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Hashway, Robert M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1981
Testing of 4,899 freshmen in the Massachusetts State College System using the system's domain-referenced Mathematics Placement Test suggests that male/female differences in mathematical ability have been exaggerated. (WD)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Comparative Testing, Higher Education, Mathematics
Meier, Scott T. – 1990
Development and determination of the construct validity of a scale designed to assess aversion to computers are described. Based on a social learning model emphasizing efficacy, outcome, and reinforcement, the Computer AVersion Scale (CAVS) was developed for use with mental health clients who were high school age and older, as well as mental…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Computers, Construct Validity, Educational Background

Lupkowski, Ann E.; Schumacker, Randall E. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1991
Forty-four male and 22 female students attending an early entrance to college program for talented students completed the Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale. Results indicate that these talented students are less mathematically anxious than typical college students. Females are more mathematically anxious than males, although the finding is not…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, College Students, Comparative Testing, Early Admission
Sowa, Claudia J.; Gressard, Charles F. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1983
Explored the relationship between participation in varsity athletics and the achievement of developmental tasks. Athletes (N=48) and nonathletes (N=43) took the Student Developmental Task Inventory, in which differences were found (i.e., educational plans, career plans, and mature relationships with peers). Athletes scored significantly lower than…
Descriptors: Athletics, College Students, Comparative Testing, Developmental Tasks

Bandalos, Deborah; Benson, Jeri – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1990
The Computer Anxiety Scale was tested for invariance over the grouping conditions of males/females and graduate/undergraduate status. Subjects included 187 undergraduates and 188 graduates; analyses were conducted on 136 males and 236 females. Results indicate that the construct of computer anxiety appears to be multidimensional with highly…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Comparative Testing, Computers, Factor Structure

Willerman, Lee; And Others – Intelligence, 1991
Magnetic resonance imaging was used to demonstrate that larger brain size (corrected for body size) was associated with higher intelligence quotient (IQ) for 40 right-handed college students grouped by high and average IQ and sex. Results suggest the relevance of brain size to intelligence test performance. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Testing, Higher Education, Individual Differences
Gafni, Naomi – 1991
Items in the verbal (Hebrew and English) sections of the Psychometric Entrance Test (PET) administered for university admission in Israel were studied for differential item functioning (DIF) between the sexes. Analyses were conducted for 4,354 males and 4,901 females taking Form 3 of the PET in April 1984, and 3,786 males and 3,815 females taking…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Testing, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Gaa, John P.; Liberman, Dov – 1978
The degree of agreement between the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) and the Personality Attributes Questionnaire (PAQ) in assigning sex role categories was investigated by administering both instruments to undergraduate education majors. As a result of scoring, subjects were classified as androgynous, masculine, feminine, or undifferentiated. It was…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Comparative Testing, Higher Education, Individual Characteristics

Stricker, Lawrence J.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1993
The role played by sex-related differences in prediction of grades from Scholastic Aptitude Test scores with regard to the grade criterion and the variables associated with academic performance was studied for an entire university first-year class (4,351 students). Sources of underprediction for women are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen

Small, Arnold C.; And Others – Journal of Personality Assessment, 1979
The Bem Sex-Role Inventory and Heilbrun Masculinity and Femininity Scales were compared. Correlations between the masculine and feminine scales of both instruments were significant for males but not for females. Misclassification into sex role categories occurred primarily in those categories in which personality characteristics overlap. (MH)
Descriptors: Androgyny, Classification, Comparative Testing, Femininity

Taggart, William M.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1991
Relationships among the scales of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and the Human Information Processing Survey revealed in a study by S. C. Shiflett (1989) were reinvestigated in a study involving 554 college students (270 males and 284 females). One significant gender difference among the correlations was found. (SLD)
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comparative Testing

Levander, Maria; Levander, Sten – Intelligence, 1990
Forty-eight male and 54 female left-handed junior college students in Stockholm were grouped according to familial sinistrality and strength of handedness. Performance on computerized reaction time (RT), maze, and verbal ability tests was assessed. Sex was the only factor differentiating left-handers on RT, and no factors affected verbal ability.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, College Students, Comparative Testing, Family Characteristics

Dunn, Kerri F.; Cowan, Gloria – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1993
Compares social influence strategies of 40 Japanese and 41 U.S. college women for various targets. Free responses indicate that Japanese women use strong and neutral strategies more frequently and weak strategies less frequently than U.S. women. U.S. women use manipulation more frequently and reasoning less frequently than Japanese women. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Cross Cultural Studies, Females, Foreign Countries

O'Grady, Kevin E.; And Others – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1979
Male and female undergraduate psychology students were administered the Adjective Check List, Bem Sex Role Inventory and Personal Attributes Questionnaire. The masculinity and femininity subscale scores for each of these three measures were correlated and subjected to a principal factor analysis with varimax rotation separately for males and…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Comparative Testing, Factor Analysis, Females

Stage, Christina – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1992
Whether gender differences in Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test results changed with the age and experience of new examinees was examined for 7,779 male and 7,294 female students, including those under age 24 newly eligible for the examination. No real differences were found for traditional age group and younger examinees. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Testing