Solving graphics tasks: Gender differences in middle-school students

Lowrie, Thomas; Diezmann, Carmel M.

doi:10.1016/j.learninstruc.2009.11.005

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“…Lowrie and Diezmann (2011) found that males outperform females on graphical problem solving tasks. This suggests that regardless of female participants' problem solving skills, the notion of women as less effective problem solvers, as promoted by researchers such as Lowrie and Diezmann (2011), may lead to greater stress for women socialized to believe they are less proficient in the task at hand, thus driving negative affect. In contrast, the males who had an easier time coming to a solution, or at least expected to, may have experienced less frustration and more enjoyment, given perceived male competence in such problem solving.…”

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Mirror, Mirror on the Screen, What Does All this ASCII Mean?: A Pilot Study of Spontaneous Facial Mirroring of Emotions

O'Neill¹

2013

TAR

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Though an ever-increasing mode of communication, computer-mediated communication (CMC) faces challenges in its lack of paralinguistic cues, such as vocal tone and facial expression. Researchers suggest that emoticons fill the gap left by facial expression (Rezabek & Cochenour, 1998;Thompson & Foulger, 1996). The fMRI research of Yuasa, Saito, and Mukawa (2011b), in contrast, finds that viewing ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) emoticons (e.g., :), :( ) does not activate the same parts of the brain as does viewing facial expressions. In the current study, an online survey was conducted to investigate the effects of emoticons on perception of ambiguous sentences and users' beliefs about the effects of and reasons for emoticon use. In the second stage of the study, eleven undergraduate students participated in an experiment to reveal facial mimicry responses to both faces and emoticons. Overall, the students produced more smiling than frowning gestures. Emoticons were found to elicit facial mimicry to a somewhat lesser degree than photographs of faces, while male and female participants differed in response to both ASCII emoticons and distractor images (photos of non-human, non-facial subjects used to prevent participants from immediately grasping the specific goal of the study). This pilot study suggests that emoticons, though not analogous to faces, affect viewers in ways similar to facial expression whilst also triggering other unique effects.

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Mirror, Mirror on the Screen, What Does All this ASCII Mean?: A Pilot Study of Spontaneous Facial Mirroring of Emotions

O'Neill¹

2013

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“…The performance of male students are better than female students in solving problems a graph at the age of 9-12 years in Australia [17]. There was no significant difference in the ability of students mathematics in terms of gender in the field of geometry [18].…”

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Profile of Students' Thinking with High Achievement in Solving Mathematical Problem Based on Reasoning in Gender

Noor¹,

Ekawati²

2017

Proceedings of the 5th SEA-DR (South East Asia Development Research) International Conference 2017 (SEADRIC 2017)

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Abstract-Curriculum 2013 appointed by the government since 2015 uses a scientific approach to the mathematics learning in the classroom. The scientific approach is used to introduce students to the variety of mathematical problem to be solved. It makes students to be familiar in reasoning to solve mathematical problem. Based on this consideration, the aim of this study is to find out students' who have high learning achievement thinking profile in solving mathematical problem based on reasoning in terms of gender. This study was conducted by using explorative qualitative method. The sample of the study were students of SMPN 13 Banjarmasin. The result of this study indicated that (1) the male subject can understand the problem, devise and implement a plan to solve a problem poorly, not look back and has a give up sprit; (2) the female subject can understand the problem, devise and implement a plan to solve a problem very well, looking back, and structure thinking perfectly.

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“…Besides, Liu (2010) found out that male students demonstrated significantly stronger analysis, reflection abilities, and overall performance than female students. Lowrie and Diezmann (2011) focused on studying the performances of students of different genders in graphical problem-solving tasks (refers to the problems related to the tools of Graphical Languages in Mathematics, including number lines, graphs, maps, and diagrams). They found that boys had better performance in graphical tasks than did girls; in particular, when facing graphical tasks of two and three-dimensional representations, boys demonstrated better skills in interpretation of information than did girls.…”

Section: Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The studies that found a significant difference between students of different genders all used domain-specific critical thinking tests, such as the graphical task used by Lowrie and Diezmann (2011), which is different from traditional critical thinking tests. For this reason, because this study used the mechanical critical thinking scale as an evaluation tool, the performances of different genders tested by this tool were expected to be significantly different.…”

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The Development and Validation of a Mechanical Critical Thinking Scale for High School Students

Lin²,

Chang³

2016

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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The purpose of this study was to develop a mechanical critical thinking scale for high school students. A stratified random sampling method was used to establish the norms. After pretests and item analysis, the scale was determined to have five subtest sections (i.e., recognition of assumptions, induction, deduction, interpretation, and evaluation of arguments) consisting of 25 items. In addition, using 1,954 high school students as participants, this study established a norm and investigated the differences among genders and ages. The results showed that male students had better mechanical critical thinking skills than did female students in terms of induction aptitude, while female students were better in evaluation aptitude. In addition, the mechanical critical thinking performance of 12th-grade students was superior to that of 10th-and 11th-grade students.

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Solving graphics tasks: Gender differences in middle-school students

Cited by 37 publications

References 38 publications

Mirror, Mirror on the Screen, What Does All this ASCII Mean?: A Pilot Study of Spontaneous Facial Mirroring of Emotions

Mirror, Mirror on the Screen, What Does All this ASCII Mean?: A Pilot Study of Spontaneous Facial Mirroring of Emotions

Profile of Students' Thinking with High Achievement in Solving Mathematical Problem Based on Reasoning in Gender

The Development and Validation of a Mechanical Critical Thinking Scale for High School Students

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