Session Information
09 SES 08 A, Findings from International Comparative Achievement Studies. Session 4: Relationships in Mathematics and Science Performance
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Contribution
Large-scale programmes such PISA may contribute a lot to the field of gender studies. However, whereas the OECD reports present systematical data by gender, little has been done to explore gender differences beyond reporting the means. This contribution is an attempt to go beyond the means and to explore gender differences in terms of standard deviations and at different percentiles of the distributions in reading, math and science and on the different domain sub-scales. All participating countries in each PISA cycle have been included in the analysis. In terms of standard deviation, boys' results vary often significantly more than the girls'. In terms of distribution, the results show that in reading, while girls outperform boys at all stages of the distribution, the gender differences are bigger among the low performers. In mathematics, there is no difference between low achievers: the gender difference appears among the high achievers. In science, among the low achievers, girls outperform boys, and among the high achievers, boys outperform girls. The school level has been considered in the analyses. In some educations system, such as the highly tracked systems, gender differences may disappear in high performing schools, while it remains an issue in low performing schools.
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