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The Male Underachievement Page
Interesting Video from the UK-Ask yourself-is it the same with our boys in Tobago?
More Video
Video on Problem in the Caribbean-Voices drowning or Mimicking?
Strategies & Interventions
June George's Work as Consultat in the Seamless Education Programme in Trinidad & Tobago
The Boy Friendly Model-Pedagogy and Classrooms
Gurian Institute-helping struggling boys
Raising Boy's Achievement-Youger & Warrigton (UK)
Boy's Literacy Attaiment-Canada
Boy's Reading-National Literacy Trust UK
Newspaper Article-Is it just Good Teachig (2011)
A Sample of My Published Work on Gender & Achievement
De Lisle, J., Smith, P., Keller, C., & Jules, V. (2012). Differential outcomes in high-stakes eleven plus testing: the role of gender, geography, and assessment design in Trinidad and Tobago. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 19(1), 45-64.
De Lisle, J., Smith, P., & Jules, V. (2010). Evaluating the geography of gendered achievement using large-scale assessment data from the primary school system of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. International Journal of Educational Development, 30(4), 405-417.
De Lisle, J. (2011). In search of evidence-based policy and best practice: Addressing gender differences in schooling within the English-speaking Caribbean. Paper presented at the 24 th International congress for school effectiveness and improvement.
De Lisle, J., Smith, P., & Jules, V. (2005). Which males or females are most at risk and on what? An analysis of gender differentials within the primary school system of Trinidad and Tobago. Educational Studies, 31(4), 393-418.
My former Professor Peter Kutnick and my former colleague and friend Vena Jules are the author of this great monograph
Gender & School Achievement in the Caribbean
What I have come to believe about male acadenmic underachievement in the Caribbean
I believe that the problems is significant in our region and lies at the intersection between gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, with the latter the most important. I believe it is also an individual school problem, perhaps linked to our static pedagogical approaches i the Caribbean. I believe that rural and poor boys are most at risk; however, I also believe that some girls are at risk too.
Our work makes use of large-scale databases to discern the complex patterns in our nation state. And yes, I am interested in understanding the Tobago pattern. I am very cautious about constructing large-scale interventions; however, I support gender friendly pedagogies and active learning.
New & Old Work on our regional problem
Cobbett, M., & Younger, M. (2012). Boys’ educational ‘underachievement’in the Caribbean: interpreting the ‘problem’. Gender and education, 24(6), 611-625.
Regional Caribbean Conference on
Keeping Boys Out of Risk
Didacus Jules-Boy's Underachievement in Grenada and the Caribbean
World Bank-Boys at Risk in Caribbean