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Fensham, Peter J. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011
The globalized nature of modern society has generated a number of pressures that impact internationally on countries' policies and practices of science education. Among these pressures are key issues of health and environment confronting global science, global economic control through multi-national capitalism, comparative and competitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Global Approach, Science and Society
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Fensham, Peter J. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2009
The PISA assessment instruments for students' scientific literacy in 2000, 2003, and 2006 have each consisted of units made up of a real world context involving Science and Technology, about which students are asked a number of cognitive and affective questions. This article discusses a number of issues from this use of S&T contexts in PISA…
Descriptors: Science Tests, Achievement Tests, Scientific Literacy, Gender Differences
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Wilson, Mark – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2009
This article describes some of the underlying conceptualizations that have gone into the work of the BEAR Center in the development of learning progressions. The core of all of these developments has been the construct map, which is the first building block in the BEAR Assessment System (BAS). After introducing the concept of a learning…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Middle Schools, Secondary School Science, Learning Processes