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Gender Gap in Achievement| Internal Flashcards

things inside the school such as education system, GCSE and coursework, teacher attention and classroom interaction, gender and subject choice.

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1
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What are two of the Equal Opportunities Policies?

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GIST [girls into science and tech].
WISE[women in science and engineering].

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What did the Equal Opportunity Policies do to help girls? And whose idea/theory was it? [Feminists].

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Pursue careers in the ‘non-traditional’ areas.

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What is an example of the Equal Opportunity Policy?

introduction of what?

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Introduction to the National Curriculum- girls study the same subject as boys.

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What did Boaler say the impact of Equal Opportunity Policies was a key reason for?

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Girls’ achievement.

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What is a criticism of the Equal Opportunity Policies?

myth…

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They can be superficial- image may not reflect on the impact.

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What do positive role models look like in schools?

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More female teachers and head teachers than in the past.

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What do positive role models do that encourage girls to achieve better?

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Show them they can do it and giving them non-traditional goals to aim for.

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What did Farrington say the good and caring role models on young people help to reduce?

gangs etc.

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Crime.

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What was a criticism of positive role models?
[What did they say the teacher had to undergo?]

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They had to succeedthemselves.

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What did Gorard say the gender gap in achievement was doing?

flow..

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Being fairly consistent.

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What did Gorard say coursework was?

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A major part in education.

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What is it called when girls spend most of their time on their work and take care of how it is supposed to be done.
i.e diaries, textbooks, flashcards.

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‘Bedroom culture.’

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What word is used for girls said to be more successful in coursework and organised than boys?

tier 2 word associative.

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They are conscientious.

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What did Beck’s study show about girls and coursework and boys in exams?

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Girls do better as they spend time perfecting their study.
Boys do better in exams because they can think quickly under pressure.

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Who criticised that although coursework has an influence, it is unlikely to be the cause for the gender gap in achievement because exams have more influence that CW on the final grades?

tree..

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Elwood.

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Teachers interaction with boys and girls are different.
French analysed classroom interaction and found that boys received _____ attention.

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More.

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Francis claimed that boys’ disciplines were more harsh and caused them to feel picked on, why could this be?

what didn’t they show?

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They did not display interest in school work and often strayed away from the school habitus.

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Swann researched about gender differences in communication, how did boys like to communicate differently to girls?

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Boys: whole-class discussion.
Girls: pair-work, listening, cooperating.

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What is an example of teacher attention? What is this mostly based on?

think about bias..

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Teachers may unconsciously pay attention to certain students over others.
Often based on race, gender and ethnicity.

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What can teacher attention ultimately do?

it can decrease the achievement as well as widen the…

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Widen the achievement gap.

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Who studied that teachers were told some kids were ‘late bloomers’ and expected to grow intellectually?
They also said that the students who were randomly chosen were paid attention to more and they ended up performing better.

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Rosenthal and Jacobsen- Pygmalion Effect.

22
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What is a criticism of teacher attention?

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It can be biased and lead to differential treatment.

23
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Weiner argued that the removal of gender stereotypes from textbooks has removed a barrier to girls’ achievement; what was one of these stereotypes shown in the books?

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[frightened] Housewives and mothers.

24
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How did gender stereotypes present boys as?

gears, clocks etc.

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Inventive.

25
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What is a common example of gender stereotypes, subject wise?

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Girls are better in English Literature than boys.
Boys excel in science.

26
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Jackson said the creation of exam league tables improved? Why?

how did it impact girls?

A

Opportunities for girls.
They were attractive to them.
Boys were not since they were low achieving.

27
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What did Slee say the reason for why boys were less attractive to schools?
‘Liability’, ‘rough tough’ image on school.

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They were 4x more likely to get excluded.

28
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Boys and Achievement:

DSCF states that the gender gap is mainly the result of boys’ poorer literacy and language skills.

How do the roles of parents differ between girls and boys?

A

Fathers do not read to their sons.
Mothers read because it is seen as a feminine activity.

29
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Boys and Achievement:

What is an example of what boys do that do not influence their literacy and communication skills?

What should they do instead?

A

Play leisure pursuits; football.

They should be able to use rich vocab, especially in exams.

30
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Boys and Achievement:

What programme was put into place to help boys develop their skills?

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The Raising Boys’ Achievement Project.

31
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Boys and Achievement:

What did the Rasing Boys’ Achievement Project include?

what did teachers teach?

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Teachers taught single sex teaching.

32
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Boys and Achievement:

What did The National Literacy Strategy do for boys?

A

Improve boys’ reading.

33
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Boys and Achievement:

What did the globalisation and the decline in masculine jobs do for boys in education?

what type of jobs were redundant? Example:

what feeling did it give the men?

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It gave men an ‘identity crisis’.
Decline in manual working class jobs.

34
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Boys and Achievement:

What motivation was put forward when there was a decline in the jobs?

what did they want to do that they may have not thought of before?

A

Motivation to study.

35
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Boys and Achievement:

What criticism suggested that even though there was a decline in work, there was no problem?

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Some jobs require few, if any, qualifications.
-Men’s motovation shuold not be stopped by this fact.

36
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Boys and Achievement;

What sociologist suggest that boys fall behind in school due to the ‘feminisation of education’?

A

Sewell.

37
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Boys and Achievement:

What does Sewell suggest that schools do not teach more of?

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Traits such as leadership and competitiveness which are classified as male.

38
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Boys and Achievement:

What does the school do that may come of as being feminine biased?

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Celebrate qualities asssociated with femininity; methodical work and attentiveness.

39
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Boys and Achievement:

What did Sewell suggest in his study about major differences in gender?

who is coursework favoured by?

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Coursework should be replaced with final exams as coursework is favoured by the females.

40
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Boys and Achievement:

What is a criticism that suggests that there isn’t a feminisation of education?

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Boys are able to choose their own subjects; house systems makes it competitve.

41
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Boys and Achievement:

What does the shortage of male primary school teachers impact boys’ education?

what is there a lack of both internally and externally?

A

Lack of role models both at home and school is said to be the cause of underachievement.

42
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Boys and Achievement:

What is the percentage of male teacchers in pirmary schools?

A

13%

43
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Boys and Achievement:

What did the presence of male teachers enable boys to do?

A

Behave better.

44
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Boys and Achievement:

What did the study say about the culture of primary school becoming what?

A

Feminised.

45
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Boys and Achievement:

What did Francis argue about the pupils’ opinion on the gender of the teacher?

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2/3 of pupils said that gender does not affect anything to do with their academic achievement.

46
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Boys and Achievement:

What did teachers start using that helped the boys be attentive?

A

Disciplinary discourse.

47
Q

Boys and Achievement:

Epstein studied that boys formed ‘Laddish Subcultures’, what does this mean?

A

The way in which boys’ masculinty is constructed and the idea that w/c should be tough.

48
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Boys and Achievement:

What were some of the labels given to boys that were seen to be doing more ‘feminine’ activities?

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‘Swots’, ‘sissies’.

49
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Boys and Achievement:

In response to the Laddish subcultures, what did girls start moving to?

A

Tradtitional male careers.

50
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Girls and Acheivement:

What does Sue Sharpe’s study say about girls and achievement?

what did girls have then [1970] and changed later [1990]?

A

1974- interview with girls and they had low aspirations, being ambitious was seen as unattractive.
‘Love, husband, marriage.’ - motto.
1990- girls more independent and had more ambitions.

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