Prof. Guo from the Department of Economics accepts an exclusive interview to discuss gender and high school selection issues

With the trend of declining birthrate, parents are paying more attention to the new education reform and learning mode under the adjustment of the new curriculum. Teacher Guo Youcheng from the Department of Economics of our school. Educational Economics is one of his research expertise. He has published many papers related to gender and learning, including "The Impact of Mathematical Ability and Gender on the Selection of Senior High School Students" or "Peer Gender Composition on University Research on the influence of department selection. Mr. Guo recently accepted an interview with the "Science and Technology Grand View Garden" column. Based on his previous research, he analyzed how gender affects the selection of high school students.

Prof. Guo from the Department of Economics.

Prof. Guo mainly used the Taiwan Educational Long-Term Tracking Database (TEPS). The database used questionnaire surveys from junior high schools to senior high school vocational schools and five colleges to collect relevant data on students, parents, teachers, and schools, and tracked them for a long time. 7 years of data.

The results of Prof. Guo's research found several important information: (1) Even though they have the same mathematical ability, female students are less inclined to choose the science group than male students. (2) The ratio of male to female in the class will also affect the results of students' selection. (3) For girls, there is a negative correlation between "tutoring" and "selecting the natural group". Compared with girls who have not done tutoring, female students who have done tutoring are less inclined to study in the natural group.

Based on the results of data analysis, some suggestions are made. It is believed that to break the current stereotype of gender selection, just adjusting the gender ratio of the learning environment seems to be difficult to get more girls to invest in STEM (interdisciplinary teaching content or mode). You might as well try group teaching, such as grouping in mathematics and science-related teaching, so as to prevent students from attributing their grades to gender; or through female science teachers, giving students a role model of the same gender may also help build confidence in the classroom. Using "inclusive language" that does not cause gender discrimination or introducing more STEM-related work will help promote gender balance in related fields.