...Why do girls achieve better GCSEs than Boys? The traditional role of the supposed ‘housewife’, Cook, clean, look after the children, the husband goes to work and gets all the money. Girls began to see that there was more to just being a housewife. Many women were beginning to work. This left such an impact that many girls began to see that there was an ambition, an ambition to be an ‘independent women’. A women who achieved things on her won starting with her education. Artist like destiny’s child (independent women) and Ne-yo (Miss independent) have written songs praising women who are dependent on themselves as young girls listen to their ‘idols’ they see this as an ambition in life. Research has shown that girls achieve better GCSE results than boy because they ‘behave’ better than boys do during classes. A study of performance in school showed that marks are not determined just by academic ability but also attentiveness and how organised you are. Girls have shown to have more of these traits than boys; this therefore gives them an advantage over the boys, which research has shown. Research form universities blame the fact that teacher also look at how well the child is engaged and how often the child loses control. These factors are said to benefit girls making their marks compared to boys, rise. "GCSEs require a degree of solo work and are not viewed as 'cool' in a laddish culture." Some believe that because boys supposedly do not deem a lot of revision and staying...
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...“The fact that girls do better than boys is more to do with factors outside of the school rather than factors inside of the school.” To what extent do you agree with this view? If we look at exam results such as GCSEs and A levels there is a clear picture of girls outperforming boys. Girls are also more likely to pass their A levels and go on to university. These gender and differential educational achievement have been explained by the influence of factors both inside and outside of the school. Many sociologists have argued that it is factors inside the school that have led to this increase in girls’ performance. It has been argued that feminism has had a huge role in female achievement in education. Mitsos and Browne say that teaching has been feminised and teachers have lower expectations of boys. They say that women are more likely to be classroom teachers and this is therefore giving girls positive role models. There has also been the change in teaching resources used at schools as many sexist images have been removed and they are less likely to stereotype girls into passive roles. Interpretivists say that teachers have lower expectations of boys. Teacher’s expectations may lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy of poor behaviour. Negative labelling may explain why there are more disruptive boy and why boys are more likely to be excluded from school. Jackson agrees with this view arguing that schools label boys negatively which leads to self-fulfilling prophecy. The introduction...
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...leave naughty boys like this and treat them really nice in order to make them happy but remain the problem; however, we can treat those less naughty boys harsher than they should receive in order to make them even better. To make the balance, to make students feel equal, teachers treat all boys the same, using the standard of the worse student. One big point is, teachers develop two separate system for boys and girls, as the first reason said, “boys” are going to bear more when they grow older, that’s the reason why they bear more now. Teachers labeling “boys should bear more and be more brave” to boys. Girls always get more rewards than boys, when they finish same almont of mission. When girls doing their homework, some of them do made mistakes. Compared with boys, if girls make mistakes on...
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...different subjects and their tendency to study different subjects. In recent years, females are attaining more than males while males are underachieving. This may be caused by factors outside school. Outside factors has caused girls to outperforming boys is due to girls attitudes towards education as the female expectations have changed. Many women are now looking beyond the housewife role. This is supported by Sue Sharpe discovered that girls priorities had changed from marriage to having a good job. This is because there has been a genderquake, Wilkinson argues that females have improved their educational performance due to fundamental changes in attitudes towards female role in society. Therefore there is a more positive attitude towards education for women and they use this as a means of improving chances at work. This shows how outside school factors influence differences in achievement as Francis and Skelton’s studies can show that many girls are acquiring for jobs that require degree level qualifications therefore girls strive to work harder at home to ensure they do well in order to achieve a well-paid job. However, Jackson argues that its not only boys who are failing, girls are too as there are many ladettes who disrupt lessons to make themselves feel popular, and feel like a genius when they do get something right. Another outside factor that has cause girls to achieve higher is due to the changes of the job market. There has been increasing job opportunities for women...
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...Multi-sex?? We all know the obvious difference in boys and girls. Typically, we associate boys with being rougher than girls and spending much of their time playing rambunctiously and getting dirty while most girls prefer to be subdued and tidy. But is that the only dissimilarity in gender? What about school work and academic performance along with academic success? Can gender be a predominating factor in determining a child’s IQ level? Is there a legitimate difference in boys and girls when determining academic ability? And, does gender help determine any level of academic success? Some might say that these are some pretty absurd questions but others who have taught both boys and girls in any realm of subjects, on any level could tell you that there is probably some relevance to that question. Lets begin with the history of single sex schools. Schools in early 17th century America were first modeled after English learning institutions after Puritans immigrated over to the English colonies. Originally only rich white males were allowed to attend school to learn how to read and write. In many cases, most parents placed their boys into the nine month long curriculum to keep them out of mischief. For the other three months of the year, students would be released from school during the summer months to lend a hand on their family’s farms to help cultivate the land and raise animals. During the summer months, wealthy white girls attended these same schools often taught by a female instructor...
