摘要:An investigation of the gender gap in engineering students’ understandingof Newtonian physics has been done. The results indicate a noticeablegender gap, in addition to an effect due to differences in preparation,i.e. physics courses in secondary school. The gender gap after universityinstruction decreases in the case of a higher degree of preparation,while the gender gap is unchanged or widens for students with alower degree of preparation after university instruction.