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Brian Kisida; Matthew Pepper; Michael Podgursky; Michelle Wickman – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
We examine the origin and evolution of male-female rating gaps for young chess players using two decades of data from the U.S. Chess Federation, the national chess association that tracks competitive tournament play and provides ratings for U.S. chess players. An important feature of our research is that we examine male-female gaps across a broad…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Games, Competition, Novices
Xianhua Luo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Electronic sports (Esports) is a fast-growing competition that has increased modern sports families' market value and size worldwide. It has become a popular competitive gaming and intramural activity in American university campuses. However, what are the perceptual differences toward Esports among university students in America? Therefore, this…
Descriptors: Video Games, College Students, Competition, Student Attitudes
Derrik Motz; Scott Rathwell; Bettina Callary; Bradley William Young – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2024
The Adult-Oriented Sport Coaching Survey (AOSCS) is a valid and reliable measure of coaches' and Masters athletes' perspectives of how often adult-oriented coaching practices are used. However, Masters athletes' heterogenous traits have been acknowledged as barriers to generalizing research findings on coaching behaviors. Therefore, this study…
Descriptors: Athletes, Adults, Athletic Coaches, Age
Wenjuan Gao; Wenhao Tang; Jiang Wang – Journal of Adolescence, 2025
Objectives: Previous research highlights the strong correlation between certain personality traits and individual career adaptability levels, yet the role of competitive personality remains underexplored. This study aims to fill the gaps by assessing the relationship between competitive attitudes and career adaptability among Chinese college…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Adjustment, Competition, Gender Differences
Francis O. Uzuegbunam; Eziyi O. Ibem; Austin M. Ezezue – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2024
Although gender mainstreaming in science, engineering, and technology education has continued to receive research attention, not much has been done in architecture. This study investigated the interaction patterns in architectural design studios and classrooms in the Nigerian university context to suggest how gender mainstreaming can be achieved…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Architectural Education, Classroom Environment
Stephen L. Baglione; Zachary Smith; Owen Roach – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2025
Grading inflation is a major problem in academia. The paper's purpose is to assess graduate students' perception of grade inflation. Students' results (n = 120) are examined by gender and grade point average. According to students, grade inflation is not a problem and grades accurately reflect performance. Respondents believe that some students…
Descriptors: Grade Inflation, Student Attitudes, Graduate Students, Grade Point Average
Miaoting Cheng; Xiaoyan Lai; Da Tao; Juntong Lai; Jun Yang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
While numerous studies have highlighted the potential benefits of programming environment (PE) use for children's learning, the boundary conditions of children's PE acceptance within the programming education context are less clear. This study fills this gap in the literature by investigating the critical determinants of children's PE use…
Descriptors: Programming, Intention, Competition, Computation
Diana Roxana Galos; Susanne Strauss; Thomas Hinz – Research in Higher Education, 2024
While girls have better grades than boys in high school, this does not translate into better performance of young women, as compared to young men, in university. Due to the high signalling value of university grades for subsequent income and employment outcomes, this has important consequences for gender inequalities at labour market entry.…
Descriptors: Gender Discrimination, Competition, Females, Academic Achievement
Anne Schmitt; Matthew Atencio; Margo Curschellas – Sport, Education and Society, 2025
The provision of sports opportunities for youths in schools has expanded beyond traditional competitive offerings, with activities such as skateboarding and surfing now considered important avenues for youth development. This trend follows the recent expansion of action or 'lifestyle' sports provision into various community and educational…
Descriptors: Sex, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries, Athletics
Branislava Vucetic; Biljana Maksimovic; Dijana Vuckovic; Milica Milojevic; Mico Mitrovic; Andrijana Žekic – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2025
Noticing the inconsistency in previous studies of gender differences in learning physics, it was determined to check whether a gender gap exists in a relatively large sample of competitors (N = 12,966) from Serbia. The aim of the research presented here was to analyze the achievements of male and female lower secondary school students, competitors…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Secondary School Students, Physics, Competition
Portešová, Šárka; Jaburek, Michal; Recka, Karel; Straka, Ondrej; Parker, Wayne D. – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2023
New game technologies seem to permeate every area of daily life. Therefore, it is not surprising that, in addition to the incorporation of entertaining gaming features into otherwise dull or tedious activities, the positive influence of user experience and user engagement has also been on the rise in recent years. It is all part of gamification.…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Gender Differences, Competition, Gamification
Michelle E. E. Bauer; Ian Pike – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2025
Children's microcultures consist of small peer communities that they develop with distinct rules and roles operating outside of traditional daily activities. Presently, there is little understanding for how children may develop microcultures during competitive play, where they attempt to outperform their peers. In this study, we address the…
Descriptors: Competition, Outdoor Education, Play, Gender Differences
Lorenzo Mazza; Alessandro Gambini – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications, 2023
This paper deals with the gender gap phenomenon as displayed by Italian students participating in mathematical competitions--gifted students. In particular, the results obtained by the entire student population participating in district competitions from 2017 to 2020 were analysed. The combined analysis of the competition results and of the final…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Academically Gifted, Competition, Secondary School Students
Chan, Chui Yi; Cheung, Kwok Leung – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: The current research examined the gender difference in relationships in terms of overt and covert narcissism, hypercompetitiveness, personal development competitiveness, and mental health problems, such as anxiety, depression, and stress symptoms among college students. Participants: 195 college students (mean age = 21.55 years) in Hong…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Personality Traits, Competition, Mental Health
Tialei Ariana Wesley Scanlan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
By 2023, gamification was entering just about every sector and industry including education, fitness, crowd sourcing, social media, and corporate environments. Gamification often offers promises of motivation, engagement, fun, and even higher performance. At the time of the study, there were few studies that examined gamification in accounting…
Descriptors: Gamification, Educational Games, Accounting, Undergraduate Study