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Cerda, Alexis Meinhofer, Angelica |
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I Got 99 Problems But Being Female Ain’t One…Or Is It? Estimating the Gender Gap on Math Test Scores Working Paper, Department of Economics, Arizona State University, August 2009 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, Arizona State University Keyword(s): Academic Development; Achievement; Gender Differences; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Test Scores/Test theory/IRT; Tests and Testing; Undergraduate Research Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We look closely at the study done by Fryer and Levitt (2004) Understanding The Black-White Test Score Gap In The First Two Years Of School to gain insight on how to proceed in our own research. The Fryer and Levitt study focuses on the black-white test score gap among incoming kindergartners. We expand their research by controlling for similar observable characteristics over multiple age groups and focus on the gender test score gap. In this paper we utilize the National Longitude Surveys to supply new information on the gender gap. We are particularly interested in gender differences at the high end and low end of the score distribution. We analyzed two groups of students around the age they enter school (age 4.5 to 6 years old) and students who are in the last two years of middle school (11.5 to 13 years old). Within those two age groups we examine students contained in two extreme ranges of the math score distribution: those who scored within the top quartile (at or above the 75th percentile), and those who scored in the bottom quartile (at or below the 25th percentile). |
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Cerda, Alexis and Angelica Meinhofer. "I Got 99 Problems But Being Female Ain’t One…Or Is It? Estimating the Gender Gap on Math Test Scores." Working Paper, Department of Economics, Arizona State University, August 2009. |