Graduate attribute scores vary by gender and by subject, with language-based subjects scoring well on communication¶

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q2 i? Female students scored slightly higher than male students on three of four measures, students not identifying as male or female scored consistently lower, and the ten highest CAS scores by subject were dominated by language-based subjects. → Matthew Barr 2020

Evidence¶

Matthew Barr 2020¶

Matthew Barr. (2020). A cross-sectional study of video game play habits and graduate skills attainment. Research in Learning Technology. https://doi.org/10.25304/rlt.v28.2326

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Gender and subject-level analyses of the survey (Table 1, Tables 4 and 5). The article reports very significant p-values partly driven by the small non-binary group (N = 17), and five of the ten highest CAS subjects involving language study.

"Female students (N = 1271) scored slightly higher than male students (N = 857) across three of the four measures, with male students recording a somewhat higher score on the I-ADAPT measure."

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