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Le, Cecilia; Wolfe, Rebecca E.; Steinberg, Adria – Jobs For the Future, 2014
Competency education is attracting significant interest as a promising way to help meet our national priority of ensuring that all young people are ready for college and careers. In competency-based schools, students advance at different rates, based on their ability to demonstrate mastery of learning objectives. Teachers provide customized…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Individualized Instruction, High Schools, Career Readiness
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Okere, Mark I. O.; Ndeke, Grace C. W. – European Journal of Educational Research, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of gender and knowledge on scientific creativity among form three biology students (third year in secondary school cycle) in Nakuru district in Kenya. The cross- sectional survey research was employed. A sample of eight schools with a total of 363 students was selected from the population…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Secondary School Students, Science Instruction
Tsamir, Pessia; Ovodenko, Regina – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
This paper describes prospective secondary school mathematics teachers' images and definitions of inflection points. The data indicate that prospective teachers tended to regard f[prime](x)=0 and/or the location "where the graph bends" as necessary/sufficient conditions for inflection points. The solutions were based on previous…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematical Concepts, Cognitive Processes