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Direct linkWhite, Bozena – Canadian Journal of Education, 2007
Using data from the reading component of the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (N = 113,050), the effects of gender and curricular track for nine sub-scores of reading achievement were investigated. Only students indicating that they did not receive additional programming support were included in the analysis. Gender accounted for less than…
Descriptors: Females, Reading Achievement, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
Charles, Claire – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2007
Popular discourses concerning the relationship between gender and academic literacies have suggested that boys are lacking in particular, school-based literacy competencies compared with girls. Such discourses construct "gender" according to a binary framework and they obscure the way in which literacy and textual practices operate as a site in…
Descriptors: Females, Gender Differences, Gender Issues, Womens Education
Chapman, Marilyn; Filipenko, Margot; McTavish, Marianne; Shapiro, Jon – Canadian Journal of Education, 2007
In this article, we report on grade-one children's preferences for narrative and/or information books, and their perceptions of what boys and girls like to read. Data include responses on two book preference tasks by 40 children in four schools. Children chose books and explained the reasons for their choices. One task was a closed, force-choice…
Descriptors: Females, Reading Material Selection, Literature Appreciation, Grade 1
