What Explains Boys’ Educational Underachievement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia?
This paper examines the factors that are associated with boys’ underachievement in mathematics and science in Saudi Arabia, where students attend gender-segregated schools from grade 1 onward, as well as student achievement in these two subjects in...
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okr-10986-368172022-01-14T05:10:34Z What Explains Boys’ Educational Underachievement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? Elsayed, Mahmoud A.A. Clerkin, Aidan Pitsia, Vasiliki Aljabri, Nayyaf Al-Harbi, Khaleel STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT GENDER GAP BOYS' UNDERPERFORMANCE UNDERACHIEVEMENT EDUCATION ABSENTEEISM This paper examines the factors that are associated with boys’ underachievement in mathematics and science in Saudi Arabia, where students attend gender-segregated schools from grade 1 onward, as well as student achievement in these two subjects in grades 4 and 8 more generally. The paper employs data from two recent large-scale assessments of education: Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study 2019 and Saudi Arabia’s National Assessment of Learning Outcomes 2018. The results suggest that in grade 4, school climate was more strongly associated with boys' compared with girls' achievement in both mathematics and science, with boys attending schools of poorer school climate having a considerably lower performance compared with girls attending such schools. The findings also indicate that although greater literacy and numeracy readiness was linked with higher science achievement among boys and girls, grade 4 boys tended to benefit more from this readiness than girls. In addition, the results show that student absenteeism in grade 4 is particularly strongly associated with decreases in mathematics achievement among boys. In grade 8, interactions between student gender and students’ confidence in science, the degree of schools’ emphasis on academic success, and teachers’ age are observed. The paper concludes by discussing some of the implications of these findings for educators and policy makers in Saudi Arabia. 2022-01-13T14:49:44Z 2022-01-13T14:49:44Z 2022-01 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/869831641824797078/What-Explains-Boys-Educational-Underachievement-in-the-Kingdom-of-Saudi-Arabia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36817 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9896 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Middle East and North Africa Saudi Arabia |
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STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT GENDER GAP BOYS' UNDERPERFORMANCE UNDERACHIEVEMENT EDUCATION ABSENTEEISM Elsayed, Mahmoud A.A. Clerkin, Aidan Pitsia, Vasiliki Aljabri, Nayyaf Al-Harbi, Khaleel What Explains Boys’ Educational Underachievement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? |
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This paper examines the factors that
are associated with boys’ underachievement in mathematics
and science in Saudi Arabia, where students attend
gender-segregated schools from grade 1 onward, as well as
student achievement in these two subjects in grades 4 and 8
more generally. The paper employs data from two recent
large-scale assessments of education: Trends in
International Mathematics and Science Study 2019 and Saudi
Arabia’s National Assessment of Learning Outcomes 2018. The
results suggest that in grade 4, school climate was more
strongly associated with boys' compared with
girls' achievement in both mathematics and science,
with boys attending schools of poorer school climate having
a considerably lower performance compared with girls
attending such schools. The findings also indicate that
although greater literacy and numeracy readiness was linked
with higher science achievement among boys and girls, grade
4 boys tended to benefit more from this readiness than
girls. In addition, the results show that student
absenteeism in grade 4 is particularly strongly associated
with decreases in mathematics achievement among boys. In
grade 8, interactions between student gender and students’
confidence in science, the degree of schools’ emphasis on
academic success, and teachers’ age are observed. The paper
concludes by discussing some of the implications of these
findings for educators and policy makers in Saudi Arabia. |
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Elsayed, Mahmoud A.A. Clerkin, Aidan Pitsia, Vasiliki Aljabri, Nayyaf Al-Harbi, Khaleel |
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Elsayed, Mahmoud A.A. Clerkin, Aidan Pitsia, Vasiliki Aljabri, Nayyaf Al-Harbi, Khaleel |
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Elsayed, Mahmoud A.A. |
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What Explains Boys’ Educational Underachievement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? |
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What Explains Boys’ Educational Underachievement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? |
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What Explains Boys’ Educational Underachievement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? |
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What Explains Boys’ Educational Underachievement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? |
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What Explains Boys’ Educational Underachievement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? |
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what explains boys’ educational underachievement in the kingdom of saudi arabia? |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2022 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/869831641824797078/What-Explains-Boys-Educational-Underachievement-in-the-Kingdom-of-Saudi-Arabia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36817 |
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