Sex Differences in Formal Reasoning Ability: Task and Interviewer Effects.

Piburn, Michael D.; Baker, Dale R.

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ERIC Number: EJ389547

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Publication Date: 1989

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Sex Differences in Formal Reasoning Ability: Task and Interviewer Effects.

Piburn, Michael D.; Baker, Dale R.

Science Education, v73 n1 p101-13 Jan 1989

Examines the variables that influence females' success in science by experimenting with the outcomes of measures of formal reasoning ability. Concludes that women turn away from science for reasons that have little or nothing to do with their reasoning ability. (YP)

Descriptors: College Science, Females, Formal Operations, Higher Education, Intellectual Development, Science and Society, Science Careers, Scientific Personnel, Scientists, Secondary Education, Secondary School Science, Sex Differences, Sex Stereotypes

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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