In my investigation, I will use a sample of 30 random pupils in total; of Yr7 and 11 to help me in my investigation. This is a reasonable no. because there are 300 pupils in total for yr7 in Mayfield High. For Yr7 I will take information from 10 random girls and boys to carry out my investigation. And since there are only 170 pupils in total in Yr11, I will gather data information from 5 samples of girls and boys, also to show this information.
As my first investigation I will compare Key Stage results from boys and girls in Yr 7 and Yr11. I will use this as my first investigation because, it gives me further information of the Key Stage 2 results and if my hypothesis is right.
I will start with ten Year7 girls and 10 Year7 boys as my first investigation to compare if girls are smarter than boys in Yr7.
I have created a table to help me in my investigation; I’ve arranged the ten Yr7 girl’s students from lowest to highest by Key Stage 2 results because it makes my investigation more helpful and understanding. To further my investigation for this theory, I will break down each Key Stage subject and get an overall result from each pupil by comparing KS2 Levels with their Achieved Levels. By doing this, I can compare and contrast in which to see which sex is smarter than the other.
By looking at each KS2 subjects, Yr7 Girls achieved the minimum of a Level 3. The Highest Level Yr7 Girls achieved was a level 6 only in Maths, which only one pupil reached. Pupils also achieved level 5’s from 5 different pupils in their subjects.
Now I will investigate the Yr7 boys KS2 results and compare their results with the Yr7 Girls to find out which gender is smarter.
As before, I have created another table to help me in my investigations. I’ve arranged the 10 Yr7 male students from lowest to highest by Key Stage 2 results. The reason in doing this is because it makes my investigation much easier to work from. And again, to further my investigation for this theory, I will break down each Key Stage subjects as I have done so with the Girl’s results as this will help me compare the results with the females.
By looking at each KS2 subjects, Yr7 Boys achieved the minimum of a Level 2, whereas Girls achieved the minimum of a level 3. The Highest level Yr7 Boys achieved was a level 5, which was reached by 5 pupils in each subject.
To summarize my investigation, to see which sex is smarter in Yr7 I will have to use both boys and girls results and form a final graph, this will then show me which gender has a stronger perspective in a certain subject.
By looking at the graph Boys achieved two level 2’s, whereas girls achieved the minimum of a level 3. Boys achieved three level 3’s, but girls achieved four level 3’s.
The Girls also managed to achieve a higher standard than boys, as the girls achieved only one level 4, when the boys achieved no level 4’s. Both genders managed to get five level 5’s each, which is the best so far from the boys. The last level which was a level 6, was reached by neither boys or girls.
From the evidence of my sample, this suggests that Girls are better than Boys when they took their KS2 English test.
By looking at the graph, both boys and girls managed to achieve the minimum of a level 3, but there were 5 boys who achieved a level 3, whereas only four Girls managed to achieve a level 3. Only one student from the girls managed to get a level 4, when the boys didn’t manage to achieve a level 4 at all. As the previous graph (KS2 English) both boys and girls again, managed to achieve five level 5’s each, which is starting to show that between the 20 pupils in total: 5/10 have the essential understandings in each Key Stage subject. If this pattern occurs in the overall results for KS2 Science, my theory would be correct.
Finally, only one student from the Girls managed to achieve a level 6, unlike the boys who didn’t manage to achieve a level 6 at all.
By a close result, my conclusion is that the Girls again manage to show that they are the smarter Gender by defeating the Boys at KS2 Maths.
As before, both Boys and Girls managed to achieve the minimum of a level 3, similar to the KS2 Maths results. But the boys, again managed to get a student more than the Girls as four boys got a level 3, whereas three Girls got level 3’s. Only one boy managed to get a level 4, unlike the Girls as two girls managed to gain a level 4. The Girls then managed to get five level 5’s as before the other two subjects, but on the other hand, the Boys also managed to achieve five level 5’s also. This has now proved my previous theory that 5/10 boys and girls have the essential understandings in each subject. And both boys and girls didn’t manage to achieve a level 6 which, in summary that: both boys and girls have equally understandings of KS2 Science.
But in overall, based on my evidence: Yr7 Girls are smarter than the boys.
My next part of this Investigation is to compare and contrast the Yr7’s Key Stage 2 results with their IQ. By doing this, I can build more evidence in finding out if my Hypothesis is right: ‘The higher the Key Stage 2 results are, the higher the IQ is’.
