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John O. Anderson Mei-Hung Chiu Larry D. Yore 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2010,8(3):373-388
This special edition of IJMSE focuses on the Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) project now that it has
completed a full cycle of administration—reading, mathematics, and science—to look at ways in which PISA has been used in
participating countries and with what consequences, and to identify potential research and policy directions emanating from
this initiative. Articles were invited to (a) reflect international perspectives on the uses and consequences of PISA to date
and (b) speculate on future directions for research, curriculum, and policy using the PISA datasets. The introductory article
provides a brief overview of common aspects of PISA: Evolving definitions of reading literacy, mathematics literacy, and science
literacy; technical design of the instruments and data analysis procedures; the changing emphasis of administrations; and
recent research using the datasets. PISA, unlike other international assessments in reading, mathematics, and science, has
provided a fresh perspective on ‘what might be’ by decoupling the assessment from mandated curricula to focus on literacies
needed for a 21st century economy. This unique feature of PISA brings with it possibilities and cautions for policy makers. 相似文献
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Louis Volante 《Interchange》2013,44(3-4):169-178
This paper examines policy responses across Canada to international student assessment programs such as the program for international student assessment, trends in international mathematics and science study, and progress in international reading and literacy study. Literature reviewed included refereed and non-refereed journal articles, proceedings from academic conferences, ministry of education research reports and policy documents, books and other monographs, achievement data from various statistical databases, critiques published in newspapers, and other widely disseminated research reports. The comparative analysis suggests a variety of factors influence the nature and degree of policy responses to international comparison testing within various Canadian provinces. 相似文献
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In its emphasis in working with users of research throughout the processes of pedagogic research, the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) has reflected a current interest across disciplines in user engagement to enhance research. The scale of the TLRP and the range of research genres encompassed by it have meant that it has provided a useful site for considering in some detail what is meant by enhancing pedagogic research in this way. The authors draw on a TLRP‐funded seminar series which examined a variety of forms of user engagement, their purposes and their implications. The series attempted to understand the intertwined features of new education spaces where research and policy can meet; the negotiations with policy communities that occur there; and the implications for these negotiations and for research design in the production of pedagogic knowledge in partnership with practitioners. The lessons revealed included the following: user engagement strengthens the warrants of research with potential users in both practice and policy communities; it needs to be understood and sustained as an aspect of project management; and research mediation is a developing form of expertise. The authors conclude that TLRP has provided an unrivalled opportunity for the public to ‘speak back to science’ in pedagogic research, and enabled an emerging reciprocity where the public understand(s) how science works but equally science understands how its publics work. 相似文献
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Andrew Noyes Geoff Wake Pat Drake 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2011,9(2):483-501
This paper explores the potential impact of a national pilot initiative in England aimed at increasing and widening participation
in advanced mathematical study through the creation of a new qualification for 16- to 18-year-olds. This proposed qualification
pathway—Use of Mathematics—sits in parallel with long-established, traditional advanced level qualifications, what we call ‘traditional Mathematics’ herein. Traditional Mathematics is typically required for entry to mathematically demanding undergraduate programmes. The structure, pedagogy and assessment
of Use of Mathematics is designed to better prepare students in the application of mathematics, and its development has surfaced some of the tensions
between academic/pure and vocational/applied mathematics. Here, we explore what Use of Mathematics offers, but we also consider some of the objections to its introduction in order to explore aspects of the knowledge politics
of mathematics education. Our evaluation of this curriculum innovation raises important issues for the mathematics education
community as countries seek to increase the numbers of people that are well prepared to apply mathematics in science and technology-based
higher education courses and work places. 相似文献
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Sally A. Lesik 《Research in higher education》2007,48(5):583-608
The impact of academic programs—such as developmental mathematics programs—on student retention, has been a controversial
topic for administrators, policy makers, and faculty in higher education. Despite deep interest in the effectiveness of these
programs in retaining students, scholars have been unable to determine whether such programs have a causal impact on student
