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Gender Differences in Achievement of Earth and Environmental Area in PISA 2000  

Shin, Dong-Hee (Dankook University)
Park, Chung (Korea Institute of Curriculum & Evaluation)
Ro, Koog-Hyang (Korea Institute of Curriculum & Evaluation)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.22, no.1, 2002 , pp. 40-53 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was based on the analysis of earth and environmental science items in PISA 2000 data. The purpose of this study was to identify i) gender differences in scientific literacy, ii) item characteristics that favored either female or male, and iii) misconceptions that 15-years-old Korean students have in the field of earth and environmental science. The results revealed significant gender differences. Overall, male students demonstrated higher level of achievement than female students. On the other hand, amongst high ability students, female students outperformed male students in open-constructed items. Female students tended to score higher on items that required long answers or items related to scientific processes, whereas male students outperformed female students in science knowledge or items that required data interpretation. The study also revealed that a majority of Korean students had misconceptions in fundamental earth and environmental science knowledge, such as the direction of earth's axis and equator, and the causes of Greenhouse Effect.
Keywords
earth and environmental science; gender differences; scientific literacy; item characteristics; misconceptions;
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