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Title: Females show more sustained performance test-taking than males
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Pau Balart, Matthijs Oosterveen
published: 2019/11/11 03
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According to a study published in nature-newsletter
, women performed more consistently on reading, math and science tests than men. In addition, in the math test, the longer the test time, the smaller the gender difference in scores.two studies conducted by Pau Balart and Matthijs Oosterveen of the University of the Balearic Islands in Spain to investigate test performance and its significance for the gender difference in scores. In the first study, the authors used data from the International Student Assessment Program, an international standardized test that is held every three years to assess the performance of 15-year-olds in math, science and reading. The authors analyzed test data from 74 countries in 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2015 and found that women outperformed men on language reading tests, while men outperformed women on math and science tests, confirming past studies. However, regardless of the type of test, women performed more sustainably than men. In more than 20 percent of the study countries, the gender differences in math and science scores disappeared or reversed after more than two hours of testing. In the second study, the authors used scores from 441 math tests of varying durations and found that longer tests were associated with smaller gender differences in math scores.
these findings mean
summary: Females tend to perform worse than males on math and science tests, but they perform better on verbal reading tests. Here, by analysing performance during a cognitive test, we provide evidence that females are better able to sustain their performance during a test across all of these topics, including math and science (study 1). This finding suggests that longer cognitive tests decrease the gender gap in math and science. By analysing a dataset with multiple tests that vary in test length, we find empirical support for this idea (study 2).
(Source: Science.com)
