Journal Articles
Learning to learn: How 4th and 5th grade boys and girls differ
- Learning to learn: How 4th and 5th grade boys and girls differ
- Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 24(2), 69-89, 2007
- Australian Psychological Society
- 2007
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Primary Education
- From 20 primary schools in Hong Kong, a sample of 59 boys and 62 girls in 4th grade and 98 boys and 99 girls in 5th grade (N = 318) responded to a survey about their learning-to-learn capabilities including (a) reading to learn, (b) self-management, (c) desire for knowledge, and (d) originality of ideas, and two facilitating factors for enabling such capabilities, including (e) academic self-concept, and (f) effort goal orientation. Confirmatory factor analysis provided support for the validity of the six psychological constructs. Analysis of variance found that although boys and girls did not differ in academic self-concept, desire for knowledge and originality, girls scored higher in effort goal orientation, reading to learn, and self-management. There was a gender x grade interaction effect in reading to learn, indicating that 5th grade girls were more willing than 4th grade girls to acquire knowledge through reading whereas 5th grade boys were less willing than 46 grade boys to do so. Advocates of education reform need to consider gender differences when formulating policies to promote students' learning-to-learn capabilities and particularly to encourage boys to read. [Copyright of Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist is the property of Australian Psychological Society. Publisher's website: http://www.psychology.org.au/]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 08165122
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/ac0834cb
- 2010-09-24
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