@article {409,
	title = {APPLICATION OF THE DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENT INDEXES IN THE RESEARCH OF SCIENCE DIDACTICS},
	journal = {Problems of Education in the 21st Century },
	volume = {22},
	year = {2010},
	month = {June/2010},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {33-44},
	abstract = {In the last few decades the analysis of data, obtained from different science and technology education related international surveys, has produced some new viewpoints such as the diversity of cultures, the trends of globalization, different theories such as postmodernism, self-determination. Within those researches different reference factors have been investigated to obtain results, possible to explain different phenomena observed in the society.
 In our research some indexes such as Human Development Index (HDI) and Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) normally used in sociological research have been used with the aim to find correlations with the international ROSE (The Relevance of Science Education) project data. The items in the ROSE questionnaire are measuring students{\textquoteright} general interest in science and technology and their interest in different content and contexts of science and technology as well as students{\textquoteright} science and technology related experiences. Based on our analysis, there were relatively high correlation between the mean values of different national ROSE variables and responding HDI index. },
	keywords = {gross domestic product, science didactics},
	issn = {1822-7864},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2014/457-1400515203.pdf},
	author = {Janis  Gedrovics and Jari Lavonen and Jekabs  Raipulis}
}
@article {107,
	title = {REASONS BEHIND THE FINNISH SUCCESS IN SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS IN PISA TESTS},
	journal = {Problems of Education in the 21st Century },
	volume = {6},
	year = {2008},
	month = {May/2008},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {18-26},
	abstract = {Finnish teacher educators with the research background joined in a common enterprise to gather information from the Finnish education system and used practices in teaching science and mathematics to explain the Finnish students{\textquoteright} success in the international PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) assessment. The items dealt with were the following: the Finnish school system and teacher education, learning environments, gender issues, influential factors outside the school, and teaching science and mathematics at the comprehensive school. From the articles by 40 authors the book {\textquotedblleft}How Finns Learn Mathematics and Science?{\textquotedblright} was produced. The explanations for Finnish success based on the authors{\textquoteright} conceptions can be classified into three groups: Teacher and teacher education, school and curriculum, and the national developmental projects. Most probably a true explanation will be a combination of several factors as no single clear explanation was found, although research-based teacher education seems to be a rather influencing factor.},
	keywords = {explanations for Finnish success, PISA program, teacher education},
	issn = {1822-7864},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2014/457-1392232848.pdf},
	author = {Maija Ahtee and Jari Lavonen and Erkki Pehkonen}
}
