SOCB26H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Margaret Atwood, Blue Brain Project, Leonard Sax
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In classroom settings, boys more assertive and boisterous: school textbooks under represent female characters, university professors giving more face time to male than female students (more attention given to male than female questions) Why might girls benefit from all girls schools: research which shows that girls do better in single-sex schools than girls in coed environments. Single-sex schools are often selective: selective on ability, and selective on ability to pay fees (many single-sex schools are private schools) Information collected on attainments in english, math, physics, and chemistry from students in grades 9 and 10. Results: boys and girls compared academically, girls do better than boys in english, girls do less well in mathematics than boys, not much difference in science. However, these gender differences are small and getting smaller. In all subjects, girls do better than boys in single-sex schools than in coed schools.
