mr_awesome Posted September 27, 2014 Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 Hi All, Im starting my EE and Im finding hard to find as many studies as I would like regarding my Extended Essay topic question. My Research Question is: To what extent has elite co-ed and single-sex education impacted academic performance of adolescents? Does anyone have any studies they could recommend to me for this essay topic? Thankyou in Advance Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindpet Posted September 27, 2014 Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 What did you find in Google and Google Scholar so far? https://www.google.dk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1CHWA_enDK607DK607&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=single%20sex%20co%20ed%20schools%20papers http://ife.ens-lyon.fr/publications/edition-electronique/revue-francaise-de-pedagogie/RF171-5.pdf http://www.singlesexschools.org/research-singlesexvscoed.htm P.S: I think you should remove elite unless you are trying to only look at private schools or something like that. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_awesome Posted September 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 Haha, funny enough the ones you pointed out were some of the ones I had Well, I've got studies by Dale (1969, 1971, 1974), Cocklin (1982), Lee and Bryk (1986), Marsh (1989), Starr (1988), Astin (1977), Milner and Dale (1974) and Schagen (2002) Any other ideas? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindpet Posted September 27, 2014 Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 I'm not really familiar with the area though it is an interesting question. Your best bet is to search around or even email the researchers and ask them if they have any working papers if you want something more recent. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_awesome Posted September 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 I see, fair enough then. Yeah I'll see what I can do.Also, would rearranging the question to "To what extent have single-sex educations improved academic performance compared to co-education amongst adolescents" be a wiser approach to the issue?Or would you leave it as is above ^^^^ Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindpet Posted September 27, 2014 Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 I prefer your second wording. You could also drop the to what extent part. How do single sex and coeducation educational environments affect academic performance? If you will plan on having a lot of citations you might want to look at Endnote or another citation manager software. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_awesome Posted September 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 Would rephrasing it to that need me to talk specifically about single-sex and then specifically about coeducation and then link them together at the end? Thank you for your advice and yeah I think I'll give Endnote a go. Thanks again! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindpet Posted September 27, 2014 Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 I don't think the questions restricts you to a certain formula for your essay. With comparison essays there are pretty much 2 ways to do it. The way you mentioned and also breaking it down into features they are similar/dissimilar on and analyze each in turn. Whatever you do add loads of evaluation 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_awesome Posted September 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 Oh, that would make sense! Thank you!Is evaluation really important in a psych EE? and by evaluating, do you mean evaluating each study?Thanks again! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindpet Posted September 27, 2014 Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 Evaluating ideas and theories is important everywhere but Section A of Paper 1. It shows depth of understanding and thought which the IB loves. There is a great psych ee road rage essay by the founder of this site (got an A). There are excellent extended essays on my blog you can see as well that all got As. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_awesome Posted September 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 Oh awesome! Thanks for the help! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_awesome Posted September 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 Blindpet, If I re-word it to "An investigation into single-sex and co-education education environments on academic performance, raising the question should girls and boys be educated differently?"Would that be okay? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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