Gender, branch, and school social class composition effects on verbal and numerical abilities of lycee seniors in Turkey

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1997

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Köse, M. Ruhi

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The additive, main, and interaction effects of gender, branch and school social class composition on verbal and numerical abilities of 1354 lycee seniors in Turkey are analyzed in this study. The results indicate that boys have greater numerical and verbal mean ability scores than girls. However, when controlled by branch and school social class composition, the effect of gender on the variation in verbal and numerical abilities appear to be significantly decreased. The effects of school social class composition and branch on the variation in verbal and numerical abilities are observed to be greater than the gender effect. The results of this study further indicate that the variation in numerical ability is more sensitive than the variation in verbal ability to the additive, main, and interaction effects of the selected independent variables. Moreover, the analysis of variance results show that gender has a uniform effect on verbal ability across the categories of branch and school social class composition. In the case of numerical ability, on the other hand, such a uniformity is not observed.

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