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.