{"id":2771,"date":"2008-07-25T08:27:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T08:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/07\/25\/in-which-i-defend-coeducation\/"},"modified":"2008-07-25T08:27:15","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T08:27:15","slug":"in-which-i-defend-coeducation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/07\/25\/in-which-i-defend-coeducation\/","title":{"rendered":"In Which I Defend Co-Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a piece at Inside Higher Ed<\/cite> today about everybody’s favorite topic, gender bias in science<\/a>, that opens with an anecdote about a student who showed up to every office hour, and brought her friends. This is familiar to every faculty member, though the author apparently thinks it isn’t:<\/p>\n

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I wonder if Tahnee, as much as she was a leader, would have parked outside my office if she attended a co-ed college. In the single-sex environment, women (students, faculty and staff) have high expectations for each other and help each other live up to those expectations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I can answer the question in the first sentence: yes, she would. Almost every term I’ve taught an intro class, I’ve had at least one good student who has parked outside my office for every office hour in the term, and over the years, there have been as many women as men. Which probably means that women are significantly more likely to do this than men, even at a co-ed institution, given that our intro physics classes have a very high male:female ratio.<\/p>\n

Single-sex education may provide some advantages, but the phenomenon described is not a unique result of single-sex education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a piece at Inside Higher Ed today about everybody’s favorite topic, gender bias in science, that opens with an anecdote about a student who showed up to every office hour, and brought her friends. This is familiar to every faculty member, though the author apparently thinks it isn’t: I wonder if Tahnee, as much… Continue reading In Which I Defend Co-Education<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}