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Publication Date: 1996
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Gender Differences in Mathematics and the Sciences: Can Attributional Retraining Improve the Performance of Gifted Females?.
Heller, Kurt A.; Ziegler, Albert
Gifted Child Quarterly, v40 n4 p200-10 Fall 1996
This article discusses using attributional retraining techniques with gifted girls to reduce gender differences in mathematics and science performance. Following an overview of the most important retraining techniques, two studies with extremely promising results are described, the first with 42 German high school students in mathematics, and the second with German female university students in statistics. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Attitude Change, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Restructuring, Females, Foreign Countries, High Schools, Higher Education, Mathematics, Postsecondary Education, Science Education, Self Concept, Sex Differences, Statistics, Student Motivation, Training Methods
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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