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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A study conducted in the UK by Sullivan, Joshi and Leonard has questioned whether single-sex schooling can have a gendered impact on the labour market outcomes of its participants. The authors examined the effects of single-sex schooling on the socioeconomic status, gender segregation of occupation and wages of a group…
read more –›An Irish study evaluating the impact of a school–based intervention designed to help girls in a single-sex school better understand and challenge the dynamics of relational bullying found the intervention to have a largely positive impact on encouraging girls to become more aware of and to moderate their relational bullying…
read more –›Denner (2011) explored which factors affected middle school girls’ interest in studying computing in senior school. Middle school is viewed as a critical time when students are making choices about future subjects and career options. ‘The students in this study were voluntary participants in an after-school and summer program designed…
read more –›The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not girls and boys achieve better academically, have fewer discipline issues, and attend school more regularly in single-sex settings than students in coeducational settings. This study was an evaluation of a single-sex program in a medium size, urban school district…
read more –›This study explored how completing year 12 and studying at university or TAFE assisted young people in their transition from school to adulthood (Karmel & Liu, 2011). Data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) was analysed for the cohort of students who completed Year 12 in 1998. The…
read more –›Terrance Fitzsimmons’ PhD thesis (2011) investigated gender disparity factors for Australian CEOs. Four studies were conducted, including interviews with 31 female and 30 male CEOs. The interviews explored each person’s life history and path to becoming CEO. Although this thesis concentrated on male and female CEOs, only the findings for…
read more –›This study examined whether individual differences among students were predictive of their individual success within a single-sex school (Patterson & Pahlke, 2011, p. 1). Data was collected from 211 students who attended a single-sex public middle school in the southwestern US. The participants completed measures of gender stereotyping and gender…
read more –›The purpose of this study was to investigate students’ perceived physical competence, enjoyment and effort in physical education classes, as a function of gender and physical education class type (same-sex or coeducational class) in Korean adolescents (Lyu & Gill, 2011, p. 249). The participants were 546 adolescents aged 11-14 years…
read more –›One of the few areas which continually show differences in performance levels between men and women is in tests of mental rotation performance (Lippa, Collaer & Peters, 2010). ‘Men achieve higher test scores than women in the area of visual-spatial skills if mental rotation performance is required, i.e. the cognitive…
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