BACKGROUND Internationally and historically considerable research has been undertaken regarding the attitudes of secondary school teachers towards different types of ability grouping. There has been no recent research taking account of the changing educational context in the UK. AIMS This paper aims to explore secondary school teachers' attitudes and beliefs about ability grouping taking acco...

background: design of school furniture is one of the contributing factors to back pain among pupils. research has implicated that mismatch between school furniture and body size may be regarded as a causative factor for muculoskeletal disorders amongst pupils. to investigate the fitness between school furniture and pupils this study was designed and implemented in hamadan city, west of iran. me...

The principal objective of Finnish high schools is to prepare young students for further studies and life in general, but computing is nevertheless not recognized as an individual subject in the core curriculum of these schools. Due to gaps in tuition, common misunderstandings exist about the true nature of computing, which are especially problematic for secondary school students, who need a re...

In a previous publication we examined the connections between high-school computer science (CS) and computing higher education. The results were promising—students who exposed to in high school more likely take one of disciplines. However, these correlations not necessarily causal. Possibly those students took CS courses, especially high-level courses school, already priori inclined pursue This...

High school grades are the most frequently used predictors in college and university admission decisions. As such, educators and policymakers are extremely interested in the consistency of grading standards and policies across secondary schools. There has always been some concern over the comparability of grades (Adelman, 1983; Camara, 1994), and with increased competition among a growing propo...