Sex
difference on verbal and performance tests of intelligence at different
class grades VII, IX, XI
P.S. Hundal |
The
present experiment was designed to study the performance of boys
and girls of VII, IX and XI grades on the verbal (Hundal, 1962) and
performance (Bhatia, 1950) tests of intelligence. 540 boys and girls
in equal proportion provided the data. Analysis of the result showed
that (i) the performance of girls was significantly superior to that
of boys on the "performance tests", (ii) the differentiation
of mental abilities started later than it did in case of boys. The
later finding is in contrast with the earlier findings from the West.
The difference is attributed to the nature of tests used and some
cultural characteristic of the population from which samples were
drawn.
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