The crystallization competition in school: an innovative teaching/outreach tool for secondary schools

Competition and the Efficiency of Secondary Schools in England

Innovative Methods of Teaching Science and Engineering in Secondary Schools

This article describes the design of an interactive learning environment to increase student achievement in secondary schools by addressing students’ preconceptions, and promoting purposeful social collaboration, distributed cognition, and contextual learning. The paper presents the framework that guided our design efforts to immerse all students in a progression of guided-inquiry hands-on acti...

Photo competition as a tool for providing occupational health education to general secondary school students.

OBJECTIVES Education on occupational health and safety (OHS) is not a compulsory part of the curriculum of general secondary schools (GSSs) in many countries. Adolescence is a formative period. Mainstreaming education in OHS into GSSs is necessary in order to initiate in students a risk prevention culture. We explored the feasibility of using a photo competition (PC) concerning health protectio...

Local school policies increase physical activity in Norwegian secondary schools

The implementation of school policies to support the adoption of physical activity is one of the main strategies recommended to increase physical activity levels among this age group. However, documentation of the effect of such policies is so far limited. The purpose of this study was to explore policy-related practices to support physical activity in Norwegian secondary schools and their asso...

School counselor assignment in secondary schools: Replication and extension