Abstract
This paper explores possible relationships between gender, mathematical confidence, misplaced mathematical confidence, and mathematical performance among secondary school students in a range of schools in the outer Eastern suburbs of Melbourne. The analysis indicates that although the female and male students performed at about the same level on a set of pencil and paper mathematics word problems, the females tended to be less confident than the males that correct answers they had given were, in fact, correct.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | Deakin University. National Centre for Research and Development in Mathematics Education |
| Publication status | Published - 1993 |
Keywords
- Comparative analysis
- Gender
- Mathematics achievement
- Secondary school students
- Year 7
Disciplines
- Science and Mathematics Education
- Secondary Education