Gender and educational performance: The Malaysian perspective
National Examination results at ages 12, 15 and 17 in 1996-2000 have shown that girls perform better than boys across almost all school subjects and enrolments of male and female students at university levels have also shown that the percentage of female students has increased from 50 in 1996 to 56...
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2-s2.0-78651228141 Jelas Z.M.; Dahan H.M. Gender and educational performance: The Malaysian perspective 2010 Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 7 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.10.098 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-78651228141&doi=10.1016%2fj.sbspro.2010.10.098&partnerID=40&md5=004ac81039e1661b0e16d1d574b2f37e National Examination results at ages 12, 15 and 17 in 1996-2000 have shown that girls perform better than boys across almost all school subjects and enrolments of male and female students at university levels have also shown that the percentage of female students has increased from 50 in 1996 to 56 in 1999. It has been found that girls seem to do better on sustained tasks that require memorising abstract, unambiguous facts and rules while boys are more responsive to open-ended tasks which are related to practical and realistic situations that require them to think for themselves. © 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Elsevier Ltd 18770428 English Conference paper All Open Access; Gold Open Access |
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National Examination results at ages 12, 15 and 17 in 1996-2000 have shown that girls perform better than boys across almost all school subjects and enrolments of male and female students at university levels have also shown that the percentage of female students has increased from 50 in 1996 to 56 in 1999. It has been found that girls seem to do better on sustained tasks that require memorising abstract, unambiguous facts and rules while boys are more responsive to open-ended tasks which are related to practical and realistic situations that require them to think for themselves. © 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd. |
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