Research on Gender Differences in School Performance Indicates That Girls

question 112

Multiple Choice

Research on gender differences in school performance indicates that girls tend to

• A)have better classroom behaviors.
• B)have less confidence.
• C)be less likely to repeat grades.
• D)experience all of the above.

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Definitions:

Material Interests

Concerns or priorities based on tangible resources, assets, and physical or economic well-being rather than abstract or spiritual factors.

Physical Maturation

The biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, mostly independent of the environment but influenced by it.

Emotional Turbulence

Intense, rapidly changing, or conflicting feelings and emotions.

Social Roles

The patterns of behavior that are expected of individuals in specific positions within a society or group.