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Table 8 School principals’ reports of selected variables, by school gender, NALO 2018

From: Boys’ underachievement in mathematics and science: An analysis of national and international assessment data from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

  

Male (%)

Female (%)

φ

Grade 4

There is a school library from which students can borrow

67.3

48.5

0.224

Parents’ expectations of students’ performance have been achieved (agree or strongly agree)

63.6

74.3

0.178

Parental support to improve students’ performance (high or very high)

44.1

51.5

0.155

Grade 8

There is a school library from which students can borrow

58.5

62.1

0.059

Parents’ expectations of students’ performance have been achieved (agree or strongly agree)

49.1

59.8

0.183

Parental support to improve students’ performance (high or very high)

40.2

50.7

0.158

  1. All differences are statistically significant at the .001 level