Performance-Based Assessment: Will Gender Differences in Science Achievement Be Eliminated?.

Jovanovic, Jasna; And Others

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Publication Date: 1994

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Performance-Based Assessment: Will Gender Differences in Science Achievement Be Eliminated?

Jovanovic, Jasna; And Others

Education and Urban Society, v26 n4 p352-66 Aug 1994

To explore the effects that changing to performance-based assessment has had on sex differences in science achievement that had been observed with traditional tests, 3 studies involving more than 906 elementary school students compared scores of males and females on performance-based tests. Few gender differences were found. (SLD)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Females, Males, Performance Based Assessment, Science Achievement, Sciences, Scores, Sex Differences, Test Results, Test Use

Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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