Of the 19 students attending that day (gender breakdown was nine boys and ten girls) the boys asked questions 9 times and answered questions (those of the teacher and/or classmates) 13 times. By comparison, the girls asked questions 4 times, and answered questions 5 times. Then, when the students split into groups toward the end of the class to check each other's previous work, the groups were split along gender lines. The focus of the students, and the atmosphere of the class overall, was more diffuse than those of either of the other two classes. One interesting thing I noticed during this small group work (which could perhaps also have a bearing on the findings of Datnow et al.) was that in these groups, the now gender-segregated girls asked for teacher help with and clarification of the task at hand a great deal more than did the boys, in their similarly gender-segregated small groups. This led me to wonder if in fact the girls had "saved up" their teacher questions for a time when they would not have to ask them in front of the male students.
The second class I observed was a single-sex (male only) class at a private parochial high school. Fifteen students attended that day, and eleven of the fifteen were actively involved, for the whole class period, in asking questions, answering questions, completing short problems on their own, and sharing their work on the blackboard. This class (taught by a male teacher) was focused and on task, and at times, intense. There was much less student chit-chat, and more involvement in the class session by a greater number of students.
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