Whos Smarter? Boys or Girls?!

Who’s Smarter? Boys or Girls?! brain image An age old debate that has gone on for years! But answer is there a reason? Is it genetic? Is it down to how much attention we pay or how hard we try? Some people also believe the disparities occur because they believe that boys and girls all learn in different ways. http://www.preaching.com/resources/articles/11677889 https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/219053/sfr18-2011v5.xls this link is to a series of tables showing Key Stage 2 results between 2007-2011 that show consistently that girls have a higher achievement rate than boys. There is a lot more Gender disparity in other regions around world, a lot of the results are frightening! http://en.unesco.org/gem-report/gender_data2015/  this link shows the differences in 3 education sectors across 4 different regions around the world. Lots of reports have been written to say that boys are falling behind girls some say this is happening as young as the age of 5! Can this be true? http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/211069/Boys-are-falling-behind-girls-at-school-by-the-age-of-seven A lot of the reports found that money plays a big part in education and the disparities as well and that students from poorer families do not fare as well as the students from richer families.  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11705302/Boys-left-behind-girls-at-school-from-just-age-five.html As you can see from the reports in the links girls are consistently ahead of boys when it comes to achievement but why is this? We have already looked at reports as to the differences and that some of these suggest that money plays a part in the differences seen while others suggest that it’s the fact that boys and girls learn differently. A BBC  report http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/parents/learning_development_girls_boys/ found that girls and boys brains are not that different in the way they learn but that boys and girls develop different characteristics and these are what help them learn different skills quicker and can cause the disparities. This report also says that when it gets to students taking their GCSE’s the coursework that is involved helps create the disparity of girls getting higher grades as it claims that they prefer the continuous marking scheme that comes with completing coursework.