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What Science Do Students Want to Learn
A major innovation in PISA 2006 was that many of the science units contained one or two questions designed to assess students' attitudes toward scienc...
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Teaching and Learning Science: PISA and the TIMSS Video Study
Scientific literacy was the main focus of PISA in 2006, and a number of items on the student questionnaire asked students how frequently they experien...
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Seeing the U.S. Education System Through the Prism of PISA
For some countries, results from PISA have been disappointing but at the same time, PISA also shows that strong performance, and improvement, is possi...
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Teaching Science to Achieve Scientific Literacy
Historically, the study of the sciences as part of schooling was first introduced in the senior or last years of secondary schooling for the express p...
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PISA 2006: An Assessment Framework for Scientific Literacy
The PISA 2006 definition of scientific literacy had its origin in the consideration of what 15-year old students should know, value, and be able to do...
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Designing a Science Curriculum to Enhance Students' Scientific Literacy
Over the past two decades or so, the term scientific literacy has become prominent in discussions of the school science curriculum and proposals for i...
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Assessing PISA 2006 Scientific Competencies
This chapter begins by considering what is meant by scientific literacy and how the PISA 2006 scientific competencies encompass basic components of sc...
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Scientific Literacy: Implications of PISA Science 2006 for Teachers and Teaching
In the first part of this chapter, the authors briefly review the notion of scientific literacy, emphasize its central focus in the PISA 2006 survey, ...
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PISA 2006: Test Development and Design
In PISA 2006 three subject domains were tested, with science being the major domain for the first time in a PISA survey and reading and mathematics be...
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PISA: Frequently Answered Criticisms
Studies such as PISA are routinely criticized by educational commentators—particularly when the results are not consistent with their preconceived i...
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PISA Science 2006: International Results
Throughout the world education authorities want to know the capacities that their students develop during their formative years in schools. They want ...
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Knowledge of and About Science
An intuitive and common sense understanding of a science assessment would be that it aims at measuring students' knowledge of and about science. The a...
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What Scientific Knowledge Remains When the Rest is Forgotten?
The PISA 2006 definition of scientific literacy encompasses three competencies—identifying scientific issues, explaining phenomena scientifically, a...
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What Lies Behind Finnish Students' Success in PISA Science?
Finnish students' performance in the PISA scientific literacy assessment has been excellent, and even improved between the three-year cycles of PISA m...
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Overcoming Challenges and Succeeding in PISA Science 2006
Despite the absence of a national science curriculum and the inevitable differences in science curriculum across Canada, Canadian students ranked thir...