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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A New Zealand study led by Maryam Moridnejad examined factors that were influential in the decision-making processes of female adult learners who chose to undertake engineering courses at the Waikato Institute of Technology. In part, the study authors were motivated by Docherty et al.’s 2018 study which found that girls…
read more –›A report analysing Australian and New Zealand PISA data from 2015 and 2018 reveals that girls attending single-sex schools outperformed girls from co-educational schools on academic measures of science, mathematics and reading. Students from girls’ schools also reported higher academic aspirations, more adaptive and flexible teachers, stronger feelings of school…
read more –›An article by Flora Renz, Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent, asks: “Can a girls’ school include a boy and remain a single-sex school?” Using the example of girls’ schools, Renz considers the implications for single-sex services in the United Kingdom (UK) if proposed reforms to legal gender…
read more –›A 2019 study by Professor Christia Spears Brown from the University of Kentucky has concluded that by Grade 7, “boys and girls perceive girls’ sexualized attractiveness to be incompatible with intelligence and competence”. Furthermore, girls who endorsed sexualised gender stereotypes in Grade 7 had lower levels of academic self-efficacy and…
read more –›A study of the gendered nature of mixed-sex sailing programs for school students aged 14-18 in France and the United States concluded that “young men were viewed as being more legitimate participants and regularly took up the role of lead skipper — young women were considered secondary participants and were…
read more –›In recent years, boarding schools in Australia, New Zealand and around the world have seen a period of transformation with many incorporating weekly boarding, flexible boarding and/or evening study and activity programs to accommodate increasingly busy professional families and their children. Boarding schools have also seen an increasing emphasis on…
read more –›Research on sleep and school start times suggests that school start times should be pushed to later in the morning — with some studies suggesting that secondary school should be moved to the afternoon or evenings — as teens’ circadian rhythms are aligned to staying up late and sleeping later…
read more –›An American study investigating stress and wellbeing in college students pre-pandemic and after the campus was closed and students switched to online learning, has found that grit and gratitude should be promoted to students to help protect their wellbeing and cope with the adversity of the pandemic. Grit was found…
read more –›An August 2020 report has found that mental health distress among Australian parents has “soared” during the COVID-19 crisis and that the mental health of fathers and employed parents of young children is of particular concern. Before COVID-19, only 5% to 9% of fathers were experiencing high levels of mental…
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