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E. R. Dempster – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Breadth and depth of curriculum are important for success in science teaching and learning. Curriculum theorists recommend less breadth and more depth than overloaded, superficial science curricula. This study investigates breadth and depth in the official biology syllabi in the seventh to eighth or ninth years in four diverse jurisdictions,…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Course Content, Course Descriptions
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Drechsel, Barbara; Carstensen, Claus; Prenzel, Manfred – International Journal of Science Education, 2011
This paper focuses "interest in science" as one of the attitudinal aspects of scientific literacy. Large-scale data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2006 are analysed in order to describe student interest more precisely. So far the analyses have provided a general indicator of interest, aggregated over all…
Descriptors: Science Interests, Interest Inventories, Science Tests, Cognitive Tests