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... This relates directly to work covered in my class on gender and attainment in education. ...
Context and Concepts (388 words)
As educational attainment is a key idea, it is important that I specify how I will define it; the number of pass grades or fails a student has obtained in external examinations such as GCSEs. When scrutinising gender and levels of academic attainment, it is apparent that girls have been outperforming boys in GCSEs over the past ten years. ...
Sue Sharpe found a possible reason for the increase in girls educational attainment. ... Thus Sharpe argued that if girls saw their future mainly in terms of marriage as a pose to a career, then they might have had little incentive to try and achieve high educational standards. ... Therefore these changes may help explain why the educational achievement of girls is now greater than that of boys. ... Thus these different educational expectations of different genders is very consequential in this study. ... A stratified random sample will be used as this method is more accurate than random sampling since it specifies certain features of the sampled individuals, namely their gender. As well as this I also need to identify variables such as ethnicity and social class as these will also affect educational attainment in some way, even though these variables arent the main focus of my study, they need to be considered. ...
Obviously it is not going to be straightforward, as there is no actual way of measuring the effects or extent of teacher labelling and gender stereotyping.
Approximate Word count = 1145
Approximate Pages = 4.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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