Evaluation:
Published: 12.10.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Gender In Education', 1.
  • Essays 'Gender In Education', 2.
  • Essays 'Gender In Education', 3.
  • Essays 'Gender In Education', 4.
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Gender, what does it tell us? It doesn't furnish as much information as previously theorized. One's sex does provide details of biological makeup, but it isn't a predictor of an individual's interests, emotional characteristics, or academic skills and abilities, as we were once led to believe. In fact, girls as a group and boys as a group are more alike than they are different, but research design and theory is based on the concept of "statistically significant differences" instead of similarities, so many misconceptions still exist today.
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