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The Effects of Single-Sex and Coeducational Secondary Schooling on Girls' Achievement.

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Daly, Peter – Research Papers in Education: Policy and Practice, 1996

The effect of coeducational and single-sex secondary schooling on female students' academic achievement was examined. Reexamination of earlier survey data from Northern Ireland studied six outcomes related to student performance on public examinations. Results indicated a small achievement advantage for single-sex schooling (not significant…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Coeducation, Educational Environment, Females

Extension of Single-Sex Public School Provision: Evidential Concerns

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Daly, Peter; Defty, Neil – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2004

This is a preliminary report on an aspect of single-sex education in British secondary schools. It is based on a reanalysis of data on students' performance in mathematics in the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) in 2001. Students' attitudes to mathematics were also investigated. Girls' achievement within girls' schools was…

Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Single Sex Schools, Public Schools, Secondary Schools