SOCB26H3 Lecture Notes - Leonard Sax, Blue Brain Project, Action Stories
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Female teachers act as role models and mentors. No academic underperfomance by girls (to prevent embarrassment of less gifted boyfriends?) Girls perform better in single-sexed environment then in an environment which they have to share with boys. Some studies have found that female educational attainment is higher in all-girls schools than in co- educational schools. These studies fail to control for the prior attainment levels and social backgrounds of girls entering single sex schools. They did find differences, but these differences were not very large. Girls do better than boys in english. Girls do less well in mathematics than boys. However these gender differences were small, and got smaller as time went on. In all subjects, girls get higher grades in single sexed schools than coed students. In this study, the girls who entered single sexed schools had higher achievement scores than girls who entered local coeducation. Girls who attended single sexed schools tended to come from higher status backgrounds.
