Effects of Sex of E and Sex of S in First and Fifth Grade Children’s Paired-Associate Learning

Student learning and performance under varying conditions of teacher verbal and nonverbal evaluative communication.

“…The Teacher Sex X Student Sex interaction could be interpreted as meaning that female teachers are more effective with female than with male students in the sixth grade, at least when teaching a verbal skill. The results are not in keeping with findings of other studies that examined the effects of teacher sex on student achievement (e.g., Bennett, 1967;Peterson, 1972). These researchers were primarily interested in determining whether the presence of male teachers would lead to greater achievement for male students.…”

Sex Differences in Children's Performance in Problem-Solving Situations Involving an Adult Model

“…It is possible that the model's gender might have an effect with older children; however, there are little empirical data that would support such reasoning. Studies examining the effects of the gender of the experimenter on the performance of elementary school children have found that the experimenter's gender is not a salient variable (Peterson, 1972;Shinedling & Pederson, 1970).…”

Attention and reading achievement in first-grade boys and girls.

“…Numerous studies in reading have reported that in naturalistic classroom settings, reading achievement of girls is superior to that of boys (Dykstra, 1967;Gates, 1961). However, in the laboratory, where attentional behavior of the subject is more easily controlled, sex differences in reading-analogous paired-associate learning are not found (Jeffrey & Samuels, 1967;Peterson, 1972). There have been some demonstrations that the performance of boys is superior to that of girls on a readingtype task under certain classroom conditions (McNeil, 1964); in the McNeil study, orienting behavior was controlled through 1 The authors would like to express their appreciation for the cooperation extended them by the pupils and teachers of the Minneapolis public school system.…”