Smart Girls, Dumb Boys!?

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Latsch ◽  
Bettina Hannover
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Stereotype Threat ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
School Students ◽  
Compensatory Strategies ◽  
Media Portrayal ◽  
Stereotype Lift ◽  
The Media

We investigated effects of the media’s portrayal of boys as “scholastic failures” on secondary school students. The negative portrayal induced stereotype threat (boys underperformed in reading), stereotype reactance (boys displayed stronger learning goals towards mathematics but not reading), and stereotype lift (girls performed better in reading but not in mathematics). Apparently, boys were motivated to disconfirm their group’s negative depiction, however, while they could successfully apply compensatory strategies when describing their learning goals, this motivation did not enable them to perform better. Overall the media portrayal thus contributes to the maintenance of gender stereotypes, by impairing boys’ and strengthening girls’ performance in female connoted domains and by prompting boys to align their learning goals to the gender connotation of the domain.

scholarly journals Gender Advantages and Gender Normality in the Views of Estonian Secondary School Students

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiiu Kuurme ◽  
Gertrud Kasemaa
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
School Life ◽  
School Students ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Central Condition

Abstract The aim of the study on Estonian secondary school students was to obtain an overview of the gender-related views and experiences of the everyday school life by students, and to analyse the school-related factors in the development of gender roles and gender-related expectations. We view gender equality as a central condition for social sustainability. In the article, we focus on the perceptions and interpretations of the so-called normal boy and girl and the advantages of both genders at school. We analyse the experiences and the views of young people regarding their gender positioning in everyday school life vis-à-vis their views on gender equality. The survey used in the study consisted of 50 questions, mainly open-ended. It was conducted in 10 basic and secondary schools in grades 7, 9, 10 and 12, with a total number of 649 respondents. The open answers were analysed by applying the method of thematic qualitative content analysis. The findings reveal that the perceived advantages of both genders at school and the behaviour considered as normal at school are strongly related to traditional gender stereotypes. At the same time, students claim that they are primarily people with equal opportunities. We conclude that the belief in the ideology of gender equality outweighs personal gender-related experiences.

scholarly journals How Classmates’ Gender Stereotypes Affect Students’ Math Self-Concepts: A Multilevel Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Concept Formation ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Significant Relation ◽  
School Students ◽  
Substantial Impact ◽  
Shared Beliefs ◽  
Math Grades

The present research is the first to examine how students’ individual and their classmates’ math-related gender stereotypes, endorsing that math would be a typically male domain, relate to students’ math self-concepts. To this end, data of N = 1,424 secondary school students from Germany were analyzed using multilevel analyses. As expected, strong individual beliefs in the math-related gender stereotype were related to lower math self-concepts for girls, but to higher math self-concepts for boys. Moreover, classmates’ shared beliefs in this stereotype showed a negative relation to girls’ self-concepts, whereas no significant relation between classmates’ shared beliefs and boys’ self-concepts was found. These relations also persisted after controlling for students’ math grades and age. In sum, the results demonstrated that gender stereotypes shared by students’ classmates can have a substantial impact on students’ math self-concepts, beyond their individual gender stereotypes. This finding emphasizes the significance of classmates as important socializing peers in the process of students’ self-concept formation.

scholarly journals Invertebrate-Interactive Dichotomous Key Media: Enhance Students Learning Motivation in Lower Secondary School

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 669-673
Author(s):  
Rizhal Hendi Ristanto ◽  
◽  
Mieke Miarsyah ◽  
Ilena Amalia Luthfi ◽  
Endah Kristiani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Learning Motivation ◽  
Lower Secondary School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Dichotomous Key ◽  
Invertebrate Animals ◽  
The Media ◽  
Expert Validation

The purpose of this research is to develop interactive learning media about classification of organisms. This research used modification of 4D method (Define, Design, Develop, and Disseminate from Thiagarajan et al., 1974). Invertebrate Interactive Dichotomous Key (Invertebrate-IDKM) is given in the learning at lower secondary school. Percentage of the expert validation is 80%. According to the validation result, we conclude that Invertebrate-IDKM is valid in the media, materials, languages, and eligible in the learning about the classification of organisms especially classification of invertebrate animals. Invertebrate-IDKM increases learning motivation especially lower secondary school students because it encourages interaction and use technology.

scholarly journals Polish Secondary School Students Learning German: Motivation, Orientations and Attitudes

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Okuniewski
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
German Language ◽  
Learning Behavior ◽  
School Students ◽  
Parental Encouragement

Polish Secondary School Students Learning German: Motivation, Orientations and Attitudes The study investigates the German language learning motivations of Polish secondary school students. Questionnaire data were collected from 100 students aged 16-18 years. Using the AMOS 18 package, structural equation modeling was run to analyze how language learning goals, attitudes, self-related beliefs, and parental encouragement interact in shaping motivated learning behavior. The results of this study reveal that the important factor which exerts the most influence on motivated learning behavior is an integrative attitude, i.e. openness to and interest in the community using the language, as well as the culture, customs and international status. Another important factor in this model is parental encouragement, as it affects the German language community, learning and instrumental values.

