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Grade 5 Numeracy performance by gender
A roughly equal number of grade five girls and boys in Federated States of Micronesia had their performance analysed in the PILNA 2021 numeracy assessment: 49% grade five girls and 51% grade five boys.
Figure CNF5.4 shows the average numeracy performance of grade five students in Federated States of Micronesia by gender. On average, grade five girls scored similarly to grade five boys in the overall numeracy score. This was different from the previous two PILNA cycles; in 2015 and 2018, grade five girls scored slightly higher than grade five boys in the average overall numeracy score as shown in Figure CNF5.4.1. Also, in 2021, grade five girls scored similarly to grade five boys in the Number and Measurement & Geometry numeracy strands but slightly higher than boys in the ‘Operations’ and ‘Data’ strands. This is dissimilar to previous PILNA cycles, where grade five girls tended to score slightly higher than grade five boys in all the numeracy strands.
Further statistical testing needs to be performed to understand if these differences are significant or the result of chance or outliers.
