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The version of the article I read (not this one) mentioned in passing that children tend to take same-gendered role models, and that 90% of elementary-school te
by lmkg 17y ago
The version of the article I read (not this one) mentioned in passing that children tend to take same-gendered role models, and that 90% of elementary-school teachers are female. The inference is that females have negative role models for math, while males have none, which is apparently better.
- scott_s 17y agoIt is referenced in this version: The researchers speculate that the influence of female teachers on their students results from the tendency of children to emulate adults of the same gender.
- jacquesm 17y agoBut for the study to be meaningful you'd have to study the opposite cases as well, and that makes for four combinations in total. And they've studied only one.
- scott_s 17y agoI haven't seen the actual article of this study, but I assumed they referenced previous studies of this effect. That is, I assume it's an established phenomenon, not something they are surmising from their results.