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One Hundred Years of the Gender Gap in Examination Results at the University of Oxford
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Ahlburg, Dennis A.; McCall, Brian P. – History of Education, 2021
This paper uses a newly discovered data set on examination results by gender from 1913 to 1986 to show that the gender gap in examinations at the University of Oxford has existed for over a century. We show that after declining for almost 70 years the gender gap in Firsts increased significantly after the introduction of coresidence -- the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Gender Differences, Scores, Foreign Countries
Mixed but Not Scrambled: Gender Gaps in Coed Schools with Single-Sex Classrooms
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Paredes, Valentina – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
In this paper we study the effect on the math gender gap from attending a coeducational school with single-sex classrooms versus attending a school with coeducational classrooms. That is, we compare the performance of girls versus boys within schools with single-sex classrooms compared to the performance of girls versus boys within schools with…
Descriptors: Single Sex Classes, Gender Differences, Mathematics Achievement, Coeducation
Effectiveness of Single-Gender Classrooms in Terms of Elementary Students' Academic Achievement in Mathematics
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Watson-Thomas, Jolynn Louise – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this quantitative causal-comparative research was to assess the effect of classroom structure (single-gender vs. coeducational) on students' performance in mathematics in grades 3 through 5 at three large, urban elementary schools in Las Vegas, Nevada, while controlling for student gender and ethnicity. This study was theoretically…
Descriptors: Single Sex Classes, Elementary School Students, Grounded Theory, Coeducation
School Administrators' and Teachers' Perceptions of Single-Gender Classrooms in Coeducational Public Middle Schools within South Carolina
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Moore, Shemmicca M. B. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The academic achievement gap between male and female students set in motion a flurry of initiatives to help address male underachievement. The amendments made to Title IX allowed single-gender education to become a viable option for addressing those gaps in achievement. After the adjustments made to Title IX, South Carolina led the nation in the…
Descriptors: Administrators, Teacher Attitudes, Single Sex Classes, Public Schools
Modeling Science Achievement Differences between Single-Sex and Coeducational Schools: Analyses from Hong Kong, SAR and New Zealand from TIMSS 1995, 1999, and 2003
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Diaconu, Dana V. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
There is a broad interest in narrowing achievement gaps among all groups of students and improving education by scientifically sound methods. On October 25, 2006, the United States Department of Education published new regulations allowing single-sex education in public schools whenever schools think it will improve student achievement. Thus far,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Gap, Public Schools, Effect Size
Effects of Single-Sex and Coeducational Schooling on the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement
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Gibb, Sheree J.; Fergusson, David M.; Horwood, L. John – Australian Journal of Education, 2008
This study examined the effects of single-sex and coeducational schooling on the gender gap in educational achievement to age 25. Data were drawn from the Christchurch Health and Development Study, a longitudinal study of a birth cohort of 1265 individuals born in 1977 in Christchurch, New Zealand. After adjustment for a series of covariates…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Coeducation, School Choice, Academic Achievement