Teachers tend to give lower rating
to girls’ maths skills even when their achievement and behavior is similar to
that of boys, likely contributing to the growth in the gender gap in maths, a
US study has found. Beginning in early elementary school boys outperform girls
in math – especially among the highest achievers – continuing a troubling
pattern found in the late 1990s, researchers said. Despite changes in the
educational landscape, this finding suggest that the gender gaps observed among
children who entered kindergarten in 2010 are strikingly similar to what we saw
in children who entered kindergarten in 1998. The study tracked developmental
and educational outcomes of children in the US over time. Data from the study’s
kindergarten class of 1998-1999 showed that boys and girls began kindergarten
with similar math proficiency, but disparities developed by grade 3 with girls
falling behind.
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