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Sex differences and sex bias on the Boehm test of basic concepts: Do they exist?
Author(s) -
Silverstein A. B.,
Morita Denise N.,
Belger Kymberli A.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(198307)20:3<269::aid-pits2310200302>3.0.co;2-d
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , test (biology) , paleontology , biology
Form A of the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts (BTBC) was administered to 180 kindergartners—90 boys and 90 girls. Neither their mean scores nor their standard deviations differed significantly, and the distributions of scores for the two groups were virtually identical. Moreover, the application of three internal criteria for bias yielded totally negative results; thus, there was no evidence of either sex differences or sex bias in the data.