The Role of Gender Segregation on Academic Achievement and Social Acceptance in Primary Schools

The interest on studying Single-Sex and Coeducational Elementary

Schooling has grown significantly among researchers. Despite this, there

has been no research on this topic in Iran till now. The effects of school

type on academic achievement and social desirability which are among

important variables are examined in this research. The research design is

causal-comparative. The population is taken from students in fifth and

sixth grade from the public elementary schools in the academic year

1391/92 in Shahreiar, Tehran, Iran. The total number of the participants is

279 (half on co-ed and others on single-sex), which were selected by

random cluster sampling method. Results showed that the students from

single-sex schools had higher GPA, compared to the students of co-ed

schools. Also, it was statistically significant that the girls had better social

desirability compared to boys.