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Co-Educational Residential Life: Evaluation of a Pilot Program
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Christi Mackey; Lori O’Malley; Sonya Munsell; Mark Hickey – Educational Research: Theory and Practice, 2024
This study utilized a qualitative approach to learn about a co-educational housing pilot program in a rural serving, four-year regional university in the mid-south United States. Four individuals involved in the program took part in semi-structured interviews. Open coding analysis revealed four themes: sense of belonging, learning, gender and…
Descriptors: College Housing, Coeducation, Dormitories, College Students
Peer Interaction, Self-Efficacy, and Equity: Same-Gender Groups Are More Beneficial than Mixed-Gender Groups for Female Students
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Alysa Malespina; Chandralekha Singh – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2024
In this article, we describe a study in which a validated motivational survey was used to investigate the effect of working in mixed or same-gender groups on physics self-efficacy and self-reported peer influence on self-efficacy in a calculus-based introductory physics course in which women are severely underrepresented both in our sample and in…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Interaction, Self Efficacy, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
One Hundred Years of the Gender Gap in Examination Results at the University of Oxford
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Ahlburg, Dennis A.; McCall, Brian P. – History of Education, 2021
This paper uses a newly discovered data set on examination results by gender from 1913 to 1986 to show that the gender gap in examinations at the University of Oxford has existed for over a century. We show that after declining for almost 70 years the gender gap in Firsts increased significantly after the introduction of coresidence -- the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Gender Differences, Scores, Foreign Countries
The "Woman Question" and the Dynamics of Institutional Design at Western Reserve College in the Gilded Age
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Snejana Slantcheva-Durst – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The present study traces the influences of women students, and the "woman question," on Western Reserve College during its most critical period of transformation during the Gilded Age. In addition, I also aim to build a second, parallel story: the creation of one of the pioneer coordinate colleges for women in the United States: the…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Womens Education, Educational Change
Differences among Korean Women Attending Women's Schools and Coed Schools: Gender Identity and Perception of Workplace Culture for Women
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Hee Sun Park; Ezgi Ulusoy; Hye Eun Lee; Mikyoung Kim – SAGE Open, 2024
By looking at the relationship between workplace culture and gender identity, this research examines ways to potentially improve women's satisfaction and perceptions of female workers in this presently disadvantageous work environment in Korea. Drawing from previous criticism for having prioritized inter-group processes over particular social…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Womens Education, Work Environment, Work Attitudes
Faculty Perspectives on Coeducation and Reciprocity
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Darby, Alexa N.; Cobb, Tammy; Willingham, Lauren – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2021
The purpose of this study was to investigate faculty members' perspectives on coeducation and reciprocity within service-learning partnerships. Participants included 22 faculty members from a variety of disciplines at a midsized private university in the southeastern United States. Faculty identified communication as well as teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Coeducation, Private Colleges, College Faculty