Gender Differences on Educational Achievement
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- Created on: 17-04-13 18:37
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- Gender on Achievement
- 6 FACTS
- Girls better at all levels
- Girls better in most GCSE subjects
- Girls more likely to pass A-levels
- Women more likely to go UNI
- Men better at higher levels of UNI
- Higher proportion get First Class Degrees/PhD
- Gilrs - communicative subjects
- English
- Sociology
- Boys - technical subjects
- Maths
- Physics
- IN SCHOOL FACTORS - FEMALES DO BETTER
- MITSOS + BROWNE (1998)
- Teaching- feminised
- Women likely to be teachers
- Positive Role Models!!
- Women likely to be teachers
- Teaching- feminised
- Textbooks + resources less likely to stereotype girls
- National Curriculum forced girls to do traditionally male subjects
- Science
- WISE (Women in Science and Engineering)
- GIST (Girls into Science and Technology)
- Science
- GCSE's include COURSEWORK
- Suits girls better
- Put in more effort
- Are better organised
- Can concentrate for longer
- Suits girls better
- Swann and Garddol (1993)
- Quality of interaction with teachers = girls achievement
- Girls teacher interaction = help with work
- Boys teacher interaction = behaviour management
- Quality of interaction with teachers = girls achievement
- Jackson (1998)
- Schools label boys negatively
- Associated with poor behaviour
- School gets bad name
- Low achievement
- Lowers league table position
- Self Fullfilling Prophecy
- Associated with poor behaviour
- Schools label boys negatively
- MITSOS + BROWNE (1998)
- OUT OF SCHOOL FACTORS - FEMALES DO BETTER
- Equal Pay Act
- More equal opportunities in society
- Sex Discrimination Act
- Changed values in school
- More equal opportunities in society
- Sex Discrimination Act
- Leisure Time
- BOYS= physically active
- GIRLS= reading and communicating
- Develop language skills useful for most subjects
- Feminist Movement
- Change in female expectations
- More people aware of inequality
- People more careful of
- Change in female expectations
- Negative Stereotyping
- Sex discrimination
- Patriachy
- People more careful of
- Equal Pay Act
- WHY BOYS UNDERACHIEVE
- Identity Crisis
- Female inependance
- Don't see point in educaton
- Rise in Male Unemployment
- Decline of Breadwinner
- ANTI SCHOOL SUB-CULTURES
- Don't see point in educaton
- Decline of Breadwinner
- Rise in Male Unemployment
- Female inependance
- Interpretivists
- Teachers have lower expectations of boys
- Labelling
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
- Distruptive
- Untitled
- Distruptive
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
- Labelling
- Teachers have lower expectations of boys
- Untitled
- Identity Crisis
- 6 FACTS
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