Practices and Innovations in Australian Science Teacher Education Programs     

David Palmer 《Research in Science Education》2008,38(2):167-188

This paper reports part of a larger study which was designed to investigate current practices in initial teacher education programs in Australia. The main data collection was by telephone interviews, which were carried out with science education specialists and program coordinators at all institutions which offer primary teacher education or secondary science teacher education. The interviews focused on practices in relation to program structures, science content studies, science methods studies and links to science-related school projects or to science business/industry. A large number of innovative practices were described. In addition, several case studies were carried out, which focused on particular innovations. The study identified several aspects of science teacher education which were of concern.  相似文献   

The relationship between child behaviour problems at school entrance and teenage vocabulary acquisition: A comparison of two generations of British children born 30 years apart     

Sam Parsons  Alice Sullivan  Vanessa Moulton  Emla Fitzsimons  George B. Ploubidis 《British Educational Research Journal》2021,47(5):1361-1387

Behaviour problems in early childhood have a lasting impact on cognitive development and education attainment in later adolescence and into adulthood. Here we address the relationship conduct and hyperactivity problems at school entrance, and vocabulary acquisition in adolescence. We compare performance in identical assessments across two generations of British children born 30 years apart in 1970 (n = 15,676) and 2000/2 (n = 16,628) and find that both conduct and hyperactivity problems have a negative association with later vocabulary in both generations. We take advantage of rich longitudinal birth cohort data and establish that these relationships hold once family socioeconomic status and a child’s personal characteristics and earlier vocabulary acquisition are taken into account. We also find that teenagers today achieved substantively lower scores in the vocabulary assessment compared to their counterparts born 30 years earlier, and that this holds across all categories within each of the family and individual characteristics considered in this article. As vocabulary and language skills are key prerequisites for wider learning, we discuss implications the findings have for education policies.  相似文献   

Reviews new products     

Isao Otsuka  Sam Shipman  Ajay Divakaran 《TechTrends》2004,48(3):69-69

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THE ACHIEVEMENT GOALS ORIENTATION OF SOUTH AFRICAN FIRST YEAR UNIVERSITY PHYSICS STUDENTS     

Umesh Dewnarain Ramnarain  Sam Ramaila 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2016,14(1):81-99

This paper is concerned with organizational principles of a pool of familiar problems of expert problem posers and the ways by which they are utilized for creating new problems. The presented case of Leo is part of a multiple-case study with expert problem posers for mathematics competitions. We present and inductively analyze the data collected in a reflective interview and in a clinical task-based interview with Leo. In the first interview, Leo was asked to share with us the stories behind some problems posed by him in the past. In the second interview, he was asked to pose a new competition problem in a thinking-aloud mode. We found that Leo’s pool of familiar problems is organized in classes according to certain nesting ideas. Furthermore, these nesting ideas serve him in posing problems that, ideally, are perceived by Leo as novel and surprising not only to potential solvers, but also to himself. Because of the lack of empirical research on experts in mathematical problem posing, the findings are discussed in light of research on experts in problem solving and on novices in mathematical problem posing.  相似文献   

英国高等教育资格框架的特点与启示     

岑劲霈 《世界教育信息》2007,(1)

高等教育资格框架作为各国高教质量保障的一环,在联系国际间学位文凭互认中是很必要的。英国的高等教育资格框架是一个授予不同类型高等教育学历、学位的学术资格框架。本文主要介绍英格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰高等教育资格框架的形成机制与内容,然后举出其特点以期对中国在建立一个完善的高等教育框架时有所启示。  相似文献   

Quantity and nature of continuous prose writing in English classes — grades 9–13     

J. R. Bruce Cassie  David Palmer 《Interchange》1981,12(4):64-77

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Science education research in Papua New Guinea 1978–1990     

Mr W P Palmer 《Research in Science Education》1990,20(1):240-248

This paper presents a science/science education bibliography, to assist science educationalists interested in Papua New Guinea. 392 articles were reviewed. The bibliography was then categorised in a number of ways to indicate patterns of research productivity in various areas of science education, and at different levels of education. A questionnaire was devised to obtain information from former and current researchers in the field about their own contributions. This exercise produced some surprising information about science education research in Papua New Guinea. Specializations: science teacher education, chemical education, science education in developing countries, educational issues.  相似文献   

Why public primary schools can,and should,adopt developmentally appropriate practice     

Nora Palmer Gould 《Early Childhood Education Journal》1992,20(2):46-47

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The POE in the primary school: An evaluation     

Dr David Palmer 《Research in Science Education》1995,25(3):323-332

The POE (Predict-Observe-Explain) is a technique for identifying students' knowledge and understanding of science concepts. It has mainly been used for physical science topics at secondary and tertiary levels. In the present study, 60 preservice teachers each implemented and evaluated POEs with groups of primary children. The children were studying a range of topics from the NSW Science and Technology K-6 Syllabus and represented a range of year levels. The evaluations were generally positive. The children responded to the technique enthusiastically and the teachers were able to identify both their understandings and their process skills development. The main problems were the difficulty of inventing suitable POEs in some topics, especially topics on communication, and problems caused by the use of oral rather than written responses. The study concluded that it is a suitable technique for primary science.  相似文献   

In the field with two rural primary school head teachers in England     

Carl Bagley  Sam Hillyard 《Journal of educational administration and history》2019,51(3):273-289

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The research focuses on the complexities associated with contemporary rural primary school leadership. The paper draws on in-depth ethnographic research undertaken in two contrasting English rural primary schools and their surrounding community over a period of three years and in particular the experiences and perspectives of the two head teachers from these schools. The paper is conceptually informed by the work of Bourdieu [1984. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul] and his work around field, habitus and capital as a means of understanding practice. The paper contends that as the neo-liberal economic field increasingly contaminates the field of schooling so a contextual understanding of the complex and shifting social space which a head teacher occupies, including their habitus and the capital they deploy, is of central importance to understanding practice.  相似文献