This study explores the mathematics-related beliefs of Flemish junior high school students and how they relate to gender, achievement level, and tracking level. Results indicate that students' mathematics-related belief systems are interconnected very strongly with the educational track in which they take their mathematics courses, but also with…

This paper examines the implications of the relationship between two contemporary international trends in education for women's equality as citizens. The first trend is that in most Western countries girls are now achieving statistically, slightly better, average school-leaving results than boys, and occasioning a hostile populist backlash against…

In an attempt to create interdisciplinary study at one college, a gender and communications class was created by professors from psychology and communications. Although the class was made-up of students who were white, middle-class, and heterosexual, the class attempted to discuss issues about race, class, ability, and sexual preference…

This study investigated the success of the Dubuque Community School District (Iowa) in meeting its policy goal for equity and diversity through related policies and practices for staff development, curriculum development, and site-based school initiatives. A survey instrument was developed and pilot tested in collaboration with teachers,…

The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze changes in attitudes towards science in technology-based science content courses for K-8 preservice teachers at Black Hills State University and relate those attitudes to the predominantly female gender of the students enrolled in the class. Given an overwhelmingly female science classroom in…

This study examined the extent to which gender issues are incorporated into teacher education programs. Two separate lines of research informed and supported the study. The first related to research on gender issues in the school curriculum and environment, in the disciplines of education and teacher education, and in educational reform movements.…