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

Seven teachers were interviewed and provided their lived experiences on the reading gender gap. The findings indicated that boys need to read more to increase ...

Exploring the Reading Gender Gap Among Elementary School Boys

(196) https://nsuworks.nova.edu/fse_etd/196. Page 2. Teachers' Perspectives: Exploring the Reading Gender Gap Among Elementary School. Boys.

Understanding gender inequality in children's reading behavior ...

Results show that girls read more than boys. This differential can be attributed to girls reading more outside school hours, during weekends and holidays than ...

Reading motivation: Exploring the elementary gender gap.

... Education Alliance, 2007) have called for the investigation of gender differences in all readers, including young children. Consequently, this study focused ...

Reading Motivation: Exploring the Elementary Gender Gap

The results suggest that third-grade boys and girls who are average readers are equally self-confident about their reading ability; however, boys value reading ...

Reading Motivation: Exploring the Elementary Gender Gap - ProQuest

For example, a 2004 study conducted by the Canadian government to investigate reading achievement in school-aged children revealed that boys might fall behind ...

Teachers and the Gender Gap in Reading Achievement

We regress each measure of teaching practice on whether the student is male conditional on school-grade fixed effects. Previous literature ...

Empirical approach to the gender gap in students' reading ...

The average range of boys is much lower than that of girls (483.75 versus 856.23) and the asymptotic significance is 0.000, rejecting the null hypothesis that ...

Gender differences in reading: Examining text-based interest in ...

Based on a repeated within-subject design using fourteen narrative texts, the results indicated that boys' interest was higher in texts with male-attributed ...

Teachers and the Gender Gap in Reading Achievement

Boys persistently lag behind girls in English/language arts. We find that heterogeneity in teachers' relative boy-specific value added could explain a large ...

Study: Teachers unaware of growing gender gaps in classrooms

... girls ahead of boys in reading, two University of Illinois education professors say ... gender gap in early elementary education than in ...

An Examination of the Key Factors that Impact the Gender Gap in ...

According to Brozo (2002), the male achievement gap is linked to poor reading habits and literacy skills that boys developed in the elementary and middle school ...

Reducing the math and language arts gender gaps in elementary ...

In reading/ELA, the findings are more consistent over time, with a gender gap favoring girls evident in Grade 4 and increasing through high school (U.S. ...

The gender gap in reading - Brookings Institution

Girls consistently outscore boys on reading assessments. They have for a long time. A 1942 study in Iowa discovered that girls were superior to ...

Educational Systems and Gender Differences in Reading

Contrastingly, in schools with a high socio-economic composition, school norms for boys are more directed at academic performance. For girls, ...

Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement | NBER

By third grade, boys have slightly higher mathematics scores and slightly lower reading scores. As children grow older, these gaps widen. Between 9 and 13 ...

New Stanford education study shows where boys and girls do better ...

By the end of 8th grade, girls are almost a full grade ahead. Gender achievement gaps in grades three through eight have narrowed significantly ...

Reading Development from Kindergarten to Age 18: The Role of ...

The results suggest that gender differences in reading performance have an early onset, they increase throughout the school years, and boys of ...

Boys, Writing, And The Literacy Gender Gap - UVM ScholarWorks

2010 showed 11th grade girls outperforming boys by 18 percentage points in terms of the number achieving writing proficiency, and by 14% in reading proficiency ...

Gender differences in leisure reading habits: a systematic review of ...

(1994) negated that girls were more avid and voluntary readers as compared to boys. Logan and Johnston (2009) supported the notion by reporting ...