scholarly journals The Role of the Media in the Process of Shaping the Skills and Attitudes of Lower Secondary School Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 289-307
Author(s):  
Joanna Michalak-Dawidziuk
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Lower Secondary School ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Media

Media play an important role in social and personal life. They affect opinion forming, promote trends and shape skills and attitudes. Their impact is enormous. Media can have both positive and negative influence, as they are addressed to adults and young people, whose opinions and characters have not yet crystallised. Thus the question about the extent to which the media shape abilities pertaining to the recognition of individual educational needs and learning, which is “(…) the foundation for success at school, in continuing education and in professional life.” Results of research conducted among lower secondary school students provide answers to these questions.

scholarly journals Technological Advancement in the Media and Mobile Phone Usage among Secondary School Students in Enugu State, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 5304-5308
Author(s):  
Joy I. Anyanwu ◽  
Victoria Ogwa Adikwu ◽  
Catherine O. Ogwuche ◽  
Ifeoma Keziah Ekma ◽  
Bernedeth N. Ezegbe
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Media ◽  
Enugu State ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage

scholarly journals Når teknologi møter fagtradisjoner i norsk og mediefag på videregående skole

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toril Aagaard
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Activity Theory ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Upper Secondary School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Good Investment ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
The Media ◽  
Cultural Historical Activity

I dag har norske elever på videregående skoler PC på pulten, både i timer og når de svarer på oppgaver. I artikkelen analyseres intervjuer med, og observasjoner av medielærere og norsklærere for å undersøke hvordan de erfarer og tenker om praksisene som vokser frem med elevers tilgang til teknologi. Norsklærerne forteller i hovedsak om utfordringer, mens medielærerne beskriver hvordan digitale verktøy brukes som redskap i arbeid med å løse oppgaver. Studien viser at tradisjonelle didaktiske praksiser i mediefag støttes av teknologi, mens møtet mellom norskfaglige undervisningstradisjoner og teknologi er spenningsfullt. For at satsingen på teknologirike skoler skal bli en god investering, er det avgjørende å lære av de didaktiske praksiser som fungerer godt i moderne klasserom.Abstract Today Norwegian upper secondary school students have access to computers during lessons and during testing. To explore how teachers teaching Norwegian and Media-subjects experience the practices that emerge with students’ access to technologies, I have analyzed interviews and observations of their meetings. The teachers who teach Norwegian mostly mention challenges, while teachers of Media-subjects tell how the students use digital tools when solving tasks. The study shows that technology supports traditional didactical practices in the Media-subjects, while it puts educational practices typical for lessons in Norwegian under pressure. To make sure that developing technology-rich schools is a good investment, it is crucial to learn from didactic practices that seem to work well in technology-rich classrooms. Keywords: Teachers, technology, didactics, traditions, subject, cultural historical activity theory

scholarly journals Leisure Patterns and Values in Adolescents from Serbia born in 1990s: An Attempt at Building a Bridge between the Two Domains

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (4/2019) ◽  
pp. 99-123
Author(s):  
Ivana Stepanović Ilić ◽  
Marina Videnović ◽  
Nebojša Petrović
Keyword(s):  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Social Goals ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Media ◽  
Post War ◽  
Insight Into

This work is an attempt at empirically establishing a relation between leisure and values in adolescents. Being new, this topic could help a broader understanding of youth leisure and its association with inner psychological dispositions, but also with specific social context (prolonged economic crisis and post-war environment). Five typical leisure patterns were previously identified: academic, sports, going out, following celebrities in the media and music, and computers pattern. The main objective was to discover whether students with high and low scores on these patterns differ regarding their values. The sample consisted of 2426 Serbian secondary school students from 9 towns. A discriminant analysis was performed and showed that it was possible to identify a specific mix of personal and social values for every leisure pattern. This confirms the existence of a relation between students’ behaviour during free time and their values, expressed as a preference for specific personal and social goals. The resultss imply that connecting two domains is achievable and fruitful in both ways. The identified leisure patterns contribute to a more detailed and elaborate portrayal of adolescents’ values but those values also bring a new insight into specific features of adolescents’ behaviour during leisure time.

Evaluation of a Summer-School Program for Highly Gifted Secondary-School Students: The German Pupils Academy

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heinz Neber ◽  
Kurt A. Heller
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Summer School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
School Program ◽  
School Students ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Regulatory Strategies ◽  
Cognitive Framework

Summary The German Pupils Academy (Deutsche Schüler-Akademie) is a summer-school program for highly gifted secondary-school students. Three types of program evaluation were conducted. Input evaluation confirmed the participants as intellectually highly gifted students who are intrinsically motivated and interested to attend the courses offered at the summer school. Process evaluation focused on the courses attended by the participants as the most important component of the program. Accordingly, the instructional approaches meet the needs of highly gifted students for self-regulated and discovery oriented learning. The product or impact evaluation was based on a multivariate social-cognitive framework. The findings indicate that the program contributes to promoting motivational and cognitive prerequisites for transforming giftedness into excellent performances. To some extent, the positive effects on students' self-efficacy and self-regulatory strategies are due to qualities of the learning environments established by the courses.

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