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Download full textSeitsinger, Anne M.; Barboza, Helen C.; Hird, Anne – 1998
An urban independent middle school grouped its 63 sixth and seventh graders into single-sex mathematics classes (SSMC) to improve girls' achievement in mathematics (AIM) and attitudes toward mathematics (ATM) with no negative impact on boys. Researchers analyzed AIM, ATM, and interactions/instruction. AIM measures included Metropolitan Achievement…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Mathematics Achievement
Peer reviewedGarduno, Edna Leticia Hernandez – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2001
Examination of gender differences in self-efficacy, attitudes toward mathematics, and achievement of 48 gifted 7th and 8th grade students after participating in a 2-week course on probability and statistics found no differences in achievement or self-efficacy between cooperative learning mixed gender or single gender groups. Differences in…
Descriptors: Competition, Cooperative Learning, Gifted, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Macfarlane, Jim; Crawford, Pat – 1985
A great number of students, and a particularly high proportion of females, do not study mathematics beyond minimum high school requirements. Research indicates that segregation of mathematics classes may help reduce the incidence of female students dropping out of that subject. In an attempt to redress this situation, A. Y. Jackson Secondary…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Females, Foreign Countries, Grade 10
McCoy, Leah P., Ed. – 1996
The 19 papers presented at Wake Forest University's 1996 Annual Research Forum (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) are as follows: "Initiating and Facilitating Discourse: An Examination of Methods of Four Secondary English Classrooms" (Stella Katherine Beale); "Cheating: Beliefs and Habits" (William Clark); "English…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Cheating, Cognitive Style