retention. Rather than assigning students to a developmental program based on a random assignment process as in a true experiment,
most of the existing research up to this point has been non-experimental and has focused exclusively on whether student background
and demographic characteristics are statistically significant predictors of dropout. Furthermore, prior research is also limited
by its reliance on cross-sectional, retrospective designs despite the longitudinal nature of the dropout phenomenon. In this
paper, I report the results of a unique piece of research which embeds a regression-discontinuity design within the framework
provided by discrete-time survival analysis. By combining these two approaches, I was able to obtain an unbiased estimate
of the causal impact of participating in a developmental program in mathematics, and confirm that the risk of leaving college
among students who participate in developmental mathematics programs was significantly lower than for equivalent students
who did not participate in such programs. 相似文献
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教育科学与教育政策之间有着密不可分的关系。社会高速发展对教育提出了更高的要求,教育科学的发展也在推动着社会进步,他们之间本质上是知识与社会的互动关系。文章从知识社会学的视角首先对教育科学与社会政策的关联性进行考察,随后分析了社会因素对研究成果选择的影响,最后从机制建设层面探讨了如何促进教育科学研究与教育政策制定的双向互动。 相似文献
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全球治理与教育变革:跨国与国际教育政策过程研究的重要性 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
大多数教育政策研究仍然把教育政策主要放在国内政治而非国际政治的舞台中进行研究。本文吸收了政治科学、国际关系和公共管理领域最近的研究成果,指出国际的、地区的和跨国的行为主体及其政策过程的影响力正在增长,理应得到教育政策研究界的高度重视。政治科学中的全球治理研究或许能为关于跨国和国际的行为主体及其政策过程的教育政策研究提供新的方法,同时,提醒我们更多地关注新的国际行为体和新的组织与协调方式,更加深入地思考规范化的过程在多大程度上塑造了民族国家对教育中的共同国际利益的认同方式。 相似文献
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Anne Christine Hume 《Research in Science Education》2012,42(3):551-565
The challenge of preparing novice primary teachers for teaching in an educational environment, where science education has
low status and many teachers have limited science content knowledge and lack the confidence to teach science, is great. This
paper reports on an innovation involving a sustained simulation in an undergraduate science education course as a mediational
tool to connect two communities of practice—initial teacher education and expert primary science teaching. The course lecturer
and student teachers role-played the expert classroom teacher and primary students (Years 7/8) respectively in an attempt
to gain insights into teaching and learning through authentic activity that models good practice in primary science teaching
and learning. Activity theory was used to help frame and analyse the data. Findings from the first trial indicate that the
simulation was very effective in initiating science pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) development of primary student teachers. 相似文献
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Emma Smith Sandra Cooke 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2011,9(2):303-326
The recruitment and training of scientists is an area of international concern. Much of the research and policy focus around
this issue in the UK has been on how science is taught in schools and in particular on the structure of the school science
curriculum. Much less attention has been devoted to the undergraduate student experience and the trajectory that learners
take which can lead to higher education and into careers as professional scientists and technicians. This paper reports the
findings from a comparative study of the experiences and aspirations of almost 1,000 art and science undergraduates studying
at 6 elite British universities. There is no evidence to suggest that undergraduate scientists are put off a career in the
science, technology, engineering and mathematics field, although theirs is arguably a less positive experience than that of
their peers who study arts subjects. Most science undergraduates have clear career aspirations which are largely linked to
remaining in the field and often involve further study. For many, these aspirations lead them towards the applied sciences
and away from a career in ‘pure’ research or academia. 相似文献
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Gert Schubring 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2011,77(1):79-104
There is an over-arching consensus that the use of the history of mathematics should decidedly improve the quality of mathematics
teaching. Mathematicians and mathematics educators show here a rare unanimity. One deplores, however, and in a likewise general
manner, the scarcity of positive examples of such a use. This paper analyses whether there are shortcomings in the—implicit
or explicit—conceptual bases, which might cause the expectations not to be fulfilled. A largely common denominator of various
approaches is some connection with the term “genetic.” The author discusses such conceptions from the point of view of a historian
of mathematics who is keen to contribute to progress in mathematics education. For this aim, he explores methodological aspects
of research into the history of mathematics, based on—as one of the reviewers appreciated—his “life long research.” 相似文献
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Faculties of education and institutional strategies for knowledge mobilization: an exploratory study
The goal to enhance the impacts of academic research in the ‘real world’ resonates with progressive visions of the role of
universities in society, and finds support among policy makers who have sought to enhance the ‘transfer’, ‘translation’, ‘uptake’,
or ‘valorization’ of research knowledge in several areas of public services. This paper reports on an exploratory study of
