Gender gap or program gap? Students’ negotiations of study practice in a course in electromagnetism

[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Gender in Physics.] This study of achievement differences, as reflected by course grades, on a third-semester electromagnetism course at a Swedish research university was motivated by instructor concerns about gender inequalities. Quantitative analysi...

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Main Authors: Staffan Andersson, Anders Johansson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2016-08-01
Series:Physical Review Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.12.020112