Should Schools Be Single Sex? Evidence from Tanzanian's ACSE of 2004 to 2009

Abstract

The article discusses whether advanced secondary education should be single sex or co-educational.  The study, of which this article is a product, uses data from Tanzania Advanced Certificate of Secondary Education Results of 2004 to 2009.  Observations indicate that there are significant differences in academic performance between single sex and co-educational schools; single sex schools perform better than co-educational schools for both boys and girls.  Finally, the same results were obtained when they were segregated by years of study and subject combinations.  The study recommends that characteristics which are inherent in single sex schools should be extended to co-educational schools in order to improve the performance of the later.