Tests, Grades, Gender

So little boys test well, but get worse grades. And people keep doing research on why. Here's this week's entry: New UGA research helps explain why girls do better in school | UGA Today

Why do girls get better grades in elementary school than boys-even when they perform worse on standardized tests?
New research from the University of Georgia and Columbia University published in the current issue of Journal of Human Resources suggests that it's because of their classroom behavior, which may lead teachers to assign girls higher grades than their male counterparts.
... The data show, for the first time, that gender disparities in teacher grades start early and uniformly favor girls. In every subject area, boys are represented in grade distributions below where their test scores would predict.
The authors attribute this misalignment to what they called non-cognitive skills, or "how well each child was engaged in the classroom, how often the child externalized or internalized problems, how often the child lost control and how well the child developed interpersonal skills." ...
This difference can have long-reaching effects, Cornwell said.

I would think it might indeed. This causes me to think two kinds of thoughts: one is that maybe more girls than boys are comfortable in a top-down directive factory-model school; different school formats will work for different kids. And the other kind of thought is more specific...it would be very interesting to see if this is still true with "flipped" classrooms.