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Female students performed significantly worse than male students overall, and learning effects of experience were higher for male students

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2013 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q is the design tier, i the impact, n the sample, and the kind with its r the rigour judged within that kind: what each code means.

This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.

q3 i? Female students (M = 5.83) performed significantly worse than male students (M = 6.10), F(1, 2978) = 21.17, p < 0.001. → Glöckner 2013

Evidence

Glöckner 2013

Glöckner, A., Towfigh, E., & Traxler, C. (2013). Development of legal expertise. Instructional Science, 41, 989–1007. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-013-9266-5

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Descriptive and regression analysis of 71,405 exams from 2,979 students. "Also both the general and the area-of-law specific learning effects of experience were higher for male students." No effect size is reported for this difference.

"the data revealed a general gender effect, in that female (M = 5.83, SE = 0.039, N = 1,508) performed significantly worse than male ( M = 6.10, SE = 0.041, N = 1,471) students, F(1, 2978) = 21.17, p\ 0.001."

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type claim
id gender-differences-legal-exam-performance
title Female students performed significantly worse than male students overall, and learning effects of experience were higher for male students
description Female students performed significantly worse than male students overall, and learning effects of experience were higher for male students
status review
evidence_strength moderate
newest_evidence 2013
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-18
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