Young people tend to have low levels of sexual health literacy. The aims of this work were to explore health professionals' perspectives of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education in Australia and what they considered should be the core components of SRH curriculum, particularly for Year 11 and 12 students. In September and October, 2021,…

The term 'Plant Blindness' describes people tending to overlook plants, even though they have an enormous importance for life on earth, especially because of their ability to photosynthesise. Many attempts have been made to counteract plant blindness in biology education. However, so far there is no comprehensive tool to assess the degree of plant…

Rural India is witnessing a surge in the number of low-cost, poor-friendly private schools that seemingly offer quality alternatives to government schools. Untangling stakeholders' viewpoints, this research explains how outcome and performance-focused learning, broadly known as neoliberal performativity in education, is enacted in these…

Attention to client beliefs in career counseling can add unique information about the client independent of that contributed by aptitude and interest. The Career Beliefs Inventory was administered to Australian 10th-grade students along with measures of interest themes and scholastic aptitudes. Beliefs made a contribution distinct from that…

The purpose of this report was to investigate tenth grade students' attitudes toward environmental quality and health knowledge. A tenth grade vocational agriculture class, a tenth grade biology class, and a random sample of all tenth grade students from each of twelve randomly selected Pennsylvania schools were used in the study. The sample was…

To develop environmental education in Australia, a survey of tenth-grade students was undertaken. Thirty knowledge items and ten belief items were constructed. A panel of environmentalists and educators identified best responses for the knowledge items, and a common reference point, preservation of homo sapiens, for the belief items, so a…

Each year since 1975, about 17,000 seniors have participated in a national survey conducted in some 130 high schools to assess students' changing lifestyles, values, and preferences. This publication is one in a series of annual monographs to disseminate many of the epidemiological findings from the study. It reports the results of the national…

Since 1975, the Monitoring the Future project has provided the nation with an important window through which to view the rapidly changing problems of drug use among American youth. This latest two-volume monograph reports the results of the twenty-seventh (2001) national survey of drug use and related attitudes and beliefs among American high…