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Peer Group & Sex Difference in Achievement and Ability (PEER GROUP…
Peer Group & Sex Difference in Achievement and Ability
PEER GROUP
Suggestion For Teacher
4) Encourage young to interact with old peer
2) Teach small group skill
3) Interaction with peer
1) Assign responsibility for welfare
Advantages
4) As a source of information
2) Identity formation
5) Teach unity & collective behavior in life
1) Teach gender roles
3) Serve as a practicing venue to adulthood
Disadvantages
1) Sexual promiscuity
5) Aggresion & prosocial behavior
3) Risk behaviors
4) Peer pressure
2) Future problems
WHO IS PEER GROUP?
Definition
:
A group of people of approximately the same age, status and interests
Peer group tend to face
dramatic changes
They
spend more time
with their peers and have less adult supervision
Teachers & students do not share as a peer group because teachers & students fall into 2
different roles and experiences
The members of this group likely to
influence
the person's belief and behavior
Sex Differences in Achievement & Ability
Reading & Mathematics
Difference in brain function:
Boy (right brain)- non verbal
Girl (Left brain)- verbal
From data collection for reading performance: 1) At age 9,13 & 17 girls score only a little higher than boys
2) At age 17, boys score more higher than girls
Girls constituting a growing percentage of highest-ability students.
What is sex difference?
Gender tends to denote the social & cultural role of each sex within a given society
Sex
= biological differences between males & females, such as the genitalia and genetic differences
Different brain function
Brain research suggest some differences associated with sex hormones that begin to function at birth/earlier
Female -left hemisphere-verbal tasks
Male -right hemisphere- non verbal task (Math)
Math anxiety & fear of success
poor performance women in math
women fear success in traditionally male activities & occupation
Math anxiety within women
women divert their attention more toward social relationship