Your GPA and Detentions

Background Research

The Iowa State Department of Residence Research Office found that females tend to have significantly higher GPAs than males. According the the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, studies have found that gender is not a good predictor of academic performance, the relationship between sex and quantitative skills is .1 or a very weak relationship. Duckworth and Seligman from the University of Pennsylvania found that girls tend to have higher GPAs than their IQ scores would suggest while boys have lower GPAs compared to their IQ scores. A news article from CBS reports that the number of girls in AP classes is greater than the number of boys, the rate of girls graduating from college is increasing while the rate of boys graduating from college is decreasing. Boys are encouraged to participate in sports rather than academic activities. The School of Education at James Cook University found that girls and boys “do not differ in their experience (affective) of anger but also the belief that girls are more likely to express positively (behavioural) their anger than boys.” The study also found that boys were more hostile towards school compared to girls. Francine T. Sherman from Boston University studied juvenile delinquency rates among teenage girls and found an 50 percent increase between 1990-1999 compared to boys where there was only a 4 percent increase. Even though the rates increased, fewer girls than boys are arrested and violent crime accounts for a small proportion of arrests of girls.

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~dor/anr/acadsucc/F03%20Grade%20Report.htm

http://www.campbell-kibler.com/stereo.pdf

 http://www.campbell-kibler.com/Stereo.pdf

 http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-18560_162-527678.html

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/13160/01/GenderDifferencesInSchoolAnger.pdf