Differential Factors Affecting Male and Female Academic Performance in High School

Lao, Rosina C.

doi:10.1080/00223980.1980.12062956

Cited by 17 publications

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“…Mackintosh (1998), on the other hand, claims that there is no sex difference in general intelligence. At the pre-collegiate level, female students are generally found to get better course grades but perform worse than males in achievement tests like SAT (Lao 1980;Kimball 1989;Wilberg and Lynn 1999). This pattern is explained by the better work habits and better language abilities of females.…”

Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 82%

Gender differences in academic performance in a large public university in Turkey

2007

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The paper attempts to determine whether there are significant gender differences in academic performance among undergraduate students in a large public university in Turkey based on three indicators; university entrance scores, performance in the English preparatory school and in the program the student is majoring in. The paper finds that a smaller number of female students manage to enter the university and when they do so, they enter with lower scores. However, once they are admitted to the university, they excel in their studies and outperform their male counterparts. This result holds after controlling for the field of study and individual attributes.

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Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 82%

Gender differences in academic performance in a large public university in Turkey

2007

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“…The relationship between dependency and psychopathology was first discussed more than 70 years ago by Kraepelin (1913) and Schneider (1923). However, the dependency-psychopathology link was subsequently codified (and reified) in successive revisions of the DSM (American Psychiatric Association, I952, 1968, 1980. Recent studies have confirmed that mental health professionals continue to regard high levels of dependency as a pathognomic sign in both men and women (Adler, Drake, & Teague, 1990;Gregory & Gilbert, 1992;Loring & Powell, 1988).…”

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Adaptive and maladaptive aspects of dependency: An integrative review.

Bornstein¹

1994

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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“…Investigating academic performance at pre-collegiate level, Lao (1980) finds female students to obtain higher CGPA compared to males. Examining sex-related difference in classroom grades, Kimball (1989) finds that in contrast to standardized measures of mathematics achievement tests like SAT-M3, female students outperform males in math classes.…”

Section: Gender and Academic Achievementmentioning

confidence: 99%