TY - JOUR
T1 - The association between the gender gap in science achievement and students’ perceptions of their own attitudes and capabilities
AU - Al-Balushi, Sulaiman M.
AU - Mansour, Nasser
AU - Almehrizi, Rashid S.
AU - Ambusaidi, Abdullah K.
AU - Al-Harthy, Ibrahim S.
N1 - Funding Information:
Author contributions: All authors have sufficiently contributed to the study and agreed with the results and conclusions. Funding: This study is part of a research project (RC/EDU/CUTM/15/01) funded by the Research Council of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Oman. Acknowledgements: The authors would like to thank the Sas Center for Entrepreneurship (under the Ministry of Technology and Telecommunications) in designing the TOSS application. Ethical statement: The authors stated that the Ethical Committee of Sultan Qaboos University approved the study proposal on March 26, 2015. Declaration of interest: No conflict of interest is declared by authors.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Among the countries that participated in the trends in international mathematics and science study (TIMSS) 2019 for grade 8 science, Oman had the highest gender gap in favor of girls. The current study explores the gender gap in science achievement in Oman and relates it to students’ varying perceptions of their own attitudes and capabilities. The sample in the study comprised 467 grade 9 students, 266 female and 201 male. The participants were given a TIMSS-like science test, along with four self-perception surveys; these explored metacognitive awareness, selfregulation (SR), science learning self-efficacy (SLSE), and attitudes to science (AS). The results indicated that student self-perceptions of SR, SLSE, and AS, were significantly related to the gender gap in students with higher-level science achievement. The results were different when looking at the gender gap in scores for lower-level questions; here, there was no relation to any of the four self-perception variables explored in the study.
AB - Among the countries that participated in the trends in international mathematics and science study (TIMSS) 2019 for grade 8 science, Oman had the highest gender gap in favor of girls. The current study explores the gender gap in science achievement in Oman and relates it to students’ varying perceptions of their own attitudes and capabilities. The sample in the study comprised 467 grade 9 students, 266 female and 201 male. The participants were given a TIMSS-like science test, along with four self-perception surveys; these explored metacognitive awareness, selfregulation (SR), science learning self-efficacy (SLSE), and attitudes to science (AS). The results indicated that student self-perceptions of SR, SLSE, and AS, were significantly related to the gender gap in students with higher-level science achievement. The results were different when looking at the gender gap in scores for lower-level questions; here, there was no relation to any of the four self-perception variables explored in the study.
KW - Attitudes to science
KW - Gender gap
KW - Metacognitive awareness
KW - Science learning self-efficacy
KW - Self-regulation
KW - Timss science achievement
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U2 - 10.29333/EJMSTE/12559
DO - 10.29333/EJMSTE/12559
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85141788001
SN - 1305-8215
VL - 18
JO - Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education
JF - Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education
IS - 11
M1 - em2184
ER -