Males under-estimate academic performance of their female peers in undergraduate biology classrooms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Grunspan, Daniel Z ^a   Eddy, Sarah L ^b   Brownell, Sara E ^c   Wiggins, Benjamin L ^a   Crowe, Alison J ^a   Goodreau, Steven M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; BIOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COURSE CONTENT; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; SOCIAL NETWORK; STUDENT; EDUCATION; ETHICS; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXISM; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

BIOLOGY; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PEER GROUP; SEXISM; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STUDENTS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84959387619     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148405     Document Type: Article

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