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...by girls was common; girls were less likely than boys to obtain one or more A-levels and were less likely to go on to higher education. Coming in to the next decade of the 1990’s there was a sudden reversal; girls were now doing better than boys who were now underachieving. In 2006 10% more females were obtaining 2 or more A-levels than males. Women are now getting better degrees than men. Sociologists have looked into this gender diversion from a social perspective. What made this reversal so sudden and why did it occur? Feminists believe that the education system is patriarchal and dominated by men, just like the work force is. Feminists argue that the education system is just a primary preparation for leading into the future work force. They believe there are still gender differences in subject choice in schools. Sociologists Heaton and Lawson (1996) argue that the ‘hidden’ curriculum is a major source of gender socialisation; within education, various subjects are aimed at a certain gender group; for example cooking would be aimed at girls doing house work and cooking. While most schools now title this course, Food Technology, feminists believe that the subject is still designed to 'snare' girls into adopting a mode of behaviour a patriarchal society accept and that the gap between girls and boys is still there in today’s society. Feminists also believe that gender stereotyping may still exist in society as boys are believed to fit better in the future workforce than girls...
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... | 4. This is the go of the day. |(i) |Noun |(ii) |Verb |(iii) |Pronoun |(iv) |Adjective | 5. He has done bad in the exam. |(i) |Adverb |(ii) |Noun |(iii) |Adjective |(iv) |Interjection | 6. I see a homing bird. |(i) |Noun |(ii) |Adjective |(iii) |Verb |(iv) |Adverb | 7. Something bad will happen to you in future. |(i) |Noun |(ii) |Verb |(iii) |Adjective |(iv) |Adverb | 8. The street of Dhaka are wider than that of Rajshahi. |(i) |Noun |(ii) |Pronoun |(iii) |Conjunction |(iv) |Interjection | 9. She is superior to me in rank. |(i) |Adverb |(ii) |Verb |(iii) |Noun |(iv) |Adjective |...
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...paper is a study on the development of human mind and the physical growth. A human mind identifies as the cognitive faculties that help people in perception, thinking and effective judgment. Additionally, the human mind is also attributed to the consciousness and memory ability. However, it is true that both the physical and mind development differs between boys and girls where their developments depend more on the gender that one holds. During the development stages, children's bodies tend to develop making them look less like an adult. In the womb, male babies are born with as much as testosterone as a 25-year-old man (Black, 2003). Alter after birth. The testosterone plummets until the boy reaches the age of puberty. The testosterone is responsible for shaping the males developing brain, which helps in improving the spatial reasoning ability. On the other hand, girls also make some testosterone before they are born; the degree is, however, low as compared to boys. Girls produce the female hormone named estrogen which seems to have a little of absolute no effect on their brain development. After boys and girls are born, their brains...
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... In the Monday class, some classmates motioned the discrimination between men and women in China. This is the fact that in the past days China has the serious discrimination of gender because the social background and ideology. I have to say that such discrimination still exists, not only in rural but also in big city. In the rural, some people always have the old ideology that boys can do more thing than the girls. Boys should study and work and girls only need to do the housework and get married. I'm very surprise when I talk such discrimination to my friend. Her father is from a small village where most people never go outside the village. After the family members knew my friend's mom gave birth to a daughter, they were very angry and no one likes my friend because she is a girl. The reason is that they believe that when one mom give birth to the first baby is a girl, she will not only give birth to the second baby is a girl, but also influence other members in this family--make other "moms" have a girl. Girls cannot support the family. Girls are weak in all aspects than boys. Such “son preference" let her father's family members...
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...component in the proper development of teenagers, especially females during the adolescent years. Without a good measure of self-esteem, young girls may grow up lacking basic skills needed to succeed in life; athletic involvement beginning at a young age is a good way to begin developing necessary social skills that will lead to greater self-esteem later in life. Although participation in sports can have a negative effect on teenage girls, the positive impact the sport has on them greatly outweighs the negative. Research has found that the most common negative effect of athletics on females is over training. Over training occurs when the body is pushed beyond its limits both physically and emotionally. The more females participate in sports, the higher the risk she has of obtaining a sports-related injury (Sabo, 1997, p. 38). The more competitive the sport is, the more training is needed in order to be successful, and this training can become risky to girls’ bodies. Girls tend to over-train under pressure, which in turn, leads to unnecessary injuries. Some of the most common injuries girls sustain due to overuse are stress fractures, kneecap disorders, and compartment syndromes (Storm & Jenkins, 2002, p. 164). According to Go Girl! Raising Healthy, Confident and Successful Girls Through Sports, a book written by Hannah Storm about girls participation in sports, “Stress fractures are a series of tiny cracks that don’t heal because of the frequency or intensity of an athlete’s...
