En væsentlig forklaring på kønsforskellene i elevresultater fokuserer på interaktionerne mellem elever og lærere. Denne undersøgelse viser, at tildeling af en lærere af samme køn forbedrer præstationerne for både piger og drenge samt lærernes opfattelse af elevernes præstationer og engagement i undervisningen.
Titel på undersøgelse:
Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement.
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Hele abstrakt på originalsprog:
A prominent class of explanations for the gender gaps in student outcomes focuses on the interactions between students and teachers. In this study, I examine whether assignment to a same-gender teacher influences student achievement, teacher perceptions of student performance, and student engagement. This study’s identification strategy exploits a unique matchedpairs feature of a major longitudinal study, which provides contemporaneous data on student outcomes in two different subjects. Within-student comparisons indicate that assignment to a same-gender teacher significantly improves the achievement of both girls and boys as well as teacher perceptions of student performance and student engagement with the teacher’s subject.