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Fennema, Elizabeth – 1976
This paper offers a detailed review of the literature concerning sex differences in the learning of mathematics. It identifies cognitive, affective and educational variables which have been either shown or hypothesized to contribute to sex-related differences in mathematics learning. The author analyzes each study in detail. One important finding…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Affective Behavior, Cognitive Style, Females
Peer reviewedDenno, Deborah – Adolescence, 1982
Some specific intellectual abilities show consistent sex differences which vary in degree according to types of tests and samples examined. Reviews the empirical support for these differences, as well as the methodological difficulties, data and sampling limitations, interpretative biases, and contradictory results of much of the sex-difference…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Intelligence Differences, Literature Reviews
