Birth Date and Sex Effects on the Scholastic Attainment of Primary Schoolchildren: a cross‐sectional study
作者:
Mark G. Borg,
Joseph M. Falzon,
期刊:
British Educational Research Journal
(WILEY Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 21,
issue 1
页码: 61-74
ISSN:0141-1926
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1080/0141192950210105
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThe aim of this study was to investigate the role of pupil age as a major cause of the birth date effect in scholastic performance. Sex differences in performance were also investigated. A sample of 4123 pupils in Grades III, IV and V was selected from 12 state primary schools in Malta. Since in this educational setting there is only one intake of pupils per scholastic year it ensured that all children within any given year group would have received the same length of formal schooling. Analyses based on a data set consisting of scores in Maltese, English and mathematics derived from the national end‐of‐year examinations showed a strong and consistent age effect in all three attainment measures at each of the three grade levels: the ‘oldest’ pupils performed better in Maltese, English and mathematics than the ‘youngest’ pupils. Results also showed that girls consistently outperformed boys in the three scho
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