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This paper discusses four system wide development projects, on three continents, which have arisen as a response to increasing international concern about the quality of school science. The paper describes the characteristics of these projects concerning the context, the underlying principles, the implementation strategy, and the research and evaluative features that accompany them. A number of interesting convergences and divergences are uncovered in this comparison, and issues worthy of ongoing discussion identified.
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Beeth, M., Duit, R., Prenzel, M., Ostermeier, C., Tytler, R., Wickman, PO. (2003). Quality Development Projects in Science Education. In: Psillos, D., Kariotoglou, P., Tselfes, V., Hatzikraniotis, E., Fassoulopoulos, G., Kallery, M. (eds) Science Education Research in the Knowledge-Based Society. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0165-5_46
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