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Direct linkNaugah, Jayantee; Reiss, Michael J.; Watts, Mike – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2020
Background: Varied and complex forms of parental influence may shape young people's decisions about whether or not to study science once it is no longer compulsory in school. Purpose: This study attempts to identify the role of parents in influencing the choice of science subjects in Mauritius among students at the end of the third year of…
Descriptors: School Choice, Parent Attitudes, Parent Influence, Science Education
Urban Elementary Single-Sex Math Classrooms: Mitigating Stereotype Threat for African American Girls
Bowe, Anica G.; Desjardins, Christopher D.; Covington Clarkson, Lesa M.; Lawrenz, Frances – Urban Education, 2017
This study utilized a mixed-methods approach to holistically examine single-sex and coeducational urban elementary mathematics classes through situated cognitive theory. Participants came from two urban low-income Midwestern elementary schools with a high representation of minority students (n = 77 sixth graders, n = 4 teachers, n = 2 principals).…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Mixed Methods Research, Single Sex Schools
Wylie, Cathy; Berg, Melanie – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2014
This report explores the achievement of school leavers from state and state-integrated boys' schools. The analysis from 2010 to 2012 shows school leavers from state boys' schools had higher qualifications than their male counterparts who attended state co-educational schools. The research was carried out for the Association of Boys' Schools of New…
Descriptors: Males, Single Sex Schools, Academic Achievement, Public Schools
John-Akinola, Yetunde O.; Gabhainn, Saoirse Nic – Health Education, 2015
Purpose: Attention to improving the school environment is a common activity in school health promotion. The role of the school environment in supporting improved health and wellbeing has a theoretical base, but has rarely been directly investigated empirically. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the associations between school…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Child Health, Well Being, Correlation
Download full textWalter, Howard Maurice – 1997
Central to this dissertation is an attempt to investigate whether or not a single-sex environment has a positive impact upon girls' attitudes and beliefs, as they pertain to the learning of mathematics. All learners of mathematics are enveloped by the social practices pertaining to both mathematics and society at large. Underlying these social…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Coeducation, Elementary Secondary Education, Females
National Catholic Educational Association, Washington, DC. – 1985
Responses to an extensive survey by 910 (62 percent) of the head administrators at the 1,464 Catholic high schools in the United States provide the information presented in this report. The survey, containing 1,063 pieces of information in 14 sections, was designed to create a view of the resources, programs, facilities, personnel, and policies of…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Catholics, Coeducation, Comparative Analysis
