A Perspective on U.S. Science Teaching and Learning

by: Manfred Prenzel and Tina Seidel
edited by: Rodger W. Bybee and Barry J. McCrae

This chapter presents a sketch on how PISA 2006 assessed conditions of teaching and learning in science classrooms. With selected findings from PISA 2006, similarities and differences are shown between approaches taken toward science teaching and learning in the United States and other countries.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 5/1/2009Stock # PB230X_11

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