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Gender Dynamics in Educational Achievement: Trends and Influences

Explore the shift from female underachievement to male underachievement in schools since the 1990s. This content assesses understanding of gender influences in educational success, highlighting sociological perspectives and their...

Questions: 27 | Attempts: 10 | Last updated: Nov 3, 2025

Sample Question 1
Give six facts about gender and differential educational achievement.

1. Boys get better results at all levels in national curriculum tests 2. Boys get better results in most subjects at GCSE 3. Girls are more likely to go to university

1. Boys get better results at all levels in national curriculum tests 2. Boys get better results in most subjects at GCSE 3. Boys are more likely to pass their A-levels

1. Boys and girls get equal results at all levels in national curriculum tests 2. Boys and girls get equal results in most subjects at GCSE 3. Boys and girls are equally likely to pass their A-levels

Facts:1. girls get better results at all levels in national curriculum tests2. girls get better results in most subjects at GCSE3. girls are more likely to pass their A-levels4. women are more likely to go to university. 5. men seem to have most success at the highest levels of university. A higher proportion of males students get first class degrees and PhDs6.Girls tend to go for communication-based subjects like English and sociology and boys tend to go for technical ones like maths and physics.

Sample Question 2
What is the perspective of Mitsos and Browne (1998) on factors inside school regarding why girls are doing better?

Factors inside school - why girls are doing better They believe that teaching has been feminised. women are more likely to be classroom teachers, especially in primary schools. this gives girls positive role models.

They suggest that girls are naturally more academically inclined than boys, resulting in their higher performance.

They propose that schools are inherently biased towards girls, giving them unfair advantages over boys.

They argue that boys are inherently less intelligent than girls, leading to girls outperforming them in school.

Sample Question 3
Factors inside school - why girls are doing betterWhy have textbooks and teaching resources changed?

Factors inside school - why girls are doing betterTextbooks and teaching resources has changes and is less likely to stereotype girls into passive roles.

Factors inside school - why boys are doing better

Factors outside of school - why girls are doing better

Factors outside of school - why boys are doing better

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