Download or read book Evaluating the Effects of Same gender Schooling on Student Achievement written by Sonja D. Reeves Bennings and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this research study was to quantitatively measure the effectiveness of same-gender schools on middle school students' mathematics and reading achievement for 1 metropolitan school system located in the State of Georgia. This study examined the aggregate Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT) reading and mathematics performance of 6th- and 7th-grade students who either attended 1 of 2 same-gender schools or 1 of 3 coeducational schools. This study employed a quasi-experimental (interrupted time-series) research design using a z-test. Two research questions addressed in this study were (a) Will a comparison of the CRCT reading and mathematics scores of the district's middle school students (i.e., Grades 6 and 7) evidence a statistically significant difference between the scores of students who attended a same-gender school and those students who did not attend a same-gender school? and (b) Will a comparison of the yearly CRCT reading and mathematics scores of the district's middle school students (i.e., Grades 6 through 7) who attended same-gender schools evidence a statistically significant difference from the inception of the program in 2007 through 2009? The findings of this study indicate a positive correlation between the use of same-gender educational structures and student achievement in reading and math scores on the CRCT. The results of the study indicate the need for further research and educational practices to contribute to the limited body of knowledge on closing the achievement gap in middle school education

Download or read book The Impact of Publicy funded Single gender Learning Environments on Sixth Grade Male Academic Performance written by Dameion J. Crook and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study compares two educational models to investigate whether differences exist in academic achievement among boys in single- gender model and those in a traditional co-gender model. Specifically, the study analyzed archival data from the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness to ascertain the efficacy of single-sex education for middle school boys. A quantitative comparative research design was chosen to compare the student achievement outcomes between two educational models to determine if the single-gender model offers advantages over the traditional co-educational model. The study utilized numerical datasets archival data consisting of the STAAR reading and STAAR math scores of student samples at two different school models: one sample comprised of minority males attending a single-sex publicly-funded middle school and another sample comprised of minority males attending a traditional co- gender publicly-funded middle schools. The study results, affirm that students attending a single-sex school fared better academically than their peers educated in co-gender learning environments, are consistent with the research of Brown (2008), which evaluated the academic outcomes of a specific group of students after they were separated into single-sex classes, although in the same school, and compared their academic performance with their peers that remained in co- gender classes. The result: students in the single-sex classes excelled over their peers that remained in the co-gender classes, even to the extent that students who had been academically unsuccessful in the past became very successful in the single-sex environment and test stores showed drastic improvement. This research study is essential because it examines a relatively new academic model in public education. It is widely held that separating boys from girls into single-sex learning environments is the best way to meet the unique academic needs and improve the educational outcomes of both groups. A focus on the impact of publicly funded single- sex learning environments is especially important considering that the number of single- sex public schools is on the rise in the United States and that they are most often developed as a means to target and address the low academic performance of minority males.

Download or read book The Effects of Single sex Schooling on Student Achievement and Attitudes in Nigeria written by Valerie E. Lee and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Single-sex schooling in Nigeria benefits female, but not male, math students. More research is needed to find out why -- and why adolescent females in Nigeria do as well as adolescent males on math achievement tests (unlike their American counterparts).

Download or read book Effects of Single gender Classrooms and Coeducational Classrooms on Student Achievement and School Climate for Middle School Students in a Public School System written by Nickalous Andra Manning and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gender and Educational Achievement written by Andreas Hadjar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender inequalities in education – in terms of systematic variations in access to educational institutions, in competencies, school marks, and educational certificates along the axis of gender – have tremendously changed over the course of the 20th century. Although this does not apply to all stages and areas of the educational career, it is particularly obvious looking at upper secondary education. Before the major boost of educational expansion in the 1960s, women’s participation in upper secondary general education, and their chances to successfully finish this educational pathway, have been lower than men’s. However, towards the end of the 20th century, women were outperforming men in many European countries and beyond. The international contributions to this book attempt to shed light on the mechanisms behind gender inequalities and the changes made to reduce this inequality. Topics explored by the contributors include gender in science education in the UK; women’s education in Luxembourg in the 19th and 20th century; the ‘gender gap’ debates and their rhetoric in the UK and Finland; sociological perspectives on the gender-equality discourse in Finland; changing gender differences in West Germany in the 20th century; the interplay of subjective well-being and educational attainment in Switzerland; and a psychological perspective on gender identities, gender-related perceptions, students’ motivation, intelligence, personality, and the interaction between student and teacher gender. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Research.

