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AbstractIntroduction: The Objective Structured Clinical/Practical Examination (OSCE/OSPE)is one of the best assessment methods for measuring the students’ realization of theireducational goals in cognitive, emotional, and psychomotor domains. Given that gendermay influence the evaluation of medical sciences examinations, the present study wasconducted to compare the female and male nursing students of Shahid Beheshti Universityof Medical Sciences during years 2011 to 2015 in terms of their OSCE/OSPE scores for thebiochemistry laboratory.Methods: This study had a comparative descriptive design. All of the students participatedin this study from 2011 to 2015 (census). Over these four years, 649 students tookthis examination and their scores were recorded. The data collection tools included ademographic information questionnaire and a researcher-made checklist. Pearson’sCorrelation Coefficient was calculated for determining both the criterion validity and theinternal consistency (r = 0.732). The Pearson correlation coefficient confirmed the testretestreliability of the test (r = 0.88). The data were analyzed using the SPSS-22 softwarewith descriptive statistics, the independent t-test, the one- way Analysis of Variance(ANOVA), and Scheffe’s post-hoc test.Results: The scores of 361 female students and 288 male students were assessed in thisstudy. The mean score was 11.6 ± 1.83 in female students and 11.2 ± 1.75 in male students(out of 14). The difference between the female and male students’ OSCE/OSPE scores inbiochemistry laboratory skills was significant (P = 0.02). Comparing the mean scores ofthe female and male students in biochemistry laboratory skills according to OSCE/OSPEby year of admission showed a significant difference between the genders in the studentsadmitted to the school during year 2012 (P = 0.01). There were also significant differencesbetween the age groups of < 20 and 25-29 and the other age groups in terms of the meanOSCE/OSPE scores (P < 0.05).Conclusions: There was a significant difference between the two genders in the meancrude scores obtained and the female students had slightly higher scores. Future studies arerecommended to investigate the students of other disciplines, academic levels, and schoolsto improve the generalizability of these findings.