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Peer reviewedTreagust, David F. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1980
Explored was the relationship between performance and gender for junior- and senior-high students (N=108) on six Piagetian-type tasks developed to measure infralogical spatial groupings. Results indicated a significant relationship between performance and gender on four tasks, in which males outscored females. Implications for science teaching are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Tasks, Educational Research, Junior High Schools
