November 2017
In a study “Exams disadvantage women in introductory biology” published in PLOS One, scholars from the University of Minnesota and Stanford have found that for female students, their performance in exams and a poorer predictor of their overall performance, including lab work and writing assignments, than for men. They found that test-anxiety impact female students worse than male. The study was based on a sample of 1500 students.
November 26, 2017