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The original title is misleading, as the paper doesn't answer "why". > The researchers then looked whether factors, such as the type of school and the size and
by drivebycomment 4y ago
The original title is misleading, as the paper doesn't answer "why".
> The researchers then looked whether factors, such as the type of school and the size and gender make-up of classes, were driving the gender grade gap.
> They also investigated whether characteristics of teachers themselves, such as how senior or experienced they were and whether they were male or female, helped explain girls' more generous grades.
> Only two factors were found to have an effect—and only in maths. The gender gap in maths grades was greater when classes were bigger. Girls were also graded as being further ahead than boys in technical and academic schools than they were in vocational schools.
> None of the other factors had any significant effect in reducing the gender grading gap.
- Veuxdo 4y ago> The original title is misleading, as the paper doesn't answer "why". Story of the internet, right there.
- belorn 4y agoIndeed. They are answering the question "Do teachers give girls higher marks than boys", and the answer is Yes, girls do get better grades than boys for the same work. We do not get a final answer to why teachers are giving girls higher marks than boys.
- Mikeb85 4y agoThe majority of teachers are female and while I'm not going to claim it's misandry per se, it's likely that they identify more with the girls and thus are biased.
- programmarchy 4y agoSounds like they had a control for this, though, because they claim to have investigated whether the teacher was male or female. Only differences seemed to be class size and whether the school was technical/academic or vocational. My pet theory would be boys tend to have worse handwriting. So it could be that the worse handwriting is more frequently misinterpreted or simply marked as wrong by teachers.
- tqi 4y agoThe fact that the Math scores are the ones that changed between the classroom and national tests is surprising - I would have assumed that these exams would have the most "objective" right or wrong answer.