STEM education
Alternative labels
Science technology engineering and mathematics education
Engineering students
Mathematics study and teaching
Guide
STEM Programme Index 2016
This guide aims to help teachers and students access over 250 science, technology, engineering and mathematics programmes. Foreword It takes fourteen years, or thereabouts, for young people to progress from pre-school to Year 12 in Australia. What happens to them in that time ought to concern us all. We don’t want them to leave confident...
Report
Flipped learning: research report
This small-scale study across England and Scotland revealed both benefits and challenges of implementing a flipped learning approach to mathematics teaching. Flipped learning involves the use of digital technology, such as video, to provide direct instruction on new concepts outside of the classroom.
Transcript
Science: who needs it?
Retiring Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb, delivered this keynote address at the Australian Financial Review’s Higher Education Summit, and welcomed Dr Alan Finkel as Australia's eighth Chief Scientist.
Fact sheet
Fact Check: How many students leave higher education with STEM qualifications?
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten claims 16 per cent of Australian students graduate with STEM qualifications, a figure that is well below the completion rate for students in countries such as Singapore and China.
Conference paper
PISA: behind the headlines and past the rankings
Abstract Whenever the results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) are announced, media headlines are full of reports about rankings, about how many countries Australia is outperformed by and outperforms. In early rounds of PISA, Australia ranked among the top 10 countries across all three education domains assessed. However, over time Australia’s position...