Neue Studie: Mädchen führen bei Jungen zu schlechteren Noten

Eine brisante britische Studie blieb so gut verborgen, dass auch ich nichts davon mitbekam und erst jetzt durch die Zuschrift eines Lesers auf einen Artikel vom April 2009 aufmerksam gemacht wurde:

Boys do worse in English when there are girls in their class, researchers will say today, contradicting the widely held belief that girls are always a good influence on boys in school.

Boys do best with "as few girls as possible" in English lessons at primary and secondary school, Steven Proud, a research student at Bristol University, will tell the Royal Economic Society's conference.

But when it comes to maths and science, both boys and girls at primary school achieve up to a tenth of a grade more when there is a high proportion of girls in the class, Proud found.

Proud tracked boys' and girls' test results at the ages of seven, 11, 14 and 16 in 16,000 schools in England between 2002 and 2004 for his PhD. (…)

The more girls there are in an English class, the worse boys perform. This is particularly the case in primary schools, he discovered.

Hier findet man den vollständigen Beitrag.