The purpose of this study is to systematically identify and measure the effects of the women's colleges and coeducational colleges on the female student's educational experiences and outcomes. The study focuses on the following questions :
1) Is ther...
The purpose of this study is to systematically identify and measure the effects of the women's colleges and coeducational colleges on the female student's educational experiences and outcomes. The study focuses on the following questions :
1) Is there any differences in current educational state for women students between women's colleges and coeducational colleges in Korea?
2) What is differences in educational experiences for women students between women's colleges and coeducational colleges?
3) Do the college attendance of female students at women's colleges and coeducational colleges affect on educational outcomes such as career preparation, attitudes, self-reports of academic ability, social ability, and job related skills?
In order to answer these research questions in this research, two methods were used in the following ways :
1) Besides an extensive analysis of the literature in this fields of inquiring, a survey was carried out to find out how female students feel their educational experiences at their college environments and to measure the impact of the college experience on their educational outcomes. For this survey, 3 women's collges and 4 coeducational colleges in Seoul were selected. A total of 923 female students (women's college : 500 students, coeducational college : 423 students) on the junior level in these colleges were surveyed. Finally The survey data were analyzed with crosstabulation, t-test, two-way ANOVA, mutiple regression.
2) The raw data on colleges and universities of the Educational Statistical Yearbook by the Ministry of Education in Korea was analyzed to compare the majors distributions of female studtents, employment and advancement rate of female college grduates, and proportion of the female professors in women's colleges/universities and coeducational colleges/ univerities in 1996.
The findings of this surveys and analysis can be summarized as follows :
1) Female students seems to have different educational experiences : women's colleges are found to provide female students more positive experiences than coeducational colleges.
Female students at women's colleges apparently have more female role models than coeds. Professors at women's colleges have more concerns on women's issues than professors at coeducational colleges, and feamle professors have more concerns on women's issues than male professors. Also female professors show stronger sense of equality in gender role than male professors. Female students at women's colleges are found to be more satisfied with career counselling and advising, administrative services and supports for the employment of female students provided by their universities than thdse at the coeducational universities.
2) However, women's colleges are found to have negative influence on the development of the social abilities of female students. Neverthless any significant difference of the effects on the other educational outcomes such as academic ability, job-related skills and self esteem were not shown in this study.
3) On the other hand, the college experiences of female students at the different types of college found to influence significantly the development of academic ability, social ability and job-related skills, and attitudes on the self-esteem and gender-role consciousness : female students at women's colleges report more positive on the development of job-related skills than coeds, and also show more equal gender-role consciousness than those at the coeds.
4) According to the analysis of colleges/universities data in 1996, female graduates from women's colleges/universities show higher employment rates and advancement rates than those from coeducational colleges/univer -sities. And there found to be no differences in the distribution of major departments by female students at women's colleges/universities and coeducational colleges/universities with the exceptions of technology.
Besides there are much more female professors at women's collges/univesities than coeducational colleges/universities. In addition most of female professors at coeducational colleges/universities are working at departments called 'womanly majors' such as home management, nursing, and languages. These phenomenon are not found to be true with the distribution of women's professors at the women's colleges/universities.