Student-Teacher Gender Matching and Academic Achievement

Autor/inn/en	Hwang, NaYoung; Fitzpatrick, Brian
Titel	Student-Teacher Gender Matching and Academic Achievement
Quelle	In: AERA Open, 7 (2021) 1, (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Hwang, NaYoung)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2332-8584
DOI	10.1177/23328584211040058
Schlagwörter	Congruence (Psychology); Gender Differences; Academic Achievement; Elementary School Students; Elementary School Teachers; Middle School Students; Middle School Teachers; Intellectual Disciplines; Children; Early Adolescents; Correlation; Developmental Stages; Language Arts; Mathematics; Indiana; Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress Plus + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Congruence; Psychology; Kongruenz; Psychologie; Geschlechterkonflikt; Schulleistung; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Geisteswissenschaften; Child; Kind; Kinder; Korrelation; Sprachkultur; Mathematik
Abstract	Scholars have examined the effects of same-gender teachers on student achievement, but the findings are mixed. In this study, we use 7 years of administrative data from students in elementary and middle schools (i.e., Grades 3 through 8) in Indiana to test links between gender matching and student achievement. We find that female teachers are better at increasing both male and female students' achievement than their male counterparts in elementary and middle schools. The positive effects of having female math teachers are particularly large for female students' math achievement, but we do not find evidence for a positive gender matching effect in English language arts. In addition, contrary to popular speculation, boys do not exhibit higher academic achievement when they are assigned to male teachers. Our findings suggest that the effects of teacher gender on student learning vary by subject and gender, but the effect sizes are small. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01