Author: Alexandra Freer Publisher: The Princeton Review ISBN: 9780375762406 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 260
Book Description
It's scary enough that the SAT can make or break one's college admission chances, but the fact that girls consistently score lower than boys makes it an even bigger hurdle. "The Girls' Guide to the SAT" helps young women understand and overcome the gender gap with specially focused tips and techniques for scoring higher.
Author: Cynthia Johnson Publisher: Kaplan Publishing ISBN: 9780743247689 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 244
Book Description
Tailored to a traditionally male approach to test taking, the SAT has stacked the deck against females. "What Smart Girls Know About the SAT" is a reference no female should be without.
Author: David Sadker Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439159432 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 769
Book Description
Despite decades of effort to create fair classrooms and schools, gender bias is alive and well, and in some ways growing. School practices continue to send boys and girls down different life paths, too often treating them not as different genders but as different species. Teachers and parents often miss the subtle signs of sexism in classrooms. Through firsthand observations and up-to-the-minute research, Still Failing at Fairness brings the gender issue into focus. The authors provide an in-depth account of how girls' and boys' educations are compromised from elementary school through college, and offer practical advice for teachers and parents who want to make a positive difference. The authors examine today's pressing issues -- the lack of enforcement for Title IX, the impact of the backlash against gender equity, the much-hyped "boys' crisis," hardwired brain differences, and the recent growth of singlesex public schools. This book documents how teaching, current testing practices, and subtle cultural attitudes continue to short-circuit both girls and boys of every race, social class, and ethnicity. Hard-hitting and remarkably informative, Still Failing at Fairness is "a fascinating look into America's classrooms" (National Association of School Psychologists).
Author: Kathleen Kelly-Benjamin Publisher: Bantam Dell Publishing Group ISBN: 9780553352412 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 245
Book Description
A guide for women who are preparing to take the SAT discusses why women take the test differently from men and identifies gender bias in the test
Author: Sarah E. Turner Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Within the arts, sciences, and engineering fields, differences between men and women in choice of college major have not lessened in the past two decades. In this paper, detailed data on choice of major and individual scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) are used to examine the extent to which observed differences between men and women reflect the effects of pre-collegiate preparation (as reflected in SAT scores), as contrasted with a panoply of other forces. One conclusion is that there is a widening divide between the life sciences and math/physical science fields in their relative attractiveness to men and women. Differences in SAT scores account for only part of the observed gap, and an array of residual forces--including differences in preferences, labor market expectations, and gender-specific effects of the college experience--account for the main part of today's gender gaps in choice of academic major.