What Matters for Boys Does Not Necessarily Matter for Girls: Gender-Specific Relations between Perceived Self-Determination, Engagement, and Performance in School Mathematics

• Main Authors: Sarah Isabelle Hofer (Author), Frank Reinhold (Author), Dilan Hulaj (Author), Marco Koch (Author), Jörg-Henrik Heine (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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While math performance does not seem to differ systematically between males and females, it is one of the subjects that is consistently perceived as "male" with girls regularly reporting lower levels of motivation and less positive attitudes than boys. This study aimed to uncover gender-sp...