Exploring gender effects on the spatial probability measure

This paper presents the spatial probability measure (SPM). The SPM is an adapted assessment instrument that attempts to ascertain a learner´s strength of response or response certitude relative to other options and may be useful to designers of computer-based instruction. The question the study addresses is, does gender influence the degree to which the variable response certitude is expressed through the SPM instrument. Results indicate that gender is not a significant factor in responding to the SPM. Many of the details of this experiment have been excluded for brevity, a full account, as well as additional studies on the SPM are available at http://oak.cats, ohiou.edu/∼moored3 by D.R. Moore (2005).