Add to ORKGThere has been escalating concern about the comparative literacy standards of boys and girls in Australia for some time now. Benchmark testing reveals that girls outperform boys in standardised forms of literacy, with more fine-grained analyses of the results indicating that it is particular groups of boys who are not doing well on these tests. This paper considers this issue, and makes several observations about students, literacy and literacy development and educational futures
International comparisons of boys’ performance—and underachievement—in reading is often framed as a ...
Abstract In the past decade there has been a growing perception in Australia that girls have becom...
Internationally, there is a gender-related performance gap in literacy attainment, and in the Maltes...
There has been escalating concern about the comparative literacy standards of boys and girls in Aust...
Master of EducationAn overview of recent research in Australia has found that boys perform lower in ...
[Extract]\ud Recent media attention has placed boys at centre stage in educational debates about gen...
Abstract: The relationship between home and school is often raised in public discussion about boys ’...
As national debate continues over the adequacy and fairness of educational programs and policies aff...
There has been much debate about the underachievement of boys in the United Kingdom (UK), fuelled by...
This paper begins by establishing the veracity of the perception that boys underperform relative to ...
This paper argues that teachers’ recognition of children’s cultural practices is an important positi...
The purpose of this ethnographic study is to uncover relationships between the development of mascul...
In contrast with concerns elsewhere that many boys in the earliest of school experiences lose their ...
In this chapter we provide reviews both of research that documents the fact that boys underperform g...
This paper focuses on the literacy gender gap between students who happen to be boys, and their lowe...
International comparisons of boys’ performance—and underachievement—in reading is often framed as a ...
Abstract In the past decade there has been a growing perception in Australia that girls have becom...
Internationally, there is a gender-related performance gap in literacy attainment, and in the Maltes...
There has been escalating concern about the comparative literacy standards of boys and girls in Aust...
Master of EducationAn overview of recent research in Australia has found that boys perform lower in ...
[Extract]\ud Recent media attention has placed boys at centre stage in educational debates about gen...
Abstract: The relationship between home and school is often raised in public discussion about boys ’...
As national debate continues over the adequacy and fairness of educational programs and policies aff...
There has been much debate about the underachievement of boys in the United Kingdom (UK), fuelled by...
This paper begins by establishing the veracity of the perception that boys underperform relative to ...
This paper argues that teachers’ recognition of children’s cultural practices is an important positi...
The purpose of this ethnographic study is to uncover relationships between the development of mascul...
In contrast with concerns elsewhere that many boys in the earliest of school experiences lose their ...
In this chapter we provide reviews both of research that documents the fact that boys underperform g...
This paper focuses on the literacy gender gap between students who happen to be boys, and their lowe...
International comparisons of boys’ performance—and underachievement—in reading is often framed as a ...
Abstract In the past decade there has been a growing perception in Australia that girls have becom...
Internationally, there is a gender-related performance gap in literacy attainment, and in the Maltes...