Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Listening Practice #3: Single-Sex Education (due Friday)
Listen to the first 12 minutes of this radio program. If you want to listen to more, that is optional (but recommended). Here's the question I'd like you to answer: According to what you hear, what does the latest research say about same sex vs. coed education? Some vocabulary you will hear: 1. adamant 2. advocate 3. banned 4. rescind 5. solid research
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The author of some of the articles created non profit council for coed educaitonal schooling.Apparently not a lot of studies have been done in this area.The studies that were and were mostly mixed. Also the majority of the studies were very poor quilty.after that they talked about the differences between female and male in brain activity while learning.
ReplyDeleteThey spoke about a research that going to be realise this sepring. The purpose of the research is "looking the effect of the single sex shchool for the minority boys"
ReplyDeleteAn in this research they found that what is realy important is improvment comes form the individual invention no matter if this is in the single school or a ecodeducation school. It can be applay in both type of school. More matter what to do to improve the kids and how to teach them.
The latest research weren't soled or stronge enough to aprove which one is the best educational atmosphere for both sex . Thats why one of the researchers focused on the differences in the brain volume and which way would be more beneficial for the educational process and the other said that it dependes on teachers' attention on the individuals' diferences. Another one reported that the school did not conseder the programme as a real research but they doing it just for fun. More over , an outher mentioned that the goverment found it more expensive to have a single sex schoole.
ReplyDeleteThe research showed the differences between boys and girls as well as mentioned what should be done in schools for them. But there was not adequate evidence to show the real benefit of single sex schools despite many advocates. Indeed, lots of such programs were cancelled because school districts had to spend a lot of money from the budget to design and operate particular classes for each gender.
ReplyDeleteWhat the author say, is that is based in a compilation of information from researches done in the past by authors of the studies as well as the reading of other studies availables, is probably the review of the newest research. The author say that the research is based in part of the brain science because of the studies of one the authors of the research that is a neuroscientist. It say that is a response to the merge of justification for single sex schools that relies on brain image studies that seem to show differences between the brain of the boy and girl, but most of the studies had been misunderstood. The author also say that it there has been not a lot of solid research in the area and the other person say that maybe because people liked innovation they are responding for the change rather than the some inherent quality in single sex education and the author say that a new research will be release in spring looking at the effect of the single sex schools for minority boys and in that research they so far have found that the preliminary data say in fact it hasn't really been a matter of single sex vs coed, you really found the improvement from individual interventions that may be use in a coed or single sex situation. Also the research say that when you have kids separated they are more likely to hold on to sex stereotypes.
ReplyDeleteThe author say that the biggest debate right now was that boys and girls learn different and they be forced to taught differently.
they have found so far. It hasn't been a matter of single-sex vs. coed education, and you really find the improvement from individual interventions that might be used in a coed or a single-sex situations. Also, researches have proved that boys and girls learn differently.
ReplyDeleteThe speaker says that the latest research were not strong enough to determine the best environment of education for both sex.However,the research done were a way of justifying the creation of single sex schools because of the differences between the boy's brain and the girl's one.Unfortunately, those research were not well-interpreted.The research says that it is not a matter of single-sex or coeducationnal system ,but a matter of how the teacher deals with his students.More the teacher pays attention to his student's problem , more he helps him and more the student does well in class no matter with who he is in class.
ReplyDeleteThere isn't a definite conclusion. it is hard to judge which is better education system ,single sex or coed. Because boys and girls have different brain volume. In fact, having a great teacher is the most helpful way to do for the students
ReplyDeleteThe latest research concluded that there are not enough evidence to convince that same sex schooling improve education, however, it increase sexist stereotypes. Although the study showed the differences between boys and girls' brains, they couldn't infer that boys and girls have to be taught differently in academic learing style. The things should be done in shool are what teachers are doing to or doing with kids rather than who kids are with.
ReplyDeleteThere is a big debate in this theme, Past researches about this topic showed that there is some evidence about how boys and girls learn in different ways. This is one of the most conflictive points in the discussion because, people are getting the wrong idea of this.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I think there is an important to mention the relationship between the teacher and the student, if the teacher dedicates more time to the students problems, is almost sure that the student will improve in their classes.
There is a controversy about the single sex education, The Journal Science said that there is not empirical evidence about that segregate boys and girls improve the education, but it can perpetuated sexist stereotypes. Also discussed others researches that involves physical differences, brain volume and ages between boys and girls.
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