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2016-06-04 22:06:09 Post No. 76115926
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2016-06-04 22:06:09
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http://phys.org/news/2016-06-gender-gap-science-exam.html
>Arizona State University researchers and their collaborators have discovered that females and males do equally well on exams that require mostly memorization. The same holds true for low- and high-socioeconomic status students. However, when tests include cognitively challenging questions that require elevated critical thinking, females and lower socioeconomic students score lower than their male or high-status peers, even though the students have equal academic ability.
>We were surprised to find that this gap emerged based on cognitive challenge level, and that this negatively affected women and lower socioeconomic students.
>Sara Brownell, an assistant professor with the school and senior author of the study, said there is a national movement to create biology tests that are more cognitively challenging, as these types of tests can improve students' conceptual understanding of biology; however, doing so may harm the very students they are trying to help.
>"We do not recommend lowering the bar. But, we may need to reassess how we are teaching introductory biology to meet these expectations on exams," shared Brownell. "We do want to test at these higher cognitive levels, but we don't want to increase the performance gaps between male and female students, as well as between lower and higher socioeconomic status students."
As as Physics graduate, I'm disgusted with this shit. I come from a poor family and my grades were average, I now work in a hotel.
I can accept that I'm not smart enough to forge a career in physics, not many can as it's a difficult subject. Why can't these faggots just accept that some people just don't have the intelligence for certain careers?
