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Price-McKell, Cheryl – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The position of Dean of Women was created in response to novel exigencies rising from women's acceptance to coeducational institutions of higher learning in the late nineteenth century. While these early women administrators had a profound impact on women's higher education in the United States, their work has received relatively little attention.…
Descriptors: Deans, Higher Education, Females, Womens Education
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
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
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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
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Bogdanovic, Ivana Z.; Rodic, Dušica D.; Roncevic, Tamara N.; Stanisavljevic, Jelena D.; Zouhor, Zekri A. M. – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2022
The differences related to gender are evident in physics education from the early age of the students. Thus, it is important that the teaching strategies that are implemented in mixed-gender physics classrooms are appropriate for both boys and girls. This research examined physics achievement and metacognitive awareness of students in lower…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Metacognition, Gender Differences
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Pribyl, Jill – Research in Dance Education, 2022
It has been almost twenty years since Namasagali College, a co-educational secondary school in Eastern Uganda, staged its last performance, yet the memory of these musical theater productions are recalled with the nostalgia of a lost renaissance. These transdisciplinary productions that utilized modern dance, acting and mimed songs transformed the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dance Education, Secondary School Students, Theater Arts
Calkins, Avery; Binder, Ariel J.; Shaat, Dana; Timpe, Brenden – RAND Corporation, 2020
We leverage variation in the timing of women's colleges' transitions to coeducation throughout the 1960s-2000s to study how exposure to a gendered social environment affects women's human capital investments. Applying event study and synthetic control analyses to newly collected historical data, we find that the share of women majoring in STEM at…
Descriptors: Single Sex Colleges, Coeducation, Majors (Students), Females
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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
Sabatino, Cindy R. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of physical education (PE) teachers on the participation of middle-school girls in PE courses. Investigating the perceptions of educators who have direct experience with mixed-gender middle-school PE courses provided new contributions to the limited understanding of engagement and…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students
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Kabadi, Sajit U. – Journal of Catholic Education, 2021
Findings from a historiographic case study are reported. Qualitative data was collected from a series of interviews and cultural artifacts exploring the history of the creation of the Regis Jesuit High School, Girls Division- the first American all girls Catholic Jesuit high school. The study traces the process of how Regis Jesuit became a…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Catholics, High School Students, Catholic Schools
Mazur, Julie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Women's colleges are currently struggling to remain solvent and germane to today's higher education landscape. Despite the struggles, women's colleges have provided inimitable, valuable, and engaging experiences for the students who enroll at these traditionally small, liberal arts focused institutions. As the small number of women entering STEM…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, STEM Education, College Students, Females
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Alice Smith; Tanya Evans – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
According to the World Economic Forum, the occupational gender gap with men dominating well-remunerated STEM careers is a key factor in the gender pay gap. However, the problem of underrepresentation of women in STEM fields is mitigated or reversed in some Eastern European and Islamic countries. This disparity suggests that cultural factors are at…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, STEM Education, STEM Careers, Disproportionate Representation
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Carole, Hooper – History of Education Review, 2021
Purpose: Soon after its establishment in 1863, the Board of Education -- the body responsible for administering public education in Victoria -- determined that a system of universal mixed (coeducational) schooling would be adopted in the colony. Existing single-sex departments were "encouraged", or compelled, to amalgamate, and no new…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Coeducation, Secondary School Students, Educational History
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Wallace, Laura; Buchan, Duncan; Sculthorpe, Nicholas – European Physical Education Review, 2020
This study examined whether single-gender or mixed-gender PE lessons were more conducive to increasing the physical activity levels of girls. One hundred and twenty girls (12--15 years) wore a wGT3x+ActiGraph accelerometer while participating in basketball games. Time spent in low (LPA), moderate (MPA), vigorous (VPA), and moderate-to-vigorous…
Descriptors: Females, Single Sex Classes, Coeducation, Physical Education
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Meetoo, Veena – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2020
This paper explores the presence of multiculturalism in teachers' professional practice in a British inner city co-educational secondary school, which featured in two predominant ways: first, as a form of 'diversity management' through interventions including a formalised staffing structure to 'respond' to the school's ethnically mixed student…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Urban Schools, Student Diversity, Secondary School Teachers
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