Tackling educational inequalities with social psychology: Identities, contexts, and interventions

MJ Easterbrook, IR Hadden - Social Issues and Policy Review, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Some groups of students—typically those who have suffered because of historical inequality
in society—disproportionately experience psychological barriers to educational success …

Gender gaps in Mathematics and Language: The bias of competitive achievement tests

O Arias, C Canals, A Mizala, F Meneses - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
This research paper examines the extent to which high-stakes competitive tests affect
gender gaps in standardized tests of Mathematics and Language. To this end, we estimate …

Gender-specific teacher expectations in reading—The role of teachers' gender stereotypes

F Muntoni, J Retelsdorf - Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2018 - Elsevier
This study focused on how teachers' gender stereotypes are connected to teacher
expectations, and examined the relations between students' gender, teachers' gender …

Beware of stereotypes: are classmates' stereotypes associated with students' reading outcomes?

F Muntoni, J Wagner, J Retelsdorf - Child development, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This study examined the associations between classmates' reading‐related gender
stereotypes and students' reading self‐efficacy, self‐concept, motivation, and achievement …

Pygmalion and the gender gap: Do teacher expectations contribute to differences in achievement between boys and girls at the beginning of schooling?

S Gentrup, C Rjosk - Educational Research and Evaluation, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This study examined the role of teacher expectations in the emerging gender gaps in
reading and mathematics in the first year of schooling. Therefore, we first investigated …

Mapping and explaining the gender gap in students' second language proficiency across skills, countries and languages

K Denies, L Heyvaert, J Dockx, R Janssen - Learning and Instruction, 2022 - Elsevier
This study discusses the generalizability of gender differences in the second language
competences of European adolescents across three languages, three skills and fourteen …

[HTML][HTML] At their children's expense: How parents' gender stereotypes affect their children's reading outcomes

F Muntoni, J Retelsdorf - Learning and Instruction, 2019 - Elsevier
Following expectancy-value theory, we investigated the role parents' reading-related gender
stereotypes favoring girls play in explaining students' reading-related competence beliefs …

A bibliometric review study on reading literacy over fourteen years

X Lan, Z Yu - Education Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Reading literacy has been considered one of the essential vital competencies in modern
society and has thus gained increasing attention in research. With both qualitative and …

Top-performing math students in 82 countries: An integrative data analysis of gender differences in achievement, achievement profiles, and achievement motivation.

L Keller, F Preckel, JS Eccles… - Journal of Educational …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
The present integrative data analysis examined gender differences in achievement,
achievement profiles, and achievement motivation in mathematics, reading, and science …

Student and school SES, gender, strategy use, and achievement

GL Callan, GJ Marchant, WH Finch… - Psychology in the …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A multilevel mediated regression model was fit to Programme for International Student
Assessment achievement, strategy use, gender, and family‐and school‐level …