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Peer reviewedBenbow, Camilla Persson; Minor, Lola L. – American Educational Research Journal, 1986
Using data on approximately 2,000 students drawn from three talent searches conducted by the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, this study investigated the relationship of possible sex differences in science achievement to sex differences in mathematical reasoning ability. (BS)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Achievement Tests
Peer reviewedBenbow, Camilla Persson; Minor, Lola L. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1990
When a battery of tests commonly associated with intelligence was administered to 144 13 year olds identified as extremely precocious, the verbally precocious students scored higher on verbal and general knowledge types of tests, and mathematically precocious students scored higher on tests of nonverbal reasoning, spatial ability, and memory.…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Cognitive Development, Gifted, Intelligence Tests
