Assess the view that gender differences in achievement are the result of changes in wider society. Boys and girls are achieving high and well in education. Girls have always been high achievers in education but over the last 50 years. Only some boys are falling a little behind than usual, but this is due to a very close link between boys underachievement and social class. There are many reasons to as why there is a huge difference between girls and boys achievements.
Florida spends twice as much as Utah per student. Backing • Among the 27 State whose students took the ACT in 2008, Utah ranked 8th. • Utah has consistently ranked in the top 25 percent of states in student college readiness test scores. • Utah ranks 10th in student pass rates on AP tests. • UT
However, students who have higher report marks may also have lower exam outcomes. In addition, lower report do not always lead to lower exam performance, but outstanding exam outcomes always result from great report marks. Therefore, although report has no significant effect on final exam, students who want to achieve outstanding exam results must get great report marks
This essay will be exploring the view that childhood has been improving over the years. The “March of progress” view argues that over the past few centuries, the position of children in Western societies has been steadily improving and today it is better than it has ever been. Aries (a sociologist) supports the “March of Progress” view. Aries argues that children were perceived as “little adults” who took part in the same work and activities that adults did and were also seen as an economical asset as opposed to a symbol of love, as a result of the high child-mortality rate. A study that Aries undertook in 1962 based on contemporary letters, diaries and art-work from the 19th century; Aries stated that there was an increase in maternal and paternal love towards children and as a result, the infant mortality rate declined.
Ethnicity Studies have shown that educational attainment is lower for most ethnic groups compared to those of White British Children. Despite the positive impact of early years education, it is known that fewer children from ethnic minority groups participate in formal pre-school childcare, compared with white children (Fitzgerald, et al., 2002). Strand (1999) has show that pupils with early education had higher attainment than those with no early education. In Early year’s non- white children are under-represented. Mothers from ethnic minority groups are more likely to stay at home with their children.
As a result, high procrastinators who was in spot test group was significantly higher achievement test scores on the final exam than other procrastinators in other groups. The hupotheses most likely support the numbers that Tuckman resulted in his
Using material from Item A and elsewhere, assess the view that gender differences in education are largely the result of changes in the education system. A notable feature of the education system in the UK is differences in achievement between boys and girls. Official statistics provide evidence of gender differences at all stages of education. On entering school, girls were able to concentrate for longer than boys; by the end of KS3, girls perform better than boys, especially in English; at GCSE, the gender gap is very prominent with girls achieving 65% 5+ A*-C compared to 55% of boys. Sociologists have put forward many explanations for these differences, many of which are a result of changes in the education system.
Assess the sociological explainations of why girls acheive better results than boys (20 marks) There are many reasons why girls do better than boys in education . It is proven that boys mature later than girls and that girls are often ahead in language, it is said that at the age of 11 average boy is 9 months behind an average girl. Female expectation and behaviour also contribute to the fact that statistically girls are doing better than boys and I will now develop and assess some of these factors. Women expectations and plans for the future have changed over time. Sue Sharpe (1976) have carried a survey which led to her discovering that girls priorities were marrige and family over career and education however when repeated in 1994,
Critical Analysis In “The War Against Boys” the author, Christina Hoff Sommers, stated that times are changing and boys should “watch out” in school. She states that girls are starting to be more benefited in school then boys in the educational system, that girl aren’t considered the “second” sex anymore, and that girls are statistically better than boys in academics. I personally agree that times are changing and that boys aren’t getting any special treatment and girls are on the same level as boys, and that they also are better in school then most boys. This to me has a lot to do with that growth gap that there is between both genders, girls start developing at a much earlier age then us, thus letting them learn things at a much faster rate
Enrichment programs have been proven to improve the quality of the education a child a receiving. The results of the study was that even with the economic hardship that America has faced in the last several years, a children with wealthy families had $7,500 more dollars spent on enrichment programs than children of poor areas. Also, there was a 1,300 hour difference in the amount of time that children from wealthy backgrounds spend in education-nurturing environments than children of poor areas. This means that while children from rich backgrounds are spending time at violin lessons or after school tutoring programs, children from urban areas are playing in the streets or possibly getting involved with gang related activities. Past presidents of the United States have continued to discuss