I predict that girls do better at GCSEs in Samuel Whitbread Community College than boys because boys don't work as hard as they should as they

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Jonny Pearson

HYPOTHESIS

I predict that girls do better at GCSEs in Samuel Whitbread Community College than boys because boys don’t work as hard as they should as they are afraid that other boys would criticise them, this is mainly due to the way the boys have been socialised either at school or primarily and home in the family. Also they would rather concentrate more on what they want to do today rather than what they want to do in the future. Boys are easily distracted and, girls are hard workers. I have witnessed this in many lessons were boys are messing around and not concentrating fully on they task they have been set. Boys are not willing to spend as much time on coursework as girls, so as more coursework I introduced the lower the boys grades are getting. It has not always been like this as during the last thirty years it has taken a dramatic u-turn. It used to be that girls got lower grades because teachers saw no reason to give women a decent education as they would only amount to housewives. Although boys could become lawyers, doctors and onto a higher education. This was because in society at the time it was considered the man’s duty to be the breadwinner and the women staying home to look after the children.

ACTION PLAN

I am investigating find out why girls do better than boys at GCSE. In my investigation I am going to refer to my hypothesis and:

  • Hand out between 25-30 questionnaire asking teachers and students if boys adopt a ‘laddish anti-learning culture’. (1 week)
  • I will do secondary research by collecting information from books and the Internet and compare the results from them to see if the match hypothesis. (1 week)
  • I will observe the way teachers behave in their classes, and see if there is a difference in the way girls are treated than boys, and the attention they receive in class. (2 weeks)
  • I will also observe the way students behave in the class environment, and see if there is a general difference between genders (2 weeks)
  • After carrying out all of my ways gathering data, I will collect my results and see if they back up my hypothesis.
  • After gathering all of my results I will go back to my hypothesis and evaluate it to see if I was correct I what I predicted.
  • By gathering data in these ways I have stated I will review of results.

METHODOLOGY

Firstly I will use a questionnaire because they are relatively cheap to produce, easy to fill out and return, easy to understand, easy to extract data and you can use Open and Closed Questions. Although this is one of the methods I will use there are some drawbacks like they are easy to make up, the questions have to be very simple to fill out and also some people may ignore it. Despite all of this I will use it, as in previous investigations it gas been a dependable and reliable source. I will also collect secondary data of the Internet and from several different books at my disposal in the classroom.

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As well as a questionnaire I will do an observation to gain lots of information in a sort period of time, they are easy to do and very cheap. Even though this is a good way of getting information, people sometimes change their behaviour to, show off or for any other reason so sometimes if you make your presence obvious then this can occur. I won’t be doing any interviews, as they are extremely time consuming, very expensive, also people may change their answers as they feel their being judged.

Now that I have made a prediction ...

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