A semantic differential was administered to compare expressed attitudes of 50 educable mentally retarded adolescents who attended school outside their normal attendance area with attitudes of 37 educable mentally retarded adolescents who attended school within their attendance area. The nonlocal group expressed significantly higher attitude scores on five of the six concepts. Most of this difference is accounted for by the males.
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