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The Effects of Single-Sex Education on the Self-Efficacy of College Students Taking Introductory Physics

Mills, Mary Elizabeth
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1312915153

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2011, Master of Science, Miami University, Physics.
Previous research has shown that young women can benefit from taking their science classes in single-sex classrooms. Further, women's colleges produce a disproportionate number of female scientists. There is less research on the effect of single-sex education on young men. We investigated the effects of single-sex education on the self-efficacy of college physics students by surveying students at four colleges about their experience in their college physics class. The schools included two women's colleges, one men's college, and one coeducational college. Interviews were also conducted at three of the schools to get a better understanding and more personal view of the students at these schools. Results from the surveys show on average, women at women's colleges and men at coeducational colleges have the same self-efficacy, while men at men's colleges have a lower self-efficacy and women at coeducational colleges have the lowest self-efficacy. Data from the interviews support these results.
Jennifer Blue, PhD (Advisor)
Stephen Alexander, PhD (Committee Member)
Beverley Taylor, PhD (Committee Member)
Janet Hurn, MAT (Committee Member)
183 p.
Education; Gender; Physics; Science Education
physics; single-sex education; women's colleges; men's colleges; single-sex colleges; physics education research; self-efficacy; coeducation

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  • Mills, M. E. (2011). The Effects of Single-Sex Education on the Self-Efficacy of College Students Taking Introductory Physics [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1312915153

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Mills, Mary. The Effects of Single-Sex Education on the Self-Efficacy of College Students Taking Introductory Physics. 2011. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1312915153.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Mills, Mary. "The Effects of Single-Sex Education on the Self-Efficacy of College Students Taking Introductory Physics." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1312915153

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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