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All rights reserved.\n2\nThis meeting will be recorded\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nExam boards have an Ofqual requirement to record event audio.\nRecordings are kept for the lifetime of the specification and not shared as an accompaniment to session resources.\nThe recording will begin now.\n3\nOutline for the session\nThe latest AQA research into outcomes by gender in GCSE sciences.\nThe features of this research.\nThe implications for future collaborative work.\nPlanned next steps by AQA.\n4\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nAQA Science curriculum research 2018\n5\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nWhy was the research undertaken?\n6\nAs an educational charity, AQA is keen to support the delivery of a rigorous, fair and valid assessment structure which enables all students to demonstrate their knowledge, understanding and skills.\nThe Science team are interested in evaluating the impact of change in provision on the ability of all students to demonstrate their learning through effective assessment, including the opportunities for, and take up of, progression throughout a student’s learning journey.\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nWhy was the research undertaken?\n7\nThe issue of gender outcome variation is one of several aspects that we are currently exploring.\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nPlease note…\n8\nThe research we are sharing today doesn’t seek to identify causal links.\nIt shouldn’t be used to draw conclusions about the curriculum pathway that students should follow.\nIt’s simply a factual statement of performance by a particular group of students in a particular set of exams in a particular year.\nExtrapolation forward to predict outcomes in future years would be inappropriate and invalid.\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nGender and GCSE Sciences\n9\nAre boys better at some aspects of science than girls?\nAre girls better at other aspects of science than boys?\nWhat is the situation nationally and in particular schools?\nWhen and how does this situation make itself known?\nWhat can we do about the gender gap? (What are you currently doing?)\nDo similar issues apply to other student groups?\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nJCQ data for 2018 GCSE all UK candidates\n10\nGCSE Biology\nEntry number\nGrade 9\nGrade 7+\nGrade 5+\nGrade 4+\nMale\n82131\n10.8\n39.3\n77.3\n88.7\nFemale\n83114\n13.1\n43.6\n79.2\n89.7\nMale-female\n(165245)\n-2.3\n-4.3\n-1.9\n-1.0\nGCSE Chemistry\nEntry number\nGrade 9\nGrade 7+\nGrade 5+\nGrade 4+\nMale\n79543\n12.3\n42.3\n76.9\n89.1\nFemale\n78867\n12.9\n43.9\n78.6\n90.3\nMale-female\n(158410)\n-0.7\n-1.6\n-1.7\n-1.2\nGCSE Physics\nEntry number\nGrade 9\nGrade 7+\nGrade 5+\nGrade 4+\nMale\n79097\n13.9\n45.3\n79.9\n91.0\nFemale\n77623\n10.5\n39.7\n77.0\n90.2\nMale-female\n(156720)\n3.4\n5.6\n2.9\n0.8\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nGender variation long established\n11\nThere is no previous study of the outcomes of the same (matched) students across GCSE Biology, Chemistry and Physics.\nThere are several studies relating to A-level uptake but no previously matched progression to A-level from individual students at GCSE.\nThis report covers the initial stage of the first year of research – the plan is to track the students in our research forward into A-level, and possibly beyond.\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nResearch methodology\n12\nThe individual item level performance of the matched set of 99430 students (all students entered for Higher Tier papers 1 and 2 in AQA GCSE Biology, Chemistry and Physics examinations in Summer 2018) was aggregated by gender, there being 50547 female and 48883 male students.\nCopyright © AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nResearch methodology continued\n13\nFor each group of students, the average mark achieved per available m","cbCaiesmf3oEppdE","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiesmf3oEppdE","pptx",2741108,49,"English","# Outline for the session\n## Why was the research undertaken?\n## Please note…\n# Gender and GCSE Sciences\n## National and school-level questions\n## What can we do about the gender gap?\n# JCQ data for 2018 GCSE all UK candidates\n## GCSE Biology\n## GCSE Chemistry\n## GCSE Physics\n# Gender variation long established\n# Research methodology\n## Matched student set and aggregation\n## Calculating marks and gender differences\n## Question focus breakdown","[{\"question\":\"How was the research methodology structured for analysis?\",\"answer\":\"Performance at the individual item level for a matched set of 99,430 students entered for Higher Tier papers in Summer 2018 was aggregated by gender. 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