Abstract
Single or separate sex schools have traditionally been a trend in the public sector in Pakistan whilst only in Sindh province, there are coeducational schools in the public sector. The present study was designed to find out the differential academic performance of boys and girls in the separate sex and coeducational schools. From eight randomly selected districts of Punjab, eight coeducational and eight separate sex (equally divided by sex) schools were selected randomly yielding a total sample of 128 schools. All the students in 5thgrade of the selected schools constituted the sample of the study making a total of 4448 students, 957 girls and 943 boys from the separate sex schools and 2548 students from the coeducational schools. The age of students (for both boys and girls) ranged from 9 to12 years with the mean age of 10 years. The academic achievement was operationalized in terms of students' scores in 5 thgrade primary board examination. The 2x2 Analysis of Variance was carried out to explore the significance of the two main effects i.e. gender and type of school and the interaction of the two variables on the scores obtained by the students. The t-test was also applied to compare the mean scores of boys and girls in the separate sex and coeducational schools. The results indicated better academic achievement for students in the separate sex as compared to that in the coeducational schools. The study concludes that the academic achievement of students, (both boys and girls), was better in separate sex schools as than those in coeducational schools. The study also found that girls‟ academic achievement was more adversely affected in coeducational schools as compared with boys.
Ra‟ana Malik, Munawar S. Mirza. (2014) Gender Differential Academic Achievement of Students in Single-sex and Coeducational Primary Schools in Pakistan, Bulletin of Education & Research, Volume 36, Issue 1.
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