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Ramberg, Ulf; Edgren, Gudrun; Wahlgren, Marie – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
Capturing progression in students' formal knowledge and employability skills is essential in higher education but evokes questions concerning how to assess and monitor progression. While methods for capturing students' formal knowledge progression have traditionally been at the forefront, methods for capturing employability skills have been less…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Employment Potential, Job Skills, Skill Development
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Berge, Maria; Danielsson, Anna; Lidar, Malena – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2020
Background: Physics is often seen as a discipline with difficult content, and one that is difficult to identify with. Socialisation processes at the upper secondary school level are of particular interest as these may be linked to the subsequent low and uneven participation in university physics. Focusing on how norms are construed in physics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Physics
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Olteanu, Constanta; Olteanu, Lucian – International Education Studies, 2012
The purpose of this paper is to present the mechanism for effective communication when the mathematical objects of learning are equations and functions. The presentation is based on data collected while the same object of learning is presented in two classes, and it includes two teachers and 45 students. Among other things, the data consists of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Secondary School Science, Natural Sciences
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Lingefjard, Thomas; Meier, Stephanie – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2010
The work in the Comenius Network project Developing Quality in Mathematics Education II (DQME II) has a main focus on development and evaluation of modelling tasks. One reason is the gap between what mathematical modelling is and what is taught in mathematical classrooms. This article deals with one modelling task and focuses on how two teachers…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Teachers
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Bengtsson, Maria – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2012
Children of foreign origin are increasingly failing in mathematics in Swedish compulsory schools. This article analyses the didactics at a school proven very successful in teaching mathematics to all children including the 70% of children of foreign origin. The situation at the studied school is compared to research of the Swedish school system…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Mathematics Achievement, Swedish, Mathematics Instruction