Identifying Potential for Equitable Access to Tertiary Level Science Digging for Gold /

• Main Author: Rollnick, Marissa. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Education.; Mathematics.; Science > Study and teaching.; Educational tests and measurements.; Education, Higher.; Science Education.; Higher Education.; Mathematics Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3224-9

Higher education reforms internationally have led to large increases in student numbers, and thus a consequent rise in so-called non-traditional and underprepared students who arrive at higher education institutions with a variety of educational backgrounds. The appearance of these students provid...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Section A. Issues in Student Access
• Chapter 2: Issues in Science Access
• Chapter 3: A survey of programmes: successes in Science access
• Chapter 4: selection and identification of Potential
• Chapter 5: Adjustment of Underprepared students to tertiary education
• B. Lessons from Africa
• Chapter 6:Research on Teaching and learning in access courses
• Chapter 7: Experimental work in science
• Chapter 8. Language and communicative competence
• Chapter 9: Conclusion: The future of access programmes.