PISA 2009 Technical Report

PISA 2009 Technical Report
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2012-03-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9264167870

The PISA 2009 Technical Report describes the methodology underlying the PISA 2009 survey. It examines additional features related to the implementation of the project at a level of detail that allows researchers to understand and replicate its analysis.

PISA Are Students Ready to Take on Environmental Challenges?

PISA Are Students Ready to Take on Environmental Challenges?
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2022-12-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9264933581

Are Students Ready to Take on Environmental Challenges? identifies the types of education policy and practices that can help students build an environmentally sustainable future.

PISA Learning Mathematics for Life A Perspective from PISA

PISA Learning Mathematics for Life A Perspective from PISA
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2010-03-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9264075003

Learning Mathematics for Life examines the link between the PISA test requirements and student performance. It focuses specifically on the proportions of students who answer questions correctly across a range of difficulty. The questions are classified by content, competencies, context and format.

Gender in STEM Education in the Arab Gulf Countries

Gender in STEM Education in the Arab Gulf Countries
Author: Martina Dickson
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2023-02-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811991359

This book explores the critical issues in gender and STEM education in the Arabian Gulf, written within a context of educational systems developing rapidly over recent decades. With the ever-growing need for a highly skilled, gender-inclusive STEM workforce, the issues raised in this book are more topical than ever. It presents chapters from various sectors such as children’s perceptions of science, scientists and their work, adolescent and university years by studying large-scale secondary data variations across countries in the region and finally presenting work relating to gender in STEM education. The book closes with a chapter on factors of success in female leaders’ STEM career journeys. It offers recommendations for both policy and practices in gender equity in the STEM workplace, based on their experiences. This book is written in a highly accessible yet academic manner. It is an essential resource for a wide-ranging audience interested in the complex relationships between gender and STEM.

Science | Environment | Health

Science | Environment | Health
Author: Albert Zeyer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2012-05-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 904813949X

Health and the environment are important learning areas in science education and their significance is growing. Not only do they have high social relevance, but they are also close to students’ interests and needs. They provide many opportunities to unlock science with questions that are personally relevant to boys and girls and that inspire them to engage in science. This book contains a selection of papers from prominent professionals in science, health and environmental education, who reflect on science education, each from their specific point of view. The core idea is to present well-founded perspectives on how science education may benefit from challenges stemming from both health and environmental education. Specific reasons are discussed as to why these two areas are particularly legitimized to challenge science education, and their potential impact on a revision of science education is evaluated. A new pedagogy for science¦environment¦health that yields interesting and relevant science education for students and teachers, and addresses the grand challenges of this century: what an attractive and rewarding project! The book will motivate teachers, teacher educators and science education researchers to take part in this on-going project.

Education Today 2013 The OECD Perspective

Education Today 2013 The OECD Perspective
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2012-12-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9264186816

This book summarises what OECD has to say about the state of education today in eight key areas: early childhood education, schooling, transitions beyond initial education, higher education, adult learning, outcomes and returns, equity, and innovation.

The Teaching of Science

The Teaching of Science
Author: Rodger W. Bybee
Publisher: NSTA Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2010
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1936137615

What should citizens know, value, and be able to do in preparation for life and work in the 21st century? In The Teaching of Science: 21st-Century Perspectives, renowned educator Rodger Bybee provides the perfect opportunity for science teachers, administrators, curriculum developers, and science teacher educators to reflect on this question. He encourages readers to think about why they teach science and what is important to teach.

Sustainability Frontiers

Sustainability Frontiers
Author: David Selby
Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2014-12-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3866495226

Education for sustainable development, the educational offshoot of the concept of ‘sustainable development’, has rapidly become the predominant educational response to the global environmental crisis. The authors apply a critical lens to the field and find it wanting in many regards. Sustainability Frontiers is an international, academic non-governmental organization based in Canada and the United Kingdom. It engages in research and innovation in the broad fields of sustainability and global education challenging dominant assumptions and current orthodoxies as it seeks to foster learner empowerment and action. It places particular emphasis on climate change, disaster risk reduction and peacebuilding and their implications for the nature and directions of sustainability education.

OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Austria 2013

OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Austria 2013
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2013-11-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9264202927

This report is the third OECD review of Austria’s environmental performance. The report evaluates Austria's progress towards sustainable development and green growth, with a focus on chemicals management and climate change adaptation.