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ERIC Number: EJ332474
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1986
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A Model of Statistics Achievement Using Spatial Ability, Feminist Attitudes and Mathematics-Related Variables as Predictors.
Elmore, Patricia B.; Vasu, Ellen Storey
Educational and Psychological Measurement, v46 n1 p215-22 Spr 1986
A number of measures were examined as predictors of graduate students' achievement in inferential statistics courses. The most important predictor variable set was attitudes toward feminist issues. Other predictors included mathematics attitude and masculinity-femininity. Sex-related differences were found on all variables except verbal and mathematical ability. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Feminism, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Mathematics Achievement, Predictor Variables, Program Attitudes, Regression (Statistics), Sex Differences, Spatial Ability, Statistics, Student Attitudes, Verbal Ability
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Attitudes toward Feminist Issues Scale (Elmore); Fennema Sherman Mathematics Attitudes Scales; Kit of Reference Tests for Cognitive Factors; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory