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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