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Hazari, Zahra; Potvin, Geoff; Lock, Robynne M.; Lung, Florin; Sonnert, Gerhard; Sadler, Philip M. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
There are many hypotheses regarding factors that may encourage female students to pursue careers in the physical sciences. Using multivariate matching methods on national data drawn from the Persistence Research in Science and Engineering (PRiSE) project ("n" = 7505), we test the following five commonly held beliefs regarding what…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Females, Womens Education, Gender Differences
Jones, Susan George – ProQuest LLC, 2012
During the 2009-10 school year, 42% of the students failed the biology segment of the EOCT, which affected not only the final grades of these students, but also overall school accountability. These results instigated some questions about the factors associated with students' success in biology; some of those factors related to the merit of single-…
Descriptors: Single Sex Classes, Coeducation, Statistical Analysis, Comparative Analysis