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Sex Differences in Reading and Math Test Scores of Children = A Heterodoxical Model

This open access book examines why reading and math test scores for boys and girls have differed since the origins of testing in the United States. It details the pattern of differences that have remained largely unchanged for more than 100 years in the United States and worldwide. The book explores why boys have modestly larger math test score means than girls, and why girls have far larger reading test score means than boys. Boys have larger test score variances for both tasks. The only data of focus—and thus the only data to be explained—are boys’ and girls’ test score sample means and variances.

In addition, the book provides the only coherent theory of gender differences explaining math and reading test score means and variances obtained in observational settings. It develops the simple genetical idea framed within a finite probability mixture model; it provides parameter estimates and displays numerous estimated probability distributions associated with the selected accessible studies chosen for analysis; and it extends the theory and provides explanations for never understood puzzling features of test score data. The book requires no auxiliary sources, although some understanding of random variables and probability theory is required to follow the formalization. It contains all technical details, including the estimation procedure and an R code implementation.

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: Springer Cham., 2024

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XII, 108 hlm; ill., lamp.,

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English

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9783031412721

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text

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computer

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online resource

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1

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Clinical Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Teaching and Teacher Education
Child and School Psychology

Pedagogic Psychology

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Details pattern of differences that have remained largely unchanged for more than 100 years in the U.S. and worldwide Examines why reading and math test scores for boys and girls have differed since the origins of testing in the U.S Provides the only coherent theory of sex differences explaining math and reading test scores in observational settings This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

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Hoben Thomas

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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-41272-1

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41272-1

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