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Girls' Groups and Boys' Groups at a Municipal Technology Centre
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Salminen-Karlsson, Minna – International Journal of Science Education, 2007
This article describes the Swedish initiative of municipal technology centres from a gender point of view. These centres provide after-school technology education for children aged 6-16. By means of an ethnographic study, the effects of the use of single-sex groups in increasing the interest of girls and boys in technical activities have been…
Descriptors: Females, Technology Education, Sexual Identity, Masculinity
Single-Sex Teaching and Achievement in Science. Research Report
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Robinson, W. P.; Gillibrand, E. – International Journal of Science Education, 2004
The primary purpose was to investigate the efficacy of a full year of single-sex (SS) teaching of science. The secondary aims were to locate any differentiation by set and gender, and to relate these to more proximal variables. Participants were 13 year olds. Higher set girls gave evidence of clear benefits overall, and higher set boys also,…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Gender Differences
Girls' Participation in Physics in Single Sex Classes in Mixed Schools in Relation to Confidence and Achievement.
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Gillibrand, Eileen; Robinson, Peter; Brawn, Richard; Osborn, Albert – International Journal of Science Education, 1999
Reports the findings from a three-year longitudinal case study of two single-sex General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) physics classes in a mixed comprehensive school in England. Results indicate that girls who elected to study physics in single-sex classes gain confidence in the subject. This gain in confidence is associated with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Females, Foreign Countries