Girls vs Boys

I was asked recently what the gender split was for students taking part in I’m a Scientist. I replied that we’d never looked on the assumption that since teachers took their students online it would reflect the school population.

I’m never one to turn down the chance to crunch some numbers so I took a look. And was surprised. At registration we ask if the person registering is a Boy, Girl or A group of students (where more than one pupil is sharing a log-in). We have data going back to June 2012 and nearly 15,000 respondents to the question.

IAS Gender Split

Surprisingly it wasn’t a straight 50:50 split. So I then decided to look at it by year group.

IAS Gender by Year Group

What we saw was that year 9 & 10 were significantly skewed towards girls. And that bias continued through to 6th form.

Is that common for science outreach events?

Posted on March 11, 2014 by ModShane in Evaluation. Comments Off on Girls vs Boys

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Students challenge the scientists over intense, fast-paced, online live Chats. Then they Ask the scientists all the questions they want to, and Vote for their favourite scientist to win a prize of £500 to communicate their work with the public.