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dc.contributor.authorKruger, Mirko
dc.contributor.authorWon, Mihye
dc.contributor.authorTreagust, David
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T11:55:23Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T11:55:23Z
dc.date.created2014-03-12T20:01:08Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationKruger, 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.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16359
dc.identifier.doi10.14221/ajte.2013v38n3.5
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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.

dc.publisherSocial Science Press
dc.titleTeachers' Perceptions on the Changes in the Curriculum and Exit Examinations for Biology and Human Biology
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume38
dcterms.source.number3
dcterms.source.startPage41
dcterms.source.endPage58
dcterms.source.issn0313-5373
dcterms.source.titleAustralian Journal of Teacher Education
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Copyright © 2013 Mirko Kruger, Mihye Won and David Treagust

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