Providing current research to our members is a strategic priority for the Alliance. We deliver access to valuable resources and anaylsis of the latest research findings relevant to educators of girls. Subscription-only academic research articles, as well as open access articles and reports by governments, universities and major organisations are summarised for members, highlighting themes and topics of particular relevance to the education of girls, including academic performance, mental health, leadership, neuroscience, single-sex education, STEM, wellbeing, and work and careers.
With more than 500 research abstracts, including over 160 related to single-sex education, many of which summarise research from subscription-only academic journals, the Alliance Research Library provides an unparalleled source of information on single-sex education for girls.
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Free library membership and access is available for all staff of Alliance member schools, simply complete the access request form to receive your personalised login.
Annual library subscription for non-Alliance members costs AUD550
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This study explored girls’ knowledge about issues of femininity that took place in the presence of others online. The online environments studied included chat rooms, instant messaging forums and role-playing games. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 16 girls in Vancouver, Canada. The researchers found that girls enjoyed playing with gender…
read more –›The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) conducts annual polls on the sleep habits of people living in the United States. In 2006, this poll focused on adolescents aged between 11 and 17 years. A total of 1602 telephone interviews were conducted among a random sample of caregivers and their children (NSF,…
read more –›The ‘current epidemic of pediatric obesity is well documented in several nations of the world… The two risk factors that are usually focused upon are habitual physical activity and diet’ (Eisenmann, Ekkekakis & Holmes, 2006, p. 956). However, there is current interest in the possible association between obesity and sleep.…
read more –›This study examined the nature and extent of students’ experience of cyberbullying, focusing on gender effect. Junior high school students were chosen ‘because adolescence is a time when physical aggression increases in frequency and intensity; for this reason it has been labelled a ‘brutalizing’ period’. Subjects were randomly selected from…
read more –›The researcher in this study interviewed 24 students from Hudson Valley Middle School in New York. Students who attend this public school primarily come from low-income backgrounds. The school offered voluntary single-sex classes in ‘academic core subjects’ to its 6th, 7th and 8th grade students over a number of years.…
read more –›This study investigated social and academic outcomes from single-sex Grade 3/4 classes in a Tasmanian, co-educational government primary school. The school was situated in a mixed rural/urban community of “modest socio-economic status”. Interviews, observations and surveys were used in an ethnographic approach. It was highlighted at the start of the…
read more –›The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to assess the effects of coeducational and sex-segregated classes on several self-efficacy variables in middle school girls’ while they participated in a unit of volleyball; and (2) to determine the influence of these variables upon middle school girls’ efficacy for learning volleyball.…
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