Single-sex schools
Overview
- Influence: Single-sex schools
- Domain: School
- Sub-Domain: Types of schools
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a small positive impact
- Influence Definition: Single-sex – that is, all-male or all-female schools.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 2
- Number of studies: 205
- Number of students: 1,600,000
- Number of effects: 135
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.07
- Robustness index: 3
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psychological Bulletin | Pahlke, Hyde & Allison | USA | The effects of single-sex compared with coeducational schooling on students' performance and attitudes: A meta-analysis | 2014 | Single vs. Coed Schools (on girls and boys) on achievement | 184 | 1,600,000 | 114 | 0.08 |
| Sex roles | Signorella, Hayes, & Li | USA | A meta-analytic critique of Mael et al.'s (2005) review of single-sex schooling. | 2013 | Single vs. Coed Schools on achievement | 21 | 0 | 21 | 0.03 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 205 | 1,600,000 | 135 | 0.06 | |||||