UK Study Shows Girls Start School with More Skills
According to a nationwide study of thousands of 5-year-olds in the United Kingdom, boys are two months behind girls on average in their verbal skills and learning ability by their first day of school.
Teachers and parents have long suspected that a learning gap opens up early on between boys and girls, but this was the first study that properly examined and quantified this phenomenon in very young children.
The finding comes in research from the Millennium Cohort Study, which is tracking the development of 15,000 children born in the first two years of this century.
The study involved assessments conducted in each child’s home by trained interviewers. The assessments were designed to measure key information-processing skills. They showed that girls were roughly two months ahead, on average, on each of the three measures.
Teachers and parents have long suspected that a learning gap opens up early on between boys and girls, but this was the first study that properly examined and quantified this phenomenon in very young children.
The finding comes in research from the Millennium Cohort Study, which is tracking the development of 15,000 children born in the first two years of this century.
The study involved assessments conducted in each child’s home by trained interviewers. The assessments were designed to measure key information-processing skills. They showed that girls were roughly two months ahead, on average, on each of the three measures.
posted by Boarding Schools for Girls at 12:50 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home