Gender differences in children's achievement-related beliefs and emotional responses to success and failure in mathematics.

Abstract

A sample of 194 3rd graders and 279 junior high school students completed questionnaires measuring achievement-related beliefs before and after they took a regularly scheduled mathematics exam. Girls rated their ability lower, expected to do less well, were less likely than boys to attribute success

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