Why Do Indonesian Adolescent Boys Have Poorer Schooling Outcomes than Girls?
Indonesian secondary students perform worse academically than their peers in other countries, especially boys. In the 2015 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests, Indonesia ranked among the worse of the 72 participating countries...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/168621543604051631/Why-Do-Indonesian-Adolescent-Boys-have-Poorer-Schooling-Outcomes-than-Girls http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31487 |
| Summary: | Indonesian secondary students perform
worse academically than their peers in other countries,
especially boys. In the 2015 Program for International
Student Assessment (PISA) tests, Indonesia ranked among the
worse of the 72 participating countries. More than half of
15-year-olds could read a text but could not answer simple
questions related to it; that was only the case of 14
percent of students in high-performing Vietnam and 20
percent in member countries of the Organization of Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD). While Indonesian boys
and girls had similar average scores in math and science,
girls outperformed boys in average scores of reading. |
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