EDUC 642 Presentation: Analysis of Gender Performance in Education

This presentation examines the differences in academic performance between boys and girls, exploring the scope of school education, gender-based performance disparities, and the roles of teachers and teaching leadership. It highlights the importance of gender parity in education, providing evidence of these differences and offering insights into student behavior and preferences. The presentation also suggests strategies to improve student achievement, such as promoting equal opportunities, encouraging mixed-gender teamwork, and ensuring fair evaluation. The presentation references the importance of equal attention from teachers regardless of gender and inclusion of teachers of both genders. The presentation references key elements from the assignment brief such as data analysis and PARCC results, providing a comprehensive overview of the topic and practical recommendations for educators to foster a more inclusive and effective learning environment. The presentation concludes with references used in the analysis.

Student Development
Difference in Performance of Boys and Girls

Introduction
This paper will discuss:
• Scope of School Education
• Difference in gender wise performance
• Role of teachers
• Teaching Leadership
• Education parity
• Differences
• Study inferences

Scope of School Education
• Schools are facilities that provide education in three levels
• The levels are: Primary, Middle school and High School
• Faculty must have competency of providing quality
education
• Incidence of Ragging hinders smooth nature of outcomes
• Girls are found to be more prosperous than boys in
education

Difference in Gender based performance
• It has been found that girls are more prosperous than boys
• There might be a number of reasons behind the same.
• As per statistic girls are way ahead than boys
• It might be due to role of teachers
• Might be due to the nature of activities carried out by the
latters
• The presentation will throw light on the same.

Role of teachers
• Teachers have one of the most important roles in education
• It is their role to help in terms of carrying out activities that
bolster the effectiveness of operations.
• Thus they have to help in identifying flaws in student’s
education.
• There must be equal attention paid to each pupil
• The latter must contact the parents if necessary.

Teaching Leadership
• Teachers are should display
leadership in providing education
• Even if they cannot control
completely, they should take
charge
• Teacher should instate authority
• Lead by example and influence
pupils to prosper
• Monitoring and intervention is yet
another key role
• Give equal attention

Activities to be avoided by teacher
Following are the activities to be avoided by teachers
• Discrimination on the basis of gender, age, race or ethnicity
• Un-equal attention
• Favoritism: being partial to one student over another
• Pressurizing students0 regardless of merit or capability
• Targeting students that refers to targeting individual
students due to personal conflicts

Gender parity in education
• Equal opportunities provided to
both boys and girls
• Equality in the number of boys
and girls in classes
• Equality in terms of achievement
of girls and boys
• Parity in terms of performance in
the classrooms

Evidence of gender parity
Attendance of both girls and boys in
classes.
The frequency of boys and girls
repeating same standards.
The mean number of years that
pupils of boteh the gender attend
classes.
The transition of both genders from
one level to another.
Distribution of girls and boys in
each class
The ratio of poor: favorable
performance

Justifying differences: Attention in class
Girls
• Tend to be more attentive in class
• Tend to clarify and ask question
• Likely to take notes
• High levels of interest in studies
Boys
• Tend to be less attentive.
• Tend to refrain from asking questions
• Less likely to take notes.
• Interested in sports, video games
and superheroes, etc.

Justifying differences: Behavior
Girls
Girls tend to have selective
friends.
While girls are involved in
sports their participation in
physically grueling activities
is comparatively less.
Tend to be more indoors than
outdoors.
Boys
Boys tend to part of large
groups
Tend to be inclined to
physical activities such as
sports.
Inclined towards outdoor
activities