A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ OPINION ABOUT SINGLE-SEX SCHOOLS AND CO-EDUCATION SYSTEM

Abstract

The main purpose of this investigation was compare the opinions of the students about single-sex school and co-education. The present study was conducted in the secondary schools of district Toba Tek Singh. It was a descriptive research in which survey designed was followed to collect the data from the students of govt. secondary schools and private co-education secondary schools. A sample of 280 students (140 boys and 140 girls) was selected. A structured questionnaire containing 30 questions based on five point Likert scale was used to collect the data from the respondents. The researchers visited all the schools and met with the respondents. The data was analyzed with the help of t-test. The findings of this study provided a base to find out the impacts of single-sex education and co-education on the academic achievements of the students at secondary level.  It was concluded that there was a significant difference in opnions of students of single sex schools and coeducation schools about various aspects of teaching learning process. Mostly girls highly favoured the single sex education as compared to the boys.