David Lake, Kellie Stemp, Andrew Malloch
A research project in Townsville, northern Queensland, is investigating ways to re-engage disadvantaged students with their schooling. The study, concerned with students at lower secondary level, will focus on science, a subject that can raise particular problems for students who are already disengaged from school. The project is a collaboration between academics at James Cook University and staff of Edmund Rice Education’s Flexible Learning Centres, and will run from the end of 2006 until the end of 2009.
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Jenny Lewis, John Leach
Carefully designed teaching can equip secondary school students to give reasoned commentaries on social issues involving science –
International Journal of Science Education.
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Bob Lingard, Martin Mills, Debra Hayes
The findings of the QSRSL, a major longitudinal study of teaching and assessment in Queensland, 2001, points to a need for assessment that is more intellectually demanding of lower secondary students, and more closely connected to their life experiences –
International Studies in the Sociology of Education.
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