This Schooling Issues Digest is presented here in full HTML. The Digest may also be downloaded in PDF format below:
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Download file: SCHOOLING ISSUES DIGEST 2004/2 Performance of Australian School Students in International Studies in Science
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About the Digests
The Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) is publishing a series of brief reports titled “Schooling Issues Digests” which summarise existing research material on selected topics relevant to schooling in Australia. The purpose of these digests is to provide status reports on the results of recent international and national research on selected topics, in a non-technical, easy to read format, which brings together and demystifies complicated research and statistical data. Contact Roger Wright on (02) 6240 7897 or email address roger.wright@dest.gov.au for more information on this series.
The authors of this digest are Professors Richard Gunstone and Peter Fensham. Professor Gunstone is Professor of Science and Technology Education at Monash University. Emeritus Professor Fensham, formerly Professor of Science Education at Monash University, is now Adjunct Professor in the School of Mathematics, Science and Technology at Queensland University of Technology. Both have been involved in science education for many years and have each written many academic papers and chapters in scholarly publications, together with many conference and journal papers and books.
This Digest was produced by Professors Gunstone and Fensham with funding from the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training. The views expressed here do not necessarily represent the views of the Department.