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

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    Authors
    Kruger, Mirko
    Won, Mihye
    Treagust, David
    Date
    2013
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Kruger, Mirko and Won, Mihye and Treagust, David. 2013. Teachers' Perceptions on the Changes in the Curriculum and Exit Examinations for Biology and Human Biology. Australian Journal of Teacher Education. 38 (3): pp. 41-58.
    Source Title
    Australian Journal of Teacher Education
    DOI
    10.14221/ajte.2013v38n3.5
    ISSN
    0313-5373
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    Copyright © 2013 Mirko Kruger, Mihye Won and David Treagust

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16359
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    In the age of educational accountability, national and state-wide 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.

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