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Hoffman, Adam J.; Kurtz-Costes, Beth; Dumas, Florence; Loose, Florence; Smeding, Annique; Régner, Isabelle – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
In most Western countries, girls outperform boys in academic engagement, scholastic achievement, and school completion. In the current study, researchers assessed the developmental trajectories of European French and North African French boys' (N = 549; M[subscript age] = 11.9 years) perceptions of girls' and boys' ability to succeed in school.…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Academic Aptitude, Males, Student Attitudes
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Auriac-Slusarczyk, Emmanuèle; Maire, Hélène; Thebault, Cathy; Slusarczyk, Bernard – Educational Review, 2020
Philosophy for Children (P4C) is a collective (teaching) practice which has been shown to foster language abilities, logic and creativity in children. While these benefits obtained with the P4C "oral" practice have been well documented, philosophical writing received little attention. The aim of this paper is to examine which conditions…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Writing (Composition), Writing Improvement, Creativity
Shakeel, M. Danish; Peterson, Paul E. – Program on Education Policy and Governance, 2021
Principals (policy makers) have debated the progress in U.S. student performance for a half century or more. Informing these conversations, survey agents have administered seven million psychometrically linked tests in math and reading in 160 waves to national probability samples of selected cohorts born between 1954 and 2007. This study is the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Socioeconomic Status, Race, Ethnicity