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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Gender-related Differences"”.
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Gender-related differences in technology education related to problem solving
… Education are chosen primarily by males. This gender unbalanced enrollment, has been directly influenced by the way society has split up the labour force for centuries by deeming some tasks as those largely performed by males, and others as those performed by females. Although the feminist …
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Gender-Related Differences in Achievement Orientation and Motivation for Leisure Service Delivery Personnel
… their failures in an attempt to develop a less gender-biased conceptualization of achievement motivation. Secondly, it was hypothesized that people have different achievement orientations. Both questions were predicted to be related to the gender of the subject.
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An analysis of gender related differences in performance and attitudes of participants in the 1997 UCT Mathematics competition
In this study, possible gender differences in and attitudes towards mathematics will be investigated. As a sample, the candidates taking part in the individual competition in the University of Cape Town Mathematics Competition will be used. This sample has been chosen since it appears that even …
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Writing in the Math Classroom: A Writing Across the Curriculum Project
… Interpretative Team reports that there were no gender related differences among thirteen year-olds, but among seventeen year-olds, there were small but significant differences. Also, the gap between Caucasian students and other groups (Hispanics and African-Americans) is narrowing, but the …
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Cross-Modal Interface Design in Crisis Control Systems: The Role of Gender
… women. Some HCI research has been done regarding gender differences in hand-eye coordination for interactions with computer touch display interfaces, navigation through virtual environments (VE) and language in computer-mediated communication. In these previous studies, gender differences were …
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Possible Effects of Voice Fundamental Frequency, Gender and Tongue Position on Phonation Threshold Pressure
… a function of voice fundamental frequency (f₀), gender, and tongue position. Ten adult native speakers of American English (five men and five women) with no known history of respiratory, laryngeal, speech and hearing problems served as subjects. Subjects were asked to repeat a series just audible …
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Relationship between Implementing Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and Fifth Graders' Attitudes toward School.
… toward school; however, information concerning gender was also solicited. The study employed quantitative data, and descriptive analysis was performed.</p> <p>Findings indicated that there was no significant difference in students' attitudes toward school among fifth graders attending schools …
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Perception of the Impact of Freshmen Academic Involvement Activities, and Use of Academic Support Services on Academic Performance - (A Case Study of Virginia Tech Second Year Engineering Students): Implications for Counseling
… (3) Are there academic performance level-related differences in students' perceptions of the impact of various academic activities in which they are involved, relative to their academic performance? (4) Are there academic performance level-related differences in students' perceptions of …
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Attitudes of teachers towards sexuality and HIV and AIDS education
… Third, it wanted to determine if there are gender-related differences in the attitudes of educators towards the inclusion of sexuality education in the curriculum. A purposive sampling method was used and 56 (27 female and 29 male) Mthatha teachers were selected. Permission to conduct the …
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Gender Difference Variables Predicting Expertise in Lecture Note-taking
… in class. Research suggests that there may be gender differences in note-taking and test taking. However, previous research on lecture note-taking has only examined gender differences, or used gender as an anecdotal variable, in post-hoc analyses. This is the first dissertation to investigate …
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Teaching strategies in motivating global English learners
… in the classroom, learning style preferences, gender and identity. While many of these concepts were worthy of being investigated on their own, I chose to focus on their cross-thematic interaction. In fact, the findings indicate that human emotions and behaviour do not exist in a vacuum, but …
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Essays in economics
… (co-authored with Glenn Ellison) examines differences in the frequency with which students from different schools reach high levels of math achievement. Data from the American Mathematics Competitions is used to produce counts of high-scoring students from public U.S. high schools. …
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Sex and Gender Differences in Patient Outcomes in Individuals Living with Chronic Kidney Disease
… are attributable to sex (biological) and/or gender (sociocultural) differences. Therefore, the objective of this thesis was to investigate sex and gender differences in individuals living with chronic kidney disease and important clinical outcomes. This work comprises of three studies. First, …
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Adult-child Differences in Spatial Learning in an Immersive Virtual Environment as a Function of Field-of-view
… that of adult participants, and 2) how, and if, gender changed participant performance and responses. Adults and 7-9 year old children were taught a U-shaped route through a six room virtual house, while wearing a helmet mounted display (HMD). Participants viewed the environment under monoscopic …
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The influence of dietary fatty acids and antioxidant micronutrients on plasma, red blood cell and platelet fatty acids in healthy men and women
… C (138 vs 108 mg/d, p<0.05). In addition, gender comparisons of micronutrient densities demonstrated higher copper, magnesium, iron and vitamin E densities in the women's' diets, indicating more balanced nutritional intakes. Despite these findings no differences were found in plasma …