"Maths + confidence = higher scores for boys" by Sue Thomson

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Maths + confidence = higher scores for boys

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Sue Thomson, ACER
Lisa De Bortoli, ACER

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Publication Date

7-18-2014

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Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research and
Science and Mathematics Education

Abstract

Teenage boys outperform Australian girls in mathematics by the equivalent of about one-third of a school year, according to the latest PISA survey, as Sue Thomson and Lisa De Bortoli explain.

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Thomson, Sue; De Bortoli, Lisa. (2014) 'Maths + confidence = higher scores for boys', Research Developments, ACER. http://rd.acer.edu.au/article/maths-confidence-higher-scores-for-boys