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Gender Stereotypes in Educational Software for Young Children
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2004-10)
Children are increasingly being exposed to educational technology at school. In response to this, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) drafted a set of technology standards for teachers (ISTE, 2002) ...
Age and Gender Differences in the Sources of Self-Evaluation Valued by Adult Athletes
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-01)
Researchers have demonstrated that competency judgments can vary depending on the source of self-evaluation used. This study investigated age and gender differences in 459 adult tennis players' importance ratings for ten ...
Breaking barriers or locked out? Class-based perceptions and experiences of postsecondary education
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2008)
This article provides an overview of objective and subjective class differences in experiences of postsecondary education. Using the metaphor of a funnel, it argues that cumulative disadvantage results when first-generation ...
The botanist effect: counties with maximal species richness tend to be home to universities and botanists
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2006-11)
Religion Still Matters
(Missouri Valley Economic Association, 2000)
Research by Lipford, McCormick, and Tollison and by Hull and Bold shows a negative relationship between church membership and crime rates. The results are important but do not employ the most recent available data. This ...