[NIFL-WOMENLIT:2813] women's performance on tests

From: Daphne Greenberg (ALCDGG@langate.gsu.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 09:44:34 EST


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The Journal of Educational Psychology (Vol.95, No. 4) has just published an article indicating that women in college perform better on math tests when their classroom peers are all females than when they are all male (even when they are told that performance on the tests will be kept private).
Daphne

Daphne Greenberg
Associate Director
Center for the Study of Adult Literacy
MSC 6A0360
Georgia State University
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Atlanta, GA 30303-3086
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