By John Radford
Regardless of a long time of equality of selection, girls and boys proceed to vary in either the topics they learn in class and later within the careers they choose to pursue. during this number of papers by way of major researchers from educational and practitioner backgrounds, the present facts from various fields is reviewed. Drawing on either their very own unique examine and that of others, the participants examine issues as assorted as topic selection in secondary institution, adjustments in mind features among the sexes, the comparability of guys and girls in administration and recruiting girls to technology and expertise.
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The liking of girls for the software only equalled that of boys when it was used collaboratively and for activities with some personal relevance. Familiarity with tasks and materials has been found to increase the performance of girls on science practical tasks. Toh (1993) examined the performance of 13year-old boys and girls matched for attitude, aptitude and prior knowledge on three problem-solving tasks. Girls outperformed boys when the tasks were familiar as a result of pre-exposure. Structured teaching has also been found to encourage girls, as demonstrated by Arch and Cummins (1989) who compared two forms of introduction to computers: structured training in class vs.
Much attention has been paid especially to the low take-up of sciences and technologies (with certain significant exceptions) by women. Pauline Lightbody and Alan Durndell relate this to the career aspirations of school children, which in turn involve their views both of what they are and what they can do, and of the nature of subjects and careers. They suggest ways in which both these aspects might be altered so as to make a wider range of opportunity open to both women and men. Despite an overall rise in the proportion of undergraduates that are female, courses in the physical sciences and technology have failed to attract female students in large numbers.
The whole issue of the advantages and disadvantages of single-sex vs. mixed secondary education has recently come to prominence in the UK due to the publication of examination result league tables which have shown that singlesex schools, particularly girls’ schools, are over-represented at the top of the leagues for both the GCSE results of 16-year-olds and for the A level results of 18-year-olds. One issue which has been resurrected as a result of these data is that of the potential benefits of single-sex education for girls in particular.