A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SINGLE SEX AND CO-EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES REGARDING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE: A STUDY OF MULTAN

Abstract

The present research study is conducted to find out the comparison of single sex and co-education regarding academic performance. In recent decades there has been debate as to whether students attending single-sex (SS) schools show better academic achievement than students in co-education (CE) schools or students of co-education (CE) show better. In order to study this comparison cross-sectional designs have been used to analyze data and to formulate results. A questionnaire was formulated that was a Likert scale consisting of 27 items. Target population was the students of department of social sciences from Women University Multan and Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan.  The main objective of the research is to find out the multiple comparisons of students of single sex and co-ed institutes regarding their CGPAs or academic performance. The results reject the null hypothesis and show that there is no difference of means of importance of both learning styles among students of three subjects (Criminology, Sociology and psychology). At least one mean of students of three subjects (Sociology, Psychology, and Criminology) is different for their importance to both learning types. In Anova all subjects have no difference. While in table Post Hoc Test Sociology and Criminology have difference. Cross-tabulation of CGPA with the respondent opinion that they would not try to miss their classes either in the co-education or single sex institutions shows positive results.

Keywords: Co-education, Single Sex Education, Academic Performances, Criminology, Cross-Tabulation.