This study was undertaken to establish the existence of any gender-specific differences in the perceived antecedents of academic stress. The Academic Pressure Scale for Adolescents was administered to 112 girls and 160 boys attending high school. Significant gender-based differences were obtained on eight of the 35 questions of the scale. In each case girls reported greater stress than boys. Th...

The passage of Title IX, the 1972 Education Amendments to the Civil Rights Act, expanded high school athletic opportunities to include girls, revolutionizing mass sports participation in the United States. This paper analyzes high school athletic participation in the United States and how sports offerings for boys and girls changed subsequent to the passage of this legislation. Girls‘ sports pa...

survey status and nutritional behavior to prevention of iron deficiency anemia among high school girls in babol city     mehrabian f [1] ,valipour r [2] *,kasmaei p [3] ,atrkar roshan z [4] ,mahdavi roshan m [5]     received: 30 oct , 2013 accepted: 21 jan , 2014   abstract:  background & aims: iron deficiency anemia is the most common nutritional problem in the world, and more than 30% of the ...

BACKGROUND It is a recurrent finding that adolescent girls report psychological symptoms in a higher degree compared with boys. The explanations for this difference vary, but the psychosocial school environment has never been a focus in these explanations. The aim of this study was to analyse whether psychosocial factors at school were associated with a high degree of psychological symptoms amo...

MathGirls is computer-based algebra designed for high school girls learning algebra I. Given that girls are in general more interested in interactive computing and more positive about the social presence of pedagogical agents, the primary goal of MathGirls is to provide a girl-friendly learning environment that helps enhance girls’ self-efficacy beliefs in and motivation towards learning algebr...