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Multiple-choice exams favour boys over girls, worsening the maths gender gap

  • Written by Silvia Griselda, Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Boys perform better than girls in tests made up of multiple-choice questions.

Multiple-choice questions are considered objective and easy to mark. But my research shows they give an advantage to males.

I compared around 500,000 test results of boys and girls who sat the same international test, but whose exam papers differed by detail...

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