Single-sex teaching in a co-educational comprehensive school in England: an evaluation based upon students' performance and classroom interactions

This digest found in

Gender

What did the GCSE performance profiles show?

Analysis of GCSE results 1988-1999 showed the following similarities to national trends

increasing levels of achievement for both sexes over the 12 years with the proportion of boys and girls achieving benchmark grades almost doubling. There was an increasing gender gap in achievement in favour of the girls over that period;
girls were registering higher levels of performance at GCSE than boys. Over the last two years this was found in all the core subjects and in the other two subjects analysed in the study (geography and modern languages).

The following differences from national trends

the percentage of boys achieving the benchmark GCSE grades showed a proportional increase of 70% against the national figure of 38.2%;
the percentage of girls achieving the benchmark GCSE grades showed a proportional increase of 70.4% against the national figure of 43.9%.

Your path: Home > Welcome to The Research Informed Practice Site (TRIPS) > Themes > Gender > Single-sex teaching in a co-educational comprehensive school in England: an evaluation based upon stMonNov41350102002 > What did the GCSE performance profiles show?
Research Home Themes \| Find digests \| About the digests resources glossary researchers contact TRIPS Introduction Does it matter whether children are grouped by sex for schooling? The aims of the study The study design What did the GCSE performance profiles show? What did the observations of classroom interaction show? What did the attitude to single-sex teaching within the school show? Conclusions drawn from the research Implications Where can I find out more? Send us your feedback Collated digests To view/remove/add notes and save your collated digests click here Get Word Reader Single-sex teaching in a co-educational comprehensive school in England: an evaluation based upon students' performance and classroom interactions This digest found in Gender Send to a friend Word doc 50KB Printer friendly Collate for later What did the GCSE performance profiles show? Analysis of GCSE results 1988-1999 showed the following similarities to national trends increasing levels of achievement for both sexes over the 12 years with the proportion of boys and girls achieving benchmark grades almost doubling. There was an increasing gender gap in achievement in favour of the girls over that period; girls were registering higher levels of performance at GCSE than boys. Over the last two years this was found in all the core subjects and in the other two subjects analysed in the study (geography and modern languages). The following differences from national trends the percentage of boys achieving the benchmark GCSE grades showed a proportional increase of 70% against the national figure of 38.2%; the percentage of girls achieving the benchmark GCSE grades showed a proportional increase of 70.4% against the national figure of 43.9%.