Maintains that males and females have physiological and psychological differences which cause differences in perception and learning patterns, and that educational and curricular approaches should be geared to those differences. (CM)

Student performance in a Programmed Achievement (PA) condition, requiring weekly quiz mastery, and in a Standard Control (S-C) condition, with no mastery requirement, was compared. PA students showed higher performance on weekly quizzes and a major exam. PA females increased more rapidly than PA males, but S-C males and females were similar.…

This study showed that male and female physical education teachers in British Columbia, Canada, employ different teaching strategies. Male physical educators exert discipline and focus upon well-specified goals; female teachers avoid the use of forceful discipline and endorse broader, more diffuse goals. (RM)

The suggested framework for analyzing women's history considers two dimensions of past female experience. These are human-specific dimensions that women share to a considerable degree with men, and female-specific dimensions that women have in common with one another and for the most part do not share with men. (Author/DB)

This study examined gender differences in student evaluation of teaching through two analyses. In the first, female and male student ratings in the same classes were compared for female and male instructors. In the second analysis, ratings by all male students are examined for how they differed for male and female instructors. Data came from 741…

Points out some biological, cultural, developmental and psychological differences between boys and girls which are not accounted for in the educational practices and curriculums of elementary schools. Teachers are asked to pay specific attention to the often ignored needs of young male students. (SDH)

Statistics from research studies indicate that boys have more difficulty than girls in learning to read. As a result, changes being made in the educational system are aimed at adapting early instruction to the individual needs and capacities of boys as well as girls. This booklet focuses on past research on sex differences in reading achievement,…

Describes important issues for understanding Latin American women. Concluded that while Latin American women were not equal to men, their inferiority was tempered by power resources available to them: relatives, ownership of property, participation in the labor force, and the church and courts. A course syllabus is included. (Author/DB)

The purpose of this paper was to examine how behavioral characteristics (such as achievement level) of children may interact with gender to elicit differential treatment. Subjects were 31 men and 31 women who participated in two tutoring sessions with a fifth-grade pupil. Nine pupils, actually confederates of the experimenter, were trained to play…

The reading accuracy of seven-year-old children was found to be significantly better with the installment rather than the whole method of oral reading. In addition, word complexity, extraversion, and sex interacted in their effects on reading accuracy. The results are discussed in terms of their implication for classroom practice. (Author/RM)

The impact of using integrated metacognitive instruction on high school students' achievement, self-efficacy, and test anxiety was studied. Forty students in 2 advanced geography classes in a large suburban high school participated. The level of metacognitive strategies students used at the beginning of the semester was assessed and compared to…

This essay makes an argument for bringing a feminist perspective to pedagogy in higher education. The paper opens by reviewing the history of gender roles, relations, and perceptions in society before the industrial revolution. Subsequent sections describe women's participation in academia and develop a description of feminist pedagogy. Feminist…

Teaching men about gender in general and masculinity in particular is most effective when a feminist perspective is used to develop tactics of engagement. An argument is made for requiring students to understand the role homophobia plays in maintaining masculine stereotypes and the interdependency of female and male roles. (Author/RM)

Asserts that a longitudinal content analysis of smiling by senior women in college yearbooks provides beginning sociological students with an excellent way to discover many sociological concepts. Presents a classroom assignment in which students code college yearbooks for female smiles and make hypotheses about their findings. (CFR)

Witkin's field-dependence cognitive style theory predicts that females are more likely to have a social or field-dependent cognitive style, whereas males will more often have an analytical or field-independent cognitive style. Data from 144 secondary marketing education students (62 males, 82 females) from three secondary schools in northern…