Why do teachers give girls higher marks than boys? Researchers have the answer
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Re: Why do teachers give girls higher marks than boys? Researchers have the answer
#2This study seems to ignore the most obvious differences between standardized tests and typical classroom grades. Standardized tests tend to capture a single type of work (getting the right answer, regardless of process) in a single moment (test day) with an objective evaluation (multiple choice). Whereas classroom grades take into account various sorts of work, including process work, over time, and inevitably take into account a variety of skills and performance beyond the “right answer on test day”.
Which is “better”? Impossible to say. Neither captures the whole picture. But the headline and apparent conclusion of the study is misleading at best.
Re: Why do teachers give girls higher marks than boys? Researchers have the answer
#3This study seems to ignore the most obvious differences between standardized tests and typical classroom grades. Standardized tests tend to capture a single type of work (getting the right answer, regardless of process) in a single moment (test day) with an objective evaluation (multiple choice). Whereas classroom grades take into account various sorts of work, including process work, over time, and inevitably take i…
in the article they gave the same standard test to teachers to mark and it showed the exact same bias as other tests.
Re: Why do teachers give girls higher marks than boys? Researchers have the answer
#4This study seems to ignore the most obvious differences between standardized tests and typical classroom grades. Standardized tests tend to capture a single type of work (getting the right answer, regardless of process) in a single moment (test day) with an objective evaluation (multiple choice). Whereas classroom grades take into account various sorts of work, including process work, over time, and inevitably take i…
One argument for standardized tests is that the classroom allows people with high social capital but low academic ability many ways to bullshit their way to higher grades.
Taking practice tests and familiarization with standardized tests helps, but a person who can't test their way out of a paper bag can do very little to improve their standardized test scores other than hire a ringer to take the test for them.
Re: Why do teachers give girls higher marks than boys? Researchers have the answer
#5Everyday I think more and more about homeschooling my son and daughter.
In business, you should never outsource your core competency. I wonder if I really should be outsourcing the raising of my kids,that I love most in the world (of course I love my husband too).
Re: Why do teachers give girls higher marks than boys? Researchers have the answer
#6Everyday I think more and more about homeschooling my son and daughter. In business, you should never outsource your core competency. I wonder if I really should be outsourcing the raising of my kids,that I love most in the world (of course I love my husband too).
Unfortunately it would seem from looking around that parenting is not a core competency for a lot of parents.
Re: Why do teachers give girls higher marks than boys? Researchers have the answer
#7I like that this article puts the data on the table. I have no idea about what is the exact mechanism for the issue, but as the article notes, girls and boys have slightly different intellects. Furthermore, the eyes-of-the-beholder (teachers) regard them as slightly different creatures as well. And, it wouldn't surprise me if girls in general are nicer to the teachers; while teenager boys feel the pressure to act like he-goats to impress the girls and earn the respect of their peers and adults; and "because kids," their efforts cause the opposite effect in teachers.
Re: Why do teachers give girls higher marks than boys? Researchers have the answer
#8> Researchers have the answer
According to the article they don't "have the answer" at all - they have a couple of theories:
> The study's authors say it's possible that, in reading, teachers unconsciously reward students exhibiting traditionally female behaviour, such as quietness and neatness, which make teaching easier for the teachers. Another theory is that inflated grades in mathematics are a way of trying to encourage girls, who are often seen as weaker in this subject.
Re: Why do teachers give girls higher marks than boys? Researchers have the answer
#9Anecdotally I had a misandrist/sexist teacher in fourth grade. It was the first grade where they split our maths class. I didn't fail the class, but that teacher rode me extremely hard. She did do other abusive things, like encouraging students to bully each other, and she'd throw an eraser and hit me with a ruler on two separate occasions because she believed I wasn't awake enough. She recommended at the end of the year that I was put in a lower math class and that's where I went. I didn't recover my interests in math until after college. With some irony, she cited my lack of interest in maths as a whole. Two years later I was programming, which up until high school I didn't see how that translated to the maths I learned in school.
Re: Why do teachers give girls higher marks than boys? Researchers have the answer
#10Everyday I think more and more about homeschooling my son and daughter. In business, you should never outsource your core competency. I wonder if I really should be outsourcing the raising of my kids,that I love most in the world (of course I love my husband too).
It seems like it's easier (or more efficient) to outsource education than socialization. Summer is a great time for additional education beyond the classroom.
Then again, research suggests that homeschooling doesn't have an adverse socialization impact [1]...
[1] https://responsiblehomeschooling.org/research/summaries/home...