Smart Boys, Bad Grades
I found a very interesting article in today's desert news.
The article covers the gender gap between girls academic performace and boys. Female students in High School hvae 37% higher GPAs than their male counter-part. The article brings a different perspective to this issue than the traditional wisdom. The traditional wisdom is that boys are lazier and do not complete their assignments. This article argues that elementary, junior high and high school teachers are generally female and they women teachers have the tendancy to inadverntently teach in methods that are more conducive to female learning attributes. The article talks about how males and females learn in different ways and boys needs are being met. Male test scores and female test score still remain virtually the same. The problem is that students are graded by behavior that has nothing to do woth what they are learning. The article argues that boys understand the concepts so they don't want to do "busy work". Opponents argue that boys will not learn accountability. However when placed in jobs, males generally still complete assignments and arrive at to work on time. Males do not see the incentive at school.
The article has a link to an interesting study that covers in far more details the needs of boys in educational setting. I went to the website and read most of the material and found that it made sense to me.
Here is the link.
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660204566,00.html
The article covers the gender gap between girls academic performace and boys. Female students in High School hvae 37% higher GPAs than their male counter-part. The article brings a different perspective to this issue than the traditional wisdom. The traditional wisdom is that boys are lazier and do not complete their assignments. This article argues that elementary, junior high and high school teachers are generally female and they women teachers have the tendancy to inadverntently teach in methods that are more conducive to female learning attributes. The article talks about how males and females learn in different ways and boys needs are being met. Male test scores and female test score still remain virtually the same. The problem is that students are graded by behavior that has nothing to do woth what they are learning. The article argues that boys understand the concepts so they don't want to do "busy work". Opponents argue that boys will not learn accountability. However when placed in jobs, males generally still complete assignments and arrive at to work on time. Males do not see the incentive at school.
The article has a link to an interesting study that covers in far more details the needs of boys in educational setting. I went to the website and read most of the material and found that it made sense to me.
Here is the link.
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660204566,00.html
posted by mgreen62 at 11:13 PM
1 Comments:
Interesting topic. Study has shown that the ways male and female brains develop and process information are different, and girls seem to be mature earlier than their male counterparts. There have been experiments of dividing classed by gender, and using gender-based curriculum and so on. It turned out that the test scores are up. Discipline problems are down. But whether it is a good approach is still controversial.
Anyway, I agree with the part of “accountability” argument.
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