Gender - Girls Outperforming Boys (Internal Factors)

Question 0

Positive role models for girls in school

Answer 0

• Increase in female teachers & principals
• Boys disadvantaged due to lack of male primary teachers:
  > Don’t see academia as ‘male’

Question 1

School policies help girls

Answer 1

National curriculum - everyone takes the same subjects until year nine

Question 2

Curriculum - Mitsos & Browne

Answer 2

• Coursework helps girls (many replaced with controlled assessments)
• As do oral exams as girls are used to talking at length in detail

Question 3

Teacher Attention - Francis

Answer 3

• Girls got more positive attention & boys felt very picked on
• Boys felt teachers had lower expectations of them

Question 4

Marketisation of schools - Slee

Answer 4

• Boys seen as unattractive to competitive schools because their behaviour is seen to be worse