Ethnic and gender differences in educational achievement and implications for school improvement strategies

By Feyisa Demie. 2001

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The development of early numeracy skills in kindergarten in low-, average- and high-performance groups (2015, background): “…of gender differences in this age group across the samples measured in terms of different mathematical skills (Aubrey and Godfrey, 2003; Aunola et al., 2004; Boardman, 2006; Carr and Jessup, 1997; Demie, 2001; Fennema et al., 1998; Gorard et al., 2001; Jordan et al., 2006; Strand, 1997, 1999).”
Effective Teaching and Learning for Pupils in Low Attaining Groups (2007, background): “This not only shows some persistent patterns of poor educational outcomes for pupils from low socio-economic groups, minority ethnic groups and boys, studies also indicate differentiated experiences of schooling and the over-representation in low attainment sets (Cooper and Dunne, 2000; Gillborn & M”
Predicting children's mathematical performance in grade one by early numeracy (2010, result): “The finding of no clear gender differences in any of our mathematical tasks is in contrast with the results reported from the British Key Stage 1 studies (Demie, 2001; Gorard et al., 2001; Strand, 1997, 1999) and with studies on younger children (e.”
Within- and Cross-Language Relations Between Oral Language Proficiency and School Outcomes in Bilingual Children With an Immigrant Background (2016, background): “Girls outperform boys in language skills and academic achievement (Bouchard, Trudeau, Sutton, Boudreault, & Deneault, 2009; Demie, 2001).”
Children’s early numeracy in England, Finland and People’s Republic of China (2008, background): “The researchers analysing the English National Curriculum Key Stage 1 measurements (children aged four to seven years) have mostly reported girls outperforming boys in basic arithmetic (Demie 2001; Gorard, Rees, and Salisbury 2001; Strand 1997, 1999).”
Mathematics performance and the role played by affective and background factors peter grootenboer and brian hemmings (2007, background): “Research conducted in a range of countries has shown that the dominant ethnic group achieves better in mathematics than indigenous or minority groups (Bouchey & Harter, 2005; Demie, 2001; Ladson-Billings, 1997; Rothman & McMillan, 2004; Tate & D’Ambrosio, 1997).”