Do single sex classrooms encourage girls in science?

By EducationHQ News Team
Published January 16, 2019

There is continued debate over the link between single-sex education and better outcomes for girls in the hard sciences. However, new research examining physics classrooms showed little difference between single-sex schools and their co-ed peers.

Dr Jessy Abraham and Dr Katrina Barker of Western Sydney University explored findings from a repeated study of 90 female ...

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Do single sex classrooms encourage girls in science?

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