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Correlates of sex‐related differences in logical reasoning
Author(s) -
Ehindero O. J.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of research in science teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.067
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1098-2736
pISSN - 0022-4308
DOI - 10.1002/tea.3660190704
Subject(s) - psychology , logical reasoning , context (archaeology) , developmental psychology , test (biology) , significant difference , science education , context effect , social psychology , mathematics education , statistics , mathematics , paleontology , biology , geometry , word (group theory)
The study utilized a post‐test‐only, no‐control experimental design to investigate the influence of sex‐related contextual nature of tasks and perceived difficulty of these tasks on logical reasoning among 70 randomly selected high schools pupils (35 boys and 35 girls) in Nigeria. Three categories of tasks were used‐those whose context were male related, those whose context were female related, and those that were relatively content‐free. Results of the study show that males scored higher than females on male‐related tasks and females scored higher on female‐related tasks. No significant difference, however, was observed on the relatively content‐free tasks. The need to design problems and tasks that are relatively nonsex‐related is discussed.