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1 WHY GIRLS ACHIEVE BEST IN GIRLS SCHOOLS 2013 From the Alliance of Girls Schools Australasia No individual study can give a definitive statement about whether girls receive a better education in single-sex or coeducational schools. Instead, a cumulative picture is formed when many studies are analysed together. Below is a snapshot from the research literature, which demonstrates the many and varied benefits of single-sex schooling for girls. Nearly all the studies selected were published in the last few years. The source of each study can be located by using the reference list. Academic benefits Several studies, authors and academics have indicated that single-sex schools provide girls with the best opportunity to reach their full academic potential. Girls achieve highly in the middle years Alliance member schools are already well ahead in achievement at Year 7, and display faster growth than students generally do between Years 7 and 9 (ACER, 2008, p. 25). A British study found results consistently indicate that single-sex schooling leads to higher progress from Key Stage 3 to General Certificate of Secondary Education (students aged 14 to 16 years). (Malacova, 2007, p. 253). Outstanding results in senior school Girls attending Victorian Alliance member schools in general, produce almost three times the proportion of very high (40+) Study Scores than girls at non-member schools. These results are also reflected in other Australian states. In New Zealand the rate of achievement 1

2 of outstanding scholarships in Alliance member schools is almost three times the national average (ACER, 2008, pp ). Bradley, in her American PhD dissertation concluded that the single-sex environment provides females with the best opportunity for academic achievement (Bradley, 2009, p. 119). Girls in single-sex schools are highly likely to enter university Girls in Alliance member schools achieve high tertiary entrance scores. In Victoria 36% of tertiary entrance scores (ENTERs) are 90 or more in Alliance schools. In South Australia, 52% of girls at Alliance member schools gain university entrance scores of 90 and above (ACER, 2008, p. 23). A New Zealand study found that the likelihood of gaining university entrance qualifications increased in girls only schools (Shulruf, Hattie & Tumen, 2008, p. 627). Girls accomplish high results in individual subjects In NSW, girls in Alliance member schools exceeded the state mean in the seven subjects which were chosen for analysis: English, Mathematics, Business Studies, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Modern History. The highest performing member schools are more than 10 points above the state mean in all subjects (ACER, 2008, p. 16). A study of the status of women in science in Australia noted that girls perform better in science in single-sex schools, especially when science and mathematics are compulsory subjects in high school (Bell, O Halloran, Saw & Zhao, 2009, p. 36). Risk-taking and healthy competition Australian academic Alison Booth and her British colleague Patrick Nolan explored whether gender differences in risk attitudes were influenced by the environment or largely inherent. They conducted two studies in 2009 and found that: The bulk of our evidence suggests that a girl s environment plays an important role in explaining why she chooses not to compete. We have looked at the choices made by girls from single-sex and co-ed schools and found that there are robust differences in their behaviour: girls from single-sex schools behave more competitively than do coeducational girls (Booth & Nolan, 2009b, p. 20). Single-sex environments are likely to modify students risk-taking preferences in economically important ways. This suggests that observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits (Booth & Nolan, 2009a, p. 1). 2

3 Therefore single-sex schools influence girls to be more competitive and less risk-averse than girls in coeducational schools. Risk taking and competitive traits are advantageous skills for leadership and many careers. Girls feel empowered to behave in these ways without the presence of boys. Post-school benefits Several studies have explored whether there are long-term benefits for girls who were educated in single-sex schools. An American study explored the effects of attending a girls high school on labour market outcomes. It was found that: Women who attended single-sex schools earn a 19.7% higher wage than women who attended coeducational high schools (Billger, 2007, p. 166). Billger concludes that there is a substantial economic return for women who attended single-sex schools (p. 181). Linda Sax also found many post-school benefits when female graduates of single-sex high schools were surveyed: all-girls schools whether independent or Catholic-affiliated appear to produce graduates who enter college more academically and politically engaged, as well as more confident in their mathematical and computer skills, than women from equivalent backgrounds who attend co-educational schools. Single-sex graduates are also more likely to begin college aspiring to become engineers (Sax, 2009, pp ). Gender atypical subject selection Lise Eliot in her book Pink Brain, Blue Brain said that single-sex schools automatically expand the leadership opportunities available to both boys and girls, and they may increase the odds that each sex will enter non-traditional disciplines (2009, p. 311). At a time where women are still underrepresented in many of the STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) fields, many girls schools are bucking this trend by fostering students who chose and succeed in these gender atypical subjects. Researchers Shapka and Keating (2003, p. 953) summarised that single-sex maths and science classes could serve to reduce long-standing biases found in those disciplines and in associated occupational choices. Su, Rounds and Armstrong (2009, p. 879) concluded in their research that efforts to increase girls interests in the STEM fields should be initiated at formative years when children are developing gender roles and perceptions of appropriate careers. A recent study by Titze, Jansen and Heil (2011) compared accuracy in a test of mental rotation in girls from single-sex and coeducational schools. In previous research, this test has consistently been performed better by males than females. In Tize et al., it was found that girls at single-sex schools outperformed girls at coeducational schools in the mental rotation test. These results add to the body of evidence that single-sex educated girls are less gender-stereotyped in their development, than girls at coeducational schools (p. 5). 3