Download or read book The Effect of Single Gender Education on the Achievement of Sixth Grade Mathematics Students written by Rhonda Lee Hill and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact on students' academic achievement when served with a single-gender instructional model. Sixth grade students enrolled in single-gender classes were compared to heterogeneous classes utilizing the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP). MAP data from the fall and spring administrations were evaluated to determine academic growth. In the analysis of growth in academic achievement between groups based upon MAP scores, there was no significant difference found between academic growth and gender. While there was group variability that may have impacted achievement scores, overall growth of MAP scores and the amount of achievement was not significant at the .05 level. With all student groups achieving gains, educational setting and academic growth may be simply a matter of individual learning style and preference. Future studies should focus on longitudinal patterns of student growth, corroboration of multiple sources of data, such as student grades and additional test scores, and student perspectives of single-gender classes.

Download or read book The Effects of Gender based Classroom Placement on the Academic Achievement of Boys and Girls at the Elementary Level written by Laura A. Lembo and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educators continue to search for solutions to increase the academic achievement of students at risk of failure. Single-gender education is a fairly new innovation being implemented in the public school setting as a possible solution to address the decline in academics as a result of No Child Left Behind Legislation. The proponents of single-gender education argue that gender-based education should improve academic achievement for both boys and girls; however, contradictory or inconsistent research also exists in the literature. In an attempt to increase student achievement, a single-gender program was implemented to increase student performance, specifically to close the achievement gap among student subgroups by providing separate classrooms for boys and girls as an alternative to coeducational classroom placement. It was the intent of this researcher to determine the impact gender-based instruction had on improving academic achievement in reading and mathematics for boys and girls in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. This quantitative study analyzed archival data over a four-year period comparing the posttest scores between students placed in single-gender classrooms and coeducational classrooms. Results from this study suggest that single-gender classrooms provided no inherent advantage over coeducational settings at this target school.

Download or read book A Case Study of the Impact of Single gender Schooling on Student Achievement Self esteem and School Climate written by Mateen Ajala Diop and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Equity and Quality Dimensions in Educational Effectiveness written by Leonidas Kyriakides and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to make a contribution to the theory, research and practice on quality and equity in education by providing a comprehensive overview of these two dimensions of educational effectiveness and proposing a methodological instrument that may be used to measure the contribution that each school can make to promoting equity. The importance of using this instrument is demonstrated by analysing results of various effectiveness studies conducted over the last decade. The book draws upon research across the world, especially research conducted in the Europe, the United States, and Australasia. It is shown that promoting equity has no negative effect on the promotion of quality. The importance of using this methodological instrument to identify factors that promote both quality and equity at different educational levels (i.e. teacher, school and educational system) is stressed. The book also demonstrates how we can measure stability and changes in the effectiveness status of schools over time in terms of fostering quality and equity. In addition it underlines the importance of identifying factors measuring changes in the effectiveness status of schools in terms of equity and points to the alternative strategies that can be used at school and system level. In our attempt to encourage the further development and use of this methodology for school improvement purposes, we demonstrate how experimental studies can be conducted to discover whether and under which conditions the proposed methodology can help schools promote both quality and equity. Finally, implications for school evaluation, research, educational policy and practice are drawn. In this way, the book contributes significantly to the debate on how quality and equity can be achieved and encourages policy-makers and practitioners not to view these two dimensions of effectiveness as being in competition with each other but as constituting the major objectives of any reform policy and/or improvement effort at school and/or national levels.

Download or read book Evaluating the Impact of the Gender Expectations and Student Achievement GESA Program written by Dolores A. Grayson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of Social Policy Evaluation written by Bent Greve and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook uses methodologies and cases to discover how and when to evaluate social policy, and looks at the possible impacts of evaluation on social policy decisions. The contributors present a detailed analysis on how to conduct social policy evaluation, how to be aware of pitfalls and dilemmas and how to use evidence effectively.

Download or read book Boys and Girls Learn Differently A Guide for Teachers and Parents written by Michael Gurian and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoroughly revised edition of the classic resource for understanding gender differences in the classroom In this profoundly significant book, author Michael Gurian has revised and updated his groundbreaking book that clearly demonstrated how the distinction in hard-wiring and socialized gender differences affects how boys and girls learn. Gurian presents a proven method to educate our children based on brain science, neurological development, and chemical and hormonal disparities. The innovations presented in this book were applied in the classroom and proven successful, with dramatic improvements in test scores, during a two-year study that Gurian and his colleagues conducted in six Missouri school districts. Explores the inherent differences between the developmental neuroscience of boys and girls Reveals how the brain learns Explains when same sex classrooms are appropriate, and when they’re not This edition includes new information on a wealth of topics including how to design the ultimate classroom for kids in elementary, secondary, middle, and high school.

