There has been much debate about the underachievement of boys in the United Kingdom (UK), fuelled by continuing evidence that shows girls achieving better than boys in most exams, and boys continuing to dominate special needs education and school exclusions. Various theories have emerged, with boys’ poor performance being attributed to a changing economic infrastructure, to the results of poor ...

BACKGROUND The lunchtime and after-school contexts are critical windows in a school day for children to be physically active. While numerous studies have investigated correlates of children's habitual physical activity, few have explored correlates of physical activity occurring at lunchtime and after-school from a social-ecological perspective. Exploring correlates that influence physical acti...

This longitudinal study examined how school belonging changes over the years of high school, and how it is associated with academic achievement and motivation. Students from Latin American, Asian, and European backgrounds participated (N = 572; age span = 13.94-19.15 years). In ninth grade, girls' school belonging was higher than boys'. Over the course of high school, however, girls' school bel...

background : various studies have indicated that dyslipidemia starts in childhood. there is a relationship between the concentration of blood lipids and atherosclerosis. in this study, we assessed the prevalence of dyslipidemia in elementary school children. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on 1,626 (882 girls and 744 boys) elementary school children aged between 6 and 11 years...

ôbjective: previous studies have suggested that anxiety disorders are more prevalent among women than men. the purpose of this study was to compare the metacognitive perspective of generalized ânxiety disorder (gâd) in females with males. methods: â cross sectional study was conducted on the high school girls and boys who have been affected by gâd. the sample consisted of 100 high school studen...

The major purpose of this study was to assess the effect type school on level students’ academic achievement in Marakwet East Sub County.
 Academic achievements secondary schools have remained low with disaprities between boys and girls Sub-County. 
 utilized Causal comparative approach. undertaken Public Secondary Schools East, Elgeyo County Kenya January 2021 February 2021.
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The main aim of this research was to investigate the prevalence of bullies and victims and the types and places of bullying. A questionnaire on bullying was completed by 113 girls and 125 boys in a middle school in Rome (aged 11-14 years). Over half of all students had bullied others in the previous 3 months, and nearly half had been bullied. Boys bullied more than girls, and both boys and girl...

Recent studies [10, 23] using US nationwide databases showed high school boys spent significantly less time doing homework than girls, based on their responses to questionnaires and surveys. To investigate gender differences in homework in middle school, in this paper, we analyzed computer log data and standardized test scores of more than 1,000 7 grade students who participated in a large-scal...