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Leone, Matteo; Rinaudo, Marta – Physics Education, 2020
Over the past few decades a growing awareness has developed in the science education community about the educational power of the history of science. Yet, the historical approach is not implemented in many ministries of education policies. In order to investigate what factors contribute to this, we have conducted a survey of attitudes toward the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, History, Secondary School Teachers
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Marta Carli; Ornella Pantano – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
This study contributes to the literature on the role of communities of learners in the professional development of physics teachers. It offers insights from the "Collabora--A Community of Learners on Laboratory Work" program, designed to enhance the use of laboratories in secondary school physics teaching. The program's foundation rested…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Teacher Collaboration
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Bonacci, Enzo – Athens Journal of Education, 2020
In the Italian education system, secondary students (ages 14-19) are confronted with the foundations of quantum physics during the final term of scientific high school (pre-university year). The Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (acronym MIUR) has remarked its importance in the syllabus to address the high school exit…
Descriptors: Mechanics (Physics), Quantum Mechanics, High Schools, Secondary School Science
Mostafa, Tarek; Pál, Judit – OECD Publishing, 2018
In 2015, for the first time in its history, PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment) asked teachers to describe the various aspects of their working environment and teaching practices. This paper examines how teacher, student, and school characteristics are related to science teachers' satisfaction in 19 PISA-participating…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Job Satisfaction, Evidence, Teacher Surveys
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Grandinetti, Maria; Langellotti, Margherita; Ting, Y. L. Teresa – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2013
This study responds to the Italian Ministry of Education mandate that, starting the 2013-2014 academic year, CLIL be implemented in the "final" year of high school, during content time, by content teachers with C1-level competence in English. This decision raises numerous concerns, at least in Calabria: most content teachers have, at…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Science Teachers
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De Ambrosis, Anna; Levrini, Olivia – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2010
This paper concerns an empirical study carried out with a group of high school physics teachers engaged in the Module on relativity of a Master course on the teaching of modern physics. The study is framed within the general research issue of how to promote innovation in school via teachers' education and how to foster fruitful interactions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Scientific Concepts, Questionnaires