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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]9:56 back to add:

I looked at the third page of the chart where middle school stats are shown, and the gender balance is the opposite of that for elementary school. For middle school the chart shows 48.5% males and 51.5% females, a difference of 3 percentage points in favor of the girls.

I recall that as recently as two years ago kids could qualify to be in-pool if any CogAT subscore met the benchmark. The composite did not need to meet the benchmark. I wonder if this was the case at the time that the cohort now in middle school had their eligibility determinations made? If true, girls could have been in-pool based only on their verbal CogAT scores, and would not have been excluded based on lower math and nonverbal subscores.[/quote]

Does the difference between boys and girls in math show up at such a young age when testing is done?  I've always thought that the difference was due to nurture not nature and so showed up at an older age.[/quote]

Good question!

It looks like the difference does show up early for spatial thinking (so potentially affecting NNAT and nonverbal portion of CogAT):

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/991118/spatial.shtml

http://www.washingtonparent.com/articles/1201/gender.php

But for math ability more evidence seems to state that the genders are equal early on (so more balance for math portion of CogAT):

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=571F0E86-9E2C-6F6B-44A864E897AA54FE

Later there is a clear difference in math achievement:

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/09/2012-sat-test-results-a-huge-gender-math-gap-persists-with-a-33-point-advantage-for-high-school-boys

Overall for NNAT and CogAT boys may have an advantage. They would have an advantage for the NNAT since it is spatial. They would also have an advantage for the CogAT composite: Math and verbal may balance each other out and be a wash, but nonverbal if considered spatial will give an advantage to the boys.

Another factor to consider: The percentage of boys versus girls in FCPS as a whole at different ages. [/quote]

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