Why do girls succeed more over boys?

1. Ensuring Student Success
Rhiannon McDougall
Nicola Farley

2. How Does Gender
Impact on the
Notions of Success
and Achievement?
Dimensions of Learning 4 Process
Problem Solving - Overcoming
constraints or limiting conditions that
are in the way of pursing goals

3. Sexism is a problem that has been identified in
schooling in not just Australia, but many countries
around the world. The Melbourne Declaration states
that teachers must “provide all students with access
to high-quality schooling that is free from
discrimination based on gender, language, sexual
orientation, pregnancy, culture, ethnicity, religion,
health or disability, socioeconomic background or
geographic location.” Ministerial Council on
Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs
(2008).

4. Year 3 2013
NAPLAN results
in Reading
Year 5 2013
NAPLAN results
in Grammar
Year 7 2013
NAPLAN results
in Writing
Male students performed an mean score of 411.3, whereas
female students performed a mean score of 427.1
Male students performed an mean score of 492.4, whereas
female students performed a mean score of 509.2
Male students performed an mean score of 499.9, whereas
female students performed a mean score of 534.8

5. Graphic Organiser for Problem Solving
Goal: To identify and remedy
the reasons behind male
students not performing as
well as female students.
Constraint/ Limiting Condition:
Male Student’s poor organisation skills..
Lack of Parental support in male
students schooling career.
Poor task design by educators.
Solution #1:
Demonstrate and
Instruct Male
Students efficient
organisation
systems.
Solution #2:
Task design by
educators that
takes into account
male students
processing abilities.
Solution #3:
Create a school /
home balance using
the ‘You Care, We
Care Program’
program.
Problem Solved: Solution has
been identified and resource
created to aid educators,
guardians and parents of male
students to achieve in school.
Selected Solution: Create a “You Care, We
Care’ Program to support parents and
guardians of male students and to educate
them in the importance of encouragement,
aspirations, organisations skills, academic
responsibility and provides resources to build
important academic skills.
Try another solution: By creating a “You Care, We
Care’ program, resources will be made available to
educators to aid them in organisational skills and
better task design for males student’s processing
abilities.
Problem: Boys do not perform as well as girls in the classroom

6. Organisation Skills
• Attentiveness
• Task persistence
• Eagerness to learn
• Learning independence
• Flexibility
• Organisation

7. Case Study
Gender Boys Girls
Organisation
Skills Poor Average Excellent Poor Average Excellent
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8. Organisation Skills

9. Home / School Balance
“The most accurate predictor of a student's
achievement is not income or social status but
the extent to which that student's family is able
to create a home environment that encourages
learning, express high expectations for their
children's achievement and future careers and
become involved in their children's education.”

10. You Care, We Care
Through the Problem Solving process we
created a blog called You Care, We Care,
which gives students, parents, guardians
and educators tips, tricks and resources to
ensure student success.
Click the text above to visit the blog.

11. You Care, We Care

12. You Care, We Care

13. Task Design
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14. S.M.A.R.T Tasks

15. Task Design
Work Samples
Rubrics
Checklists
Planning
Task Organisation
S.M.A.R.T Tasks

17. References
Education.com, (2013). The Benefits of Parent Involvement: What Research Has to Say. Retrieved
from: http://www.education.com/reference/article/benefits-parent-involvement-research/
Education Scotland (n.d). Research Summary – Gender in Education. Retrieved from
http://www.journeytoexcellence.org.uk/resourcesandcpd/research/summaries/rsgenderineducation.a
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Marzano, R., & Pickering, D. (1997). Dimensions Of Learning Teacher’s Manual (2nd ed.). Denver,
Colorado: Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning.
Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs . (2008). Melbourne
Declaration on Education Goals for young Australians. Retrieved from
http://moodle.cqu.edu.au/pluginfile.php/596408/mod_book/chapter/12257/Melbourne
%20Declaration.pdf
National Assessment Program. (2014). NAPLAN Test Results and Reports. Retrieved from
http://www.nap.edu.au/results-and-reports/test-results.html
The American Psychological Association, (2014). Female students Make Higher Grades than Male
students in All School Subjects. Retrieved from:
http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/female students-grades.aspx
Wood, J. (2013). Why Female students Do Better in School. Retrieved from
http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/01/05/why-female students-do-better-in-school/50050.html