Download or read book The Economics of Equity in K 12 Education written by Goldy Brown III and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete resource on US educational programing to examine the research evidence for efficacy of education programs, and quantify the economic value of these programs for the US economy, so that federal, state, and local governments can invest their resources wisely.

Download or read book Gender Differences in Learning Achievement written by Christiane Brusselmans-Dehairs and published by Unesco. This book was released on 1997 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication consists of two reports which were commissioned by UNESCO as background papers for the World Education Report 1995. The first report, originally entitled International Perspectives on the Schooling and Learning Achievement of Girls and Boys as Revealed in the IEA Studies, was commissioned from the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)....The second report, originally entitled International Perspectives on the Schooling and Learning Achievement of Girls and Boys as Revealed in the 1991 International Assessment of Educational Progress (IAEP), was commissioned from the International Association of Educational Assessment (IAEA)." -- Preface, page [5].

Download or read book The Effects of School Related Gender Based Violence on Academic Performance written by Shahriar Kibriya and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Professor Like Me written by Florian Hoffmann and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many wonder whether teacher gender plays an important role in higher education by influencing student achievement and subject interest. The data used in this paper helps identify average effects from male and female college students assigned to male or female teachers. In contrast to previous work at the primary and secondary school level, our focus on large first-year undergraduate classes isolates gender interaction effects due to students reacting to instructors rather than instructors reacting to students. In addition, by focusing on college, we examine the extent to which gender interactions may exist at later ages. We find that assignment to a same-sex instructor boosts relative grade performance and the likelihood of completing a course, but the magnitudes of these effects are small. A same-sex instructor increases average grade performance by at most 5 percent of its standard deviation and decreases the likelihood of dropping a course by 1.2 percentage points. The effects are similar when conditioning on initial ability (high school achievement), and ethnic background (mother tongue not English), but smaller when conditioning on mathematics and science courses. The effects of same-sex instructors on upper-year course selection are insignificant."--Abstract.

Download or read book The Rise of Women written by Thomas A. DiPrete and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While powerful gender inequalities remain in American society, women have made substantial gains and now largely surpass men in one crucial arena: education. Women now outperform men academically at all levels of school, and are more likely to obtain college degrees and enroll in graduate school. What accounts for this enormous reversal in the gender education gap? In The Rise of Women: The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What It Means for American Schools, Thomas DiPrete and Claudia Buchmann provide a detailed and accessible account of women’s educational advantage and suggest new strategies to improve schooling outcomes for both boys and girls. The Rise of Women opens with a masterful overview of the broader societal changes that accompanied the change in gender trends in higher education. The rise of egalitarian gender norms and a growing demand for college-educated workers allowed more women to enroll in colleges and universities nationwide. As this shift occurred, women quickly reversed the historical male advantage in education. By 2010, young women in their mid-twenties surpassed their male counterparts in earning college degrees by more than eight percentage points. The authors, however, reveal an important exception: While women have achieved parity in fields such as medicine and the law, they lag far behind men in engineering and physical science degrees. To explain these trends, The Rise of Women charts the performance of boys and girls over the course of their schooling. At each stage in the education process, they consider the gender-specific impact of factors such as families, schools, peers, race and class. Important differences emerge as early as kindergarten, where girls show higher levels of essential learning skills such as persistence and self-control. Girls also derive more intrinsic gratification from performing well on a day-to-day basis, a crucial advantage in the learning process. By contrast, boys must often navigate a conflict between their emerging masculine identity and a strong attachment to school. Families and peers play a crucial role at this juncture. The authors show the gender gap in educational attainment between children in the same families tends to be lower when the father is present and more highly educated. A strong academic climate, both among friends and at home, also tends to erode stereotypes that disconnect academic prowess and a healthy, masculine identity. Similarly, high schools with strong science curricula reduce the power of gender stereotypes concerning science and technology and encourage girls to major in scientific fields. As the value of a highly skilled workforce continues to grow, The Rise of Women argues that understanding the source and extent of the gender gap in higher education is essential to improving our schools and the economy. With its rigorous data and clear recommendations, this volume illuminates new ground for future education policies and research.