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SCIS Report 2008 Post Appeal SQA Exam Results Analysis
  • Lower-School-Two-Pupils-ICT-1.jpgProportionately more female candidates entered for last year's Higher and Advanced Higher Maths from single sex schools than from co-ed schools
     
  • Proportionately more entries for higher and Advanced Higher Physics from girls in single sex schools
     
  • Girls from single sex schools achieved the best grades at Advanced Higher
     
  • Girls from single sex schools performed best at Higher Physics
     

  • Girls from single sex schools performed best at Higher Languages 
     

UCLA Graduate School of Education Study 'How Girls School Graduates have an Edge'


http://www.ncgs.org/researchshowsgirlsschollgraduateshaveanedge/ 
  
 
UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Study:
  • Upper-School-Small-Pupil-Group-Shot-1.jpg10% more girls' school leavers rate their confidence in maths and computer abilities as high at the start of university compared to their peers from coed schools
     
  • Girls school leavers are three times more likely than their coed peers to consider pursuing a career in engineering 
     
  • More than 80% of girls' school leavers consider their academic performance highly successfully compared to 75% from coed schools 
     
  • Girls from single sex independent schools spend more time studying or doing homework, talking with teachers outside of class, tutoring peers and studying with others 
     
  • Political engagement thrives in single sex schools.  57.9 % of girls' school leavers compared to 47.7% of their coed peers report they are more likely to keep current with the political scene and have political discussion in class 
     
  • 44.6% of all women from single sex schools rate their public speaking ability high compared to 38.6%


Alice Sullivan, a researched at the Institute of Education, University of London says:  "It is very interesting that girls seem to be making more progress at single sex schools.  It does support a body of research evidence that girls do better in single-sex environments.'"

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