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Pamela Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Much has been written in the grading literature regarding the continued use of traditional teacher grading practices that impede effective teaching and learning, yet teachers continue to assign grades using a mixture of factors. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore secondary teacher perceptions of their grading practices, the…
Descriptors: Grading, Equal Education, High School Students, Educational Practices
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Dana Sachyani; Pirchia Tamar Waxman; Irit Sadeh; Shoshana Herman; Mor Levi Ferber; Michal Yaacobi; Omer Choresh; Efrat Link; Shiri-Rivka Masa; Samuel Ginsburg; Michal Zion – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
Integrating genetic engineering and molecular biology lab activities into open inquiry-based teaching is an innovative, unique process that has taken place in Israeli high schools since 2018, becoming part of biology studies for 11th- and 12th-grade students. Engaging these students in lab techniques and practices in this field enables them to…
Descriptors: Molecular Biology, Science Instruction, High School Students, Grade 11
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, 2018
This Framework is built upon the foundation of the 2003 and 1997 "Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Frameworks." Based in research on effective practice, it represents the contributions of members of the History and Social Science Curriculum Framework Review Panel, scholars who served as Content Advisors, and the more…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, History, Social Sciences
Schulz, Christine – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
Across the globe many nations have found engaging young people in the post compulsory years of school to ensure their transition into economic citizens is challenging. Governments are focusing on developing initiatives and programs to connect young people in education and training as preparation for the workplace. In Australia the use of Applied…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Capacity Building
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Kapur, Manu; Kinzer, Charles K. – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2009
This study was designed as a confirmatory study of work on "productive failure" (Kapur, "Cognition and Instruction," 26(3), 379-424, 2008). N = 177, 11th-grade science students were randomly assigned to solve either well- or ill-structured problems in a computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environment without the provision of any…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Problem Solving, Grade 11, Hypothesis Testing
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Berlach, Richard G.; O'Neill, Michael – Australian Journal of Education, 2008
Opinion surrounding Western Australia's provision of compulsory education via an outcomes-based education (OBE) paradigm is severely divided. At the centre of debate is an attempt by authorities to extend OBE into the final years of secondary schooling, Years 11 and 12. In this paper an examination is made of OBE as a curriculum paradigm.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, Outcome Based Education, Models