I carried out a questionnaire of which I gave to 20 students attending a mixed and, a single sex school. They all showed various views on the status of their school and the education that they receive

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        For my primary research, I carried out a questionnaire of which I gave to 20 students attending a mixed and, a single sex school. They all showed various views on the status of their school and the education that they receive. I’ve researched from questionnaire’s and interviews that overall girls at a single sex school tend to spend longer hours on their homework, they take up more extra curriculum activities, and these are on of the factors which, affect level of achievement.

Another comparison I have made that supports my hypothesis is that the girls attending single sex school have said that the education they have received is very good and excellent, not one has said it was poor. On the other hand the results from a mixed school have said the education they received is satisfactory, but could be better. The reason why is because of distractions in class. “Boys tend to try to take over the lesson, make jokes of the teacher, they think it’s funny, however, it’s wasting precious time” Girl Aged 16.

        Furthermore, the majority of girls that attended a mixed school would have preferred to go to a single sex school, when I asked why. They replied “I would’ve concentrated more at a single sex school.” “You feel undermined in certain subjects and lesson by boys, who think their better at it”.

Besides this, not all students agreed on single sex schools being greater, some stated that “it mainly depends on the students themselves, they can achieve high grades if they wanted to, they just have to be bothered”. What I was trying to answer is why don’t girls bother as much at a mixed school than at single sex, the answer I got was because of peer pressure. “You’re more likely to have a boyfriend at a mixed school rather than a single sex school”. “If you hang around with the wrong crowd, you’re level of work goes towards the wrong direction” Girl Aged 16, so peers do have an influence on the standard of work.

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In addition, basing my findings on facts, I can see that girls that have attended single sex schools do actually have higher GCSE grades. I interviewed three female GCSE students from either school, and as a whole, the girls from the single sex school had higher predicted GCSE grades as well as the actual real GCSE’s. One of my interviewee’s stated that, if she had the chance to go back and attend a different school, she would have liked to attend a single sex school like Plashet, Sarah Bonnel, or St. Angela’s. Because there would be less disruption, more concentration ...

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