When comparing students who have identical subject-specific competence, teachers are more likely to give higher grades to girls. Furthermore, they demonstrate that this grading premium favoring girls is systemic, as teacher and classroom characteristics play a negligible role in reducing it.

RSDevotion1 · 2022-10-23T23:10:14+00:00

Our analytical sample includes 38,957 students with valid information for the variables included in the analysis.

Significant_Lake2986 · 2022-10-24T05:23:17+00:00

Another example of the Women are Wonderful effect.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1991.tb00792.x

BitsAndBobs304 · 2022-10-23T23:35:11+00:00

yup. Pygmalion effect on top of everything else

byebyecivilrights · 2022-10-24T14:15:35+00:00

This is so interesting because I've read multiple studies stating that boys are called on in class more, leading to them participating and speaking much more in class than girls. But for some reason that effect changes when it comes to grades. The potential answers I saw in the paper seem to be:

Girls demonstrate "precision, order, modesty, and quietness" and these behaviors lead to higher grades
"Teachers wish to avoid possible discrimination against girls as an ability-stigmatized group"
The information from the study came from midterms and it's possible teachers give boys bad scores to trigger them to try harder and girls good scores to encourage them to try harder

IMO it's most likely the first one. Boys and girls are of course equally likely to be intelligent students, but in my own personal experience, girls are more likely to be good students (per example 1 above). Boys are (again in my own personal experience) more likely to be loud, disruptive, and unserious. Even one class demonstrating these traits can lead to an unconscious belief that "boys are rowdy" and "girls are polite", which can lead to biased grading in the future.

DustinZA_7 · 2022-10-28T16:12:03+00:00

This is why Boys tend to preform very well at an All Boys School

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