Performance » Numeracy » Year 6 Numeracy:
Year 6 Numeracy performance by gender
A roughly equal number of the scores of year six girls and boys was analysed in the PILNA 2021 numeracy assessment: 9,875 year six girls’ scores and 9,688 year six boys’ scores.
Figure RNF6.3 shows the average numeracy performance of year six students by gender.
Year six girls scored higher than year six boys in all numeracy areas, including the overall numeracy score.
This was consistent with the trend across the previous two PILNA cycles, 2015 and 2018, when year six girls, on average, scored higher than year six boys in all numeracy areas, including the overall numeracy score (see Figure RNF6.4).
Further statistical testing needs to be performed to understand if these differences in scores are significant or the result of chance or outliers.
