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Kidman, Gillian – Research in Science Education, 2010
Of concern is an international trend of students' increasing reluctance to choose science courses in both their final years of secondary school and tertiary levels of education. Research into the phenomenon indicates an influencing factor to be the "uninteresting curriculum" (OECD "2006") of school science. This paper presents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biotechnology, Science Education, Secondary Education
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Choi, Jung-Suk; Song, Jinwoong – Research in Science Education, 1996
Provides the results of a survey administered to high school students (n=379) in which they select the most and least preferred out of 6 learning situations. Results indicate that student preferences are largely influenced by their perceptions of the relevance and the psychological effects which such contexts would have. Contains 20 references.…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Context Effect, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
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Wilkinson, John; Ward, Malcolm – Research in Science Education, 1997
Perceptions of students in a Year 10 classroom were compared with those of their teacher at each of six schools with regard to the aims, regularity, conduct and assessment of laboratory work. Students in five of the schools had statistically different views from their teacher about the relative importance of 10 aims of laboratory work,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Foreign Countries, High Schools, Laboratory Experiments