS, YVONNE FRANZEN & MaASJA VAN HOOF Grant-maintained Heads’ Reflections on Opting Out JONATHAN CAULDWELL & IVAN REID Teacher Assessment in the Inner City at Key Stage 1 PAM SAMMONS, ANNE WEST & JEAN HAILES Book Reviews Number 3 Epidemic Hysteria in Schools: an international and historical overview ROBERT E. BARTHOLOMEW & FRANCOIS SIROIS The Time Perceptions of University Teachers: a comparative study TiTUs OSHAGBEMI The Education of the Bravanese Community. Key issues of culture and identity BANA M. S. BANAFUNZI Verbal Intelligence: a key to basic skills? ANN-CHARLOTTE SMEDLER & BERTIL TORESTAD Dyslexia in Higher Education: an abuse of the system? Joy FAULKNER & CAROLYN BLYTH Approaches to Studying: age, gender and academic performance EUGENE SADLER-SMITH Lost Continents? Children’s understanding of the location and orientation of the Earth’s land masses PATRICK WIEGAND & BERNADETTE STIELL A Panic about School Choice STEVEN CARROLL & GEOFFREY WALFORD Book Reviews