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The Gendered Nature Of Achievement:
Not The Grade, But How You Got It
Timothy J. Fogarty, Case Western Reserve University
Paul M Goldwater, Central Florida
ABSTRACT. The paper evaluates gender differences in the achievements of accounting students. Using exceptionally high quality data, results from students at a large public institution in the USA suggest that men and women have characteristically different ways of earning their grades. In an environment where effort was not rewarded for itself, but was purely a means to prepare for grade-bearing evaluations, females do not outperform males. Furthermore, females as a group do not exert significantly greater indices of effort. The gender difference of consequence appears as a result of more accurate self-assessments by female students. Accurate self-assessment is a significant factor in the attainment of better grades in accounting.
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