Sex differences in mathematics achievement
Subtitle: a longitudinal study
By: Thomas L. Hilton and Gösta W. Berglund
Series: Research bulletin (Educational Testing Service) -- RB 71-54; Research bulletin (Educational Testing Service) -- RB-71-54
Publisher: Educational Testing Service
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 21
Subjects: Academic achievement; Sex differences; Prediction of scholastic success
Description: With the objective of investigating sex-typed interests as possible causes of difference in mathematics achievement between the sexes, the study made use of longitudinal data from the Growth Study, begun at ETS in 1961. Growth in mathematics achievement as measured by STEP Math and SCAT-Q was compared with changing interest patterns as reflected in certain biographical questionnaire resonses. At grade 5 there were no differences in achievement, but thereafter the boys pulled ahead, while parallel differences emerged in the percentage perceiving mathematics as interesting and as likely to be helpful in earning a living.
Notes: "This bulletin is a draft for interoffice circulation ..."

"September 1971."

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 11-12).