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Direct linkValerie Layne – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In the pursuit of continuous improvement in education and closing the achievement gap, educators are experimenting with different environments that will assist students in increasing academic achievement. The media bombards Americans with news about the failing educational system that is being outperformed by counterparts around the world. In this…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Single Sex Classes, Mathematics Achievement, Teacher Attitudes
Peer reviewedParedes, Valentina – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
In this paper we study the effect on the math gender gap from attending a coeducational school with single-sex classrooms versus attending a school with coeducational classrooms. That is, we compare the performance of girls versus boys within schools with single-sex classrooms compared to the performance of girls versus boys within schools with…
Descriptors: Single Sex Classes, Gender Differences, Mathematics Achievement, Coeducation
Newbold, Anthony J. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
An achievement gap exists in mathematics between low-income African American male students and their European American counterparts. Although this problem has been approached using different interventions with minimal results, the impact of homogenous grouping is not well understood in spite of its use. As a result, this study was conducted to…
Descriptors: Single Sex Classes, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 9, African American Students
Download full textAndersen, Frans Ørsted; Nissen, Poul; Poulsen, Line – Journal of Educational Issues, 2016
Marginalized boys at risk of dropping out of high school have for a long time been a problem in the Western world. 100 such Danish 14-16 year old boys were in the summers of 2013, 2014 and 2015 exposed to a new school program, "The Boys Academy," inspired by Seligman and the American KIPP schools suggesting seven character strengths to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, At Risk Students, Dropouts, Males
Faulkner-Simmons, Denise – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Research indicated that educators must consider socio-ecological accommodations because not all students learn in cooperative groups. Students must be taught how to discover the process of learning and to apply knowledge to real life situations. Gurian and Ballew (2003) identified differences in the male and female brain and the differences in how…
Descriptors: Single Sex Classes, African American Students, Males, Grade 9
Shapka, Jennifer D. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2009
This study investigated the benefits of all-girls' classroom instruction in math and/or science during Grades 9 and/or 10, within the context of a public co-educational high school. There were 118 participants in this longitudinal investigation: 26 girls in the all-girl classes, as well as 42 girls and 50 boys in the regular co-educational…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, High School Students, Psychological Characteristics, Females