the strategies used by selected Canadian and international faculties of education to mobilize research knowledge. Drawing
on data from semi-structured interviews with senior administrators of 13 faculties of education, the analysis reveals several
themes. Academic leaders recognize knowledge mobilization as a desirable institutional mission, but they identify a number
of barriers to greater efforts in this area. Although a number of strategies are employed, changes across multiple organizational
dimensions to encourage and support knowledge mobilization were reported at only two institutions. These results are relevant
to faculty administrators, scholars, and policy-makers interested in understanding the role of academic institutions in the
mobilization of research knowledge to the broader education community. 相似文献
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In mathematics education, a vast amount of research has shown that students of different ages have a strong tendency to apply
linear or proportional models anywhere, even in situations where they are not applicable. For example, in geometry it is known
that many students believe that if the sides of a figure are doubled, the area is doubled too. However, also history of science
provides several cases of thinkers who inadequately postulated linear relations to describe situations. This article focuses
on secondary school students’ over-reliance on linearity in physics. Now and then, science educators report students’ tendency
to assume and impose linear relations in physics, but—as far as we know—no substantial efforts were undertaken to study this
phenomenon systematically. We conducted an empirical investigation aimed at identifying the competence of 8th- and 11th-graders—before
and after being taught the relevant physical topics—to qualitatively grasp various situations in physics, as well as their
tendency to quantify that qualitative insight linearly. The results provide an ambivalent picture of students’ overuse of
linearity in physics: Although linear reasoning is sometimes used as a default strategy, even after instruction that addresses
the relevant physical contents, this study also indicates that context is taken into account more often than is suggested
by research on mathematical problem solving. 相似文献
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Shulman (1986, 1987) coined the term pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) to address what at that time had become increasingly evident—that content knowledge itself was not sufficient for teachers
to be successful. Throughout the past two decades, researchers within the field of mathematics teacher education have been
expanding the notion of PCK and developing more fine-grained conceptualizations of this knowledge for teaching mathematics.
One such conceptualization that shows promise is mathematical knowledge for teaching—mathematical knowledge that is specifically useful in teaching mathematics. While mathematical knowledge for teaching has
started to gain attention as an important concept in the mathematics teacher education research community, there is limited
understanding of what it is, how one might recognize it, and how it might develop in the minds of teachers. In this article,
we propose a framework for studying the development of mathematical knowledge for teaching that is grounded in research in
both mathematics education and the learning sciences.
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| Jason SilvermanEmail: |
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Hayo Siemsen 《Science & Education》2012,21(4):447-484
George Sarton had a strong influence on modern history of science. The method he pursued throughout his life was the method
he had discovered in Ernst Mach’s Mechanics when he was a student in Ghent. Sarton was in fact throughout his life implementing a research program inspired by the epistemology
of Mach. Sarton in turn inspired many others (James Conant, Thomas Kuhn, Gerald Holton, etc.). What were the origins of these
ideas in Mach and what can this origin tell us about the history of science and science education nowadays? Which ideas proved
to be successful and which ones need to be improved upon? The following article will elaborate the epistemological questions,
which Darwin’s “Origin” raised concerning human knowledge and scientific knowledge and which led Mach to adapt the concept
of what is “empirical” in contrast to metaphysical a priori assumptions a second time after Galileo. On this basis Sarton
proposed “genesis and development” as the major goal of Isis. Mach had elaborated this epistemology in La Connaissance et l’Erreur (Knowledge and Error), which Sarton read in 1913 (Hiebert 1905/1976; de Mey 1984). Accordingly for Sarton, history becomes not only a subject of science, but a method of science education. Culture—and science
as part of culture—is a result of a genetic process. History of science shapes and is shaped by science and science education
in a reciprocal process. Its epistemology needs to be adapted to scientific facts and the philosophy of science. Sarton was
well aware of the need to develop the history of science and the philosophy of science along the lines of this reciprocal
process. It was a very fruitful basis, but a specific part of it, Sarton did not elaborate further, namely the psychology
of science education. This proved to be a crucial missing element for all of science education in Sarton’s succession, especially
in the US. Looking again at the origins of the central questions in the thinking of Mach, which provided the basis and gave
rise to Sarton’s research program, will help in resolving current epistemic and methodological difficulties, contradictions
