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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="color:#1F497D">My experience is that Girls generally outperform boys as they are more diligent with the documentation and developmental work required for the SAT. The boys focus is more in the production.
The SAT, rightly or wrongly is weighted more towards the written than the practical elements. In saying that my top student last year was a boy.<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D">Melissa Treverton
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D">Email: <u>treverton.melissa.j@edumail.vic.gov.au<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> destech-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:destech-bounces@edulists.com.au]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Malcolm Barrins<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 19 October 2012 10:30 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Design and Technology Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Design and Technology] A subject for both boys and girls?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">The link
<a href="http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Pages/vce/statistics/2011/statssect3.aspx#H3N10261" target="_blank">
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Pages/vce/statistics/2011/statssect3.aspx#H3N10261</a> is one you may find useful. It gives the conversion of raw scores to grades for past exams, and gives the percentages of students who received each of these grades. (FYI, need
to be in top 50 % to get above 30 pre scaled, need to be in top 16% to get a study score above 36 pre scaled, need to be in top 8% to be above 40 pre-scaled. Of course, the study score is made up of 3 grades, not just exams).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">If you want comparisons for other years, replace 2011 with required year in above link.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Does data suggest that the Product Design & Technology course, and the Design & Technology course before it, suit girls much more than boys? Surely when girls consistently outperform boy to such
a large degree in every aspect of the course, it indicates that a subject that traditionally engaged boys no longer does so!</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Mal Barrins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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