Study on SAT and Answering Questions

An interesting study looking at the SAT, answering questions, risk-taking, guessing, and penalties.  From the abstract:

We nd that when no penalty is assessed for a wrong answer, all test-takers

answer every question. But, when there is a small penalty for wrong answers and the task is

explicitly framed as an SAT, women answer signi cantly fewer questions than men. We see

no differences in knowledge of the material or con dence in these test-takers, and differences

in risk preferences fail to explain all of the observed gap. Because the gender gap exists only

when the task is framed as an SAT, we argue that differences in competitive attitudes may drive

the gender differences we observe.

Do you this in your own classroom?