Wide and lasting consequences: Teachers give girls higher grades than boys
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Re: Wide and lasting consequences: Teachers give girls higher grades than boys
#2This was already a commonplace occurrence in my own school days -- especially in the middle grades. It's nice to see someone finally willing to study it.
Re: Wide and lasting consequences: Teachers give girls higher grades than boys
#3They compared anonymous standardized test scores to non anonymized classroom test scores.
Seems worth pointing out that these are not the same kinds of tests and that the latter presumably has subjective elements like partial credit for answers. I would have liked to have seen the classroom tests scored anonymously.
I'm willing to believe that people with better communication skills generally test better on tests with partial credit.
Re: Wide and lasting consequences: Teachers give girls higher grades than boys
#4They compared anonymous standardized test scores to non anonymized classroom test scores. Seems worth pointing out that these are not the same kinds of tests and that the latter presumably has subjective elements like partial credit for answers. I would have liked to have seen the classroom tests scored anonymously. I'm willing to believe that people with better communication skills generally test better on tests wit…
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Re: Wide and lasting consequences: Teachers give girls higher grades than boys
#5They compared anonymous standardized test scores to non anonymized classroom test scores. Seems worth pointing out that these are not the same kinds of tests and that the latter presumably has subjective elements like partial credit for answers. I would have liked to have seen the classroom tests scored anonymously. I'm willing to believe that people with better communication skills generally test better on tests wit…
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Can you rephrase? I'm unsure what you're trying to say
Re: Wide and lasting consequences: Teachers give girls higher grades than boys
#6Funny how findings like this get almost no attention at all, isn't it? In Europe at least I fear we lose a generation of boys. Dropout rates among young males are very alarming, and yet doesn't get the attention it needs. Future generation will not look back kindly on how we currently normalize desastreus results for overall young male education.
Re: Wide and lasting consequences: Teachers give girls higher grades than boys
#7Funny how findings like this get almost no attention at all, isn't it? In Europe at least I fear we lose a generation of boys. Dropout rates among young males are very alarming, and yet doesn't get the attention it needs. Future generation will not look back kindly on how we currently normalize desastreus results for overall young male education.
Yep, apparently equality matters only when it’s girls/women who are disadvantaged.
Re: Wide and lasting consequences: Teachers give girls higher grades than boys
#8Funny how findings like this get almost no attention at all, isn't it? In Europe at least I fear we lose a generation of boys. Dropout rates among young males are very alarming, and yet doesn't get the attention it needs. Future generation will not look back kindly on how we currently normalize desastreus results for overall young male education.
Well we need more boys for the army as we need to defend against Russia. We also need boys to construct heavy infrastructure / equipment.
The fact that only boys are obliged to fight on the front line and do the ultimate sacrifice bother no equality champion.
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Re: Wide and lasting consequences: Teachers give girls higher grades than boys
#10This was already a commonplace occurrence in my own school days -- especially in the middle grades. It's nice to see someone finally willing to study it.
I was also commonplace when I was in school, especially in the elementary school, much less in the high school.
However, I believe that this bias was not caused directly by the gender, but mostly indirectly.
The girls had a much more submissive behavior towards the teachers than the boys, who did what they were told to do by the teachers mostly only when they feared that they would be caught otherwise.
Most teachers were biased into giving better grades to those who were perceived to have better behavior, than to those who were perceived to be problematic, even when the latter demonstrated better knowledge of the taught subjects.