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Sarah Tang; Neha Agarwal – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2024
This research updates analysis from 2016 which examines the social composition of top performing comprehensives in England compared to all schools nationally. The aim of this research is to assess whether the top performing comprehensives are representative of their local areas in terms of the socio-economic background of their students. The 'top'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Selective Admission, Socioeconomic Status, Institutional Characteristics
Selim, Kamal Samy; Rezk, Sahar Saeed – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Compulsory school-dropout is a serious problem affecting not only the education systems, but also the developmental progress of any country as a whole. Identifying the risk of dropping out, and characterizing its main determinants, could help the decision-makers to draw eradicating policies for this persisting problem and reducing its social and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropouts, Predictor Variables, At Risk Students
Clement, Ansha Denise – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative comparative study was to determine if and to what extent there was a statistically significant difference in the achievement of mathematics and English language arts (ELA) among male and female students who attended single-sex schools from those who attended mixed-sex schools in Caribbean countries. The theoretical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Achievement, Language Arts, Academic Achievement
Senfronia Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to determine if a gender-based learning environment fosters academic success for female students. This study was, also, meant to determine if the socioeconomic status (SES) and race of females was a predicting factor for the academic success of females enrolled in single gender learning environments in comparison to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Females, Single Sex Classes, Coeducation
Koniewski, Maciej; Hawrot, Anna – Research Papers in Education, 2022
This study inquired into the effect of single-sex schooling on achievement of female adolescents. It used national examination data of 4,787 Polish female students (10 cohorts) attending single-sex and co-educational Catholic schools. We tested two sets of partially contradictory predictions derived from two different theoretical models explaining…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Coeducation, Academic Achievement, Females
Lim, Carmen H. J.; Gill, Tim – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2023
This report looks at the provision of A level subjects in England in 2018. Provision in a subject is defined as the number or percentage of schools with at least one student taking the subject. It could be argued that this may not cover all of the 'provision' since schools might offer to provide a subject, but none of their students wants to study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Characteristics, Admission Criteria, Student Characteristics
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
Kemp, Peter E. J.; Wong, Billy; Berry, Miles G. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2020
The change in the English computing curriculum and the shift towards computer science (CS) has been closely observed by other countries. Female participation remains a concern in most jurisdictions, but female attainment in CS is relatively unstudied. Using the English national pupil database, we analyzed all exam results (n = 5,370,064) for…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Females, Secondary School Students, Gender Differences
Akhigbe, Jeremiah Nosakhare; Adeyemi, Adeola Eunice – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2020
One way of ensuring gender equality in science education is by mainstreaming gender components into the pedagogical delivery of science instruction. Thus, the researchers in this study designed a Gender Responsive Collaborative Learning Strategy (GR-CLS) based on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles. The effectiveness of this…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Cooperative Learning, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes
Harinarayanan, S.; Pazhanivelu, G. – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2018
Education is a dynamic process, which involves imparting knowledge, generating interests and curiosity, inculcating desirable attitudes and values and developing essential skills required for the independent study. The environment influences the academic achievement of the students, the investigator, tries to find out the impact of school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Academic Achievement, Secondary School Students
Park, Sangyoon – Education Economics, 2018
I study the effect of coeducation on academic performance and science course enrollment using student-level data from a South Korean high school that, at the beginning of each academic year, quasi-randomly assigned students to either single-sex or coeducation classrooms. This paper presents two main findings. First, among girls with high…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Academic Achievement, Course Selection (Students), High School Students
Young, La Sandra M. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Schools across the nation are faced with an increased urgency to seek innovative strategies to improve low academic performance of students as mandated by No Child Left Behind Legislation (Friend, 2006). Specifically, in the state of Tennessee in schools such as those located in the Shelby County Schools District who have experienced low student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Single Sex Classes, Coeducation, Standardized Tests
Malik, Ra'ana; Mirza, Munawar S. – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2014
Single or separate sex schools have traditionally been a trend in the public sector in Pakistan whilst only in Sindh province, there are coeducational schools in the public sector. The present study was designed to find out the differential academic performance of boys and girls in the separate sex and coeducational schools. From eight randomly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Academic Achievement, Single Sex Schools
Kiley, Jill; Robinson, Daniel Bruce – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2016
This article presents the results from a qualitative case study that examined the influencers upon a somewhat unique group of female students who opted out of elective physical education (PE). More specifically, this study focused upon female students attending an affluent private school, investigating why--when they transitioned from middle…
Descriptors: Females, Decision Making, Enrollment Influences, Elective Courses
Pardhan, Almina; Pelletier, Janette – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2017
A key area of interest is the way in which early years educators' perceptions about the concept of gender may influence their practice in relation to how children's ideas about gender might be supported and reinforced. However, this area has received little attention in the highly gender-segregated context of Pakistan. Understanding evidence-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Primary Education