Gender Differences in Mathematics (eBook, PDF)

An Integrative Psychological Approach
Redaktion: Gallagher, Ann M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Females consistently score lower than males on standardized tests of mathematics - yet no such differences exist in the classroom. These differences are not trivial, nor are they insignificant. Test scores help determine entrance to college and graduate school and therefore, by extension, a person's job and future success. If females receive lower test scores then they also receive fewer opportunities. Why does this discrepancy exist? This book presents a series of papers that address these issues by integrating the latest research findings and theories. Authors such as Diane Halpern, Jacquelynne Eccles, Beth Casey, Ronald Nuttal, James Byrnes, and Frank Pajares tackle these questions from a variety of perspectives. Many different branches of psychology are represented, including cognitive, social, personality/self-oriented, and psychobiological. The editors then present an integrative chapter that discusses the ideas presented and other areas that the field should explore.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511222825
• Artikelnr.: 56703135

Autorenporträt

Ann M. Gallagher is a Research Scientist at LSAC. Her main research interest is sources of group differences in test performance and problem solving. She has published in the Journal of Educational Measurement, The Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Merrill Palmer Quarterly and Teacher's College Record.
James C. Kaufman is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the California State University at San Bernardino, where he is also the director of the Learning Research Institute. He served as the co-editor of The Evolution of Intelligence (with Sternberg; Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002) and The International Handbook of Creativity (with Sternberg; Cambridge University Press.)

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. Research on the women and mathematics issue: a personal case
history Susan Chipman; 2. The perseverative search for sex differences in
mathematic ability Paula Caplan and Jeremy Caplan; 3. A psychobiosocial
model: why females are sometimes > and sometimes < males in math
achievement Diane Halpern, Jonathan Wai and Amanda Saw; 4. Gender
differences in math: cognitive processes in an expanded framework James
Byrnes; 5. Cognitive contributions to sex differences in math performance
James M. Royer and Laura M. Garofoli; 6. Spatial ability as a mediator of
gender differences on mathematics tests: a biological-environmental
framework M. Beth Casey, Ronald Nuttal and Elizabeth Pezaris; 7. Examining
gender-related differential item functioning using insights from
psychometric and multicontext theory Rob Ibarra; 8. The gender-gap
artifact: women's underperformance in quantitative domains through the lens
of stereotype threat Paul Davies and Steve Spencer; 9. 'Math is hard!'
(Barbie, 1994): responses of threat vs challenge mediated arousal of
stereotypes alleging intellectual inferiority Talia Ben Zee, Cristina M.
Carrasquillo, Alison M. L. Ching, Tattiya J. Kliengklom, Kristen L.
McDonald, Daniel C. Newhall, Gillian E. Patton, Tiffany D. Stewart, Tonya
Stoddard, Michael Inzlicht and Steve Fein; 10. The role of ethnicity on the
gender gap in mathematics Alyssa Walters and Lisa Brown; 11. The gender gap
in mathematics: merely a step function Sophia Catsambis; 12. 'I can, but I
don't want to': the impact of parents, interests, and activities on gender
differences in math Janis E. Jacobs, Pamela Davis-Kean, Martha Bleeker,
Jacquelynne S. Eccles and Oksana Malachuk; 13. Gender effects on
mathematics achievement: mediating role of state and trait self-regulation
Eunsook Hong, Harold O'Neil and David Feldon; 14. Gender differences in
mathematics self efficacy beliefs Frank Pajares; 15. Integrative conclusion
Ann Gallagher and James Kaufman.