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Direct linkŽák, Vojtech; Kolár, Petr – Science Education, 2023
This paper explores the views of leading Czech physicists regarding a physics curriculum for upper secondary schools. This paper presents the first part of an effort to define starting points for a new physics curriculum in Czechia (subsequent phases would analyze the opinions of other scientists, education experts, and physics teachers regarding…
Descriptors: Physics, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools
Peer reviewedHaussler, Peter; Hoffmann, Lore – Science Education, 2000
Presents three interlinked studies aimed at developing a curricular framework for physics education; assessing student interest in the contents, contexts, and activities that are suggested by that curricular framework; and developing a curriculum that is in line with that framework and measuring its cognitive and emotional effects on students.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Middle Schools, Physics
Peer reviewedCarlone, Heidi B. – Science Education, 2003
Investigates meanings of an innovative, reform-based curriculum (Active Physics) in various contexts. Explores how meanings of the curriculum transformed as it traveled across space and time. Discusses how aspects of the context enabled innovative science and those that constrained the potential of the curriculum. Demonstrates potential for…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Ethnicity
Peer reviewedThijs, Gerard D.; Dekkers, Peter J. J. M. – Science Education, 1998
Describes a study in which teaching and learning activities are designed using a cognitive conflict strategy. Focuses on the effectiveness of these activities in classroom research in pre-university courses in Botswana and South Africa. Contains 39 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Force
Peer reviewedFinley, Fred N. – Science Education, 1985
Determined if there are certain propositions that physics students (N=31) share with respect to a topic, to what extent is a student's knowledge on a subject idiosyncratic, and if there are different groups of students whose members share distinctive sets of propositions. Results are reported and discussed. (DH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Interviews, Knowledge Level
Peer reviewedSwetz, Frank J.; Meerah, Tamby Subahan Mohd – Science Education, 1982
Curriculum planning, even in a developed country, is not without problems. Curriculum planners in developing countries are faced with dilemmas at almost every level of decision making. The revision of the Malaysian physics curriculum is detailed in this article. (PB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Developing Nations, Integrated Curriculum, Physics
Peer reviewedLijnse, Piet L.; And Others – Science Education, 1990
Described is a Dutch thematics physics curriculum recently developed for the average academic secondary student. Discussed are the structure, contents of units, and systematic units of the curriculum. (CW)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, High Schools
