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Saving Our Boys - Primary Schools To Try New Teaching Methods As Girls Continue To Outperform Boys At GSAT
Published: Sunday | July 20, 2014
Anjolie Hull (left) and Sjaunbonet Watson show off their Grade Six Achievement Test results at the Naggo Head Primary School in Portmore. - File
Tyrone Thompson, Staff Reporter
A grade-six classroom exclusive to boys and specialised teaching designed for them are just two of the measures to be introduced by some primary schools in the next school year as they try to reverse the trend of girls out-performing boys in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT).
The latest GSAT results have shown a continuation of the trend where girls at the primary level are outperforming the boys in every subject area.
Figures released by the Ministry of Education (MOE) show that the average grades received by boys were lower than the girls, in some instances by as much as seven percentage points.
Published: Sunday | July 20, 2014
Anjolie Hull (left) and Sjaunbonet Watson show off their Grade Six Achievement Test results at the Naggo Head Primary School in Portmore. - File
Tyrone Thompson, Staff Reporter
A grade-six classroom exclusive to boys and specialised teaching designed for them are just two of the measures to be introduced by some primary schools in the next school year as they try to reverse the trend of girls out-performing boys in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT).
The latest GSAT results have shown a continuation of the trend where girls at the primary level are outperforming the boys in every subject area.
Figures released by the Ministry of Education (MOE) show that the average grades received by boys were lower than the girls, in some instances by as much as seven percentage points.
