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A levels go gender neutral

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BiologyIsReal · 15/08/2018 10:52

Daily Telegraph today. Can't see a thread on it but apologies if it has already been posted.

When will this utter tripe stop? It's as if organisations are all subject to a collective delusion.

/www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/08/14/a-levels-go-gender-neutral-leadingexam-board-allows-students/

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BiologyIsReal · 15/08/2018 12:33

The idea that sudden death exams favour boys and coursework favours girls seems to have arisen in the latter part of the 20th century possibly with the movement away from '0' levels??

It certainly was not the case when I took my 11+ in the 1950s. Then girls outperformed boys to the point where they had to obtain a higher mark than boys to be accepted at grammar school. This was because the education authorities wanted a 50/50 ratio and not to positively discriminate in favour of boys would have meant something nearer 55/45 as girls did better in the exams.

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BarrackerBarmer · 15/08/2018 12:19

You can't analyse data on gender if the majority of the respondents think they are proffering information about their sex.

You can't analyse data on sex if you allow a cohort to opt out or falsify their sex.

We might as well ask people to offer their favourite ice cream flavour as this mess.

MsBeaujangles · 15/08/2018 11:45

There is a common discourse that course work favours girls as they tend to spend more time on it than boys/ work harder over the duration of a course.

NotTerfNorCis · 15/08/2018 11:40

Did you notice the stuff in that article about boys doing better then girls 'in the new tough A-Levels'? What's all that about? If boys did better on exam-based courses - why would that be?

MsBeaujangles · 15/08/2018 11:09

If they want to gather data on gender and analyse results accordingly, I have no problem with that.
If they want to analyse data according to sex, they should do so accurately and based on a person’s sex, not their identity

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