“…Nonetheless, male and female students received differential treatment in coeducational physical education decades ago (Dunbar & O'Sullivan, 1986, O'Sullivan, Bush, & Gehring, 2002, and several authors raised doubts about the adequacy ofgirls' participation in these settings (Treanor, Graber, Housner, & Wiegand, 1998;Turvey & Laws, 1988;Wolf et al, 1993). 446 Treanor et al (1998) and Lirgg (1993Lirgg ( , 1994 found both boys and girls preferred single-gendered physical education formats, but other studies countered this notion (Griffin, 1984(Griffin, , 1985. Meanwhile, Griffin (1984) found that coeducational physical education was not negative for all girls or positive for all boys.…”