Gender differences in mathematics : an integrative psychological approach / edited by Ann M. Gallagher, James C. Kaufman.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Research on the women and mathematics issue: a personal case history / Susan F. Chipman -- The perseverative search for sex differences in mathematics ability / Jeremy B. Caplan and Paula J. Caplan -- A psychobiosocial model: why females are sometimes greater than and sometimes less than males in math achievement / Diane F. Halpern, Jonathan Wai, and Amanda Saw -- Gender differences in math: cognitive processes in an expanded framework / James P. Byrnes -- Cognitive contributions in sex differences in math performance / James M. Royer and Laura M. Garofoli -- Spatial ability as a mediator of gender differences on mathematics tests: a biological-environmental framework / Ronald L. Nuttal, M. Beth Casey, and Elizabeth Pezaris -- Examining gender-related differential item functioning using insights from psychometric and multicontext theory / Allan S. Cohen and Robert A. Ibarra -- The gender-gap artifact: women's underperformance in quantitative domains through the lens of stereotype threat / Paul G. Davies and Steven J. Spencer -- "Math is hard!" (Barbie TM, 1994): responses of threat vs. challenge-mediated arousal to stereotypes alleging intellectual inferiority / Talia Ben-Zeev, Christina M. Carrasquillo, Alison M.L. Ching, Tattiya J. Kliengklom, Kristen L. McDonald, Daniel C. Newhall, Gillian E. Patton, Tiffany D. Stewart, Tonya Stoddard, Michael Inzlicht, and Steven Fein -- The role of ethnicity on the gender gap in mathematics / Alyssa M. Walters and Lisa M. Brown -- The gender gap in mathematics: merely a step function? / Sophia Catsambis -- "I can, but I don't want to": the impact of parents, interests, and activities on gender difference in math / Janis E. Jacobs, Pamela Davis-Kean, Martha Bleeker, Jaquelynne S. Eccles, and Oksana Malanchuk -- Gender effects on mathematics achievement: mediating role of state and trait self-regulation / Eunsook Hong, Harold F. O'Neill, and David Feldon -- Gender differences in mathematics self-efficacy beliefs / Frank Pajares -- Gender difference in mathematics: what we know and what we need to know / Ann M. Gallagher and James C. Kaufman.

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"Females consistently score lower than males on standardized tests of mathematics, yet no such differences exist in the classroom. These differences are not trivial, nor are they insignificant. Test scores help determine entrance to college and graduate school and, therefore, by extension, a person's job and future success. If females receive lower test scores, then they also receive fewer opportunities." "Why does this discrepancy exist? This book presents a series of chapters that address these issues by integrating the latest research findings and theories."--Jacket

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