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In story recall, boys' memory power culminated about the beginning of high school, girls recalled more of the story than boys across parallel grades, and earlier parts of the story were recalled better than later parts

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 1909 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? Boys remembered 43 per cent in the second year of high school, the highest for boys; girls remembered 43 per cent in the seventh grade and 47 per cent in each high school grade; overall girls remembered 4 per cent more than boys. → Patterson 1909 q2 i? The first third of the story was remembered better than the second third, and the second third better than the last third, with percents of 46, 38 and 27 for the whole sample. → Patterson 1909 (2)

Evidence

Patterson 1909

Patterson, T. L. (1909). Pedagogical Suggestions from Memory Tests. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://books.google.com

q2 · i? · associational · r1

About 700 story-recall tests were made in Worcester grammar schools, both high schools, one Clark University department, and Miss Aiken's School; the 324-word story was scored in 152 terms. The article reports descriptive percentages only. It states the test was only partially successful in determining appeals to senses.

"As a whole, so far as the grades ran parallel, the girls remembered 4 per cent, more of the story than the boys, and no decline of memory power was discovered in the girls. 37 per cent, of the whole story was the average remembered by all grades."

Patterson 1909 (2)

Patterson, T. L. (1909). Pedagogical Suggestions from Memory Tests. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://books.google.com

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Serial-position analysis of the story-recall data: the first third was remembered better than the second by all grades with one exception, and the second better than the last without exception. The article notes the seventh-grade reading condition may reflect rereading the first part.

"The per cent, remembered by all in the three-part division was successively 46, 38 and 27. Practically the same ratio was sustained by all grades."

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type claim
id story-recall-boys-peak-early-girls-higher-primacy
title In story recall, boys' memory power culminated about the beginning of high school, girls recalled more of the story than boys across parallel grades, and earlier parts of the story were recalled better than later parts
description In story recall, boys' memory power culminated about the beginning of high school, girls recalled more of the story than boys across parallel grades, and earlier parts of the story were recalled better than later parts
status review
evidence_strength weak
newest_evidence 1909
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-23
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sources 2 — patterson-1909, patterson-1909-2

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