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Lodge, Wilton – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2021
Background: In many classrooms, science textbooks remain a significant tool, functioning in some instances as the de facto curriculum and influencing pedagogical practices. Such conventions are more noticeable in the science classrooms of developing countries, like Jamaica, because of a chronic shortage of specialist science teachers and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Difficulty Level, Grade 7
Stockhausen, Novia; Soyibo, Kola – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2004
This study assessed the level of integrated science performance of 200 Jamaican ninth-graders (100 boys, 100 girls), and determined if there were significant differences in their performance linked to their gender, attitudes to science, school location and student-type. A science achievement test and attitudes to science questionnaire were used…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires