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Author: Leahey, Erin
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Leahey, Erin Guo, Guang |
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Gender Differences in Mathematical Trajectories Social Forces 80,2 (December 2001): 713-732. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2675595 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Children, Academic Development; Children, School-Age; Cognitive Ability; Elementary School Students; Gender Differences; High School Students; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Marital Status; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In this article we test the hypothesis that male students outperform female students in mathematics. Using large national data sets and curvilinear growth models, we examine gender differences in mathematical trajectories from elementary school through high school. We analyze subsamples of high-scoring students and also different areas of math, such as reasoning and geometry. Despite relatively equal starting points in elementary school, and relatively equal slopes, we find that boys have a faster rate of acceleration. By the 12th grade, this results in a slight gender difference, which is most pronounced in geometry. Realizing this slight and delayed emergence of gender differences, we qualify the strong conclusions of earlier research, such as Benbow and Stanley's (1980, 1983), which found that large gender differences emerge by junior high school. |
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Leahey, Erin and Guang Guo. "Gender Differences in Mathematical Trajectories." Social Forces 80,2 (December 2001): 713-732.
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Leahey, Erin Guo, Guang |
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Gender Differences in Mathematics: Evidence from the NLSY and the NELS Presented: Chicago, IL, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 1999 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Modeling, Growth Curve/Latent Trajectory Analysis; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using data from the NLSY and NELS and curvilinear growth models, we examine gender differences in mathematical trajectories from elementary school through high school. We analyze subsamples of high-scoring students and also different areas of math, such as reasoning and geometry. Despite relatively equal starting points in elementary school, and relatively equal slopes, we find that boys have a faster rate of acceleration. By the 12th grade, this results in a slight gender difference, which is most pronounced in geometry. |
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Bibliography Citation
Leahey, Erin and Guang Guo. "Gender Differences in Mathematics: Evidence from the NLSY and the NELS." Presented: Chicago, IL, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 1999. |