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Name: Ali Aman Instructor: Kristin Course & Section: CO 150, 403 Date: 10/23/13 Single-Sex Education An Annotated Bibliography This annotated bibliography was compiled to investigate the controversial topic of singlesex education and whether it is beneficial to the school community or not. I developed an interest in this specific topic because of my education background which combines both single gender and coeducational methods. Also, it is worth investigating which type of school would benefit both genders more, respect students rights and enhance students scores and grades. The controversy of this issue is related to many things. It is more likely because of the psychological aspects regarding the students and their instructors, biological factors such as how males and females differ in their learning process in addition to the distraction of the opposite sex in the same class or school. This controversial topic is very important as my country is researching the possibility of changing the school system from single sex to coeducational system.

My research was influenced by this question: do we need to apply single sex education in our school system? Between the dates of October 21st, 2013 and October 23rd, 2013 this research was conducted and it includes three sources. Two sources are academic articles that were published in peer-review journals and the remaining source is a conducted survey. The sources eplore both positive an negative arguments of single sex education.

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GoodKinda, Sara. Single-Sex Public Education for Low-Income Youth of Color: A Critical Theoretical Review. Sex Roles 69.7/8 (2013): 393-402. Academic search premier. Web. 21 Oct. 2013. This scholarly article was written to provide a critical theoretical review for researchers and academics interested in the single sex education topic in the U.S. The author extensively investigates the proponents arguments and researches toward the topic. GoodKinda provides valuable analysis of why one cannot conclude that single-sex education is helpful and supports that by raising questions, including quotation, statistics, and students opinions. Also, the author presented multi perspectives from the proponents side as well as the opposing partisans. According to GoodKinda, there are insufficient amount of research regarding single-sex education in the United States. She also stated that by applying single-sex education, there is still a possibility that a certain groups would be marginalized and that we should reconsider devoting scarce resources to this practice.

There are many factors that raise the credibility of this source. First, it is published in a peer reviewed journal which makes it a reliable source. The publication year is 2013 which means it is very recent. Also, the author included a variety of research and resources which increases her credibility. One limitation regarding this article is that it doesnt provide international studies of single-sex education since the United States experience in this field is relatively new.

This source helps me answer my research question by presenting multiple perspectives on the situation and their arguments. For examples, the articles mentioned variety of stake holders such as liberal feminists and post structural feminists as it represents their political and philosophical view. Moreover, it also includes students and teachers as stake holders in which they would have to get through various significant changes.

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Survey: Students, Parents Value Single-Sex Classes. Education week 30.14 (2010): 4. Academic search Premier. Web. 22 Oct. 2013 This survey was conducted and published for researchers, academics and intelligent people who search for such topics. The survey declared that more than half of students in South Carolina have made a progress regarding their attitudes and their academic pursuit. Also the participants were 7000 students. Many instructors and parents have stated that they are happy to see the changes in these youths. This survey shows that there are many people that would prefer singlesex education rather than coeducational one.

There are two factors which contribute to the credibility of this source. First, it was conducted in a place that offers many single sex classes which raise the credibility of the source. Second, not only students participated, adults and parents shared their opinions too. This survey has many limitations. One of the limitations is that it was conducted only in South Carolina and only had about 7000 thousands participants.

This source helps me answer my research question by providing two aspects. First, people who have experienced the difference on a wider scale than others are more likely to give a better opinion than other. Also the stake holders of in this situation were provided in the survey. Parents, students and instructors are the stake holders in this particular survey

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Signorella, Margret, And Rebecca Bigler. Single-Sex Schooling: Bridging Science and School Boards in Educational Policy. Sex Roles 69.7/8 (2013): 349-355. Academic Search Premier.Web. 22 Oct. 2013. This scholarly article was written for other academics and research who took an interest in this specific topic. The authors presented a brief analysis of multiple variations aspects regarding single sex schooling. They attempt to present both old and modern studies about this controversial topic. Because this is litterateur review, the authors used a variety of research and studies with including a historical aspect. The authors mentioned the single-sex schooling and the brain argument. Also, a counter argument for this is that this claim was made by the proponents to support their claims. Another point that was mentioned that despite the fact that these studies are imperical, they actually lack the accuracy to provide an excellent approximation of the single sex schools numbers.

Multiple factors increase the credibility of this source. It is recently published in 2013. The second factor is that it was published in a peer-review journal which raises the reliability of the information included. One limitations of this article is that it was short and summarized which made the main points short and not explained completely.

This source would help me to find answers for my research question in many perspectives. First it provides information as how some politicians feminists supported the single sex education. Also how the studies are developing and started to take this issue seriously. moreover, the variations of the arguments presented in this journal help me to understand multiple points of views.