PSYC BC 1129x Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Connectionism, Phonological Development, Grammar
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In middle childhood girls get higher grades than boys, then at puberty, girls" achievement dips to become equal to boys. Processing speed develops more slowly in boys, a finding that implies the existence of differences in male and female brains. Number sense - nonverbal number approximation and math achievement. Hyde, 2008: even though boys and girls have equal performance on math scores all throughout school years, fewer girls go into stem careers. Beilock, 2010: looked at female teachers and math anxiety- showed that when math anxious individuals are female elementary school teachers, this anxiety carries negative consequences for their female students and not for their male students. In 2007, international math and science achievement scores were calculated in the trends in math and science. Study (timss) across fourth and eighth graders- hong kong was number one, united states was number 10.
