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Abstract
Five independent attitudes to Craft, Design and Technology (CDT) were isolated by factor analysts. Rated liking for CDT, the intention to study it further, contemplation of a career based on it, verbal intelligence, mathematical ability and the presence of technical skills in the family were also measured. Widespread significant sex differences were present among the correlations among the latter measures. Liking for CDT correlated negligibly with intelligence and negatively with mathematical ability for boys but positively with both for girls, thus probably explaining why girls found CDT relaxing, but not boys. Only the less intelligent boys intended to continue CDT further.
Both sexes were influenced favourably towards CDT by family technical experience‐‐girls much more so, but, in their case only, it did not affect their intention not to seek a technical career. Also this influence was the only one correlating with intention to study technical drawing and this in the case of girls only.