Teachers' Perceptions on the Changes in the Curriculum and Exit Examinations for Biology and Human Biology

Autor/inn/en	Kruger, Mirko; Won, Mihye; Treagust, David F.
Titel	Teachers' Perceptions on the Changes in the Curriculum and Exit Examinations for Biology and Human Biology
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 38 (2013) 3, Artikel 3 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0313-5373
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Secondary School Teachers; Accountability; Exit Examinations; Biology; Science Instruction; Secondary School Science; Teaching Methods; Experienced Teachers; Educational Philosophy; Educational Environment; Curriculum Development; Alignment (Education); Interviews; Graduation Requirements; Student Motivation; Teacher Characteristics; Teacher Attitudes; Educational Quality; Educational Change; Science Curriculum; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Verantwortung; Final examination; Abschlussprüfung; Biologie; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Abschlussordnung; Schulische Motivation; Lehrerverhalten; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Bildungsreform; Australien
Abstract	In the age of educational accountability, national and statewide measures are assumed to secure and improve the educational quality. However, educators often wonder how much a new accountability measure may improve the actual teaching and learning practices when the agents of change (teachers) are not active participants of such educational reform. Nevertheless, in Australia, the National Curriculum is rolling in for the first time for K-10 school education in 2012-13. In Western Australia, the new Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE) system with new compulsory exit examination requirements has been implemented recently for Years 11-12. In this study, using the contextual curriculum theory (Cornbleth, 1990) and the levels of curriculum (van den Akker, 1998, 2003) as our theoretical framework, we investigated how experienced Biology teachers are making sense of the recent changes in the curriculum and the exit examination requirements: what they perceive as the major changes in the new WACE system; and how they implement the changes in their teaching practice. We discuss how the teachers' teaching philosophy, their school environments, and the new curriculum interact to create a spectrum of the implemented curriculum. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Edith Cowan University. Bradford Street, Mount Lawley, West Australia 6050, Australia. Web site: http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10