Gender and Achievement resources

Chapters

Useful links

The Gender Agenda

The DCSF is currently focusing on gender and the impact and influence it has on the performance of pupils in schools.

The Gender Agenda initiative involves schools, teachers and pupils, as well as field staff, local authorities and the research community. Its aims are to discuss and identify important gender issues and practical ideas for improving the learning, as well as the motivation, involvement and attainment of particular groups of underperforming girls and boys. These issues and ideas will be shared at specific events on this site and through various publications and media. In addition, we will be looking to encourage and support individual teachers and groups of schools to try out and evaluate new approaches to improving the performance and motivation of groups of boys and girls in their classes and some of their findings and case studies will also be posted on this site. There are also links to some of the most relevant and recent research and evidence.
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/wholeschool/equality/genderequalityduty/thegenderagenda/

Teacher Training Resource Bank (TTRB)

The TTRB provides access to the research & evidence base informing teacher education and contains a number of gender and education related articles plus information on related events. All materials are quality assured through a rigorous process of academic scrutiny and monitoring undertaken by a team of expert teacher educators.
http://www.ttrb.ac.uk/

Raising Boys' Achievement project

Funded by the DCSF, the Raising Boys' Achievement project is looking at exciting and innovative ways of raising achievement across a range of primary, secondary and special schools. Working with over 60 schools across England, the research team aims to identify and evaluate strategies which are particularly helping in motivating boys.
http://www-rba.educ.cam.ac.uk/index.html

National Literacy Trust

The National Literacy Trust aims to make an independent, strategic contribution to the creation of a society in which all can enjoy the skills, confidence and pleasures of literacy to support their educational, economic, social and cultural goals.

We give financial backing to the National Literacy Trust to tackle underachievement through projects such as Reading Champions and Reading the Game as part of the Read On campaign.
http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/index.html