Advanced Placement Math Scores From 2000 to 2010: Does Gender Still Matter?

• In Event: Roundtable Session 14
  In Roundtable Session: Gender and Education in Nontraditional Contexts

Abstract

The relationship between gender and performance on Advanced Placement Calculus AB, Calculus BC, and Statistics exams for the spring 2000, 2005, and 2010 administrations were analyzed. Using College Board data for all students (ns > 100,000) in the United States for all three exams for three years, statistically significant relationships were yielded between gender and performance on Advanced Placement math exams. For all three exams a higher percentage of boys earned a score of 3 or better than the percentage of girls earning scores of 3 or higher. The performance of boys and girls on these three Advanced Placement exams from 2000 to 2010 was relatively unchanged. Implications of the findings are discussed and suggestions for further research are made.

Authors

• Jill Black Morris, Bryan Independent School District

• John R. Slate, Sam Houston State University