Back to Search
Start Over
The contribution of self-beliefs to the mathematics gender achievement gap and its link to gender equality.
- Source :
-
Oxford Review of Education . Dec2020, Vol. 46 Issue 6, p804-821. 18p. 4 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 2020
-
Abstract
- I brought together two strands of literature, one investigating the moderate but persistent underachievement of girls in mathematics in most countries, and the other examining the role of self-efficacy and other self-beliefs in predicting behaviour and achievement. I implemented detailed decompositions of the gender mathematics gap, both at the mean and for low and high performing students, for a large and diverse group of countries. I found considerable heterogeneity and different cross-country patterns in decomposition components and the contribution of self-beliefs. In OECD-Europe and more affluent East Asian countries, most or all of the gap is explained by gender differences in self-beliefs, especially self-efficacy; on the other hand, in Latin America and the Middle East, most of the gap remains unexplained. I also investigated the cross-country relationship between the gender mathematics gap and gender equity and found that a clearly negative association can be established after controlling for cross-country heterogeneity in gender differences in mathematics self-beliefs, which correlate with gender equality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03054985
- Volume :
- 46
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Oxford Review of Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 147756841
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2020.1807313