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Direct linkKerry Harris; Robyn Jones; Sofia Santos – Quest, 2024
The purpose of this paper is to critique current women-only coach education initiatives, before suggesting an alternative approach to dealing with gender discrimination in coaching provision. Having increased in popularity over recent years, primarily through justifications as being "safe spaces" for participants, such initiatives have…
Descriptors: Alienation, Athletic Coaches, Criticism, Females
Kombe, Dennis; Che, S. Megan; Carter, Traci L.; Bridges, William – School Science and Mathematics, 2016
In this article, we present findings from a study that investigated the relationship between all-girls classes, all-boys classes, and coeducational classes on student mathematics self-concept and student perception of classroom environment. Further, we compared responses of girls in all-girls classes to girls in coeducational classes and responses…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Classroom Environment, Middle School Students, Mathematics Education
Download full textCarter, Traci; Kombe, Dennis; Che, S. Megan – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
In this paper we present findings from a study investigating the relationship between all girls' classes, all boys' classes and coeducational classes on student mathematics self-concept and student perception of classroom environment. Further, we compared responses of girls in all girls' classes to girls in coeducational classes and responses of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Classroom Environment, Middle School Students, Mathematics Education
Whalen, William V., III. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
At Joseph Case Junior High School, a school located in Swansea, Massachusetts for students in grades six through eight; there was a problematic trend in regard to student achievement in mathematics. Upon completion of an analysis of student cohort results in mathematics on the MCAS (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System), there was an…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Junior High School Students, Mathematics Achievement, Gender Differences
Belfi, Barbara; Goos, Mieke; De Fraine, Bieke; Van Damme, Jan – Educational Research Review, 2012
In the field of educational effectiveness research, the influence of a class' student body on students' individual achievement scores has been a popular research interest for many years. Yet, few studies have focussed on the effects of class composition on students' non-achievement outcomes, and up to now, hardly any attempts have been made to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Single Sex Classes, Ability Grouping, Secondary School Students
Sampson, Pauline M.; Gresham, Gloria; Leigh, Melissa M.; McCormick-Myers, Denice – Teacher Education and Practice, 2014
Controversy surrounds the issue of single-gender education, with advocates debating that the initiative decreases discrimination, improves educational experiences for males and females, and provides parents more choice. Opponents argue that single-gender education is a form of segregation and negates the gains that women have achieved in the area…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Single Sex Classes, Science Education, Classroom Environment
Brown, Sherri L.; Ronau, Robert R. – School Science and Mathematics, 2012
While participating in single- and mixed-gender science and mathematics classes, ninth-grade urban high school students' (n = 118) academic self-concept, self-efficacy, and school climate perceptions were examined. Their perceptions were measured quantitatively from the Fennema-Sherman Mathematics (modified for Science) Attitude and the Patterns…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy, Measures (Individuals)
Kessels, Ursula; Hannover, Bettina – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
Background: Establishing or preserving single-sex schooling has been widely discussed as a way of bringing more girls into the natural sciences. Aims: We test the assumption that the beneficial effects of single-sex education on girls' self-concept of ability in masculine subjects such as physics are due to the lower accessibility of…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Females, Single Sex Classes, Physics
Wills, Robin; Kilpatrick, Sue; Hutton, Biddy – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2006
This research investigated social and academic outcomes from single-sex classrooms in a Tasmanian coeducational government primary school. Interviews, observations and surveys formed the basis of the evidence. Teachers, parents and children reported positive benefits from the class organisation, but these differed according to gender. Staff…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Single Sex Classes, Coeducation, Outcomes of Education
Kugler, Matther B.; Goethals, George R. – Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education, Williams College, 2006
Two studies explored the experience and performance of students at Williams College in three-person groups that were homogeneous or heterogeneous in rated academic ability. In accord with hypotheses from Festinger's (1954) social comparison theory, students in academically homogeneous groups had more positive experiences and performed better on…
Descriptors: Colleges, Selective Admission, College Entrance Examinations, Self Concept
Madigan, Jennifer C. – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2005
In this qualitative study the author used case study methods to examine perceptions of gender, race, and disability through the viewpoints and experiences of Latina students. The participants were secondary school girls with mild to moderate disabilities attending single-gender and coeducational special education classes on an urban school site in…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Single Sex Classes, Sexual Identity, School Location
Clark, Ian – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2004
This article has two inseparable aims: (a) to analyse the relative merits of single-sex and co-educational constructs on self-concept, academic performance and academic engagement; (b) to investigate the manner in which each type of schooling interacts with the individual student; student "peers," close family, and teachers.
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Single Sex Schools, Coeducation, Self Concept
