Public and Catholic Schooling
The Effects of Gender Context Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11366404 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cornelius Riordan (Providence College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 518-540 |
| Publication date | 1985-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0195-6744 • E-ISSN: 1549-6511 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/443821 |
| OpenAlex | W2073631303 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 12 |
The relative effectiveness of public and Catholic schools is now a matter of increasing public interest. Previous research has been confined to a strategy that treats all Catholic schools as a single type. This paper compares school effects for three types of schools--single-sex Catholic, mixed-sex Catholic, and mixed-sex public. The argument set forth is that single-sex schools operate with a reduced adolescent subculture and a greater number of successful academic role models, making possible better academic instruction and higher academic standards. Hence, it is proposed that students in single-sex schools will outperform students in mixed-sex schools in academic concerns. The hypothesis is tested using data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972. On average, Catholic single-sex schools are nearly twice as effective as Catholic mixed-sex schools. The effect of sex per se, however, is different. In vocabulary and reading, females in Catholic single-sex schools outperform females in Catholic mixed-sex schools relative to public school females. Males in Catholic single-sex schools do better than males in Catholic mixed-sex schools in math and ultimately in educational attainment. These results temper earlier reports of a general Catholic school advantage over public schools and suggest the need to halt temporarily the closing of single-sex schools
Argument (complex analysis · Context (archaeology · Educational attainment · Mathematics education · Political science · Preparatory school · Primary education · Reading (process · School choice · Single sex · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Religious Education and Schools · School Choice and Performance
The effects of single-sex compared with coeducational schooling on students' performance and attitudes
Effects of single-sex secondary schools on student achievement and attitudes.
An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics
The roles of attitudes towards learning and opposite sex as a predictor of school engagement
A Meta-Analytic Critique of Mael et al.’s (2005) Review of Single-Sex Schooling
Performance in physics for students in single-sex and co-educational secondary schools in Nigeria
The Impact of Single-Sex Education on African American Reading Achievement
Who Goes Where? Choice of Single-Sex and Coeducational Independent Secondary Schools
Public, Catholic Single-Sex, and Catholic Coeducational High Schools
Single-Sex versus Coeducational Environments
Gender‐role identity and perceived peer group acceptance among early adolescents in Belgian mixed and single‐sex schools
Unravelling gender composition effects on rule-breaking at school
The developmental influence of sex composition in preschool classrooms
Single-sex education in the 21st century
University Students from Single-Sex and Coeducational High Schools
The Efficacy of All-Male Academies
Gender Differences in Secondary School Teachers' Control over Classroom and School Policy
The effects of single‐sex and coeducational secondary schooling on girls’ achievement
A Meta-Analysis on the Effects and Contributions of Public, Public Charter, and Religious Schools on Student Outcomes
Causal Effects of Single-Sex Schools on College Entrance Exams and College Attendance
The Value of Attending a Women's College
A Comparison of Single-Sex and Coeducational Catholic Secondary Schooling
The Effect of Single-Sex Secondary Schooling on Women's Choice of College Major
Catholic High Schools and Minority Students
The adolescent society
Schooling Effects
Co‐education
Public and private schools
Public and Private Schools Revisited
Private Schools and Public Policy
Voluntarism and Governance in Education
Public and Catholic Schools
The Causal Analysis of Cognitive Outcomes in the Coleman, Hoffer and Kilgore Report
The Cognitive Tests for High School and Beyond
Control and Differentiation in the Structure of American Education
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2021 (36) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |