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AUTHOR
Doreen Holtsch
Gender gap in Swiss vocational education and training teachers’ economics content knowledge and the role of teaching experience
In the commercial sector, which is of crucial importance to the Swiss economy among other countries, a large number of apprentices are trained on a vocational education and training programme every year. Besides other subjects, the subject Economics and Society forms an integral part of the vocational education and training curriculum and serves to prepare apprentices for professional, economic and civic participation. Although content knowledge is widely considered necessary to both teaching quality and student achievement, little is known about the subject-specific content knowledge of Swiss Economics and Society teachers. As previous research has shown a gender gap in the content knowled…
International performance assessment of critical thinking: framework for translation and adaptation
Journal of supernational policies of education, Nr, 13 (2021), S. 62–87