ERIC Number: EJ1030247
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-0962-0214
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Gender Differences in School Achievement: A Within-Class Perspective
Cahan, Sorel; Barneron, Meir; Kassim, Suhad
International Studies in Sociology of Education, v24 n1 p3-23 2014
Relying on the results of the achievement tests in mathematics, science, native language (Hebrew/Arabic) and English, administered to 1430 5th-grade co-educational classes in Israel, this study examines the between-class variability of the within-class mean score gender differences and its class and school correlates. The four main results of the study are: (1) remarkable between-test stability of the within-class gender gap; (2) considerable variability of the within-class gender gap, in terms of both sign and magnitude, found for each of the four tests: children studying in different classes are exposed to different, sometimes quite opposite, gender differences and this variability is effectively masked by the aggregate-level analyses typically reported in the literature; (3) the lion's share of the variability of the within-class gender gap lies within, rather than between schools; and (4) the relative frequency of within-class gender gaps favouring boys is positively related to school-level characteristics, which qualify as positive indicators of the school's quality and negatively to class size. The within- and between-sector (Arab vs. Jewish) components of this relation are discussed.
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Academic Achievement, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Scores, Classroom Environment, Educational Environment, School Culture, Achievement Tests, Student Characteristics, Racial Differences, Ethnicity, Religious Factors, Socioeconomic Status, Parents, Educational Attainment, Sex Stereotypes, Teacher Characteristics, Class Size, Arabs, Jews, Asians, Whites, Muslims, Student Records, Databases, Statistical Analysis, Institutional Characteristics
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 5
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Israel
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