Why boys achieve less at school than girls: the difference between boys' and girls' academic culture
By M. Van Houtte. 2004
299 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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In Education
- Jessica L Degol
- Birgit Spinath
- Aljoscha C. Neubauer
- R. Steinmayr
- H. Freudenthaler
- M. Warrington
- Mike Younger
- Ming-Te Wang
In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- R. Steinmayr
- Birgit Spinath
- Aljoscha C. Neubauer
- Jessica L Degol
- H. Freudenthaler
- Ming-Te Wang
- B. Carrington
- A. Mcphee
Citations in the corpus
- Sex differences in school achievement: what are the roles of personality and achievement motivation? (2008, background): “Van Houtte (2004) presented academic culture as a mediator variable in the association between gender and academic achievement.”
- Motivational Pathways to STEM Career Choices: Using Expectancy-Value Perspective to Understand Individual and Gender Differences in STEM Fields. (2013, background): “Girls have closer and smaller networks of friends, whereas boys have wider networks of friends with whom they are less emotionally involved (Davies & Kandel, 1981; Giordano, 2003; Van Houtte, 2004).”
- Boys' ‘underachievement’ and the feminization of teaching (2008, background): “Concerns about boys’ underachievement have also been voiced in other parts of Europe (e.g., Van der Gaer et al. 2006), Australia (e.g., Mills, Martino, and Lingard 2007), Canada (Sokal et al. 2007), Argentina (Fishman 2007) and the United States (Stroud et al. 2000).”
- Raising boys' achievement (2005, background): “…research suggested that boys' culture was less studyoriented than girls' and that this impacted upon achievement levels in secondary schooling (Van Houtte, 2004); in Sweden, there has been a concern with the need to develop boys' social competence and democratic understanding (Ohrn, 2001); in…”
- Predicting school achievement in boys and girls (2008, background): “It has been argued that girls’ gender-specific peer culture is more compatible with good school performance than boys’ culture (Van Houtte, 2004).”