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Anditi, Zephania O.; Okere, Mark, I. O.; Muchiri, Daniel R. – European Journal of Educational Research, 2013
Chemistry is one of the subjects that students sit for in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE). The attainment of students in chemistry in KCSE has been quite low. An analysis of the past Chemistry examination papers taken in KCSE reveals that the papers test students' competencies in various aspects of Cognitive Science Process…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Characteristics, Academic Achievement, Science Achievement
Brown, Cory Terrell – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The Title IX legislation of 1972 was established to promote gender equity among public entities (primarily schools) that utilize federal funding to support and sustain their operation. However, the United States (U.S.) Government developed new regulations for Title IX due to No Child Left Behind (NCLB). This change allowed public school districts…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Sex Fairness
Blake, Catherine Danielle – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The U.S. Department of Education is giving more liberties to school districts to offer single-sex schools in order to adequately serve the needs of students. The purpose of this quantitative causal-comparative study was to test the theory of students' performances based on their educational environment by comparing students who received…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Educational Environment, Single Sex Classes
Chaussee, Erik P. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine single-gender schools and/or classes as a method of improving student achievement and gaining greater satisfaction in school. The paper will further examine the effects of single-gender classes on student achievement, the academic gender gap, and the attitudes of students and teachers. It will also look at…
Descriptors: Single Sex Classes, Males, Gender Issues, Gender Differences
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Ajaja, O. Patrick – International Education Studies, 2012
The major purpose of this study was to determine the pattern of dropout among secondary school students in Delta State. To guide this study, 7 research questions were asked and answered, 3 hypotheses stated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The design of study was ex post facto using the past school attendance registers as the major…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropouts, Secondary School Students, Hypothesis Testing
Diaconu, Dana V. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
There is a broad interest in narrowing achievement gaps among all groups of students and improving education by scientifically sound methods. On October 25, 2006, the United States Department of Education published new regulations allowing single-sex education in public schools whenever schools think it will improve student achievement. Thus far,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Gap, Public Schools, Effect Size
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Bender-Szymanski, Dorothea – Intercultural Education, 2012
In this article, we describe the multiple phases of a project that was constructed around the real case of a young Muslim student who wished to be exempted from coeducational physical education on religious grounds. When the school refused her initial request, she decided to take legal measures which ended up in the German Federal Administrative…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Physical Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Public Schools
Brathwaite, Debra Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Single-sex education is a reform initiative that is taking root in the United States and in many countries around the world as a possible solution to closing the racial, achievement, and gender gaps that have emerged where minority students lag behind their White counterparts and boys are falling behind girls academically. Although there have been…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Public Schools, Discipline, Academic Achievement
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Abu-Rabia-Queder, Sarab – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2006
This study discusses the problem of Bedouin girls dropping out from the public school system in the Negev region of Israel. Data show that this phenomenon results from a conflict between the modern Israeli institutes' perception of modernity (which promote coeducation) and the Bedouin traditions that remain the cultural ethos of the girls'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values, Females, Dropouts
Bixler, Mark – Teacher Magazine, 2005
The number of public schools offering single-sex instruction has risen from fewer than a dozen to 205 since 1997, with classrooms sprouting up in places such as Atlanta, New York, and Philadelphia, says Leonard Sax, a psychologist and physician who directs the National Association for Single Sex Public Education, in Maryland. The increase is…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Single Sex Schools, Gender Differences, Coeducation
Prato, Douglas J. – Journal of Physical Education and Recreation, 1981
The physical education program for the Commack (New York) Public School District has intramural activities for elementary, junior high, and high school programs. Coeducational activities and participation are encouraged. The elementary intramural program is team-sports oriented. (JN)
Descriptors: Coeducation, Competition, Elementary Secondary Education, Intramural Athletics
Hughes, Teresa A. – Online Submission, 2006
Traditionally, single-sex education has been provided in the form of private schooling. Title IX regulations have loosened as a result of the No Child Left Behind Legislation; therefore, public school districts now have the legal right to create single-sex classes or single-sex schools if they deem it to be in the best interest of their students.…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Minority Groups, Single Sex Classes, School Districts
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Younger, Michael Robert; Warrington, Molly – American Educational Research Journal, 2006
The gender agenda in many North American, Western European, and Australasian countries has undergone a "boy turn" in the past decade amid growing concerns about boys' apparent "underachievement" relative to girls. One aspect of this turn has been the resurrection of interest in single-sex classes in coeducational public state…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Public Schools, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Trickett, Edison J.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1982
The normative environments of single-sex independent schools were found to be more academic, with greater task and competition orientation, than coeducational independent schools. Representative independent schools were compared to each other and to public schools with a discussion of learning involvement, function, purpose, and student and…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Comparative Analysis, Educational Environment, Educational Quality
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Marsh, Herbert W. – American Journal of Education, 1991
Using data from the High School and Beyond survey, compares junior and senior year performance and other variables in Catholic single sex, Catholic coed, and public schools. Finds Catholic school students are urged to take more academically demanding courses; this accounts for public/Catholic differences in achievement and university attendance.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Behavior, Catholic Schools
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