Las habilidades matemáticas surgen desde edades muy tempranas y no presentan en esta etapa diferencias de rendimiento vinculadas al género. Sin embargo, algunos estudios muestran que, luego de comenzar la educación primaria ...

This working paper studies the evolution of gender gaps in multiple cognitive skills from the ages of 5 to 19 years old, using Young Lives unique panel data from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam; it is the most extensive ...

This document is about the estimation of the impact that the professor’ gender can have on the retention and the educational performance of the Colombian students during 2009 to 2012. The empirical strategy is based on a ...

This report aims to ‘crack the code’, or to decipher the factors that hinder or facilitate girls’ and women’s participation, achievement and continuation in STEM education, and what can be done by the education sector to ...

En varios estudios se ha establecido que hay una brecha existente de género en diferentes pruebas de matemáticas, donde los hombres presentan mejores resultados que las mujeres. En el presente artículo se establece la ...

Considering the need to close the gap that exists in the IT sector, universities play a fundamental role in teaching women and men how to program. The Universidad de los Andes and the CSBridge association of Stanford ...

The knowledge, professional skills and beliefs of mathematics teachers significantly influence their quality of teaching. Teacher education programs (TEPs) offer pre service teachers (PSTs) opportunities to acquire the ...

The aim of this research is to evaluate the effect of interactions between female students and STEM teachers, over career choice expectations in Colombia. A role model approach is used to explain how motivational factors ...