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Logan, Keri – Educational Studies, 2007
It has been well established in the literature that girls are turning their backs on computing courses at all levels of the education system. One reason given for this is that the computer learning environment is not conducive to girls, and it is often suggested that they would benefit from learning computing in a single-sex environment. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computers, Females, Classroom Environment
Clarke, Suzanne – Educational Research Service, 2007
In October 2006, the U.S. Department of Education introduced the so-called "single-sex regulations," which brought the issue of single-sex education to the forefront of discussion among educators, policymakers, and parents. Anecdotal evidence suggests that single-sex education can have a positive impact on student achievement. However,…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Single Sex Classes, Academic Achievement, Educational Environment
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Kennedy, Kerry J.; Mellor, Suzanne – Educational Psychology, 2006
This study draws on data from the IEA Civic Education Study to provide a secondary analysis of selected latent dimensions identified for their potential to demonstrate the extent to which Australian students' civic attitudes support the development of social capital. Four latent dimensions are examined using item-by-score maps and Australian…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Single Sex Classes, Gender Differences, Social Capital
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Salminen-Karlsson, Minna – International Journal of Science Education, 2007
This article describes the Swedish initiative of municipal technology centres from a gender point of view. These centres provide after-school technology education for children aged 6-16. By means of an ethnographic study, the effects of the use of single-sex groups in increasing the interest of girls and boys in technical activities have been…
Descriptors: Females, Technology Education, Sexual Identity, Masculinity
McNeil, Michele – Education Week, 2008
Single-sex classrooms and schools are common in private education and have emerged as popular options in urban public school districts, such as New York City, particularly as a strategy for raising the achievement of African-American boys. South Carolina is at the forefront of implementing such programs statewide. Ninety-seven schools in South…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Single Sex Schools, Civil Rights, Sex Stereotypes
Gibbons, Sandra L.; Humbert, Louise – Canadian Journal of Education, 2008
Many young women become disillusioned with physical education in their high-school years. Mounting evidence suggests that this disillusionment starts in early adolescence. This article discusses the experiences of female students in coeducational, middle-school, physical education classes. Focus group interviews, individual interviews, and…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Early Adolescents, Sex Fairness, Student Motivation
Weiss, Suzanne – Education Commission of the States (NJ3), 2007
In November 2006, the U.S. Department of Education issued new rules making it easier for schools and districts to use gender-separate classes, programs and activities as a strategy for enhancing educational achievement and opportunity. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings described the revised Title IX regulations as part of a greater effort to…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Charter Schools, Outcomes of Education, Educational Quality
Sax, Leonard – School Library Journal, 2007
The gender issue is relevant to classroom learning in more ways than one. Increasingly in the United States, young boys are saying that school is stupid and they do not like to read. This phenomenon cuts across all demographic groups: it affects affluent white boys in the suburbs no less than it affects black boys in low-income neighborhoods. In…
Descriptors: Video Games, Predictor Variables, Literature Appreciation, Gender Issues
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Perillo, Suzanne – Issues in Educational Research, 2006
Pedagogical change is posited as a crafting process constituted by the relational activity of social and material actors. A case study was used to investigate how pedagogical change becomes enacted in everyday practices in an independent boys' school in Australia. In comparison to a scripted implementation plan, the pedagogical change process was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Teaching Methods, Educational Change
Cable, Kelly E.; Spradlin, Terry E. – Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University, 2008
Single-sex education describes a diverse range of situations, including individual classes, programs after school, required programs, voluntary programs, and programs to remedy gender inequities and encourage cultural and racial pride. This brief addresses the genesis and legality of single-sex classrooms, the merits and critiques of single-sex…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Sex Stereotypes, Gender Issues, Educational Policy
Mobley, Pamela Rios – National Education Association, 2010
In 2005, the National Education Association (NEA) began publishing a series of reports on the status of underserved groups in education. This report on the status of women and girls is based on the principle that every student has the human and civil right to a quality public education. America's public schools are expected to serve the needs of…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Females, Womens Education, Civil Rights
Ohlott, Patricia J. – T+D, 2002
Shows the benefits of single-gender, single-race programs to train women and minorities. Dispels myths that concern managers and hinder the acceptance of the single-identity approach. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Benefits, Females, Leadership Training
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Thorp, Laurie; Cummins, Richard; Townsend, Christine – Journal of Agricultural Education, 1998
Students in an agricultural education leadership course included a lab section of 20 females and one of 20 males and females. The all-female section had stronger perception of their abilities to lead, work with groups, make decisions, and communicate than did women in the mixed group. (SK)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Females, Higher Education, Leadership Qualities
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Derry, Julie A.; Phillips, D. Allen – Physical Educator, 2004
The purpose of this study was to investigate selected student and teacher variables and compare the differences between these variables for female students and female teachers in coeducation and single-sex physical education classes. Eighteen female teachers and intact classes were selected; 9 teachers from coeducation and 9 teachers from…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Physical Education, Women Faculty, Females
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
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