Teaching and Learning in Lower Secondary Schools in the Era of PISA and TIMSS (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

This book explores teaching and learning in lower secondary classrooms in the three PISA domains science, mathematics and reading. Based on extensive video documentation from science, math and reading classrooms in Norwegian secondary schooling, it analyzes how offered and experienced teaching and learning opportunities in these three subject areas support students' learning. The in-depth investigations of video documentation are combined with analysis of the Norwegian PISA results in order to understand how teaching and learning in science, mathematics and reading can be improved. Recent reviews indicate that instructional practice does make a difference to students learning - and is more important than other factors including students' socioeconomic background, class size, classroom climate, and teachers' experience and formal training. This book opens the discussion on a European basis about contemporary challenges in teaching and learning in secondary schooling. Norway as a test bed is particularly interesting due to its long tradition with national curricula, and its unitary and non- streamed structure. Furthermore, ideas of educational progressivism and students' active ways of working (such as individualized teaching, adapted teaching, inquiry based teaching etc.) have for a long time been actively promoted within Norwegian educational policies. The book draws on analyses that combine expertise in psychometrics and video-based micro genetic classroom studies with expertise in domain-specific instruction (math, science and reading). It feeds the conversation how issues of communication patterns are dealt with and made productive within different instructional formats, and presents possibilities to compare and analyze instructional formats and discursive practices for students' learning.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education, 12
Release date:	August 2015
First published:	2016
Editors:	Kirsti Klette • Ole K. Bergem • Astrid Roe
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	193
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-17301-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching skills & techniques Books > Social sciences > Education > Schools > Secondary schools > General
LSN:	3-319-17301-4
Barcode:	9783319173016

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