Do Single-Sex Schools Help Australians Major in STEMM at University?

Autor/inn/en	Law, Helen; Sikora, Joanna
Titel	Do Single-Sex Schools Help Australians Major in STEMM at University?
Quelle	In: School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 31 (2020) 4, S.605-627 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Law, Helen) ORCID (Sikora, Joanna)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0924-3453
DOI	10.1080/09243453.2020.1755319
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Single Sex Schools; Gender Bias; STEM Education; Medical Education; Equal Education; Program Effectiveness; Majors (Students); Females; Coeducation; Gender Differences; Higher Education; Institutional Characteristics; Student Characteristics; Physical Sciences; Biological Sciences; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Single-sex schools; Single-sex classes; Single sex classes; Getrenntgeschlechtliche Erziehung; Schule; Geschlechterstereotyp; STEM; Medizinische Ausbildung; Weibliches Geschlecht; Koedukation; Geschlechterkonflikt; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Natural sciences; Naturwissenschaften; Naturwissenschaft; Abwasserbiologie; Australien
Abstract	Single-sex schooling is believed to benefit students' academic achievement and girls' engagement in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). The latter is assumed because single-sex environments are meant to neutralise gender stereotypes. Little is known, however, about longer term effects of such schooling. Therefore, we consider whether graduating from a single-sex school increases the uptake of university majors in physical or life sciences. Using data from the 2003 cohort of the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Youth and multinomial logistic regressions, we find that girls who graduated from single-sex schools did not major in physical sciences at university at rates higher than their peers from coeducational schools. Likewise, there are no differences in the take up of life science majors, irrespective of gender or type of school. By contrast, fewer boys who graduated from single-sex schools went on to study physical sciences at university. We discuss the implications of these findings. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01