and impasses in science education influenced by Sarton. The difficulties in science education will prevail as long as the
omissions from their Machian origins are not systematically recovered and reintegrated. 相似文献
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Joy A. Oslund 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2012,79(2):293-309
The purpose of this article is to consider what methods from ethnopoetics—a field at the intersection of linguistics and anthropology—may
add to narrative inquiry in mathematics education. I build a theoretical framework to argue for the use of narrative inquiry
and ethnopoetics in studies of teacher knowledge. I report ethnopoetic analyses of two teachers’ narratives and what they
suggest regarding their knowledge of mathematics-for-teaching. 相似文献
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数学是科学文化的重要组成部分,数学科学在提高民族科学和文化素质中处于极其重要的地位。数学教育中富含人文教育的成分,如数学理性、数学思想方法、数学史、数学美等,要重视数学教育的人文价值,将数学教育与人文教育融合是当代国际教育的发展趋势。 相似文献
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Ireland has two official languages—Gaeilge (Irish) and English. Similarly, primary- and second-level education can be mediated
through the medium of Gaeilge or through the medium of English. This research is primarily focused on students (Gaeilgeoirí)
in the transition from Gaeilge-medium mathematics education to English-medium mathematics education. Language is an essential
element of learning, of thinking, of understanding and of communicating and is essential for mathematics learning. The content
of mathematics is not taught without language and educational objectives advocate the development of fluency in the mathematics
register. The theoretical framework underpinning the research design is Cummins’ (1976). Thresholds Hypothesis. This hypothesis infers that there might be a threshold level of language proficiency that bilingual
students must achieve both in order to avoid cognitive deficits and to allow the potential benefits of being bilingual to
come to the fore. The findings emerging from this study provide strong support for Cummins’ Thresholds Hypothesis at the key
transitions—primary- to second-level and second-level to third-level mathematics education—in Ireland. Some implications and
applications for mathematics teaching and learning are presented.
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| John O’DonoghueEmail: |
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In Uganda, curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS has largely depended on public and private media messages about the disease. Media
campaigns based on Uganda’s cultural norms of communication are metaphorical, analogical and simile-like. The topic of HIV/AIDS
has been introduced into the Senior Three (Grade 11) biology curriculum in Uganda. To what extent do students’ pre-conceptions
of the disease, based on these media messages influence students’ development of conceptual understanding of the disease,
its transmission and prevention? Of significant importance is the impact the conceptions students have developed from the
indirect media messages on classroom instruction on HIV/AIDS. The study is based in a theoretical framework of conceptual
change in science learning. An interpretive case study to determine the impact of Ugandan students’ conceptions or perceptions
on classroom instruction about HIV/AIDS, involving 160 students aged 15–17, was conducted in four different Ugandan high schools:
girls boarding, boys boarding, mixed boarding, and mixed day. Using questionnaires, focus group discussions, recorded biology
lessons and informal interviews, students’ preconceptions of HIV/AIDS and how these impact lessons on HIV/AIDS were discerned.
These preconceptions fall into four main categories: religious, political, conspiracy and traditional African worldviews.
Results of data analysis suggest that students’ prior knowledge is persistent even after biology instructions. This has implications
for current teaching approaches, which are mostly teacher-centred in Ugandan schools. A rethinking of the curriculum with
the intent of offering science education programs that promote understanding of the science of HIV/AIDS as opposed to what
is happening now—insensitivity to misconceptions about the disease—is needed. 相似文献
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Jack T. Lee 《比较教育学》2015,51(3):353-374
Several education hubs have emerged in Asia and the Middle East in recent years with a specific focus on cross-border higher education. Through considerable efforts in policy planning and generous funding, these hubs aim to transform a country or city into an eminent destination for education, research, and training. The inherent design of these hubs raises many questions about higher education's contribution to international relations as large numbers of local and foreign actors congregate. Specifically, some education hubs are leveraging cultural heritage and colonial legacy as an instrument of soft power by emphasising shared cultural identities and values. By engaging in cultural diplomacy, education hubs seek to exert influence on the international stage. However, assumptions about shared identities and values as well as the prevailing political climate of the local society present serious challenges for policy implementation. Alternatively, an education hub can also engage with international actors based on an enduring faith in the venture of science to propel the knowledge economy – another kind of norm that underpins soft power. This paper compares Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong as education hubs that engage in soft power and cultural diplomacy. 相似文献