LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 7 July 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

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A Comparative Study on the Performance of Male versus Female Students in the Subject of Mathematics

Muhammad Siddique Saleem, M.Phil. (Education)
Ishtiaq Hussain, Ph.D. (Education)
Maqsood Ahmed, M.Phil. (Education)
Sarfraz Ahmad, M.Phil. (Education)
Farzana Sardar, M.Phil. (Education)

ABSTRACT

The main purpose of this study was to compare the performance of male versus female students of Government Schools at Higher Secondary level in the subject of Mathematics in Rawalpindi division. The main objectives of the study were: (1) To assess the performance of male and female students of government schools at higher secondary level in the subject of Mathematics, (2) To compare the performance of male and female students of government schools at higher secondary level in the subject of Mathematics, (3) To identify the weak areas of male and female students in Mathematics in which they need more attention and (4) To give suggestions for the improvement in the light of their weak areas.

All provincial government higher secondary schools (27 male and 24 female) of Rawalpindi Division constituted the population of the study. Six Higher Secondary Schools were taken from each district, comprising 3 male and 3 female Higher Secondary Schools. In this way 24 Higher Secondary Schools were chosen as sample of the study. For collection of the data 10 students were taken randomly from each Higher Secondary School of boys & girls. The study was delimited to the 120 male and 120 female students of 24 Higher Secondary Schools. A test was developed and administered to the male and female sample students of Rawalpindi Division. F test in ANOVA table and the co-efficient of variation was used for the comparison on the performance of boys and girls students.

Key Words: f-test, co-efficient of variation

1. INTRODUCTION

Mathematics is as important to a country as protein is to young ones. For better understanding and to keep them in function of science and technology it works as a vital device, the discipline acts as the vital role of an initiate to the much desired technological development needed for the national development. It has become an essential objective for the education of mathematics to facilitate the students to build up abilities to distinguish the relation between mathematics and the facts of life, and to recognize and realize the character of mathematics performing in the human life. The performances of female and male students in mathematics are different by inequalities in their physiological structures. Even though the majority of the researchers have found the better performance of boys than girls particularly in higher education, a small number of other researchers found that girls performance better than boys and during early education, a number of other researcher found no important difference. An analysis of some gender based studies that were done in the decade between 1985 and 1995 showed that there is a significant discrepancy in the literature in the disparity performance between girls and boys in the subject of mathematics. The researchers noted that by means of the contradictory results and noteworthy procedural flaws observed, further experimental researches are required to explore the reality of gender bias in the classroom (Fennema and Sherman, 1978).

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Muhammad Siddique Saleem, M.Phil. (Education)
mssaleem_sabri@yahoo.com

Ishtiaq Hussain, Ph.D. (Education)
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Maqsood Ahmed, M.Phil. (Education)
maqsood517@yahoo.com

Sarfraz Ahmad, M.Phil. (Education)
sarfraz206@yahoo.com

Farzana Sardar, M.Phil. (Education)
farzana_sardar@yahoo.com

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Kohat University of Science & Technology
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Pakistan
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