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Publications: Math Ability/Performance:
Spatial Ability

  1. M. B. Casey, R. Nuttall, E. Pezaris, and C. P. Benbow, The influence of spatial ability on gender differences in mathematics college entrance test scores across diverse samples, Developmental Psychology vol. 31 no. 4 (1995), 697-705.
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  2. E. Fennema and G. C. Leder, Mathematics and Gender, Teachers College Press, New York (1990).
  3. L. Friedman, The space factor in mathematics: gender differences, Review of Educational Research 65 no. 1 (1995), 22-50.
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  4. D. C. Geary, Sexual selection and sex differences in mathematical ability, (1995).
  5. Goldstein, Haldane, and Mitchell, Sex differences in visual-spatial ability: the role of performance factors, (1990) vol 18, no. 5, pp. 546-550.
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  6. P. Jansen, Single-Sex School Girls Outperform Girls Attending a Co-Educative School in Mental Rotation Accuracy, Sex Roles, (2011).
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  7. S. Neuburger, V. Ruthsatz, P. Jansen, and C. Quaiser-Pohl Can girls think spatially? Influence of implicit gender stereotype activation and rotational axis on fourth graders' mental-rotation ability, Learning and Individual Differences, (2015).
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  8. S. Neuburger, V. Ruthsatz, P. Jansen, M. Heil, and C. Quaiser-Pohl, Can stories reduce female underachievement? Effects of a fictional role-model on spatial test performance, gender stereotypes and self-concept of ability, Frontiers in Psychological and Behavioral Sciences, (2013), vol 2, iss. 3.
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  9. C. Quaiser-Pohl, S. Neuburger, M. Heil, P. Jansen, and A. Schmelzer, Is the Male Advantage in Mental-Rotation Performance Task Independent? On the Usability of Chronometric Tests and Paper-and-Pencil Test in Children, International Journal of Testing, (2014) 14(2)
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  10. L. A. Tartre, Spatial skills, gender, and mathematics, in Mathematics and Gender, E. Fennema and G. C. Leder, Eds. Teachers College Press, New York (1990), 27-59.
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