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Comparison Between Performance Levels for Mathematical Competence: Results for the Sex Variable
Schools promote all-round education for each of their students. This requires teachers to work on all of the possibilities offered by a subject, including mathematical ability. This process of adjustment and individualization is essential for students who have excellent performance or aptitudes. Thi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8245704/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34220637 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.663202 |
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author | García Perales, Ramón Palomares Ruiz, Ascensión |
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description | Schools promote all-round education for each of their students. This requires teachers to work on all of the possibilities offered by a subject, including mathematical ability. This process of adjustment and individualization is essential for students who have excellent performance or aptitudes. This study uses an ex post facto, descriptive and quantitative research methodology to examine the results of giving the online version of the Evaluation Battery for Mathematical Ability (BECOMA On) to 3795 5th-year primary school students. The sample was selected from 147 Spanish schools from 16 autonomous regions and 2 autonomous municipalities. Three levels of performance were identified, 3 being the highest, and different statistical indices were calculated for each of them. The results were also analyzed according to sex, with statistically significant differences in the highest performance level. In addition, the study highlighted a diagnostic gap in the identification of higher capacity students, a pending challenge for education systems for the educational inclusion of all students. |
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spelling | pubmed-82457042021-07-02 Comparison Between Performance Levels for Mathematical Competence: Results for the Sex Variable García Perales, Ramón Palomares Ruiz, Ascensión Front Psychol Psychology Schools promote all-round education for each of their students. This requires teachers to work on all of the possibilities offered by a subject, including mathematical ability. This process of adjustment and individualization is essential for students who have excellent performance or aptitudes. This study uses an ex post facto, descriptive and quantitative research methodology to examine the results of giving the online version of the Evaluation Battery for Mathematical Ability (BECOMA On) to 3795 5th-year primary school students. The sample was selected from 147 Spanish schools from 16 autonomous regions and 2 autonomous municipalities. Three levels of performance were identified, 3 being the highest, and different statistical indices were calculated for each of them. The results were also analyzed according to sex, with statistically significant differences in the highest performance level. In addition, the study highlighted a diagnostic gap in the identification of higher capacity students, a pending challenge for education systems for the educational inclusion of all students. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8245704/ /pubmed/34220637 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.663202 Text en Copyright © 2021 García Perales and Palomares Ruiz. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology García Perales, Ramón Palomares Ruiz, Ascensión Comparison Between Performance Levels for Mathematical Competence: Results for the Sex Variable |
title | Comparison Between Performance Levels for Mathematical Competence: Results for the Sex Variable |
title_full | Comparison Between Performance Levels for Mathematical Competence: Results for the Sex Variable |
title_fullStr | Comparison Between Performance Levels for Mathematical Competence: Results for the Sex Variable |
title_full_unstemmed | Comparison Between Performance Levels for Mathematical Competence: Results for the Sex Variable |
title_short | Comparison Between Performance Levels for Mathematical Competence: Results for the Sex Variable |
title_sort | comparison between performance levels for mathematical competence: results for the sex variable |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8245704/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34220637 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.663202 |
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