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Manger, Terje; Gjestad, Rolf – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de l'Education, 1997
Investigates the relationship between mathematical achievement and the ratio of boys to girls in a sample of third-grade Norwegian elementary school students. States that belonging to classes with a numerical majority of boys or girls did not affect the achievement of either gender. Opposes the single-sexing of mathematics teaching. (27 citations)…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Elementary School Mathematics, Foreign Countries, Grade 3

Calderwood, Patricia E – Urban Education, 1998
The influence of two subgroups (male and female) on their larger middle-school community are examined. Participant observation of two single-sex classes in an urban middle school reveals both negative and positive effects. The classes differed in organization, goals, sense of community, and actual or potential fracturing or strengthening effects.…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Ethnic Groups, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)

Marsh, Herbert W.; Rowe, Kenneth J. – Australian Journal of Education, 1996
Critical reanalysis of a previous Australian study comparing the effects of single-sex mathematics and mixed-sex mathematics instruction on students in grades seven and eight suggests that the randomly assigned class-type intervention had relatively little effect on mathematics achievement or attitudes, and that at least some effects favored…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Coeducation, Educational Attitudes, Educational Research