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Charts | 1 |
Comparative Analysis | 1 |
Cultural Differences | 1 |
Diagrams | 1 |
Elementary Secondary Education | 1 |
Foreign Countries | 1 |
Maps | 1 |
Reading Skills | 1 |
Sex Differences | 1 |
Tables (Data) | 1 |
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Reading and Writing: An… | 1 |
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Rosen, Monica | 1 |
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Rosen, Monica – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2001
Notes how females are known to excel over males in most reading tasks, but not consistently so in tasks that require processing information from maps, tables, charts and diagrams, so called "Documents." Describes and analyzes gender differences on Document tasks, and investigates if and how the pattern of differences varies over countries. (SG)
Descriptors: Charts, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Diagrams