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dc.contributor.authorKornbrot, D.
dc.date.accessioned2011-08-08T14:01:38Z
dc.date.available2011-08-08T14:01:38Z
dc.date.issued1987
dc.identifier.citationKornbrot , D 1987 , ' Degree performance as a function of discipline studied, parental occupation and gender ' , Higher Education , vol. 16 , no. 5 , pp. 513-534 . https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00128419
dc.identifier.issn0018-1560
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 196664
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 00675078-8351-477a-ad52-5094aa03bd51
dc.identifier.otherdspace: 2299/3579
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 0041312355
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-7166-589X/work/41661179
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2299/6071
dc.description“The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com” Copyright Springer [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
dc.description.abstractDegree performance in England and Wales was investigated as a function of social class and gender for several disciplines of study. Three performance criteria were considered: FIRST class; GOOD, and COMPETENT. The findings are complex, and some of them conflict with widely held class and gender stereotypes. Women performed better than men at the FIRST class and/or GOOD criteria, in all professional disciplines and in biological sciences. At the FIRST and GOOD criteria women performed best relative to men in biological content areas, next best in physical and mathematical content areas and worst in humanities content areas. A similar ordering of content areas was obtained when comparing students of lower class origins with those of upper and middle class origins. At the COMPETENT criterion, women performed better than men; and students of lower social class origins performed better than students of upper and middle social class origins. There was a trend, particularly marked in the humanities, for women to perform less well at the FIRST class criterion than would have been predicted by their achievements at the GOOD criterion. The implications of these patterns for theories of group differences in excellent academic performance and for educational policy are discussed.en
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofHigher Education
dc.titleDegree performance as a function of discipline studied, parental occupation and genderen
dc.contributor.institutionDepartment of Psychology
dc.description.statusPeer reviewed
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rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Review
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