The Authors Cite a Number of Statistics That Point to Girls

The authors cite a number of statistics that point to girls' relatively poor academic performance on standardized tests compared to boys' performance on those tests.The authors suggest that these gender differences may be due in part to

A) the gender bias that pervades standardized tests.
B) biological differences in the ways males and females process information.
C) girls' and young women's "fear of success" schemas.
D) the power of teachers' self-fulfilling prophecies.