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An International Comparison of Equity in Education Systems

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Gorard, Stephen; Smith, Emma – Comparative Education, 2004

This paper uses pupil responses to the PISA study in 2000 for all EU countries. Using indicators of the pupil intakes to schools and their outcomes it computes segregation indices for 15 countries, and then tries to explain the resulting patterns in terms of the characteristics of national school systems. Segregation by sex in each country is…

Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Females, Single Sex Schools

Gender Context of Schooling and Levels of Stress among Early Adolescent Pupils

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Brutsaert, Herman; Van Houtte, Mieke – Education and Urban Society, 2004

In present analysis, an attempt is made to identify perceived social support mechanisms through which the gender composition of the school may influence pupils' stress responses. Use was made of data from 68 academically oriented secondary schools in Flanders, Belgium. Of these schools, 25 were mixed-sex schools and 43 were single-sex schools (21…

Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Adolescents, Academic Achievement, Single Sex Schools