reviewPsychological BulletinJan 1, 2010GREEN OA

New trends in gender and mathematics performance: A meta-analysis.

SLSara LindbergJSJanet Shibley HydeJLJennifer L. PetersenMCMarcia C. Linn

University of Wisconsin–Madison · University of California, Berkeley

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Abstract

In this paper, we use meta-analysis to analyze gender differences in recent studies of mathematics performance. First, we meta-analyzed data from 242 studies published between 1990 and 2007, representing the testing of 1,286,350 people. Overall, d = .05, indicating no gender difference, and VR = 1.08, indicating nearly equal male and female variances. Second, we analyzed data from large data sets based on probability sampling of U.S. adolescents over the past 20 years: the NLSY, NELS88, LSAY, and NAEP. Effect sizes for the gender difference ranged between −0.15 and +0.22. Variance ratios ranged from 0.88 to 1.34. Taken together these findings support the view that males and females perform similarly in…

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  • Meta-analysis
  • Longitudinal study
  • Variance (accounting)
  • Psychology
  • Analysis of variance
  • Demography
  • Statistics
  • Longitudinal data
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Quality Education
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