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The Relationship among Gender, Interest in Economic Topics, Media Use, and the Economic Knowledge of Students at Vocational Schools
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Förster, Manuel; Happ, Roland – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2019
The results of numerous studies indicate that male students achieve better results on economic knowledge tests than their female classmates. Although this phenomenon has been known for a long time, the gender-specific mechanisms of this gap have not been explored in depth. According to social and educational scientific theories and the current…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Student Interests, Mass Media Use, Knowledge Level