Gender stereotypes at home may hamper female students’ ability to progress in the classroom, research suggests
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Gender stereotypes at home may hamper female students’ ability to progress in the classroom, research suggests
Archived version: https://archive.ph/YJ1RU
Hmm. In my personal experience as a teacher, parents overestimate all skills of their children if their child is talkative and extroverted. The silent children are the ones mostly underestimated. Maybe the girls are generally just more silent and therefore underestimated more?
That does rather beg the question of whether boys or girls are encouraged to be loud.
But maybe they’re just picking up on teachers’ biases? Teachers Give Lower Math Scores to Girls