Hello, Quoting a feminist source is hardly unbiassed or particularly useful. The quotation of Frank Pajares does not even address actual ability, since the gender-reversal version of the article indicates that overconfidence translates to greater success at school.
The original article did not seem to acknowledge or take into account that some 90% of our mathematical prodigies are men, that a large majority of mathematical PhDs are gained by men, or that the best engineers are overwhelmingly men. Perhaps the boys knew something that the schools and researchers didn't? The gender of our creative geniuses in literature also suggests girls might be overconfident in this area. For most areas where someone might use school "success" as a measure of innate ability, it is also possible to use independent intellectual accomplishments as a measure of ability. Cheers, Vincent Patrick Gerry Orkin wrote: > > "In areas related to language arts, male and female students > exhibit similar confidence despite the fact that the achievement of > female students is typically greater". > > Frank Pajares is your man for this stuff. The above is from Pajares, > F, Gender and perceived self-efficacy in self-regulated learning, > Theory Into Practice, Spring-Autumn, 2002. > > Gerry which followed on from: > ---------------------------------------- > > Bravado puts girls in language fast lane > > Girls have an overinflated sense of their language ability compared with > boys and their overconfidence translates to greater success in school. > > A study of 1323 girls and boys at three co-educational high schools in > Sydney has found girls and boys are equally competent in language. > > Boys were found to be less interested and less confident, but more > realistic about their abilities than girls, who overrated their > competence. That overconfidence led to more girls choosing more > difficult language subjects for the HSC and aiming towards high-status > language-related careers. > > Dr Harry Watt, of Monash University, said his three-year study of Sydney > students in years 7 to 11 suggested boys needed to be told they were > just as capable as girls. Strategies to increase boys' participation > could include linking language to technical uses, such as science, he said. > > Andrew Patty ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/lOt0.A/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/pyIolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boysed/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boysed/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
