Gender Differences in Science Achievement in 10 Countries: 1970/71 to 1983/84 (Empirische Schul-und Unterrichtsforschung) - Softcover

Kotte, Dieter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3631449186 ISBN 13: 9783631449189

Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1992

Synopsis

Based on student, teacher, and school data from two large-scale assessments conducted in 1970/71 and 1983/84 gender differences in science achievement are analyzed across 10 countries. Though concentrating on the age group of 14-year-old students, selected results are also presented for 10-year-olds and students from the terminal secondary school level. Using state-of-the-art multilevel multivariate statistical techniques gender differences are analyzed across the two data points, countries, age groups and science subjects. Data were available for about 400,000 students, 50,000 science teachers and 15,000 schools world-wide from the two IEA international science studies. Complex path models are discussed for each of the countries showing the network of factors found to influence the manifestation of gender differences in science achievement and special analyses implementing hierarchical linear modelling techniques are employed for Australia and England, for which single-sex schooling is compared with the more common form of coeducation.

About this title

About the Author:

Der Autor: Dieter Kotte was born in Hamburg in 1956. After studies in Education, Sociology and Psychology he specialized in statistics and computer sciences. He graduated in 1983 and has since worked in several universities and research institutes world-wide. Until 1990 he was Assistant International Coordinator for the IEA Reading Literacy Study, the largest assessment study conducted in over 30 countries. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Hamburg in 1992 and is now a private consultant.

Language Notes:

Text: English
Introduction: German

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 3631449186
• ISBN 13: 9783631449189
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 305