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Annie Termaat – Cogent Education, 2023
This paper reports on the perspectives and operational practices of teachers implementing interdisciplinary units in five International Baccalaureate schools in Norway and Denmark with fewer than 100 students in their Middle Years Programme. The results help explain why interdisciplinary practice in secondary schools is relatively rare. The…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Secondary School Teachers, Small Schools, Foreign Countries
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Samantha-Kaye Johnston; Joshua A. McGrane; Mireia Vendrell-Morancho; Therese N. Hopfenbeck – Review of Education, 2023
Critical thinking is an essential skill for life-long learning, and, given its increasing importance as a graduate attribute, it is vital to evaluate how educational systems can best improve students' critical thinking through their curricula and classroom practices. This study evaluates the differences in the critical thinking skills of students…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Critical Thinking, Advanced Placement Programs, National Curriculum
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Annie Termaat – Curriculum Journal, 2024
This article reports on the design of interdisciplinary units in five International Baccalaureate schools in Norway and Denmark, each with fewer than 100 students in their Middle Years Programme. The mixed methods study describes subject combinations and time frames of 37 enacted units and 111 hypothetical interdisciplinary units, and the…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Small Schools, Secondary Schools, Advanced Placement Programs
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Parish, Karen – Prospects, 2022
This article presents findings from a study that investigated how the global logic of human rights, as incorporated by the International Baccalaureate schools into their policies and practices, is experienced and adhered to by students who are following the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) in different contexts. In this study,…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Citizenship Education, Advanced Placement Programs, Private Schools
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Kapranov, Oleksandr – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2021
This article introduces and discusses a study that aims at illuminating discursive representations of education for sustainable development (henceforth -- ESD) by means of compiling and analysing a corpus of policy documents written by English medium instruction (EMI) secondary schools in Estonia and Norway, respectively. Informed by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Secondary Schools, School Policy
Lazzaro, Christopher C.; Loveless, Tom; Sireci, Stephen; Webb, David C. – College Board, 2021
This study examined outcomes for APĀ® Calculus and AP Physics students on the 2015 Trends in International Math and Science Study (TIMSS) relative to other participating countries and other advanced math and science students in the United States. Compared to other countries in the study, AP Calculus BC and AP Physics C: EM students outperformed all…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Mathematics Tests