Seminar: How can teachers be helped with transmitting values to young people?
- Published on Friday, 09 December 2011 20:14
On 8 and 9 March 2011 a seminar was held in Lublin entitled 'How can teachers be helped in transmitting values to young people?'
This nationwide event was attended by scholars from various fields, including linguists, literary scholars, educationalists, historians and sociologists, representing various research centres, who in their everyday research deal with the issue of values and ascribing value in different areas of the humanities. The meeting was intended to provide a platform of dialogue for all those concerned with the education of young people, respect for individual values or consensus on matters of ascribing value, regardless of their political views, religious beliefs or outlook on life.
.Study visit to France
- Published on Monday, 12 December 2011 02:07
From 3 to 11 April, 2011 representatives from IBE Science Section took part in a study visit to France (Grenoble, Chambery and Paris).
The chief objective of this visit was to gain better understanding of the French education system at the ISCED2 level and, in particular, the forms and methods of work and student assessment techniques in natural science subjects. Several meetings took place during the visit: with educational inspectors from the Grenoble area, with Mr Michel Grangeat from the Educational Science Laboratory at Grenoble University and with Mr Hervé Lesnard, who works at the International Centre for Educational Research (CIEP), an institution responsible for creating school curricula for teaching natural sciences.
.Seminar: Changes in Student Performance since 2000
- Published on Monday, 05 December 2011 08:55
On 10 February 2011, a seminar was held at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in Warsaw on the results of The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2000–2009.
.Student Assessment Systems in Schools
- Published on Monday, 05 December 2011 08:53
The Educational Research Institute has launched a Student Assessment in Schools study. Its aim is to provide an insight into school assessment systems with special attention given to the role of formative assessment, and the extent to which the in-school systems differ.
.Study visit to Finland
- Published on Monday, 05 December 2011 08:56
Between 23 and 30 January 2011, a group of five employees of the IBE Science Section (PPP) paid a study visit to Helsinki and Jyvaskyla (about 270 km north-east of Helsinki) in Finland. The main purpose of the visit was to gain better understanding of:
- Finnish education system at ISCED level II;
- methods and forms of school work and teaching conditions for science subjects;
- teacher education and in-service training in Finland..
