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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An Australian study has found that single-sex environments have a positive impact on girls through encouraging them to take more male-dominated subjects and university degrees than girls in co-educational schools. The study author, Kieu My Tran, found that, overall, girls’ demand for male-dominated degrees is less responsive than boys’ to…
read more –›The Hjalli single-sex model of preschools and primary schools in Iceland was founded by Margrét Pála Ólafsdóttir. Children are taught in single-sex classes for most of the day, but also come together each day in supervised activities where it is ensured that there are positive interactions between girls and boys.…
read more –›In a 2016 Edutopia blog, ‘Recognising and overcoming false growth mindset’, Stanford University Professor of Psychology Carol Dweck wrote that a growth mindset “can have a profound effect on students’ motivation, enabling them to focus on learning, persist more, learn more, and do better in school”. She further explains on…
read more –›A research review published in the British Medical Journal publication, BMJ Open, has found that many young people dislike having their teachers deliver sex and relationship education (SRE), and that some girls and young women prefer single-sex SRE classes but young men prefer mixed classes. Overall, the review found that…
read more –›In this study of how highly effective teachers establish pedagogical routines with a new class, Professor Erica McWilliam and Dr Peter Taylor found that planning and pedagogy are ‘inextricably linked’ and that ‘first day, first class’ success ‘derives from planning for the pedagogy’ (McWilliam & Taylor, 2017a, p. 56). McWilliam and…
read more –›An American study examining school climate and various health-related outcomes in students has demonstrated a strong correlation between student reports of school climate and their health outcomes, but a weak association between these outcomes and staff and administrative perspectives (Gase, Gomez, Kuo, Glenn, Inkelas & Ponce, 2017, p. 319). School…
read more –›A study by Dutch researchers of girls’ and boys’ reading performance at co-educational schools has found that boys profit more than girls from having a large proportion of girls in their school, while girls gain more than boys from a school’s higher socioeconomic composition. Van Hek, Kraaykamp and Pelzer analysed…
read more –›A 2017 study of Year 3, 5 and 7 numeracy and literacy (NAPLAN) data by Dr Katherine Dix of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) found that girls and boys at single-sex schools achieve higher scores than co-educational students even when socioeconomic status is taken into account. Year 7…
read more –›American researcher Cody Dickson has examined how well girls’ schools in the United States prepare their graduates for the important transition to college. Dickson’s study found that while girls were academically well prepared for college, they were unprepared for many of the practical and social aspects of college life. He…
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