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Peer reviewedBaker, Dale R. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1987
Research focused on two factors that may be influencing females in choice of careers. Factors are role-specific self-concept in science and self-perception in terms of stereotypical masculine and feminine characteristics. Logical ability and mathematics and science courses were also examined as factors in career choice. Results of data for 177…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Careers, Females, Grade 10
Peer reviewedColangelo, Nicholas; And Others – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1996
This study reports the characteristics of the 4,751 high school students (out of 374,527) who achieved perfect scores in 1 or more subtests of the 1991 PLAN academic performance test, an academic assessment of 10th graders. Comparisons by gender, ethnicity, and subtest (English, Mathematics, Reading, and Science Reasoning) and a profile of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Achievement Tests
