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Reading, Gender, and Engagement
Author(s) -
Brozo William G.,
Sulkunen Sari,
Shiel Gerry,
Garbe Christine,
Pandian Ambigapthy,
Valtin Renate
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of adolescent and adult literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1936-2706
pISSN - 1081-3004
DOI - 10.1002/jaal.291
Subject(s) - reading (process) , gender gap , literacy , closing (real estate) , psychology , student engagement , task force , mathematics education , pedagogy , developmental psychology , political science , demographic economics , public administration , economics , law
The authors, members of the PISA/PIRLS Task Force, provide a summary of major gender differences in performance found overall on PISA 2009, along with relevant trends since 2000. The five countries represented by the authors are highlighted in this summary, which includes findings related to the interaction of engagement and reading literacy achievement by gender. These data are foregrounded from PISA because they add further evidence of a serious global pattern of boys’ underachievement in reading and lower reading engagement relative to girls. This is followed by a discussion of what each of our five countries has done in response to the gender gap in reading literacy. The article concludes with guidelines for closing the gender achievement gap for boys, based on PISA results and any promising national initiatives.