Rendimiento en la PAU y elección de estudios Científico-Tecnológicos en razón de género

  1. Rodríguez Menéndez, María del Carmen 1
  2. Inda Caro, Mercedes 1
  3. Peña Calvo, José Vicente 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/006gksa02

Journal:
Revista Española de Orientación y Psicopedagogía

ISSN: 1139-7853,  1989-7448

Year of publication: 2014

Volume: 25

Issue: 1

Pages: 111-127

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5944/REOP.VOL.25.NUM.1.2014.12016 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

More publications in: Revista Española de Orientación y Psicopedagogía

Abstract

Boys and girls� behaviours when they have to choose university studies have been investigated for decades. In these researching works it has been found that, despite the efforts made, those decisions are still conditioned by gender. Taking this into account, this paper analyzes the results and decisions made by the students of Biomedical, Science and Technological Senior Secondary Education who have attended the entrance exam (PAU) at the University of Oviedo in a period of five years (2006-2010). The University has supplied us all data and they have been processed with SPSS 19 in order to obtain different parameters disaggregated by gender, score on the issues, career choice, and so on. The paper also shows the dimensions of the sample disaggregated by gender, scientific-technological and bio-health subjects and career choice. We are also interested in the results achieved in the entrance examination in relation to gender, the subjects which have been evaluated and the academic choice. More specifically, we explore the factors that predict the already mentioned choice. Our outcomes are discussed comparing them with conclusions of other studies. The data verify certain lines of evolution but, on the other hand, some of them contradict long-established trends in other countries: resistance to choose technological studies is still observed in girls, whereas a set of changes are taking place (more women are present in traditionally male studies and there is a decline or even disappearance of differences between boys and girls� academic performance).

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