Close to a decade ago Hong Kong completed the implementation of a New three-year Senior Secondary (NSS) curriculum by introducing the Hong Kong Diploma of (HKDSE) examination. Because mathematics is one of the core subjects intricately involved in this education reform, it is necessary to evaluate the connection between the Hong Kong S1 - S6…

Overweight and obesity are extremely significant healthcare concerns, particularly for those living with these conditions. Individuals in fat bodies often experience stigma in our culture and within our system of health care; we label this obesity bias. This study focuses on the role of the physician assistant (PA) educator in this context.…

The United States fire service is at a critical crossroads. Can it continue relying on outdated educational methodology to teach the 21st century fire instructor, or does it enact change to create an innovative, modern approach to instructor education? Fire Departments are rapidly losing decades of knowledge through retirement of their senior…

Education reform is a contested and complicated terrain where multiple stakeholders with competing visions seek to influence the direction of reform in alignment with their own interests. As a result of these competing visions, education policy is not value free or neutral and favors those who hold the political and economic power to maintain the…

In January 2012, "Kreol Morisien," the main "lingua franca" of the Republic of Mauritius, was officially introduced within the "National Curriculum Framework" as one of the country's ancestral languages. Since the colonial period, the teaching of ancestral languages has served to preserve the ancestral heritage,…

This study aimed to understand Malaysian physics teachers' teaching practices from a pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) perspective. The physics topic of interest was Archimedes' principle. A multiple-case study approach was used, and classroom teaching observations and audio records of teaching, interviews, and collection of documents were the…

In 2001, the Korean government launched a new English language education policy called "the 7th national curriculum," in an attempt to meet the growing public demand for improved communication skills in English. With this policy in mind, the aim of this dissertation is to examine the ways in which the mandatory English language…

This dissertation is devoted to the history of the Albanian system of education in general, its mathematics education program in particular, and, specifically, the Albanian high school mathematics assessment. Historical in terms of its research methodology, and mathematical-pedagogical in terms of the objects of the study, this research explores…

Career and technical education generally has focused on helping people to understand the relationship between education and work to acquire employment skills. There is a need for action to ensure that the programs being offered in Career and Technical Education (CTE) align with the needs of the 21st century workforce. This research will attempted…

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of "yutori" reforms on Opportunity to Learn (OTL), as defined by Stevens' (1993, 1996) multidimensional framework, and to examine how the changes in OTL may have subsequently affected Japanese 8th graders' mathematics achievement as measured by the Trends in Mathematics and Science…

The UTeach program, a national model for undergraduate teacher preparation, includes "Perspectives on Science and Mathematics," a class designed to share content about the History of Science (HOS) with preservice teachers. UTeach provides a model curriculum as a sample for instructors teaching "Perspectives." The purpose of…

Within the confines of this study, the researcher investigated Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Engineering curriculum goals within Missouri high schools. The study measured Missouri PLTW teachers' perceptions of various elements of the curriculum as well as state and national PLTW End of Course student assessment data to determine if a relationship…

This is a linear review of the education statutes of each state for the purpose of identifying those statutes which require the state's history to be taught in its K-12 schools, with further analysis for trends and outliers. The intent is to first serve as a benchmark as to where both each state and the nation as a whole is at this point in time.…

The formation of the Common Core State Standards can be regarded as the predecessor of a national curriculum. This research addresses how the proposed national math curriculum compares to the math curricula of a sample of peer-nations (Singapore, Netherlands, Germany, and Japan) with high student achievement rates in math, while relating the math…

This study of a County in New York State gathered information about the means for teaching the intermediate science curriculum in middle schools. The study collected 43 surveys and conducted ten follow-up interviews with administrators responsible for curriculum. Data included the division of content among grade level, starting grade level,…