Lachance Jennifer A, Mazzocco Michèle M M
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, United States.
Learn Individ Differ. 2006 Jan 1;16(3):195-216. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2005.12.001.
We report on a longitudinal study designed to assess possible sex differences in math achievement, math ability, and math-related tasks during the primary school age years. Participants included over 200 children from one public school district. Annual assessments included measures of math ability, math calculation achievement scores, rapid naming and decoding tasks, visual perception tests, visual motor tasks, and reading skills. During select years of the study we also administered tests of counting and math facts skills. We examined whether girls or boys were overrepresented among the bottom or top performers on any of these tasks, relative to their peers, and whether growth rates or predictors of math-related skills differed for boys and girls. Our findings support the notion that sex differences in math are minimal or nonexistent on standardized psychometric tests routinely given in assessments of primary school age children. There was no persistent finding suggesting a male or female advantage in math performance overall, during any single year of the study, or in any one area of math or spatial skills. Growth rates for all skills, and early correlates of later math performance, were comparable for boys and girls. The findings fail to support either persistent or emerging sex differences on non-specialized math ability measures during the primary school age years.
我们报告了一项纵向研究,该研究旨在评估小学阶段数学成绩、数学能力及与数学相关任务中可能存在的性别差异。参与者包括来自一个公立学区的200多名儿童。年度评估包括数学能力测试、数学计算成绩分数、快速命名和解码任务、视觉感知测试、视觉运动任务及阅读技能测试。在研究的特定年份,我们还进行了计数和数学事实技能测试。我们研究了在这些任务中,相对于同龄人,女孩或男孩在成绩最差或最好的群体中是否占比过高,以及男孩和女孩在数学相关技能的增长率或预测因素方面是否存在差异。我们的研究结果支持这样一种观点,即在对小学适龄儿童进行评估时常规进行的标准化心理测量测试中,数学方面的性别差异极小或不存在。在研究的任何一年、数学或空间技能的任何一个领域,均未发现持续表明男性或女性在数学成绩上具有优势的结果。男孩和女孩在所有技能的增长率以及后期数学成绩的早期相关因素方面相当。这些研究结果不支持小学阶段在非专业数学能力测试中存在持续或新出现的性别差异。
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