From: Failing to notice? Uneven teachers’ attention to boys and girls in the classroom
Subject area/variable | Obs. | Boys | Girls | T test | |||
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Mean | Std. dev. | Mean | Std. dev. | Boys − girls | p value | ||
Math | |||||||
Praise | 69 | 2.181 | 2.662 | 1.558 | 2.366 | 0.623 | 0.148 |
Criticism | 69 | 6.152 | 5.731 | 2.261 | 2.896 | 3.891 | 0.000 |
Remediation | 69 | 5.319 | 7.239 | 3.71 | 5.047 | 1.609 | 0.132 |
Acceptance | 69 | 12.529 | 14.294 | 7.659 | 5.209 | 4.87 | 0.009 |
Call on | 69 | 11.949 | 10.19 | 8.333 | 6.72 | 3.616 | 0.015 |
Time spent | 69 | 1.833 | 2.516 | 1.469 | 2.176 | 0.364 | 0.364 |
Call out | 69 | 14.442 | 22.688 | 5.819 | 7.197 | 8.623 | 0.003 |
Other | |||||||
Praise | 168 | 2.833 | 3.931 | 2.414 | 3.144 | 0.42 | 0.281 |
Criticism | 168 | 5.739 | 6.368 | 2.459 | 4.226 | 3.28 | 0.000 |
Remediation | 168 | 4.988 | 6.649 | 3.798 | 5.964 | 1.19 | 0.085 |
Acceptance | 168 | 14.603 | 11.629 | 11.38 | 8.82 | 3.223 | 0.004 |
Call on | 168 | 17.755 | 14.112 | 13.105 | 11.836 | 4.65 | 0.001 |
Time spent | 167 | 1.702 | 2.37 | 1.199 | 1.982 | 0.502 | 0.036 |
Call out | 168 | 13.846 | 13.362 | 7.063 | 7.487 | 6.784 | 0.000 |