Are boys that bad? Gender gaps in measured skills, grades and aspirations in Czech elementary schools

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F26585499%3A_____%2F13%3A%230000011" target="_blank" >RIV/26585499:_____/13:#0000011 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/26138077:_____/14:#0000626
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2013.874278" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2013.874278</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2013.874278" target="_blank" >10.1080/01425692.2013.874278</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Are boys that bad? Gender gaps in measured skills, grades and aspirations in Czech elementary schools
Original language description
This article examines gender gaps in academic performance (grades in mathematics and reading) between boys and girls of ninth-grade elementary schools in the Czech Republic. Our analysis is based on 2003 data from the Programme for International StudentAssessment, encompassing the academic performance and family background of ninth-grade pupils. Similar to research on other countries, we find that girls strongly outperform boys in grades in Czech language, but that this gender gap is not explained by measured ability in reading nor on family background or student attributes. We also find gender bias in mathematics grades, after controlling for measured ability and other factors. Girls are also substantially more likely than boys to apply to secondarygrammar schools, as well as aspire to a college education, even after controlling for measured ability. We put forward a number of theoretical perspectives that shed light on the possible causes of these empirical findings.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AO - Sociology, demography
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GCP404%2F12%2FJ006" target="_blank" >GCP404/12/J006: Educational Stratification in Taiwan and the Czech Republic: Accessibility of and Heterogeneous Returns to Higher Education</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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