SynthesisPsychological bulletin2010
New trends in gender and mathematics performance: a meta-analysis.
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103 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Gender differences in digital literacy: a systematic and meta-analytic review across developmental stages and socio-cultural contexts.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Unpacking mathematical gender stereotypes: trends and directions from 25 years of research.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- The Impact of Pedagogical Agents' Gender on Academic Learning: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2022Pooled it
- Perceived Paternal and Maternal Parenting Attributes among Chinese Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- A systematic literature review of sex differences in childhood language and brain development.Neuropsychologia · 2018Pooled it
- Gender differences in depression in representative national samples: Meta-analyses of diagnoses and symptoms.Psychological bulletin · 2017Pooled it
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- Beyond Accuracy: Reaction Time and Task Format Effects in Early Mathematical Processing.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Anxiety and Performance in High-Achieving Adolescents: Associations Among 8 General and Specific Anxiety Measures and 13 School Grades.PsyCh journal · 2026Article
- Math Anxiety and Its Relations to Arithmetic Fluency and Number Processing: Evidence From Finnish, Finnish-Swedish, and Swedish Fourth-Grade Students.Scandinavian journal of psychology · 2026Article
- Explainable AI in education: integrating educational domain knowledge into the deep learning model for improved student performance prediction.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The aporetic dialogs of Modena on gender differences: Is it all about testosterone? Episode III: Mathematics.Andrology · 2026Review
- Using machine learning to predict student mathematics performance in six East Asian countries: evidence from PISA 2022.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Predicting students' performance on geometric problem-solving tasks: the roles of cognitive reflection, fluid intelligence, and mathematical beliefs.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Research on the mechanism of the influence of family socioeconomic status on the Cardinal principle of young children.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- An Indispensable Requirement for Medical Dosage Calculation: Basic Mathematical Skills of Baccalaureate Nursing Students.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Article
- Students' cross-domain mindset profiles and academic achievement in Finnish lower-secondary education.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The power of supportive parenting on children's mathematical performance: evidence from a longitudinal study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Applying Machine Learning and SHAP Method to Identify Key Influences on Middle-School Students' Mathematics Literacy Performance.Journal of Intelligence · 2024Article
- Sex Differences in Cognitive Reflection: A Meta-Analysis.Journal of Intelligence · 2024Review
43 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
In this article, we use meta-analysis to analyze gender differences in recent studies of mathematics performance. First, we meta-analyzed data from 242 studies published between 1990 and 2007, representing the testing of 1,286,350 people. Overall, d = 0.05, indicating no gender difference, and variance ratio = 1.08, indicating nearly equal male and female variances. Second, we analyzed data from large data sets based on probability sampling of U.S. adolescents over the past 20 years: the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth, the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, the Longitudinal Study of American Youth, and the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Effect sizes for the gender difference ranged between -0.15 and +0.22. Variance ratios ranged from 0.88 to 1.34. Taken together, these findings support the view that males and females perform similarly in mathematics.
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