The Assessment of Females in Mathematics

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The Assessment of Females in Mathematics

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Victoria University of Wellington

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New Zealand Annual Review of Education

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Many assessment procedures in mathematics have been shown to disadvantage females in some situations. The authors show that females prefer questions set in “environmental” or “people” contexts and indicate that they do better on familiar, rather than problem-solving, questions. Performance of male and female students (both Maori and non-Maori) gives clear evidence that in secondary school national mathematics examinations, and in some university mathematics papers, females do better in the in...

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1994-12-05

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Clark, Megan / Forbes, Sharleen / Blithe, Thora

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https://doi.org/10.26686/nzaroe.v0i4.1093

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