School is supposed to be a place of equal opportunity for all students to achieve academic success no matter who they are or what background they have. Yet in the Swedish school today, girls generally perform better and receive better grades than boys regardless of socioeconomic background or ethnicity. This trend is not exclusive to Sweden; multiple countries experience this as well as reported by OECD (2020). The purpose of this project is to study why girls outperform boys in the Swedish school. This project applies the hypothesis that girls are, consciously or unconsciously, more encouraged and have higher expectations placed upon them by their teachers, guardians and their classmates. To study this a survey was handed out to 75 students of both sexes where they answered questions about their academic achievements as well as about their general, inner and outer motivation, encouragement and expectations from their teachers, guardians and classmates. The results show that the students have the same general motivation and experience almost equal encouragement from teachers and guardians. Girls, however, have slightly higher inner motivation, much higher outer motivation and experience much more encouragement from their classmates as well as higher expectations from their teachers, guardians and their classmates than boys do. These results are then analyzed and compared to what previous research found and eventual differences are discussed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:oru-97460 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Tunmats, Linus |
| Publisher | Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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