Gender differences in mathematics : an integrative psychological approach / edited by Ann M. Gallagher, James C. Kaufman.
"Females consistently score lower than males on standardized tests of mathematics, yet no such differences exist in the classroom. These differences are not trivial, nor are they insignificant. Test scores help determine entrance to college and graduate school and, therefore, by extension, a pe...
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Research on the women and mathematics issue : a personal case history / Susan F. Chipman
- 2. The perseverative search for sex differences in mathematics ability / Jeremy B. Caplan and Paula J. Caplan
- 3. A psychobiosocial model : why females are sometimes greater than and sometimes less than males in math achievement / Diane F. Halpern, Jonathan Wai and Amanda Saw
- 4. Gender differences in math : cognitive processes in an expanded framework / James P. Byrnes
- 5. Cognitive contributions to sex differences in math performance / James M. Royer and Laura M. Garofoli
- 6. Spatial ability as a mediator of gender differences on mathematics tests : a biological-environmental framework / Ronald L. Nuttal, M. Beth Casey and Elizabeth Pezaris
- 7. Examining gender-related differential item functioning using insights from psychometric and multicontext theory / Allan S. Cohen and Robert A. Ibarra
- 8. The gender-gap artifact : women's underperformance in quantitative domains through the lens of stereotype threat / Paul G. Davies and Steven J. Spencer
- 9. "Math is hard!" (Barbie, 1994) : responses of threat vs. challenge-mediated arousal to stereotypes alleging intellectual inferiority / Talia Ben-Zeev, Cristina M. Carrasquillo, Alison M. L. Ching, Tattiya J. Kliengklom, Kristen L. McDonald, Daniel C. Newhall, Gillian E. Patton, Tiffany D. Stewart, Tonya Stoddard, Michael Inzlicht and Steven Fein
- 10. The role of ethnicity on the gender gap in mathematics / Alyssa M. Walters and Lisa M. Brown
- 11. The gender gap in mathematics : merely a step function? / Sophia Catsambis
- 12. "I can, but I don't want to" : the impact of parents, interests, and activities on gender differences in math / Janis E. Jacobs, Pamela Davis-Kean, Martha Bleeker, Jacquelynne S. Eccles and Oksana Malanchuk
- 13. Gender effects on mathematics achievement : mediating role of state and trait self-regulation / Eunsook Hong, Harold F. O'Neil and David Feldon
- 14. Gender differences in mathematics self-efficacy beliefs / Frank Pajares
- 15. Gender differences in mathematics : what we know and what we need to know / Ann M. Gallagher and James C. Kaufman.