Posted on 08/25/2007 4:38:15 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick
CALGARY (ALBERTA): The reading skills of young male students may improve more when boys are tutored by women, a Canadian study shows, contradicting some school policies to hire male teachers to improve boys’ literacy.
Herb Katz, an education professor at the University of Alberta, took 175 boys in the third and fourth grades, identified as struggling readers, and paired them with a research assistant who worked on their reading skills for 30 minutes a week over 10 weeks.
On average, the boys paired with female tutors felt better about their reading skills after the 10 weeks than those who were coached by a male research assistant.
Katz said the study, published in the US journal Sex Roles, may prompt educational policy-makers in countries such as Australia and Britain to rethink directives that call for more male teachers to be hired to provide role models for boys whose reading skills lag their peers.
“It tells us that the way governments respond with policy is maybe a little too quick and a little too simple,” Katz said.
Boys and girls enter kindergarten with reading similar skills, Katz said, but by the end of the third grade, boys have lower reading scores than girls. The reasons behind that difference are not entirely clear.
Women work better with small children.. we need a study for this?
Helen?
preferably attractive women!!!
Preferably attractive women in bikinis and heels
“paired them with a research assistant”
The article isn’t clear, but seems to me most research assistants are college students.
What boy wouldn’t pay attention to a young woman paying attention to them?
I still remember the student teachers I had in elementary school. mmmmmm!
THIS is proof? They FELT better? Are they graded on how they feel, or how well they read? BS
Felt better? Now isn't that scientific?
/sarcasm>
Girls are more prone to want to please Dad.
If only the 'study' that 'confirms' boys and girls are different was believed and accepted ... these 'study's' would no longer pop up every 20 years or so, and we could get on with weaving and mending the fabric of America.
All you guys drooling in your fantasies (still) missed something somewhere back there ...... or got something.
/8^)
>>On average, the boys paired with female tutors felt better about their reading skills after the 10 weeks than those who were coached by a male research assistant.
Who cares how they *felt*!?
Did their reading skills improve, or not, that’s the salient question.
Just damn.
“....female tutors felt better....”
Even I have to agree with this part of the article.
Quote from the article:
“On average, the boys paired with female tutors felt better...”
FELT? So now feelings have taken the place of actual measured improvement in reading?
Aunt Heddie.
Hooters tutors
Mine were nuns. Not much of role model for girls, either.
This teacher taught her student well.
My K-8 teachers were nuns as well. I learned self-defense.
Note this sentence:
"....the boys paired with female tutors felt better about their reading skills after the 10 weeks than those who were coached by a male research assistant."
What an asinine piece of work. Not "...the boys paired with female tutors did better on standardized reading tests..", which would actually mean something, but they "felt better about their reading skills..."
So the female tutors spent a lot of time building up their "personal esteem" (women are known for that), while the male tutors were probably actually teaching them to read.
That's already a big part of the problem with todays schools--too much female "esteem building" and not enough "get your ass to work" male skills-building.
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