The impact of students' gender-role orientation on competence development in mathematics and reading in secondary school

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 61, Issue , 2018, Pages 256-264

  Ehrtmann, Lisa ^a   Wolter, Ilka ^a  

^a Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gender differences; Gender role orientation; Mathematical competence; Reading competence

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041686260     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2018.01.004     Document Type: Article

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