Surveying gender differences in Canadian school literacy

Autor:	Darryl Hunter, Trevor Gambell
Rok vydání:	2000
Předmět:	Council of Ministers Literacy education media_common.quotation_subject education Survey result Literacy Education Educational research Literacy test Writing skills Reading (process) Pedagogy Sociology media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Curriculum Studies. 32:689-719
ISSN:	1366-5839 0022-0272
DOI:	10.1080/00220270050116941
Popis:	Student survey results from Canada's first, national, large-scale assessment of school literacy are analysed for explanations of gender differences in reading and writing skills found in this and other recent Canadian large-scale assessments. Using findings from the 1994 Council of Ministers of Education, Canada School Achievement Indicators Programme, we explore English-Canadian adolescents' literacy preferences, attitudes and practices. Five models derived from recent literacy education and related educational research are posited as potential explanations for female superiority in literacy test results: 'division of family labour', 'character-personification', 'classroom interaction', 'assessment bias' and 'identification with genre'. The assumptions underlying these models are examined in light of the Council of Ministers of Education's study.
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