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Kari Roberts; Roxanne Hughes – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2019
Informal STEM education programs have become venues wherein girls can improve their sense of belonging and potential success (STEM identity) through interactions with role models and seeing how STEM fields are relevant to them. Despite decades of advocacy for single-sex programs' role in improving girls' STEM identity, few studies have found…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Females, Womens Education, Self Concept
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Lee, Valerie E.; Lockheed, Marlaine E. – Comparative Education Review, 1990
Among 1,012 Nigerian ninth graders in 40 schools, girls in single-sex schools had higher mathematics achievement and less stereotypic views of mathematics than girls in coed schools, whereas boys in single-sex schools were negatively affected compared to those in coed schools. Contains 46 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Coeducation, Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Mathematics Achievement