IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/indgen/v13y2006i3p401-424.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Girls' Performance in Mathematics in Upper Primary Schools of Addis Ababa

Author

Listed:
  • Tilaye Kassahun

    (Tilaye Kassahun is Lecturer and Senior Planning Expert, P.O. Box 5648, Ethiopian Civil Service College, Research and Publication Office, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. E-mail: tilayeayen@yahoo.com.)

  • Bedru Kedir

    (Bedru Kedir is Senior Research Expert, National Organisation for Examinations, Ministry of Education, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.)

Abstract

This article was designed to make a comprehensive comparative analysis of mathematics achievement for females and males at the upper primary education level. It was also aimed at investigating the extent of association between females' maths achievement and school ownership, and probing into existing gender stereotypes among the minds of schoolchildren. To this end, the article has employed both objective and subjective data-gathering instruments. The instruments were applied to 309 boys and 302 girls drawn from 10 schools (five government and five non-government) on the basis of diversified sampling techniques. The results of data analyses revealed that mathematics achievement was strongly associated with student gender, and girls' achievement was significantly lower than that of boys'. However, girls' mathematics performance did not show significant difference in government and non-government schools. Further, it was evident that traditional stereotypes, which favour male dominance in mathematical ability, were still prevalent at a modest level in the schools studied.

Suggested Citation

  • Tilaye Kassahun & Bedru Kedir, 2006. "Girls' Performance in Mathematics in Upper Primary Schools of Addis Ababa," Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Centre for Women's Development Studies, vol. 13(3), pages 401-424, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:indgen:v:13:y:2006:i:3:p:401-424
    DOI: 10.1177/097152150601300304
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/097152150601300304
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/097152150601300304?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ndijuye, Laurent Gabriel & Rao, Nirmala, 2019. "Early reading and mathematics attainments of children of self-settled recently naturalized refugees in Tanzania," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 183-193.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:indgen:v:13:y:2006:i:3:p:401-424. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.