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Methods of the Study 'Gender Achievement Gaps: The Role of Social Costs to Trying Hard in High School'

High School Longitudinal Study of $2009$
investigated social costs, academic effort, academic outcomes
social costs: students rated the extent to which they agreed or disagreed with two statements: "If I try hard in my math and science classes, people will make fun of me." "If I try hard in my math and science classes, I won't be popular."
academic effort: how often students paid attention to the teacher, turned in assignments on time, kept trying on difficult assignments, did as little work as possible to get by
academic outcomes: most advanced math course taken by $12$ th grade, STEM GPA $10$ th- $12$ th grade