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Rvachew, Susan; Thompson, Dahlia; Carolan, Elizabeth – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2019
Girls often outperform boys on measures of literacy achievement. This gender gap in literacy performance has been observed to be persistent over developmental time, consistent across multiple domains of literacy, and widely spread geographically. It is sometimes suggested that boys' achievement in the literacy domain might be improved by the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Reader Text Relationship, Electronic Publishing, Printed Materials
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Brendler, Beth M. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2014
Drawing on and reexamining theories on gender and literacy, derived from research performed between 1974 and 2002, this qualitative study explored the gender assumptions and expectations of Language Arts teachers in a graduate level adolescent literature course at a university in the Midwestern United States. The theoretical framework was…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Expectation, Language Arts, Teacher Attitudes