Elementary Teacher STEM gender bias

jeudi 12 février 2015

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WOW, just WOW. I would never have thought that the following sentence would be true.




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Miller said researchers, who conducted the study in Israel, found girls outscored boys when graded anonymously. However, when teachers knew the name of the children, boys outscored girls. Young girls who are dissuaded were found to be much less likely to pursue advanced STEM courses later in life.




I thought that boys brains matured intellectually later and that is why girls did better in elementary school than boys. This seems to say even if girls do better that they are dissuaded by bias.





Elementary Teacher STEM gender bias

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