School Context and the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement

School Quality and the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement

Students’ Perceived Classroom Climate and Their Achievement Goal Orientations in an Iranian EFL Context

Classroom climate has been demonstrated to associate with individuals’ various attributes and outcomes. Recent research has also confirmed students’ goal orientations deserving to be recognized as a significant achievement-related outcome. In this line, the current study intended to examine the relationship between Iranian EFL students’ perceptions of their classroom environment and their achie...

The Relationship between High School Students\' Social Capital and Their Foreign Language Achievement: A Gender and Regional Variations Perspective

This study aimed to compare the underlying measures of male and female high- school students’ social capital in terms of regional variations and gender and investigate the relationship between those measures and the students' foreign language (FL) achievement. To this end, a number of 904 third-grader high school students (278 male and 626 female) from two educational district...

School Allocation Policy and the Reverse Gender Gap in Academic Achievement: Evidence from a Quasi-experiment in Hong Kong

This paper examines the impact of school allocation policy on gender disparity in academic achievement in Hong Kong, using a major policy shift in 2002 as a quasi-experiment. Based on two waves of data from TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) in 2003 and 2007 and the difference-in-differences (DID) method, we present strong evidence that the policy change towards equal...

Do children perform and behave better at school when taught by same-gender teachers?

a r t i c l e i n f o An increase in the educational achievement of girls at the same time that the number of female teachers in primary school education is rising has led to the discussion whether boys are disadvantaged by the lack of male teachers. The Netherlands Twin Register identified a unique sample of 100 12-year-old monozygotic twin pairs discordant and 396 boy–girl twin pairs concorda...

Social/Behavioral Skills and the Gender Gap in Early Educational Achievement

Though many studies have suggested that social and behavioral skills play a central role in gender stratification processes, we know little about the extent to which these skills affect gender gaps in academic achievement. Analyzing data from the Early Child Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort, we demonstrate that social and behavioral skills have substantively important effects on academic ...