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Table 3 Average 2012 SIMCE scores of fourth grade schools in the sample and in all fourth grades in Chile

From: Failing to notice? Uneven teachers’ attention to boys and girls in the classroom

Subject area

Sample schools

All schools

Average score

Boys − girls

p value

Average score

Boys − girls

p value

Language arts

249.250

− 9.959

0.000

267.928

− 11.029

0.000

Math

242.451

5.803

0.000

262.115

2.700

0.000

Social sciences

237.589

4.605

0.000

259.067

3.136

0.000

Overall

242.745

− 0.216

0.865

262.671

− 1.922

0.000

  1. Source: Schools’ administrative data and results of the Sistema de Medición de la Calidad de la Educación (SIMCE)
  2. Note: Sample schools refer to the schools included in this paper. All schools refer to the universe of Chilean schools that administer the SIMCE standardized national test. The column labeled boys − girls reports the difference in means of test scores between boys and girls. The column labeled p value reports the p value of the test of differences in means between genders