Minna Torppa|Kenneth Eklund|Sari Sulkunen|Pekka Niemi|Timo Ahonen
Why do boys and girls perform differently on PISA Reading in Finland? The effects of reading fluency, achievement behaviour, leisure reading and homework activity
University of Jyväskylä|University of Jyväskylä|University of Jyväskylä|University of Turku|University of Jyväskylä
present study examined gender gap program international student assessment pisa reading mediators gender gap finnish sample n 1309 examined whether gender gap pisa reading performance understood via effects reading fluency achievement behaviour mastery orientation taskavoidant behaviour amount time spent leisure reading homework girls outperformed boys measures except achievement behaviour models explaining pisa reading different boys girls reading fluency mastery orientation leisure book reading homework explained variance pisa reading scores gender effect pisa reading however part mediated differences reading fluency findings suggest mastery orientation homework activity leisure book reading concurrent predictors pisa reading reading fluency explain gender difference