Single-sex math classrooms raised female students' math performance by 7–10% over co-educational programs¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? Females randomly assigned to single-sex classrooms outperformed co-educational peers by 7–10% in math, with no difference in German. → Alexander Koch 2015

Evidence¶

Alexander Koch 2015¶

Alexander Koch, Julia Nafziger, Helena Skyt Nielsen. (2015). Behavioral economics of education. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 115 (2015) 3–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2014.09.005

q3 · i? · review · r2

Randomized study reported by the review: Eisenkopf et al. (2014) randomly assigned 808 female students entering a Swiss high school to single-sex or co-educational programs; females in single-sex classrooms 'outperform those attending co-educational program by 7–10% in math'. The percentage gain is not a standardized effect size.

"The authors document that females taught in single-sex classrooms outperform those attending co-educational program by 7–10% in math while there was no performance difference in German."

Discussion¶

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