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- Title
Urban Elementary Single-Sex Math Classrooms: Mitigating Stereotype Threat for African American Girls.
- Authors
Bowe, Anica G.; Desjardins, Christopher D.; Clarkson, Lesa M. Covington; Lawrenz, Frances
- Abstract
This study utilized a mixed-methods approach to holistically examine single-sex and coeducational urban elementary mathematics classes through situated cognitive theory. Participants came from two urban low-income Midwestern elementary schools with a high representation of minority students (n = 77 sixth graders, n = 4 teachers, n = 2 principals). Findings demonstrate that African American girls made more math achievement gains in single-sex classrooms; single-sex classrooms might mitigate math academic stereotypes for students and teachers; and that important contextual factors play a role in these outcomes. Testing these factors is a step toward delineating a theory of change for single-sex education in urban public schools.
- Subjects
SINGLE sex classes (Education); COEDUCATION; MATHEMATICS; AFRICAN American girls; TEACHERS
- Publication
Urban Education, 2017, Vol 52, Issue 3, p370
- ISSN
0042-0859
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0042085915574521