scholarly journals Female Power in Education: Is it a Reversal of Gender Gap?

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bouchaib Benzehaf
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
School Students ◽  
Education Today ◽  
El Jadida

<p>Education today is increasingly being feminized with girls accounting for the large majority of the student population at all levels. This feminization is happening not only in terms of number of girls but also in terms of performance. The present paper reports on a comparative study that looked into the differences between girls’ achievements and boys’ achievements in high education. More specifically, the paper explores gender differences in written linguistic proficiency by analyzing a sample of high school students’ pieces of writing in English. The research sample consisted of 130 high school students in the city of El Jadida, 59 males and 71 females. Using Hunt’s T-units as a method of language measurement, the paper outlines gender differences in the sample in terms of accuracy, fluency and complexity. Results showed that girls significantly outperformed boys in different aspects of writing, thereby suggesting a reversal of gender inequality. However, care must be taken so that these differences which favor girls are not misinterpreted in such a way as to reproduce traditional gender inequalities in educational institutions (for instance, some people are advancing the idea that boys are differently, not deficiently, literate). In light of the results, the paper ends with recommendations for justice to be done to female students as well as for the adoption of best classroom management practices that maximise all students’ achievements.</p>

Telling Cases That Inform an Understanding of Factors Impacting the Development of Inventors From Diverse Backgrounds

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Stephanie Couch ◽  
Audra Skukauskaite ◽  
Leigh B. Estabrooks
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Young Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
School Students ◽  
School Year ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds

The lack of diversity among patent holders in the United States (1-3) is a topic that is being discussed by federal policymakers. Available data suggests that prolific patent holders and leading technology innovators are 88.3% male and nearly 94.3% Asian, Pacific Islander, or White, and half of the diversity that does exist is among those who are foreign born (3). The data shows that there is a need for greater diversity among patent holders. Few studies, however, are available to guide the work of educators creating learning opportunities to help young people from diverse backgrounds learn to invent. Educators must navigate issues that have complex sociocultural and historical dimensions (4), which shape the ideas of those surrounding them regarding who can invent, with whom, under what conditions, and for what purposes. In this paper, we report the results of an ongoing multimethod study of an invention education pro- gram that has worked with teachers and students in Grades 6 through 12 for the past 16 years. Findings stem from an analysis of end-of-year experience surveys and interview transcripts of six students (three young men and three young women) who participated in high school InvenTeams®. The data were used to investigate three topics: 1) ways high school students who have participated on an InvenTeam conceptualize the term "failure" and what it means to "learn from failure," 2) what supported and constrained the work of the three young women during their InvenTeams experience and the implications for policy makers concerned about the gender gap in patenting, and 3) ways the young men and young women took up (or didn't take up) the identity of "inventor" after working on a team that developed a working prototype of an invention during the previous school year.

scholarly journals Classroom Management Problems Faced by Pre-Service Teachers Study Case: At Senior High School 1 of Plumbon

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Devi Siti Afiah
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Management Problems ◽  
Study Case ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

This research studied about classroom management problems faced by pre-service teacher. Pre-service teacher is student teachers before they have under taken any teaching. Before they are graudate, they have to accomplish teacher training subject. When they come to schools to teach students, they find so many new things, such as; the real instructional devices, students’s characters of senior high school, students’ responses in learning process. In this study, the writer investigated the students’ responses in learning process, and it become challanging for pre-service teacher to solve bed students’ responses. There are some classroom mangement problems that pre-service teacher faced, they are: students always lots of students played mobile phone, been lazy, had chat, been passive students during learning process.

scholarly journals Gender Differences in Cooperation: Experimental Evidence on High School Students

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. e83700 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Alberto Molina ◽  
J. Ignacio Giménez-Nadal ◽  
José A. Cuesta ◽  
Carlos Gracia-Lazaro ◽  
Yamir Moreno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
School Students
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