Nomography at secondary school

Teaching Bioinformatics at the Secondary School Level

Bioinformatics is now an integral part of biology and biological research. The field began with a few people from other disciplines teaching themselves and each other the techniques that are now considered commonplace. These pioneers then began graduate programs [1–3] to educate the next generation. Those early graduate students typically came as bench biologists or as computer scientists, both...

Marketing vs. Games in Secondary School: Is it Secondary School?

Increases of the Internet users have drastically increased the number of media via which companies promote their products. One of such media are computer games. This paper investigates the perception of secondary school students as to the ads appearing in the games as well as their opinions and the experience they have gathered up to now regarding the advertising in the computer games. The firs...

Computer Simulations in Mechanics at the Secondary School

Computer simulations seem to be one of the most effective ways to use computers in physics education. They encourage students to carry out the processes used in physics research: to question, predict, hypothesise, observe, interpret results etc. Their effective use requires an availability of appropriate teaching resources fitting secondary schools curricula. This paper presents a set of comput...

School and pupil effects on secondary pupils' feelings of safety in school, around school, and at home.

In line with fear of crime research, schools should be secure places where pupils feel safe in order to function well. Various types of risk and promotive variables at school and pupil level may differently influence a pupil's feelings of safety in school, the school surroundings, and at home. The aim is to elaborate and test a theoretical two-level model on risk and promotive variables by usin...

School performance and parental choice of school : secondary data analysis