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Differential Gender Performance on the Major Field Test–Business

Author(s) -

Agnieszka BielinskaKwapisz,

Frank Brown

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

journal of education for business

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.508

H-Index - 46

eISSN - 1940-3356

pISSN - 0883-2323

DOI - 10.1080/08832323.2012.666296

Subject(s) - aptitude , test (biology) , psychology , phenomenon , field (mathematics) , point (geometry) , differential (mechanical device) , mathematics education , applied psychology , developmental psychology , engineering , mathematics , paleontology , physics , geometry , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics , biology , aerospace engineering

The Major Field Test in Business (MFT-B), a standardized assessment test of business knowledge among undergraduate business seniors, is widely used to measure student achievement. Many previous studies analyzing scores on the MFT-B report gender differences on the exam even after controlling for student's aptitude, general intellectual ability, and motivation. The authors’ results point to two reasons behind this phenomenon. First, it is important to control for critical thinking abilities while explaining variation in MFT-B scores. Second, motivation to perform well on the test varies between genders and high- and low-performing students.

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