A few months ago, I wrote a post showing that – once you control for prior attainment and other differences – girls in single sex schools aren’t that much more likely to choose A-Level physics than girls in mixed schools.
But there’s one point I might have overlooked. Do girls in single sex schools do particularly well in GCSE physics, relative to other subjects? If so, it might be that single sex schooling makes more of a difference in progression to A-Level physics than I’d concluded in my earlier piece.
And, setting aside the point about A-Level physics, the question of how performance in single sex and mixed schools compares subject-by-subject is quite an interesting one in its own right.
