Adherence to International Anatomical Terminology by a Government-implemented High School Biology Science Education Curriculum

Inquiry-based science education: A scenario on Zambia’s high school science curriculum

This paper is aimed at elucidating the current state of inquiry-based science education (IBSE) in Zambia’s high school science curriculum. Therefore, we investigated Zambian teachers’ conceptions of inquiry; determined inquiry levels in the national high school science curriculum materials, which include syllabi, textbooks and practical exams; and determined the extent to which inquiry tasks an...

Development of a Vocational Education Curriculum for the High School

In order to develop a curriculum especially for educable mentally retarded students at the high school level, this federally funded 1-year research project aimed to establish unique parameters involved in vocational adjustment for these students and to develop a tentative curriculum with this information. A literature review was conducted, and a research team interviewed supervisors, vocational...

An Experience in Curriculum Design for High School Statistics Education

This paper reports on an exercise of laying out a series of teaching sequences aimed at developing statistical reasoning in high school students. From a conceptual perspective, we examined the distinctions concerning the notions of statistical literacy, reasoning and thinking and considered three working scenarios reported in literature (data sets, sampling and probability situations) as refere...

Anatomical Terminology

High school employment , high school curriculum , and post - school wages

The direct, skill-enhancing effect of high school employment is difficult to identify because high school work effort is correlated with curricular choices, postsecondary schooling and work effort, and many other observed and unobserved factors. This study uses data for male, high school graduates to estimate a wage model in which detailed measures of high school coursework and post-school work...