Is agreeing with a gender stereotype correlated with the performance of female students in introductory physics?

Several prior studies in introductory physics have found a gender gap, i.e., a difference between male and female students’ performance on conceptual assessments such as the Force Concept Inventory (FCI) and the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism (CSEM) with male students performing bett...

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Main Authors: Alexandru Maries, Nafis I. Karim, Chandralekha Singh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2018-11-01
Series:Physical Review Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.14.020119