Teacher's gender has no influence on students' educational success: Study

The gender of the teacher has no influence on the educational success of students, said the Berlin Science Centre for Social Research (WZB) on Monday.

According to the education researchers in Berlin, it can not be blamed on the high proportion of female teachers that boys perform worse in school than girls, like often assumed.

The WZB researchers evaluated 42 studies with data on 2.4 million students from 41 countries and showed that teachers of each of sex does not improve the academic performance of boys and girls.

While girls do not benefit from female teachers, boys not from male teachers, as they acquire through them neither higher skills, nor do they get higher marks.

Meanwhile, WZB educational researcher Marcel Helbig found in the research literature no evidence to suggest that the academic performance of boys has deteriorated in recent decades.

Girls are often more disciplined and hardworking, which leads in better grades, according to the researcher.

"Really trying for good school performance and to discipline himself do not fit into the gender-typical concept of masculinity," said Helbig. Endit