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Kim, Hyun-Kyung; Lee, Dong-Heon; Kim, Soojin – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
The results of the National Assessment of Educational Achievement from 2010 to 2013 have shown a downward trend in ninth graders' science average achievement scores from 2011 to 2013. The percentage of students in the Advanced level decreased dramatically from 19.95% in 2010 to 11.48% in 2013, while the percentage of students in the Basic level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Educational Trends, National Competency Tests
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Tan, Aik Ling; Hong, Huaqing – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
This paper examines learning of science in 15 grade nine classrooms by analyzing the type of talk that teachers engaged in. Using transcripts from audio recordings that are part of the Singapore Corpus of Research in Education database, annotations were carried out on the phrases of teacher talk using Mortimer and Scott's framework for meaning…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 9, Science Education, Foreign Countries