Gender and Educational Achievement

Andreas Hadjar is Professor in Sociology of Education at the University of Luxembourg. His research interests center on sociology of education, inequalities (class, gender, and ethnicity), political sociology (particularly participation, social values, and attitudes), well-being, methods of empirical research and international comparisons. His research and publications in regard to the issue of gender inequalities in education particularly focus on gender roles, school alienation and peer attitudes towards school. Sabine Krolak-Schwerdt is Professor of Educational Measurement at the University of Luxembourg. Her research topics include statistical and research methods, educational psychology, and social cognition. She is a member of the advisory board of the Journal of Educational Research Online, and an editorial consultant for journals including Psychometrika, the British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, the Journal of Classification, and grant agencies including the German Research Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation and European Science Foundation. Karin Priem is Professor of History of Education at the University of Luxembourg. She has been president of the German History of Education Association (2007-2011), is a member of the international advisory board of the Revue Suisse des Sciences de l’Éducation, and is Secretary of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education. She is co-editor of two book series and her research focuses on the history of educational theories and concepts, the social, visual and material history of education, and the history of entrepreneurship and education. Sabine Glock is a member of the School of Education at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany. She studied Psychology and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany. Her research focuses on teachers’ decision making and how the ethnic background of students influences teachers’ academic achievement judgments or classroom management strategies. Her main research interest is implicit cognition, in particular implicit teacher attitudes toward ethnic minority students.

Gender Differences in Educational Attainment – An Introduction 1. Females in science: a contradictory concept? 2. The construction of ‘female citizens’: a socio-historical analysis of girls’ education in Luxembourg 3. How gender became sex: mapping the gendered effects of sex-group categorisation onto pedagogy, policy and practice 4. Troubling discourses on gender and education 5. Reversal of gender differences in educational attainment: an historical analysis of the West German case 6. The gendered interplay between success and well-being during transitions 7. How gender differences in academic engagement relate to students’ gender identity 8. Gender differences in school success: what are the roles of students’ intelligence, personality and motivation? 9. Teacher evaluation of student ability: what roles do teacher gender, student gender, and their interaction play?