Teaching Practices in Science: a Survey of Primary Teachers in the French Speaking Community of Belgium

Since PISA 2000, the performance of 15 year-old students from French speaking Community of Belgium (FWB) in science is largely below the OECD average (OECD, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013). This low level of performance is not really unexpected as it was already observed at grade 7 and grade 8 in TIMSS 1995 (Harmon, Smith & Martin, 1997). In mathematics and in reading, the average performance of the 15 year-olds do not significantly differ from the OECD mean. Can these differences in performance in comparison with the OECD means be partly attributed to the emphasis and importance of the r... Mehr ...