Gender Differences in Attitudes to Science for Third Year Pupils: an argument for single‐sex teaching groups in mixed schools

REFERENCES

• Byrne , E. 1978 . Women and Education , London : Tavistock .
   Google Scholar
• Bottomley , J. 1981 . Stability and inability in science interest from middle schools to the age of science choices (14+) . Env. J. Sci. Educ. , 3 : 329 – 338 .
   Google Scholar
• Dale , R.R. 1969, 1971, 1974 . Mixed or Single‐Sex Schools , 3 vols , London : Routledge & Kegan Paul .
   Google Scholar
• Deem , R. 1984 . Co‐education Reconsidered , Milton Keynes : Open University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Equal Opportunities Commission . 1981 . Education for Girls , London : EOC .
   Google Scholar
• Haden , R.A. 1983 . Secondary school pupils’ attitudes to science in the year of decision . Env. J. Sci. Educ. , 5 : 429 – 438 .
   Google Scholar
• Harvey , T.J. 1980 . Girls and physical science . Journal of Further and Higher Education , 4 : 29 – 36 .
   Google Scholar
• Harvey , T.J. and Stables , A. 1984 . Gender differences in subject preference and perception of subject importance among third year secondary school pupils in single‐sex and mixed comprehensive schools . Educational Studies , 10 : 243 – 253 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Harvey , T.J. 1985a . Gender differences in science attainment for first year secondary school children in single‐sex and mixed teaching groups . Educational Research , 27 : 179 – 182 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Harvey , T.J. 1985b . Gender differences in attitudes to science and school for first year secondary school children in a variety of teaching groups . Educational Review , 37 : 281 – 288 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Harvey , T.J. 1985c . The relationship between self‐appraisal of curiosity and VRQ and the differences in curiosity exhibited by girls in mixed and single‐sex schools . Durham and Newcastle Research Review , 10 : 243 – 244 .
   Google Scholar
• Marland , M. , ed. 1983 . Sex Differentiation and Schooling , London : Heinemann .
   Google Scholar
• Martini , R. 1982 . Sex Differences and Achievement , London : ILEA . Research and Statistics, RS 823/82
   Google Scholar
• Ormerod , M.B. 1975 . Subject preference and choice in co‐educational and single‐sex schools . British Journal of Educational Psychology , 45 : 257 – 67 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ormerod , M.B. 1979 . Pupil's attitudes to the social implications of science . European Journal of Science Education , 1 : 177 – 190 .
   Google Scholar
• Powell , R.C. 1979 . Sex differences and language learning: a review of the evidence . Audio‐Visual Language Journal , 17 : 19 – 24 .
   Google Scholar
• Spender , D. , Scott , M. and Sarah , E. 1980 . Learning to Lose , The Women's Press .
   Google Scholar
• Warburton , S.J. 1983 . Science achievement and attitudes and the age of transfer to secondary school . Educational Research , 25 : 177 – 183 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wilkinson , W.J. 1982 . New Hull Scales for the measurement of attitudes to science . Science Research , 63 : 558 – 59 .
   Google Scholar