Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/27179 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeitrag No. 369
Publisher: 
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Hannover
Abstract: 
Discussions on the benefits of single-gender education on girls’ science outcomes are popular in the German education literature. However, most empirical evidence tends to be qualitative work and the causal effects of single-gender education are hardly identified using appropriate statistical methods. This paper provides insights from a recent single-gendereducation school project conducted in computer science classes at a German lower secondary school. About 80 students participated in this intervention study repeatedly answering specifically designed questionnaires and tests. The project fails to identify positive effects from single-gender education but the interpretation is impeded by several confounding factors. When directly asked, most students prefer to be educated in mixed-gender groups, while the participating teachers judge their teaching experience with the project groups in favour of singlegender education.
Subjects: 
gender
education
identification
coeducation
segregation
experiments
JEL: 
I21
J16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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