Study: Do schools affect girls’ and boys’ reading performance differently?

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Link: Do schools affect girls’ and boys’ reading performance differently? A multilevel study on the gendered effects of school resources and school practices

 

Abstract:

 

...This study investigated how school resources, being schools’ socioeconomic composition, proportion of girls, and proportion of highly educated teachers, and school practices, being schools’ application of well-rounded assessment methods, influenced girls’ and boys’ reading performance differently. We hypothesised that positive effects of school resources would be greater for boys than for girls, and that more frequent use of well-rounded assessment methods would be associated with increased girls’ and decreased boys’ reading performance...

 

Conclusion:

 

...We found that schools with more than 60% girls, a large proportion of students with highly educated parents, and a large proportion of college-educated teachers had higher scoring students on the 2009 PISA reading test. Boys particularly seemed to be positively affected by a high proportion of female students in a school...