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Rethinking Gender Differences in Literacy.
Trevor Gambell,Darryl Hunter +1 more
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Gender equity initiatives in schools, curricula, and resources, especially reading materials, are intended to resolve equity problems that have withheld opportunity for female students as mentioned in this paper, however, recent literacy assessments in Canada and other parts of the world reveal differential patterns in males' and females' achievement in reading and writing.Abstract:
Gender equity initiatives in schools, curricula, and resources, especially reading materials, are intended to resolve equity problems that have withheld opportunity for female students. However, recent literacy assessments in Canada and other parts of the world reveal differential patterns in males' and females' achievement in reading and writing. Females outperform males in all areas of reading and writing at the elementary, middle, and secondary levels, and this literacy gap does not narrow or close with age. Males are disadvantaged in literacy by the time they complete high school. In this article we offerread more
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Early gender differences in self-regulation and academic achievement.
TL;DR: For example, the authors examined gender differences in self-regulation in early kindergarten and their connection to gender differences on five areas of early achievement: applied problems (math), general knowledge, letter-word identification, expressive vocabulary, and sound awareness.
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Hierarchical Linear Modelling of Student and School Effects on Academic Achievement
Xin Ma,Don A. Klinger +1 more
TL;DR: Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) and data from the New Brunswick School Climate Study were used to examine student background, school context, and school climate effects on Grade 6 student achievement in mathematics, science, reading, and writing as discussed by the authors.
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Explaining Girls’ Advantage in Kindergarten Literacy Learning: Do Classroom Behaviors Make a Difference?
TL;DR: The authors investigated gender differences in kindergarteners' literacy skills, specifically, whether differences in children's classroom behaviors explained females' early learning advantage and found that not only did girls enter kindergarten with somewhat stronger literacy skills but they also learned slightly more than boys over the kindergarten year.
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African Americans and Boys : Understanding the Literacy Gap, Tracing Academic Trajectories, and Evaluating the Role of Learning-Related Skills.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the racial and gender gap in the academic development of African American and white children from kindergarten to 5th grade and determined the extent to which social and behavioral factors, including learning-related skills, problem behaviors, and interpersonal skills, explain these gaps and shed light on the academic difficulties specifically experienced by African American boys.
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Student and Teacher Self-Efficacy and the Connection to Reading and Writing.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined teacher self-efficacy, student selfefficacy and their relationship to student ability in the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement -III and a series of questionnaires.
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Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes
TL;DR: In this paper, Cole and Scribner discuss the role of play in children's development and play as a tool and symbol in the development of perception and attention in a prehistory of written language.
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The Reader, the Text, the Poem: The Transactional Theory of the Literary Work
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The Cooperative Research Program in First-Grade Reading Instruction
Guy L. Bond,Robert Dykstra +1 more
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