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Grade 5 Writing performance by gender
A roughly equal number of grade five girls and boys in Palau had their performance analysed in the PILNA 2021 writing assessment: 47% girls and 53% boys.
Figure CWF5.4 shows the average writing performance of grade five students in Palau by gender. On average, grade five girls (516.37, SD = 38.06) scored about the same as grade five boys (514.28, SD = 31.96). This is different from previous PILNA cycles. In 2015 and 2018, grade five girls scored higher, on average, than grade five boys in writing performance.
