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It is my hypothesis that the recent improvement of girls in educational attainment has been caused by changing attitudes and aspirations in females.
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Hypothesis/Aim It is my hypothesis that the recent improvement of girls in educational attainment has been caused by changing attitudes and aspirations in females. In the late 1980s, girls were raising concern over their attainment, and achieving significantly lower grades than boys, whereas in the mid 1990s, they began to drastically improve, and have since become better than boys in the classroom and in examinations. This is a well-known fact about society, and is also quite noticeable in many of my classes. Being a boy, I am keen to find out why this is taking place, and hope to prove my hypothesis correct. Contexts And Concepts My first context is `Just Like A Girl' by Sue Sharpe. This study was taken out in 1991. Her study attempts to replicate her research of 1972, in which she surveyed 249 mainly working-class girls from the fourth forms of four schools in the London...
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