The Uzbekistan State University of World Languages

A Single Gender Environment Reduces Behavioral Issues

Although it’s fair to say that various co-educational schools can facilitate high-academic performance, students in single-sex schools may have lower chances of struggling with behavioral issues. For instance, research into a Seattle elementary school suggested that students transitioning to single-sex classrooms displayed fewer behavioral problems. At the same time, the boys moving into single gender education improved performance in the Washington Assessment of Student Learning, moving from the 10% to 30% in their class, all the way up to 73%.

Some experts suggest that single gender educational environments can help reduce behavioral issues because they give students more room to feel at ease. In a co-educational environment, young men and women distract each other, and are more concerned with fitting into their prescribed roles and impressing others than pursuing their own personal skills. In single-sex schools, students are often more willing to take risks, because they don’t feel the fear of failing in front of the other sex. Indeed, single-sex graduates have even rated themselves as having higher levels of intellectual self-confidence, a resource crucial for college and beyond.