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...DELHI - 110012 | MOB.NO. – 9868955054 EMAIL-ID –princeparmar815@gmail.com | Impact of Gender on Academic Achievement in Science and Social Science at Secondary Level *PRINCE PARMAR Abstract Academic achievement depends upon several factors.the present study focuses on gender differences in academic achievement.The aim of the study is to compare the achievement of boys and girls in science and social science at the secondary level.The sample comprises 400 students (200 boys and 200 girls) from the affiliated of C.B.S.E., Delhi. The data was collected using two self developed achievement test. The collected data was analysed with help of statistical technique like Mean, SD,”t” value. The findings show that there is significant difference in achievement of boys and girls at the secondary level. Introduction The future of the country rests on the shoulder of its children.These children would one day pave the path of progress and lift the country to the heights of development.Education is going to play a key role to turn these children into strong pillars. Education aims at making us civilised human beings,proper educational process is a passport to a good,comfortable and secure life (Arbot and Arunjo ,1996).There are several factors which directly or indirectly affected the academic achievement of the students...
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...people have noticed the phenomena that girls have been overtaking boys. The proportion of boys going to colleges is becoming smaller and smaller. Girls have been seeing doing better in different levels of the school. Therefore, a question being raised by the public is that between co-education and single-sex education, which will benefit our children more? As a teacher and parent, I strongly believe that the latter is a good choice. Gender-based classes can improve our children’s academic achievement through proper approaches suitable for their learning styles, foster better behaviors through promotion of role models and encourage them to explore who they truly are. [ok] As everyone acknowledges that each person has his own learning style, the learning style between boys and girls is not an exception, they are every different due to their physical and metal development. The development of boys’ reading ability is slower than girls’. Boys tend to be more active than girls. When boys know the answer they can’t wait to shout it out, in stead of girls would rather just understand and know the reason. The uneven development attributes to their different learning styles. For the better achievement, separating girls and boys to adapt approaches that fit their learning styles is the best way we can do. For example, in my grade one classroom, it seems like a disaster for boys to sit down to read, even the story they loved to listen. To girls, reading is such a relax thing to do. Both...
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...Boys and Girls should be allowed to play on the same team because it will help develop friendships. Many people say boys are stronger then girls but if we put our mind to it we can be just as good. Many hockey teams are girls and boys. There is no difference For example in football girls should not play. They will get hurt. Boys are used to that pain. Girls are not used to pain. That is why there are no girls playing in the nfl. Boys are really big. Girls are not as big as boys. Girls should not play basketball, baseball, soccer together either. One reason that I believe girls and boys should be on the same teams is because it would make for good competition. If the boy, for example, is better than the girl it would make the girl want to work...
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...using observational and interview techniques and reports on related experiments in the field of learning. Scoring keys based on validity studies in ten colleges were developed. Study habits basically consist of effective methods of study (Sorenson, 1954). Study is the total of all the habits, determined purposes and enforced practices that the individual uses in order to learn. Study is hard work, no easy substitute is available (Armstrong, 1956), Brown and Holtzman (1956) and Srivastava (1967) point out that for good academic success, good study habits and attitudes are important. Some reports stress that certain personality characteristics such as attitudes, set and motivation towards scholastic activity are related to achievement rather than study habits (Anderson and Kuntz, 1957: Ahmann and Smilh, 1958 and De Sena, 1964). Gracie and Whlegham (1958) found that the correlation increased slightly when the Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes (SSHA) was administered...
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...fact that girls outperform boys in the education system; some may argue that this is a result of factors outside of school. The validity of this or whether the differences are caused by factors outside school will be discussed. One reason as to why it can be argued that gender differences in educational achievement are caused by factors outside school is because of changes in society’s views on females. In past generations, girls would not attend school and instead stay at home and learn from their mother how to cook and look after children, they were nurtured to become housewives for their future husbands. This meant that women had low aspirations, however this has changed. Sue Sharpe argues that this is a result of a gender quake that society is experiencing. Previously, girls had aspired to get married at a young age and become mothers to children early on in their lives. However, girl’s priorities have changed to getting an education so that they can have a career (Francis and Skelton) and therefore being able to support themselves above all other priorities rather than relying on a husband. This therefore means society accepts that it is normal for girls to get an education and provide for themselves; therefore society’s views on women can be argued to be an important outside school factor to influence gender differences in education achievement. Furthermore, feminist would generally accept that society is more equal than before and that women are succeeding now than in past...
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