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Perceptions Of Physics Teachers In Singapore About Curriculum Sequencing, Lay Lean Fong
Perceptions Of Physics Teachers In Singapore About Curriculum Sequencing, Lay Lean Fong
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Curricular sequencing is central to instruction design and enactment. If carefully planned for, the order of topics to be taught would determine how the fundamentals of the discipline can be presented and introduced to learners, in a sequence that eases them into more complex ways of reasoning and thinking about the domain. These sequences or learning progressions often reflect the experts’ conceptual schemas of the discipline and are conceived as strategic models for instruction (Duschl et al., 2011).
The varied findings from current research on learning progressions underscore the complexity of teaching and learning, and imply that even ‘well-crafted’, standards-based, …