Titze, Corinna and Jansen, Petra and Heil, Martin (2011) Single-Sex School Girls Outperform Girls Attending a Co-Educative School in Mental Rotation Accuracy. SEX ROLES, 65 (9-10). pp. 704-711. ISSN 0360-0025,
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Do girls attending a single-sex school outperform their same-sex counterparts attending co-educative schools when solving a mental rotation task known to produce substantial gender differences favoring males? In total, 252 German pupils (126 8th/12th graders each) attending single-sex (84 girls) or co-educative (84 boys and girls each) high-schools in North-Rhine Westphalia (west Germany) participated. All pupils completed the "Mental Rotations Test" (MRT). We found that in grade 12 girls attending a single-sex school outperformed their same-sex counterparts attending co-educational schools. In grade eight no differences between both groups were observed. As expected, the well known gender difference between 12th grade boys and co-educative girls had been found. Expectations as well as possible consequences are discussed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | STEREOTYPE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEMISPHERIC-ASYMMETRY; QUANTITATIVE PERFORMANCE; GENDER-DIFFERENCES; SPATIAL ABILITIES; IDENTITY; SCIENCE; MATH; METAANALYSIS; PERCEPTIONS; Spatial cognition; Gender differences; Single sex schooling; Co-education; Stereotype thread |
| Subjects: | 700 Arts & recreation > 796 Athletic & outdoor sports & games |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Sportwissenschaft |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 27 May 2020 15:22 |
| Last Modified: | 27 May 2020 15:22 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/19922 |
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