Investigation on the Gender Differences in the Education Quality and the Effect of Primary and Secondary School Teachers
- Received Date: 01/09/2017
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Key words:
- primary and secondary school teachers /
- education quality /
- educational effect /
- gender imbalance /
- gender differences
Abstract: Teachers' gender is an important perspective to observe educational activities. The gender differences in the education quality and the effect of the teachers have been paid more and more attention with the increase of unbalanced sex ratio of the teachers. Using self-made "Education quality questionnaire of the teachers in primary and secondary school", "Educational effect questionnaire of the teachers in primary and secondary school" and "Control impression scale" made by Paulhus, the author carried out a survey on 522 teachers and 3852 students from 182 classes of 30 primary and secondary school. The results show are as follows. The education quality of male and female teachers in primary and secondary school is generally convergent and the componentsapproach. Thereare stability and variability in the gender differences in education quality.In some specific projects of education quality, both the male and female teachers show their gender advantage. The gender of the teachers of Chinese has a significant effect on the students'performance, but there is no same-sex education effect in the subjects of Chinese, mathematics and English.Female class advisers have better education effect and gender equality than male class advisers but they both have urban and rural preferences. The balance of sex proportion of class teachers has the best promoting effect on the students' development, the imbalance of teacher's sex ratio weakens the promoting effect on the students'development, but has no obvious adverse effect. Based on the research results, we put forward some suggestions to optimize teachers' gender study, to reshape the gender role expectation of teachers on the basis of the scientific research of gender and to pay attention to the imbalance of the whole female while being alert to the imbalance between male and female teachers.