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The Intellectual Demands of East-Asian Primary Science Curricula

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East-Asian Primary Science Curricula

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Tables 4.1 and 4.2 show our coding of the cognitive processes and levels of knowledge of the intended primary science curricula across all the six East-Asian states respectively. It is to be remembered that some degree of subjectivity is inevitable when coding the intellectual demands, especially with the large number of learning objectives or standards that we selected belonging to the cognitive domain. In total, these amounted to 560 objectives/standards from the six states.

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  1. National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Yew-Jin Lee

  2. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    Mijung Kim & Qingna Jin

  3. Chuncheon National University of Education, Chuncheon, Kangwon-do, Korea (Republic of)

    Hye-Gyoung Yoon

  4. National Institute for Educational Policy Research, Tokyo, Japan

    Kenji Matsubara

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Lee, YJ., Kim, M., Jin, Q., Yoon, HG., Matsubara, K. (2017). The Intellectual Demands of East-Asian Primary Science Curricula. In: East-Asian Primary Science Curricula. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2690-4_4

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