The ability and the motivation for question asking are, or should be, some of the most important aims of education. Unfortunately, students neither ask many questions, nor good ones. The present paper is about the capacity of secondary school pupils for asking questions and how this activity depends on prior knowledge. To examine this, we use texts containing different levels of information abo...

Uganda is widely viewed as a public health success for curtailing its HIV/AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s. The period of rapid HIV decline coincided with a dramatic rise in girls' secondary school enrollment. We instrument for this enrollment with distance to school, conditional on a rich set of demographic and locational controls, including distance to market center. We find that girls' enrol...

Modeling of a natural phenomenon is of value in science learning and increasingly emphasized as an important component of science education. However, previous research has shown that secondary school students encounter difficulties when engaging in modeling activities and need substantial support in order to create meaningful scientific models. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to prese...

The terminology precision is not the main topic of further considerations. On the contrary, the wealth of contents of model or modelling may be in many respects productive. This paper looked at how modelling could be used to enhance the teaching of mathematics in secondary and post-secondary schools in Nigeria. An attempt was also made to classify model or modelling in to different types with e...

The contribution of social context to school bullying was examined from the self-determination theory perspective in this longitudinal study of 536 adolescents from 3 secondary schools in Hong Kong. Latent class growth analysis of the student-reported data at 5 time points from grade 7 to grade 9 identified 4 groups of students: bullies (9.8%), victims (3.0%), bully-victims (9.4%), and typical ...

The teaching of functions plays a key role in the secondary mathematics curriculum. Electronic technologies afford deepening student understanding of functions by linking multiple representations. Findings from my previous research which investigated the understanding of functions by students in their final two years of secondary school whilst immersed in a graphing calculator learning environm...

The report evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of physical education in a small sample of primary and secondary schools between 2005 and 2008 and reports on the impact of the Physical Education, School Sport and Club Links strategy. Part A focuses on physical education, and identifies good practice in achievement, provision and leadership. Part B discusses what needs to be tackled by provide...