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- Title
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN ACHIEVEMENT IN A LARGE, NATIONALLY REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS.
- Authors
Scheiber, Caroline; Reynolds, Matthew R.; Hajovsky, Daniel B.; Kaufman, Alan S.
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate developmental gender differences in academic achievement areas, with the primary focus on writing, using the child and adolescent portion (ages 6-21 years) of the Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement-Second Edition, Brief Form, norming sample ( N = 1,574). Path analytic models with gender, parent education, age, age2, and gender-by-age moderation as predictors of reading, writing, and math were used to test for gender differences and for the influence of development on these differences. A small but consistent advantage was identified for females in reading. No gender differences were detected in math. The most important results of the present study pertain to a gender gap in writing in favor of females that increased as a function of age. Male students are at greater risk for writing failure than are females.
- Subjects
GENDER differences (Psychology); TEENAGERS; FOCUS (Linguistics); READING; WRITING; EDUCATION of parents; KAUFMAN Test of Educational Achievement
- Publication
Psychology in the Schools, 2015, Vol 52, Issue 4, p335
- ISSN
0033-3085
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/pits.21827