COGNITIVE GENDER DIFFERENCES ARE DISAPPEARING
COGNITIVE GENDER DIFFERENCES ARE DISAPPEARING
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DOI:
10.1037/0003-066x.43.2.95
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发表时间:
1988-02-01
影响因子:
16.4
通讯作者:
FEINGOLD, A
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作者:
FEINGOLD, A
Gender differences in cognitive abilities were determined using the norms from the four standardizations of the Differential Aptitude Tests conducted between 1947 and 1980, and from the four standardizations of the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/Scholastic Aptitude Test conducted between 1960 and 1983. The standardized gender differences (ds) were averaged over grade of examinees and year of standardization to obtain a mean effect size for each ability, and variations among effect sizes were examined for grade, year, and Grade× Year trends. Girls scored higher than boys on scales of grammar, spelling, and perceptual speed; boys had higher means on measures of spatial visualization, high school mathematics, and mechanical aptitude; and no average gender differences were found on tests of verbal reasoning, arithmetic, and figural reasoning. Gender differences declined precipitously over the years surveyed, and the increases in these differences over the high school grades have diminished. The important exception to the rule of vanishing gender differences is that the well-documented gender gap at the upper levels of performance on high school mathematics has remained constant over the past 27 years.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)