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Peer reviewedTobin, Kenneth – Science Education, 1986
Students from 15 intact classes in grades 6 and 7 (N=142) from suburban schools in Perth, Australia, were used to investigate their time on task and achievement in process-oriented lessons. One finding noted is a positive relationship between achievement and student reasoning ability and engagement in planning and collecting tasks. (JN)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Process Education
Lokan, Jan; Ford, Phoebe; Greenwood, Lisa – 1997
This report is the second in a series of monographs in which the results of Australian student performance in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) are presented. The main purpose of these reports is to describe the schools, teachers, and students who participated in TIMSS and to present student achievement results.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Download full textYoung, Deidra J.; Fraser, Barry J. – 1993
The purpose of this study is to investigate science achievement of Australian students and how this achievement can vary from school to school. The proposition that gender and socioeconomic inequities in Australia are the result of school systems designed to reproduce an unequal social order is be examined with reference both to current…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Equal Education, Family Characteristics, Foreign Countries
Fien, John, Ed. – 1989
Forty classroom activities selected from New Internationalist Calendars published between 1984-1989 were collected. Each activity is presented in the form of a short story about a real-life person and a graphic spread of data consisting of maps, tables, photographs, diagrams, text, and student exercises. These activities have been written to…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Conservation (Environment), Cultural Awareness, Developing Nations
