In a devolved curriculum, high-level achievement aims grouped by strands are defined for each learning area.
In a famous example, Sun Microsystems once gave multiple grants to education organizations in the early 2000's to develop high-school level curriculum to teach Java programming.
More seniors who completed the revised curriculum had high-level profiles on the Views About Science Survey for Biology compared with seniors who completed the original curriculum.
"Anyone who takes these HIT courses in their local communities will have the benefit of a rigorous curriculum built by high-level university experts.
"For select, high-achieving children in the middle and high school, we offer the International Baccalaureate Program, a very intensive, challenging and high level academic curriculum," said Dr. Woolley.
At higher levels, the curriculum in vocational and professional schools may also gradually become more academic [31].
In other words, we argue for quantitative changes (i.e., improve science attainment) in order to achieve qualitative changes (i.e., higher levels of curriculum coherence), which are expected to create effective transitions of subject-specific knowledge and skills into subject-unspecific competences to solve real-life problems (Pellegrino and Hilton [2012]; van Merriënboer [2013]).
"The structure of the curriculum is that there are high-level categories, and there are children of those categories, all the way down to the dimensions we actually measure," he says.
The study provides high-level of evidence that supports daily PE in the school curriculum as a strategy to improve muscle strength in the general pediatric population.
The curriculum will also include lessons on magnetism, electronics, high-level programming and artificial intelligence.
