Advantages Of Single Sex Education

Single gender education is where female and male students attend different classes, buildings or schools. In many societies single gender education is practiced due to different cultural beliefs or religious beliefs. Other justifications for single sex education according to research it that “girls and boys are viewed as having different skills, interests, and learning styles; thus, they are better served by single sex schooling.” (Datnow and Hubbard). Some people believe that separating students using gender helps them achieve better grades and are able to cope with their behaviors. Single gender education is also believed to prevent distraction mostly during the puberty stages. However others argue that separating children may lead to lack

Institutions that practice coeducation may have such beliefs and may prevent certain genders from picking those subjects. “Boys outperform girls in Math at Key Stage 2, and continue to outnumber girls at higher level math. But there is a large gender gap favoring girls in English. This pattern is broadly reflected across OECD nations, and is of long-standing. (In the 1950s and 60s it was common place to explain this difference in terms of boys’ late development in language and literacy skills”. (Warrington and Younger).According to National data, “an alarming pattern of continued underachievement of Malaysian boys in schools and tertiary levels.” (Saidin and Brahim). Research on the single-sex classroom shows improved boys’ performance in English and foreign languages, and girls’ performance in math and science. This however becomes a disadvantage when seeking careers as girls are discouraged from job opportunities that belong in the math and science fields. Some teachers also believe that when coeducational institutions are compared to single gender education institutions, the rate of homework done is less in coeducational institutions due to

People tend to forget that education does not vary. What most institutions should focus on is giving their students social skills as early as possible. They should teach both male students and female students to work together rather than separating them. “Given the complexity and diversity of gender traits, their causes and variations among individuals, it seems unlikely that co-education is solely the best mechanism to ensure gender equality in outcomes and opportunities.”