No significant gender differences on anxiety or reading measures at either time point¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2012 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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

q3 i? Independent-samples t-tests found no significant gender differences on the MASC, CMERS, or WJBR at either time point, so boys and girls were combined in subsequent analyses. → Grills-Taquechel 2012

Evidence¶

Grills-Taquechel 2012¶

Grills-Taquechel, Amie E.; Fletcher, Jack M.; Vaughn, Sharon R.; Stuebing, Karla K. (2012). Anxiety and Reading Difficulties in Early Elementary School: Evidence for Unidirectional- or Bi-Directional Relations? Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 43(1), 35-47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-011-0246-1

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Series of independent-samples t-tests comparing boys and girls in the 153-child sample on all study scales. The discussion reports small untested effect sizes (T1 ds = .15-.30 and T2 ds = .11-.23) on MASC subscales, contrasting with past research showing greater anxiety in girls.

"No significant gender differences were found at either time point and subsequent analyses combined boys and girls."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

Gender — predictor: outcomes differ by group: a gap reflecting circumstances and treatment, not a cause

Total anxiety predicts later fluency for girls only, via a significant gender-by-anxiety interaction — related
Math anxiety levels do not differ significantly by gender among third graders — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
No significant gender difference in word-problem performance on either formatted or unformatted test forms — related
Across nations, boys outperform girls in mathematics by a small average margin while girls outperform boys in reading by a margin three times larger — related

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`title`	`No significant gender differences on anxiety or reading measures at either time point`
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`evidence_strength`	`moderate`
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