New research suggests girls in single-sex schools do slightly better in exams than girls in co-ed environments

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New research suggests ****** in single-**** schools do slightly better in exams than ****** in co-ed environments

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Students at all-******’ schools do slightly better in their exams than ****** at co-educational schools, according to

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from the ******* Kingdom.

This goes against

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that suggest it does not matter if students attend single-**** or co-ed schools.

What is the study?

This research was done by

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. This is an independent research team specializing in education policy and statistics.

Using the ******* Kingdom’s

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, the study looked at more than 580,000 students who attended more than 3,200 schools. All schools were government-funded (so were “public schools” in *********** termimology) and were either single **** or co-ed.

Students exam results were examined at the end of Year 11 and the study controlled for differences in schools and pupil characteristics, such as socioeconomic disadvantage or high levels of students who learned English as a second language.

What did the research find?

The research found ****** who went to all-******’ schools recorded a small improvement in their exam results compared to their peers in co-educational schools.

This is after adjusting their results to account for factors such as disadvantage.

The gap is small—around one month’s progress for each of the students. But it is noticeable.

Yet for boys’ schools, there wasn’t any difference in results between single **** and co-ed schools.

Why is this important?

While the *** study was not peer-reviewed, this finding is important because it contradicts other recent large-scale research, which has found no statistically significant academic advantage to single-**** schooling.

For example, a

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of Irish students found no significant performance gaps between co-educational and single-**** schools.

A 2014

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(an overview of many studies) across 21 countries also found no high-quality evidence of benefits to single-**** schooling.

What about Australia?

This new research plays into the renewed debate over single **** schooling in Australia in recent months.

This follows some prestigious all boys’ schools announcing

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(and some former students

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about the change). It also follows multiple examples of sexism and misogyny by male students at both

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and co-ed schools.

There is also a growing body of *********** research examining toxic behavior of boys towards their female teachers and peers.

So the *** research could further entrench a

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****** are better off in single-**** schools.

This perception has a long history. Many ****** schools were set up in the 1800s by pioneering headmistresses such as English educator

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, who believed in ******’ equal rights to education and ******’ schools were the best places to provide this.

******’ schools today retain an

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, promoting the idea that “****** can achieve anything.” The perception is supported by some

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that ****** in single-**** schools are more likely to feel confident in traditionally male-dominated subjects such as STEM.

What needs to be done?

This *** study raises many questions. Are ****** indeed better off on their own? Are there aspects of single-**** education that could be applied in co-ed environments? How do we ensure that all schools are schools of choice for ******, including coeducational schools?

We can investigate these questions further by doing research with families to better understand their perceptions and experiences of single-**** schools today. We can also do more research into the impact of programs such as

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, which have been introduced to build positive gender cultures in schools.

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