Drammen 2 Vgs

In this study, we researched if the teenagers at Drammen 2 VGs childhood affected their choices within natural sciences, and if their uprising taught them how to act based on their gender. We used quantitative and qualitative method, because we wanted to know what but also why, therefore we made a survey. We have asked 91 students in Drammen 2 VGs, all who had at least one of the eight subjects in natural sciences. At Drammen VGs, the subjects in natural science are chemistry, physics, mathematics with social studies(S1), mathematics with science(R1), technology and theory of research, geosciences, biology and information technology. In the graphs above, we see our result of eight questions. We asked the students of their gender, their studies

We raise our children differently based on their gender, and probably most parents do it unknowingly, because their parents themselves have taught them the same way of thinking. This, of course affects children their whole life, they are taught norms, sanctions, stereotypes and generally how to behave by their primary group.

We wanted to know the reasons behind the gender differences in the subjects. For example how there are 28 girls who have biology and only four boys. Compared to how there are zero girls who have information technology but eight boys. This makes us ask, does upbringing have anything to do with our choices later in life?

Our hypotheses was mostly based on stereotypes and former research. We thought biology and S1 would be dominated by girls, and physics and R1 dominated by boys. In addition, girls usually take biology because they want to study medicine and boys usually take R1 math and physics because they want to become an engineer. Former research on gender difference in natural science by udanningsdirektorat has shown that girls dominate biology and geoscience, while there is a majority of boys in information technology, physics and technology and theory of

We also found out that the reason behind why most of the girls chose one of the subjects in natural sciences, is because they either needed it as a requirement or keeping opportunities open for later studies and future jobs. While there were just about seven girls that had general interest in natural sciences, boys had in general more interest in natural sciences, which proves what we wrote earlier about how girls and boys are affected by being raised different.

Sources of error we came across is the possibility that we may have counted wrong and lost a few surveys, causing inaccurate results. Not every student were reliable, they may have answered untruthfully or ignored certain questions. They may have not understood the question correctly, or not as said answered them correctly because of not being aware of their influence by their teachers, friends or their visits from tenth grade.

In conclusion, our project was a success. We tested our hypotheses and got to the conclusion where certain subjects are dominated by genders because of our