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Beckett, Elizabeth A. H.; Gaganis, Voula; Bakker, Anthony J.; Towstoless, Michelle; Hayes, Alan; Hryciw, Deanne H.; Lexis, Louise; Tangalakis, Kathy – Advances in Physiology Education, 2023
Australia-wide consensus was reached on seven core concepts of physiology, which included homeostasis, a fundamental concept for students to understand as they develop their basic knowledge of physiological regulatory mechanisms. The term homeostasis is most commonly used to describe how the internal environment of mammalian systems maintains…
Descriptors: Physiology, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
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Moro, Christian; Douglas, Tracy; Phillips, Ruben; Towstoless, Michelle; Hayes, Alan; Hryciw, Deanne H.; Lexis, Louise; Tangalakis, Kathy – Advances in Physiology Education, 2023
Consensus was reached on seven core concepts of physiology using the Delphi method, including "integration," outlined by the descriptor "cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems interact to create and sustain life." This core concept was unpacked by a team of 3 Australian physiology educators into hierarchical levels,…
Descriptors: Physiology, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Difficulty Level
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Armstrong, David; Macleod, Gale; Brough, Colin – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2019
Ensuring pre-service teachers have strong mental health literacy is vital for progress towards an inclusive, effective education system; yet little is known about how pre-service teachers are prepared for practice with school students who present with poor mental health. The original, internationally comparative small-scale (N = 24) qualitative…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Preservice Teacher Education, Mental Health, Literacy
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Widjaja, Wanty; Groves, Susie; Ersozlu, Zara – International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the design and delivery of a lesson study unit in mathematics to pre-service primary teachers and to identify the opportunities and challenges resulting from the need to deliver the unit wholly online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach: Cross-case analysis, using a…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Units of Study, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction
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Murzi, Homero; Mazzurco, Andrea; Pikaar, Ilje; Gibbes, Badin – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2019
Environmental awareness and ethical moral reasoning are important aspects of the engineering profession. Yet, engineering programmes have been struggling to teach these topics and measure the effectiveness of these educational interventions. In this study, we tested the effectiveness of two independent measures of environmental awareness and moral…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Ethics, Moral Values, Course Content
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Kinoshita, Timothy J.; Knight, David B.; Gibbes, Badin – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2017
Burgeoning college enrolments and insufficient funding to higher education have expanded the use of large lecture courses. As this trend continues, it is important to ensure that students can still learn in those challenging learning environments. Within education broadly and undergraduate engineering specifically, active learning pedagogies have…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Engineering Education, Lecture Method, Undergraduate Students
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Crook, Simon J.; Sharma, Manjula D.; Wilson, Rachel – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2015
Using a mixed-methods approach the authors compared the associated practices of senior physics teachers (n = 7) and students (n = 53) in a 1:1 laptop environment with those of senior biology teachers (n = 10) and students (n = 125) also in a 1:1 laptop environment, in seven high schools in Sydney, NSW, Australia. They found that the physics…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Physics, Biology, Science Teachers
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Woodcock, Stuart; Reupert, Andrea – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
Survey-based research was conducted with Australian pre-service teachers to identify the classroom management strategies that they would employ, their confidence in employing them, and the effectiveness of the strategies. Furthermore, the study aimed to identify significant differences in these variables between pre-service teachers in the final…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Behavior Modification, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries
Department for Education, 2011
To support the review of the National Curriculum, the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) was commissioned by the Department for Education in the spring of 2011 to produce a report detailing curricular arrangements in a number of high-performing educational jurisdictions. The principal source of information for this report has been…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Educational Research, Research Reports, Foreign Countries
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Crooke, Alexander Hew Dale; McFerran, Katrina Skewes – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2014
The potential for music programs to promote psychosocial wellbeing in mainstream schools is recognised in both policy and research literature. Despite this recognition, there is a dearth of consistent research evidence supporting this link. Authors attribute this lack of consistent evidence to limitations in the areas of research design and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Well Being, Psychological Patterns
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Goos, Merrilyn; Gannaway, Deanne; Hughes, Clair – Australian Educational Researcher, 2011
Assessment practices that aim to promote both quality and equity may be compromised in a higher education market where students are consumers and grades the currency exchanged for measures of success. In such a climate, academics report feeling pressured to make course content and assessment less challenging in order to obtain positive student…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Higher Education, Student Evaluation, Student Attitudes
Simons, J. A.; Simons, F. A. – 1984
This comparison is based on the authors' selective review of literature, observations of Montessori preschools in America and Australia, and experience in early childhood teacher education in Australia. The discussion explores general educational objectives, curricula, children's activities, instructional approaches, and teacher role in preschools…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Course Content, Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries
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Read, Julia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1996
Overviews recent developments in immersion language programs in Australia, contrasting the Australian experience with that of other countries. Findings indicate that the most promising developments at the tertiary level are teacher education programs with content-based instruction in the target language and an emerging focus on combining intensive…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Course Content, Cultural Pluralism
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Boss, Bettina; Jansen, Louise – Babel, 2003
Teachers like to believe that students learn what they are taught. Following up on research that questions this belief, a large-scale study of the acquisition of German as a foreign language by French-speaking school students in Geneva (DiGS, or "Deutsch in Genfer Schulen," "German in Geneva schools") further explored the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, German, French
Watt, Michael G. – 1991
This documents reviews books, general collected works, reports, and journal articles published since 1975 on research about selected aspects of instructional materials and their relationship to teaching and learning and educational decision-making in the context of curriculum reform in Australian education. The introductory review has two main…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Censorship, Comparative Analysis, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
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