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Mitchell-Woods, Sandra – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The need to improve school instruction quality has led the education stakeholders to discover practical approaches to achieving that goal. This research aimed at establishing the impact of single-sex classrooms on K-12 female academic achievement. The objectives include establishing the perceptions of teachers on how single-sex female classrooms…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Single Sex Classes, Females, Womens Education
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Ulrika Sultan; Cecilia Axell; Jonas Hallström – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2024
Bringing more girls and women into science, technology, engineering and mathematics, STEM, is often highlighted as an aim in education and industry. A constantly growing body of research on engagement is driven by equity concerns caused by the unbalanced gender distribution in STEM. In this study, Swedish teenage girls on a three-day technology…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Females, Camps
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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Kerry Harris; Robyn Jones; Sofia Santos – Quest, 2024
The purpose of this paper is to critique current women-only coach education initiatives, before suggesting an alternative approach to dealing with gender discrimination in coaching provision. Having increased in popularity over recent years, primarily through justifications as being "safe spaces" for participants, such initiatives have…
Descriptors: Alienation, Athletic Coaches, Criticism, Females
Hassig, Matthew Alan – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of the effect of a single-gender intervention on the STEM Education Outcomes and STEM Identity Outcomes of females in STEM, as well as an understanding of the experiences of the female participants of the single-gender classroom. The conceptual framework was based on Maslow's Hierarchy of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Females, Single Sex Classes, Student Interests
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Almasri, Firas – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
This study aimed to compare female and male students' attitudes and achievements within different learning settings determined by e-learning and in-classroom learning modalities, collaborative (CL), and traditional (TL) learning pedagogies and investigated the effect of single-gender (SG) and mixed-gender (MG) grouping in an undergraduate biology…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biology, Science Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Guadalupe, Tasha; Curtner-Smith, Matthew D. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2020
Purpose: In this paper, we describe the study of one teacher as she attempted to purposefully negotiate the curriculum (e.g., goals, content, tasks, and evaluation) with one of her middle school classes. We used key concepts, constructs, and ideas from hegemonic masculinity and feminist theory to guide us in this endeavor. Method: We used seven…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Females, Secondary School Curriculum, Curriculum
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Mohaddeseh Salimpoor Aghdam; Javad Gholami; Mahnaz Saeidi – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
The need to create more efficient approaches to teaching L2 writing has grown due to the increasing demands placed on English writing proficiency in a global setting. The present investigation aimed to explore the impacts of the ENGAGE Model and task-based language teaching (TBLT) method on Iranian EFL learners' overall L2 writing performance.…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Burnett, Claire; Chapman Hazell, Louise – English in Education, 2022
This case study explores how literature, in particular poetry, can be used as an educational platform within the secondary classroom to explore gender identity. A six-week unit of poetry was created as part of a broader project to enable pupils to reflect on their personal and familial experiences of gender, whilst also utilising creative writing…
Descriptors: Poetry, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students, Secondary Education
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Serpagli, Lauren Paola; Mensah, Felicia Moore – School Science and Mathematics, 2021
This qualitative, ethnographic study focuses on how combining aspects of visual learning with a social media application (app)--Instagram--can be a useful learning tool for digital natives (DNs). Current students are classified as digital natives because they are inundated with technology, which has become an essential tool in their everyday…
Descriptors: Social Media, Science Education, Biology, Teaching Methods
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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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Goodkind, Sara; Bay-Cheng, Laina – Youth & Society, 2021
Drawing on participatory research in a high school implementing single-sex classes, this article demonstrates how single-sex education masks racialized economic inequality by framing low academic achievement among low-income youth of color as a function of gender, thereby scapegoating girls for a supposed "boy crisis" in education. We…
Descriptors: High School Students, Single Sex Classes, Minority Group Students, Low Income Students
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Zampini, Giulia; Österman, Linnéa; Stengel, Camille; Bennallick, Morwenna – Journal of Prison Education and Reentry, 2019
This article is a critical reflection of the role of gender in the delivery of a higher education course based on the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Programme. Related concepts such as hegemonic masculinity, heteronormativity, and intersectionality are discussed within the prison education setting. This reflection primarily draws on critical incidents…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Females, Higher Education
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Elmoisheer, Shof Sultan; Elsawy, Hosam Eldeen Ahmed – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of exposing learners to authentic online reading materialson their written outputs (writing summaries and reflective essays). The quantitative method specifically the one-shot pretest-posttest experimental design was adopted. An online course was designed learners writing through reading…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Online Courses, Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction
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Timken, Gay; McNamee, Jeff; Coste, Sarah – European Physical Education Review, 2019
School-based physical education (PE) is the most efficient and cost-effective means of increasing girls' physical activity. Therefore, this project used a health club (HC) approach to alter a high school PE experience for 17 grade nine girls (M age = 14.6 ± 0.49). As part of a larger mixed-methods study, this qualitative element gauged adolescent…
Descriptors: Females, Grade 9, Physical Education, Physical Activity Level
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