Gender in education

In the past, boys were more likely to receive education than girls

• True

• False

Daughters were to go to school and work in the past.

• True

• False

What is the Millennium Development Goal's aim?

• To make sure girls are favoured more than boys in schools

• To achieve universal education and emphasises on the education of girls

• To ensure that boys don't go to school with girls since they are lazy

• To give girls more opportunities than boys since they are more motivated

In the past subjects were divided according to what?

• None of the above

• Gender

• Assumptions about their future careers

• Both

Boys achieve well in education as a result of their underestimation of their ability.

• True

• False

Boys underachieve in education as they overestimate their ability to do well and therefore don’t work hard in school

• True

• False

Boys have better attitudes towards education as they have an increasing amount of successful role models.

• True

• False

What is it called when Boys’ attitudes are tolerated by teachers and figures of authority around them?

• Gender bias

• Laddish behaviour

• Broken windows theory

• None

Girls have many ambitions that aren’t realistic and don’t require educational success

• True

• False

Boys educational careers don’t progress outside the classroom, halting their progress in the classroom

• True

• False