Exploring the Reading Gender Gap among Elementary School Boys ...

The statistics are consistent: Young male readers lag behind their female counterparts in literacy skills. This article looks at the social, psychological, ...

Where the Boys Aren't | City Journal

The reading gender gap is nearly universal: girls outperformed boys by an average of 38 points across OECD countries in the PISA 2012 survey—the ...

Mind the Gap: 5 Facts About The Gender Gap in Education

In fact, both girls and boys are getting much more education today than they were 60 years ago. The average level of education among adult men ...

Episode 65: Exploring the Gender Gap in K-12 Education — Boys ...

Did you know boys are expelled from preschool at nearly five times the rate of girls, and their academic performance wanes as they transition from elementary to ...

Exploring gender differences across elementary, middle, and high ...

... females than males in science, particularly in physics. Additionally, elementary school girls are more likely than boys to report anxiety in relationship to ...

Predictors of the gender gap in household educational spending ...

At each age, school attendance among girls was lower than among boys. The bias intensified at age 16 and above and remained high at advanced ...

When Girls Outperform Boys: The Gender Gap in High School Math ...

In this paper, we examine the gender differences in teacher-assigned grades in ninth- grade mathematics classes in Chicago Public Schools (CPS). CPS is the ...

Failing to notice? Uneven teachers' attention to boys and girls in the ...

This paper analyzes whether teachers' attention to boys and girls differs in low-performing schools in Chile, where large gender gaps in ...

Healing the unspoken educational gender gap - The Michigan Daily

In elementary and secondary schools globally, girls are, on average, a year ahead of boys in reading comprehension and ability. While ...

Narrowing the gender gap: Literacy - SecEd

... asks why boys often underperform in reading and writing when compared to girls – and considers what schools can do to close this gender gap.

Elementary School Boys' Stories of a Love of Reading. | EERA

The paper disrupts taken-for-granted assumptions about boys and reading that are reflected in gender-based reforms that reinforce rather than ...

Gender differences in reading achievement and enjoyment of reading

Over several decades, elementary school studies found boys to score poorer on reading tests than girls (e.g., Gates, 1961; Masters & Forster, 1997; Pauley, 1951) ...

The School Age Gender Gap in Reading Achievement - OUCI

The School Age Gender Gap in Reading Achievement: Examining the Influences of Item Format and Intrinsic Reading Motivation ; Journal: Reading Research Quarterly, ...

Adult Reading Habits and Preferences in Relation to Gender ...

The boys in their study typically preferred narrative stories for their own reading choices, selected fewer books overall, and chose fewer information books for ...

Exploring the Perceptions of Male Teachers in the Elementary Grades

Role models, school improvement and the 'gender gap'—do men bring out the best in boys and women the best in girls?. British Educational ...

A Comparison of Synthetic Phonics Only with a Mixed Approach to ...

In the US, this gender gap in reading has been recognised since the 1960s. It is evident as early as first grade and particularly amongst ...

The Gender Gap in Mathematics: Evidence from Low

We can test the hypothesis that boys have higher math scores than girls because of competition among siblings by examining family composition and how this ...

Leaving Boys Behind - Journal of Human Resources

Girls have long obtained better grades in high school, on average, than boys. As shown in Figure 1a, the average gender gap in GPA among high ...

An exploration into the gender-based achievement gap in ... - Educate

“Studies have shown that reading comprehension was related to written composition quality and productivity for children in elementary and middle school grades”.

A new study reveals that gender differences in academic strengths ...

A new study reveals that gender differences in academic strengths are found throughout the world and girls' relative advantage in reading and boys' in science ...