Each curriculum was read thoroughly by two separate assessors who are trained in curriculum development and their consensus on each specified quality item was entered into a checklist for quantitative analysis.
Whilst revealing areas of the curriculum that were thoroughly understood by the learners, this also highlights gaps in teaching, or the lack of resources available needed to support certain content.
By the time the Turan family sold Briarcliffe two years ago, it had thoroughly overhauled its curriculum, and the old secretarial school had become a center of technology training.
No-one who has encountered Gove's backward-looking views on the curriculum and exams can doubt his thoroughly conservative credentials.
Perhaps these skills should be set at level 3 in the book of learning objectives and should receive sufficient attention in the curriculum to ensure that students learn them thoroughly before graduating and going into practice.
"This could mean ensuring that students are guided to a more challenging selection of books at school and that dedicated reading time is introduced into the curriculum to give them allocated time to concentrate on reading thoroughly".
The study addresses three research questions: (1) Which learning content areas in life science are less thoroughly covered by Japan's primary-level science curriculum when compared to other countries' primary-level science curricula?
