Abstract
Risk taking can be defined as the preparedness of a student to attempt to answer a question when not certain of the result. In this paper, three different measures of risk taking were applied to multichoce paper. Specifically, data from the Australian Mathematics Competition, one of the largest data bases of its type, for the years 1988 and 1989, are analysed to measure risk taking by groups of students classified by gender, school year, and achievement level.
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