STEM Equity Pipeline Webinar: Does Gender Matter in Peer-Learning?

The key finding from an evaluation was that while female mathematics students improved their final marks in response to attending a greater number of sessions per semester, male students achieved lower final marks on average.  Although several studies have shown that in PASS-like programs gender tends to not be a significant factor relating to achievement, our results suggest otherwise.  We presented our work and speculated on the reasons for this observation at the Australasian Conference for PASS and Peer-Learning in Melbourne, Australia in September 2015, and sought suggestions on how programs like PASS could address this gender-specific difference in achievement.  This Webinar will present our research and discuss approaches to remediate gender-associated differences in achievement.