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Simpson, Amber; Che, S. Megan – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2016
Utilizing a descriptive phenomenological design, this study examines the lived experiences of seven middle grade students, four females and three males, enrolled in a single-sex mathematics classroom within a coeducational school setting. The intent of the study is to understand, from students themselves, about the experience of single-sex…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Middle School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Single Sex Classes
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Woodson-Smith, Andrea; Dorwart, Catherine E.; Linder, Amy – Physical Educator, 2015
The purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes of female high school students toward PE in selected North Carolina schools. The high schools were conveniently selected to include the Northeast Piedmont urban region of North Carolina. Participants consisted of 102 female students aged 14 to 18 years old who were enrolled in ninth to 12th…
Descriptors: Females, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Physical Education
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Kombe, Dennis; Che, S. Megan; Carter, Traci L.; Bridges, William – School Science and Mathematics, 2016
In this article, we present findings from a study that investigated the relationship between all-girls classes, all-boys classes, and coeducational classes on student mathematics self-concept and student perception of classroom environment. Further, we compared responses of girls in all-girls classes to girls in coeducational classes and responses…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Classroom Environment, Middle School Students, Mathematics Education
Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Education, 2023
This resource collection features a selection of Office for Civil Rights (OCR) guidance and resources that may be useful to elementary and secondary schools throughout the school year. For each resource, there is a brief description and a link to full information online. Each topic area includes a combination of specific and general resources.
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Bullying
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Lewis, Colin J.; Roberts, Simon J.; Andrews, Hazel – Sport, Education and Society, 2018
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the provision of formal coach education. However, research has repeatedly demonstrated how coach education has had a limited impact on the learning and development of coach practitioners. To date however, these investigations have avoided female coach populations. Ten women football coaches…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Team Sports, Semi Structured Interviews, Gender Discrimination
Watson-Thomas, Jolynn Louise – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this quantitative causal-comparative research was to assess the effect of classroom structure (single-gender vs. coeducational) on students' performance in mathematics in grades 3 through 5 at three large, urban elementary schools in Las Vegas, Nevada, while controlling for student gender and ethnicity. This study was theoretically…
Descriptors: Single Sex Classes, Elementary School Students, Grounded Theory, Coeducation
El Nagdi, Mohamed Ali Elsayed – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This three-paper dissertation addresses issues of equity and identity in STEM education through three studies conducted with teachers in two emerging STEM schools in the Midwest United States (U.S.), graduates of a girls STEM school in Egypt, and the teachers of a STEM school in Egypt. The studies comprising this dissertation utilized case study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Identity, Science Teachers, STEM Education
Young, La Sandra M. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Schools across the nation are faced with an increased urgency to seek innovative strategies to improve low academic performance of students as mandated by No Child Left Behind Legislation (Friend, 2006). Specifically, in the state of Tennessee in schools such as those located in the Shelby County Schools District who have experienced low student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Single Sex Classes, Coeducation, Standardized Tests
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Tichenor, Mercedes; Welsh, Alyssa; Corcoran, Carol; Piechura, Kathy; Heins, Elizabeth – Education, 2016
By the time girls are second graders, they may be exhibiting negative attitudes toward math (Cvencek, Meltzoff, & Greenwald, 2011). McFarland, Benson and McFarland (2011) examined girls' math achievement in single-gender and mixed-gender classrooms and suggest that single-gendered formats can help females. In this study, we compare the math…
Descriptors: Single Sex Classes, Females, Mathematics Instruction, Coeducation
Werner, Alyssa G. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation investigated if the implementation of six different female-oriented teaching strategies had an effect on the attitude of middle school female science students. Female-oriented teaching strategies included single-sex groupings, student-teacher interactions, introduction of female role models, guided-inquiry teaching pedagogy,…
Descriptors: Females, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Middle School Students
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Williams, Skip M.; Hannon, James C. – Physical Educator, 2018
This study compared physical activity levels of junior high school physical education students participating in coeducational and same-sex PE classes that followed the Tactical Games Model. A total of 446 students, aged 11 to 16 years old, enrolled in the seventh to ninth grades from one junior high school participated. Each student participated…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Coeducation, Physical Education, Educational Games
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Dzubinski, Leanne – Christian Higher Education, 2018
An increasing number of published studies have drawn attention to gender disparities in various dimensions of Christian higher education. Although the majority of students on the campuses of member institutions of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU) are women, and the percentage of women holding faculty and administrative…
Descriptors: Christianity, Church Related Colleges, Disproportionate Representation, Women Faculty
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Simpson, Amber; Che, S. Megan; Bridges, William C., Jr. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2016
Recently, single-sex classes within public coeducational schools have proliferated across the USA; yet, we still know little about whether and how single-sex science classes influence adolescents' attitude and affect toward science. This exploratory study expands upon our current understanding by investigating the extent in which female and male…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Coeducation, Single Sex Classes, Science Education
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Putri, Annisa Utami; Rusyati, Lilit; Rochintaniawati, Diana – Journal of Science Learning, 2018
This study investigated the impact of the problem-solving model on students' concept mastery and motivation in learning heat based on gender. The method which was used in this research was quasi-experiment with pretest-posttest design in girls and boys class. Data are collected from girl class (N=16) and boys class (N=16) of a 7th grade in one of…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Taxonomy, Gender Differences, Bilingual Schools
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Haroun, Ramzi F.; Ng, Dicky; Abdelfattah, Faisal A.; AlSalouli, Misfer S. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2016
This study examines gender differences of teachers on their mathematical knowledge for teaching in the context of single-sex classrooms in Saudi Arabia. A translated version of the Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (MKT) instrument (Learning Mathematics for Teaching [LMT], 2008) in Number and Operation Content Knowledge (CK) and Knowledge of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
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