Saturday, February 9, 2013

Teaching psychology in schools would encourage more girls into science

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If we really want to reach more girls in science, we start by giving the psychology of acceptance and respect it deserves, says

Marc Smith

girls of fifteen can not better than boys in traditional science subjects, but there is a scientific discipline where girls outperform boys on -. Psychology

Statistics

Joint Council qualifying show in 2012 the number of girls receiving the coveted A * A level psychology was more than double that of boys and girls gaining A grades C much more than those of their male colleagues. Girls seem to be more involved with psychology than any other science, and yet it is often overlooked when the topic of girls and increases in science.

girls not only regularly and significantly better than boys in psychology, but also provide more than 70% of the 55,000 or more candidates who are enrolled in psychology A level exams each year (the psychology of fourth most popular A-level). Unfortunately, the 15 year old girls rarely have the opportunity to study psychology, because it is rarely offered in schools (even if the number of candidates for GCSE psychology has increased by more than 60% over the past five years ). Psychology is also (by a quirk of fate) classified as social science and science to GCSE level. And despite the attempts of the British Psychological Society for the reclassified to facilitate the transition from GCSE to A level and beyond.

The reasons for the differences between the sexes in terms of psychology are not clearly understood (there seems to be so radically in other subjects level A), but these differences were identified in the first cycle and, where psychology is more easily accepted as a science.

  • So girls participate and succeed in science, which is a science that is poorly understood by the public and politicians. In addition, at the expense of science, rejecting the Russell Group a level of psychology as a facilitator topic created a situation where girls are less likely to be accepted into the best universities (in fact, the list of Russell group is heavily biased against girls with your choice of themes that appeal primarily to children).
  • Psychology is the only science A levels are not represented in the list of topics and providing the only science that attracts a large number of girls. In 2012, more than 5,500 girls more biology psychology (its nearest rival), while chemistry difficult to attract half the number of candidates and physics psychology rarely attracts more than 7,500 (against more than 41,000 women enrolled in psychological examinations).

seems that when you have the opportunity encourage girls to science doors are indeed hit in the face. This seems to be the case for both GCSE level and changes to come. Many girls are off science well before choosing their GCSE options, but the level they were encouraged back into science by psychology. Some of these girls, then go to university and become future scientists (as some of my former students did).


Russell Group List (considered by many as arbitrary and harmful) will certainly deter many girls return to science and therefore promote gender imbalance.

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