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Table 6 Teacher behaviors in interactions with boys and girls after adjusting for number of boys and girls in the classroom, by subject

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

Subject area/variable

Obs.

Boys

Girls

T test

Correlation with first principal component

Mean

Std. dev.

Mean

Std. Dev.

Boys − girls

p value

Math

 Praise

63

0.175

0.236

0.163

0.299

0.013

0.792

0.740

 Criticism

63

0.469

0.461

0.191

0.271

0.278

0.000

0.570

 Remediation

63

0.467

0.785

0.338

0.557

0.129

0.291

0.749

 Acceptance

63

1.031

1.023

0.729

0.642

0.303

0.049

0.637

 Call on

63

0.935

0.799

0.776

0.697

0.159

0.236

0.774

 Time spent

63

0.161

0.279

0.132

0.210

0.029

0.505

0.682

 Call out

63

1.167

1.607

0.560

0.873

0.607

0.010

 

Other

 Praise

139

0.213

0.293

0.226

0.330

−0.013

0.729

0.656

 Criticism

139

0.444

0.541

0.175

0.276

0.269

0.000

0.597

 Remediation

139

0.390

0.568

0.334

0.554

0.057

0.399

0.692

 Acceptance

139

1.152

1.067

0.980

0.881

0.172

0.143

0.675

 Call on

139

1.349

1.297

1.114

1.122

0.235

0.107

0.832

 Time spent

139

0.127

0.206

0.102

0.217

0.025

0.327

0.702

 Call out

139

1.128

1.198

0.613

0.733

0.515

0.000

 
  1. Source: Primary data
  2. Note: T test refers to the result of a test of differences in means of the corresponding variable between boys and girls. The column labeled boys − girls reports the difference in means between boys and girls. The column labeled p value reports the p value of the test of differences in means between genders