The State Strategy on development of education in Azerbaijan
emphasized a need to adjust the national education system to challenges
of human capital development and bring qualitative indicators of general
education to European standards. Stating that national curriculum for
general education lags behind the modern requirements, the strategy prioritized
the importance of developing competence-based curriculum conducive
to learning skills, knowledge and priorities of the country’s socioeconomic
development which is aimed to create a knowledge-based
economy. This priority indicates the Government’s commitment to ensuring
that the new National Curriculum compares favorably with the curricula
in the highest performing countries, and sets rigorous requirements for
pupil attainment which measure up to the highest standards set internationally.
The results of Azerbaijani primary school students in Science
TIMSS 2011 testings were below TIMSS average score, and that caused
the study interest in exploring the reasons for the country students’ poor
results in science. For this purpose, a comparative analysis of the Azerbaijani
primary school science curriculum against the corresponding document
of the Russian Federation. This country was selected for comparison
guided by the high results of the TIMSS Survey in parts of Science in 2015,
as well as because it inherits the same education past. TIMSS 2015 Science
Curriculum Assessment Framework was also a part of the comparative
analysis. The conducted analysis identifies the level of relevance of
Azerbaijani science curriculum to both analysed science curricula through
comparison of content and cognitive domains and some science practices
across selected curricula. This paper presents initial findings on what can
be learned from the analysis of curricula of high-performing countries. In
particular, this analysis may tell the Government in devising a new National
Curriculum which measures up to the highest international standards.
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Author Name: Ulviyya Mikayilova
URL: View PDF
Keywords: primary school, Azerbaijan, TIMSS 2015.
ISSN: 0134-3289
EISSN: 2617-8060
EOI/DOI: 10.32906/AJES/683.2018.02.06
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