Six Years of Rwandan Science and Mathematics Competency-Based Curriculum Implementation and the Resultant Student Performance in Relation to Gender

This dataset is related to the study that analyzed Rwandan secondary school students’ academic performance in advanced-level secondary science and mathematics national examinations and the resultant gender differences after six years of implementation of the Competence-Based Curriculum (CBC). It comprises grade scores of 28, 475 male and 34,698 female students who took the 2022 National Examination of Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics subjects. The data were collected through 2022 Advanced Level National Examinations 2022 by Rwanda National Examination and Inspection Authority (NESA). In a structured Excel spreadsheet format, the data set is arranged with the header in row 1 revealing the student respondent's province, school year, district, subject, gender, grade score, and average grade score marks. The province, school year, district, subject, gender, grade score, and average grade score marks of each student are displayed in rows 2–12703 for Biology, 2-14495 for Chemistry, 2-26537 for Mathematics, and 2-9418 for Physics. Each student' s province is shown in column A, school year is shown in column B, the district is in column C, subject in column D, gender in column E, grade score in column F and the average grade score marks in column G.