4 Alice Sullivan is a British academic who has conducted research in this area. She found that: Girls at single-sex schools were less likely to see themselves as below average in maths and science (Sullivan, 2009, p. 281). It was also noted that single-sex schooling generally promoted a gender-atypical self-concept (p. 281). This means that gender norms may be less present in single-sex schools, giving girls the freedom to choose whatever subjects they wish, including more traditional male subjects. In a more recent study, Sullivan and her colleagues found that single-sex schools were associated with attainment in gender atypical subject areas for both boys and girls [and] women who had attended single-sex schools were more likely than coeducated women to gain their highest qualification by age 33 in a male-dominated field (Sullivan, Joshi & Leonard, 2010, p. 25). It was concluded that this confirms the view that single sex environments can actually reduce the tendency of students to behave according to gendertypical stereotypes or norms (p. 26). A single-sex environment may make it less likely that students will perceive particular academic subjects as being for a particular sex. While in a coeducational school, a girl taking physics, for example, would have found herself in a minority in the class, this would not apply in a single-sex environment (p. 27). Socio-emotional benefits A study of single-sex public school prepared for the U.S Department of Education found that there are many social and emotional benefits for girls who attend single-sex schools. While social interactions and emotional responses can be hard to quantify, the researchers used observational techniques and found that: Site visitors observed more positive academic and behavioral interactions between teachers and students in the single-sex schools than in the comparison coed schools (Riordan et al., 2008, p. x). In the same study, the researchers systematically reviewed the literature on single-sex education and concluded that: Overall there were more social-emotional outcomes favouring single-sex schools (Riordan et al., 2008, p. xi). Another American study also found: A positive impact of single-sex schooling on the academic, attitudinal, and social achievement levels of students, especially female students (Morrell, 2009, p. 194). 4

5 References Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) (2008). Senior secondary achievement in member schools of the Alliance of Girls Schools. Camberwell: ACER. Bell, S., O Halloran, K., Saw, J., & Zhao, Y. (2009). Women in science: maximising productivity, diversity and innovation. Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies. Billger, S. (2007). Does attending predominately female schools make a difference? Labor market outcomes for women. Journal of Economics and Finance, 31(2), Booth, A., & Nolen. (2009a). Gender differences in risk behaviour: does nurture matter? IZA Discussion Paper No Booth, A., & Nolan, P. (2009b). Choosing to compete: how different are girls and boys? IZA Discussion Paper No Bradley, K. (2009). An investigation of single-sex education and its impact on academic achievement, discipline referral frequency, and attendance for first and second grade public school students. Ph.D. dissertation, Mercer University, United States -- Georgia. Retrieved September 20, 2010, from Dissertations & Theses: Full Text. (Publication No. AAT ). Eliot, L. (2009). Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How small differences grow into troublesome gaps - and what we can do about it. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Malacova, E. (2007). Effect of single-sex education on progress in GCSE. Oxford Review of Education, 33(2), Morrell, P. (2009). Single-sex classroom implementation in a predominantly low-income, public, urban elementary school: perceptions, engagement, and achievement. Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, State University of New York. Riordan, C. (2008). Early implementation of public single-sex schools: perceptions and characteristics. Jessup: US Department of Education. Sax, L. (2009). Women graduates of single-sex and coeducational high schools: differences in their characteristics and their transition to college. Los Angeles: UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Shapka, J., & Keating, D. (2003). Effects of a girls-only curriculum during adolescence: performance, persistence and engagement in mathematics and science. American Educational Research Journal, 5

6 40(4), Shulruf, B., Hattie, J., & Tumen, S. (2008). Individual and school factors affecting students participation and success in higher education. Higher Education, 56(5), Su, R., Rounds, J., & Armstrong, P. (2009). Men and things, women and people: a meta-analysis of sex differences in interests. Psychological Bulletin, 135(6), doi: /a Sullivan, A. (2009). Academic self-concept, gender and single-sex schooling. British Educational Research Journal, 35(2), Sullivan, A., Joshi, H., & Leonard, D. (2010). Single-sex schooling and academic attainment at school and through the lifecourse. American Educational Research Journal, 47(1), Titze, C., Jansen, P., & Heil, M. (2011). Single-sex school girls outperform girls attending a coeducative school in mental rotation accuracy. Sex Roles. Published online. doi: /s y 6

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