{"id":17909,"date":"2019-03-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2019\/03\/20\/single-sex-schools-linked-to-better-student-performance\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T14:54:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T06:54:29","slug":"single-sex-schools-linked-to-better-student-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2019\/03\/20\/single-sex-schools-linked-to-better-student-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Single-sex schools linked to better student performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17910\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17910\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17910\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/iStock-867124876-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/iStock-867124876-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/iStock-867124876-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/iStock-867124876-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/iStock-867124876-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/iStock-867124876-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: imtmphoto\/iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr Kelvin Seah Kah Cheng from the NUS Department of Economics discusses single-sex learning environments in The Straits Times. According to Dr Seah, understanding whether students truly learn better under single-sex or co-educational (co-ed) conditions is important in informing current debates on which learning environment benefits students.<\/p>\n<p>He argues that it is incorrect to assume that single-sex schools are better than co-ed ones by comparing between these students\u2019 O- and<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0A-level results because the composition of students in single-sex and co-ed schools is different. For instance, the former are typically highly selective and have very stringent entry requirements, so students entering single-sex schools have stronger academic abilities to begin with. Thus, we should look to in-depth examinations of data to properly assess the issue instead. Even then, research has generally demonstrated a neutral to positive effect when it comes to single-sex education, further supporting the notion that students learn better when exposed to peers of the same sex.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>However, these results do not mean that we should convert all existing co-ed schools to single-sex schools. Dr Seah believes that such a change would also induce other effects, such as an alteration of the behaviours of teachers and parents, which might reverse the benefits of a single-sex educational policy. Nevertheless, the findings certainly challenge previous suggestions by members of the public to abolish single-sex schools.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/\u2026\/single-sex-schools-linked-to\u2026\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Kelvin Seah Kah Cheng from the NUS Department of Economics discusses single-sex learning environments in The Straits Times. According to Dr Seah, understanding whether students truly learn better under single-sex or co-educational (co-ed) conditions is important in informing current debates on which learning environment benefits students. He argues that it is incorrect to assume [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":17910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28452,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17909\/revisions\/28452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}