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Mackintosh, N. J. – Intelligence, 2007
Mackintosh and Bennett [Mackintosh, N. J., Bennett, E. S. (2005). What do Raven's Matrices measure? An analysis in terms of sex differences. "Intelligence, 33," 663-674] reported that male students obtained higher scores than females on Raven's items that required for their solution addition/subtraction or distribution of two rules, but…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Sample Size, Scores, Test Reliability
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Connolly, Paul – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2006
In 1999 Stephen Gorard published an article in this journal in which he provided a trenchant critique of what he termed the "politician's error" in analysing differences in educational attainment. The main consequence of this error, he argued, has been the production of misleading findings in relation to trends in educational performance over time…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Low Achievement, Academic Achievement, Educational Trends