Proof - girls are teacher's pets...
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 3:22 pmhttp://boyseducationaustralia.blogspot. ... st-in.html
SUMMARY
In countries including Australia and England, secondary education systems have been deliberately set up or adapted to allow on average, girls to get better overall assessment grades than boys. This can be seen in the following linked documents:
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/2127/
http://www.worldcongress.org/wcf3_spkrs ... rancis.htm
In Australia (unlike most other countries), at the ages of 17-18, entrance to university is based on secondary education assessment grades only. Due to the fact that girls generally get better grades than boys in secondary education, males are being pushed out of the professions in increasing numbers.
For 2008, the following applies for the percentage of male graduates compared to female at Bachelor level, less than 25 years old:
Accounting 44.7%, Agricultural Science 43.4%, Architecture and Building 50%, Art and Design 30.4%, Biological sciences 35.7%, Computer Science 78.6%, Dentistry 44.6%, Earth Sciences 60.6%, Economics and Business 42.4%, Education 17.2%, Engineering 80.9%, Humanities 28.5%, Law 34.4%, Mathematics 61.0%, Medicine 39.1%, Optometry 30.3%, Other Social Sciences 28.4%, Paramedical Studies 17.9%, Pharmacy 34.2%, Physical Sciences 58.5%, Psychology, 18.2%, Social Work 11.5%, Veterinary Science 23.0%.
There are established methods of setting up education systems and curriculums which will bias the best results towards one gender. At the ages of 15-17, this bias is easily achieved, as both sexes and in particular boy’s, brains are not fully developed.
Generally, girls do better than boys at: coursework, exam questions that are require short essays based on opinion and feelings, subjects and exams that rely mainly on memory and do not have much complexity.
Generally, boys do better than girls at: exams containing multiple choice questions, exams containing factual style questions, exam questions where the understanding of complex issues is involved e.g. complicated physics and maths problems, physical geography and history.
Qualifications such as the Cambridge International General Certificate of Education (IGCSE) has options for assessment via final exam only, at the end of the two year course. The IGCSE also has options for assessment via a combination of coursework and exams. Unpublished results so far, suggest that performance at the Cambridge IGCSE is very similar between the genders, part of the reason being that the assessment style can be tailored to each gender.
IGCSE’s are currently taken in some private schools/colleges in Australia. It is suggested that each state and territory in Australia should adopt a Cambridge IGCSE style secondary education system, one of the main reasons being that it provides for gender equality.
It is also suggested that young boys are initially taught to read and write using Synthetic Phonics.
It has been shown that older/teenage boys also gain benefit from attending lessons or using computer games based on Synthetic Phonics, over a number of weeks.
The use of Synthetic Phonics has been proven to eliminate or significantly reduce the gap in reading and writing performance between the genders.
An alternative education system for private/Independant boy's schools could be Cambridge IGCSE's or O levels taken at year 11. This would be followed by training for the US SAT/ACT tests which are accepted by all Australian universities, to be taken at year 12.
SUMMARY
In countries including Australia and England, secondary education systems have been deliberately set up or adapted to allow on average, girls to get better overall assessment grades than boys. This can be seen in the following linked documents:
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/2127/
http://www.worldcongress.org/wcf3_spkrs ... rancis.htm
In Australia (unlike most other countries), at the ages of 17-18, entrance to university is based on secondary education assessment grades only. Due to the fact that girls generally get better grades than boys in secondary education, males are being pushed out of the professions in increasing numbers.
For 2008, the following applies for the percentage of male graduates compared to female at Bachelor level, less than 25 years old:
Accounting 44.7%, Agricultural Science 43.4%, Architecture and Building 50%, Art and Design 30.4%, Biological sciences 35.7%, Computer Science 78.6%, Dentistry 44.6%, Earth Sciences 60.6%, Economics and Business 42.4%, Education 17.2%, Engineering 80.9%, Humanities 28.5%, Law 34.4%, Mathematics 61.0%, Medicine 39.1%, Optometry 30.3%, Other Social Sciences 28.4%, Paramedical Studies 17.9%, Pharmacy 34.2%, Physical Sciences 58.5%, Psychology, 18.2%, Social Work 11.5%, Veterinary Science 23.0%.
There are established methods of setting up education systems and curriculums which will bias the best results towards one gender. At the ages of 15-17, this bias is easily achieved, as both sexes and in particular boy’s, brains are not fully developed.
Generally, girls do better than boys at: coursework, exam questions that are require short essays based on opinion and feelings, subjects and exams that rely mainly on memory and do not have much complexity.
Generally, boys do better than girls at: exams containing multiple choice questions, exams containing factual style questions, exam questions where the understanding of complex issues is involved e.g. complicated physics and maths problems, physical geography and history.
Qualifications such as the Cambridge International General Certificate of Education (IGCSE) has options for assessment via final exam only, at the end of the two year course. The IGCSE also has options for assessment via a combination of coursework and exams. Unpublished results so far, suggest that performance at the Cambridge IGCSE is very similar between the genders, part of the reason being that the assessment style can be tailored to each gender.
IGCSE’s are currently taken in some private schools/colleges in Australia. It is suggested that each state and territory in Australia should adopt a Cambridge IGCSE style secondary education system, one of the main reasons being that it provides for gender equality.
It is also suggested that young boys are initially taught to read and write using Synthetic Phonics.
It has been shown that older/teenage boys also gain benefit from attending lessons or using computer games based on Synthetic Phonics, over a number of weeks.
The use of Synthetic Phonics has been proven to eliminate or significantly reduce the gap in reading and writing performance between the genders.
An alternative education system for private/Independant boy's schools could be Cambridge IGCSE's or O levels taken at year 11. This would be followed by training for the US SAT/ACT tests which are accepted by all Australian universities, to be taken at year 12.