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Cross-national gender differences in complex problem solving and their determinants.
Wüstenberg, Sascha; Greiff, Samuel; Molnár, Gyöngyvér et al.
2014In Learning and Individual Differences, 29, p. 18-29
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Keywords :
Complex Problem Solving; Gender Differences; Nationality Differences; Measurement Invariance; MicroDYN
Abstract :
[en] The present study examined cross-national gender differences in domain-general complex problem solving (CPS) and their determinants. A CPS test relying on the MicroDYN approach was applied to a sample of 890 Hungarian and German high school students attending 8th to 11th grade. Results based on multi-group confirmatory factor analyses showed that measurement invariance of CPS was found across gender and nationality. Analyses of latent mean differences revealed that males outperformed females and German students outperformed Hungarian students. However, these results were caused by Hungarian females performing worse than all other groups. Further analyses of logfiles capturing process data of the interaction of participants with the task showed that Hungarian females less often used vary-one-thing-at-a-time strategy, which lead to considerably worse knowledge acquisition. Results imply that analyzing process data such as use of strategies is highly advisable to identify determinants of overall performance differences in CPS across groups of interest.
Disciplines :
Education & instruction
Author, co-author :
Wüstenberg, Sascha ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Educational Measurement and Applied Cognitive Science (EMACS)
Greiff, Samuel ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Educational Measurement and Applied Cognitive Science (EMACS)
Molnár, Gyöngyvér
Funke, Joachim
Language :
English
Title :
Cross-national gender differences in complex problem solving and their determinants.
Publication date :
January 2014
Journal title :
Learning and Individual Differences
ISSN :
1041-6080
Publisher :
Elsevier
Volume :
29
Pages :
18-29
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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