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Girls in the UK have similar reasons to boys for intending to study mathematics post-16 thanks to the support and encouragement they receive

Mujtaba, T; Reiss, MJ; (2016) Girls in the UK have similar reasons to boys for intending to study mathematics post-16 thanks to the support and encouragement they receive. London Review of Education , 14 (2) pp. 66-82. 10.18546/LRE.14.2.05. Green open access

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Abstract

This paper focuses on the aspirations of 13- and 15-year-olds to continue with mathematics after the age of 16 and the association with perceptions of their mathematics education during the academic year 2008/9. A quantitative analysis was undertaken on the views of 12,176 UK students, obtained through surveys, with qualitative case studies on two of these students lending support to the quantitative findings. This paper also places a focus on a sub-set of 1,476 London students. The analysis indicates that girls and boys with high mathematics aspirations had similar responses towards their mathematics teachers and lessons, and had comparable extrinsic mathematics motivation. However, girls, regardless of mathematics aspirations, were less likely than boys to be encouraged by their families and others within their social circles to study mathematics post-16. Many of the London findings are similar to those we found across the UK, although girls within London schools with high mathematics aspirations perceived their mathematics education to be more equitable. Low aspiring girls across the UK and in London still reported less support and encouragement, and described their mathematics education less favourably than did boys.

Type: Article
Title: Girls in the UK have similar reasons to boys for intending to study mathematics post-16 thanks to the support and encouragement they receive
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.18546/LRE.14.2.05
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.18546/LRE.14.2.05
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2016 Mujtaba and Reiss.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords: gender; psychology; perceptions; mathematics; motivation; aspirations
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1516082
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