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Effect of Diagnostic Testing on Students' Achievement in Secondary School Quantitative Economics
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Esomonu, Nkechi Patricia-Mary; Eleje, Lydia Ijeoma – World Journal of Education, 2020
This study aimed at investigating the effect of diagnostic testing on students' academic achievement in secondary school quantitative economics. In conducting the study, 3 research questions and 3 stated hypotheses were answered. The study is quasi-experimental employing 2x4 factorial pretest-posttest design. The sample consisted of 210 Senior…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Academic Achievement, Economics Education, Diagnostic Tests
Gender-Specific Instructional Strategies and Student Achievement in 5th Grade Classrooms
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Dickey, Millicent Whitener – ProQuest LLC, 2014
There are three purposes of this mixed methods phenomenological case study. First, the researcher attempted to determine if there is evidence that teachers in single-sex classes adjust the delivery of the academic content when compared to coeducational classes. Secondly, while trying to understand the phenomenon of learning in a single-sex…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Phenomenology, Case Studies, Single Sex Classes
A Case Study of the Academic Achievement of African American Males in Single-Sex Classrooms in Rural South Carolina
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Pannell, Lynette Martin – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences of Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) scores between fourth-grade African American male students who were enrolled in single-sex classrooms and their counterparts who were enrolled in coeducational classrooms. The research provided descriptive data concerning one Title I school in rural…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Males, African Americans, Case Studies
Why We Must Try Same-Sex Instruction
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Laster, Carol – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2004
Educators have not been teaching to the learning style of boys, nor have they kept up with recent findings in brain research on the developmental differences between boys and girls. With all the education reform efforts about, with new accountability standards so high, school districts nationwide struggle to balance budgets and increase student…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Student Motivation, Cognitive Style, Single Sex Classes
Single-Sex Classes in Co-Educational Schools
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Wills, Robin; Kilpatrick, Sue; Hutton, Biddy – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2006
This research investigated social and academic outcomes from single-sex classrooms in a Tasmanian coeducational government primary school. Interviews, observations and surveys formed the basis of the evidence. Teachers, parents and children reported positive benefits from the class organisation, but these differed according to gender. Staff…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Single Sex Classes, Coeducation, Outcomes of Education
Teaching Modern Foreign Languages in Single-Sex Classes in a Co-Educational Context--Review of a Project in a North Yorkshire Comprehensive School
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Chambers, Gary – Language Learning Journal, 2005
A co-educational comprehensive school in North Yorkshire, concerned at the gap between boys' and girls' performance in French and German at GCSE, opted to teach Year 8 languages classes as single-sex groups. 2003-04 was to be a pilot year, at the end of which pupils' performance, motivation and attitude, as well as the experiences and views of…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Single Sex Classes, French, German