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Newcombe, Nora; And Others – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1983
College students who identified adolescent activities that involve spatial skills judged more of such activities to be masculine. More males than females reported having participated in spatial activities. In a second study, a correlation was found between students' participation in spatial activities and their spatial ability as measured by an…
Descriptors: Activities, Adolescents, College Students, Females

And Others; Gregory, R. J. – Intelligence, 1980
Left-handers with an inverted handwriting posture were compared with other left-handers and with right-handers on a spatial reasoning test. Results were consistent with the hypothesis that left-inverted subjects had relatively bilateral representation of verbal and spatial functions. Bilateral representation is assumed to be inefficient.…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Handwriting Skills

Feingold, Alan – Review of Educational Research, 1992
Sex differences in variability in the national norms of the Differential Aptitude Tests, Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/Scholastic Aptitude Test, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales, and California Achievement Tests were examined. Compared to females, males were consistently more variable in quantitative reasoning, spatial visualization,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Processes, College Entrance Examinations