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Wai, Jonathan; Cacchio, Megan; Putallaz, Martha; Makel, Matthew C. – Intelligence, 2010
One factor in the debate surrounding the underrepresentation of women in science technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) involves male-female mathematical ability differences in the extreme right tail (top 1% in ability). The present study provides male-female ability ratios from over 1.6 million 7th grade students in the right tail (top 5%…
Descriptors: Women Scientists, Academic Achievement, Disproportionate Representation, Writing Ability
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Glaser, Robert; Pellegrino, James W. – Intelligence, 1979
Current studies of cognition emphasize the contrast between two approaches to analysis of individual differences. It is concluded that the cognitive components approach incorporates the cognitive correlates approach, avoids the inadequacy of correlational methods, and models individual differences on various dimensions of cognitive functioning.…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Abstract Reasoning, Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Ability