Effects of a Cognitive Acceleration Programme in a Low Socioeconomic High School in Regional Australia

References

• Adey , P. , Hewitt , G. , Hewitt , J. and Landau , N. 2004 . The professional development of teachers: Practice and theory , Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic .
   Google Scholar
• Adey , P. , Robertson , A. and Venville , G. 2002 . Effects of a cognitive acceleration programme on Year 1 pupils . British Journal of Educational Psychology , 72 : 1 – 25 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Adey , P. and Shayer , M. 1990 . Accelerating the development of formal thinking in middle and high school students . Journal of Research in Science Teaching , 27 ( 3 ) : 267 – 285 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Adey , P. and Shayer , M. 1994 . Really raising standards: Cognitive intervention and academic achievement , London : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Adey , P. and Shayer , M. 2002 . “ Cognitive acceleration comes of age ” . In Learning intelligence , Edited by: Shayer , M. and Adey , P. 1 – 17 . Buckingham : Open University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Adey , P. , Shayer , M. and Yates , C. 1995 . Thinking science: Student and teachers’ materials for the CASE intervention , 2 , London : Nelson . 3rd ed. published 2001, UK: Nelson Thornes
   Google Scholar
• Ainley, J., Kos, J., & Nicholas, M. (2008). Participation in science, mathematics and technology in Australian education (ACER Research Monograph No 63). Camberwell: Australian Council for Educational Research. Retrieved March 20, 2011, from http://www.acer.edu.au/research_reports/monographs.html
   Google Scholar
• Australian Curriculum. (2011). Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). Retrieved March 20, 2011, from http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au
   Google Scholar
• Baxendale , S. 2010 . The Flynn effect and memory function . Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology , 32 ( 7 ) : 699 – 703 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Blackwell , L. S. , Trzesniewski , K. H. and Dweck , C. S. 2007 . Implicit theories of intelligence predict achievement across an adolescent transition: A longitudinal study and an intervention . Child Development , 78 : 246 – 263 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Coe , R. 2002 . School improvement: Reality and illusion . British Journal of Educational Studies , 57 ( 4 ) : 363 – 379 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Coe, R. (2009). It’s the effect size, stupid. What effect size is and why it is important. Paper presented Annual Conference of the British Educational Research Association, University of Exeter, September 12–14, 2002.
   Google Scholar
• Cresswell , J. W. 2009 . Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches , Thousand Oaks , CA : Sage .
   Google Scholar
• Davis , O. S.P. , Haworth , C. M.A. and Plomin , R. 2009 . Dramatic increase in heritability of cognitive development from early to middle childhood: An 8-year longitudinal study of 8700 pairs of twins . Psychological Science , 10 : 1301 – 1308 .
   Google Scholar
• Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). (2011). Quality teaching. Retrieved March 18, 2011, from http://www.deewr.gov.au/Schooling/QualityTeaching/Pages/Qualityteaching.aspx
   Google Scholar
• Endler , L. C. and Bond , T. G. 2008 . Changing science outcomes: Cognitive acceleration in a US setting . Research in Science Education , 38 : 149 – 166 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Eppig , C. , Fincher , C. L. and Thornhill , R. 2010 . Parasite prevalence and the worldwide distribution of cognitive ability . Proceedings of the Royal Society , 77 ( 1701 ) : 3801 – 3808 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fullarton, S., Walker, M., Ainley, J., & Hillman, K. (2003). Patterns of participation in Year 12 (Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth Research Report 33). Camberwell: Australian Council for Educational Research. Retrieved March 20, 2011, from http://www.acer.edu.au/lsay
   Google Scholar
• Hackman , D. A. , Farah , M. J. and Meaney , M. J. 2010 . Socioeconomic status and the brain: Mechanistic insights from human and animal research . Nature Reviews Neuroscience , 11 ( 9 ) : 651 – 659 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hattie , J. 2009 . Visible learning: A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement , London : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Hautamäki, J., Kuusela, J., & Wikström, J. (2002). CASE and CAME in Finland: ‘The second wave’. Paper presented at the 10th International Conference on Thinking, Harrogate.
   Google Scholar
• Higgins, S., Baumfield, V., & Hall, E. (2007). Learning skills and the development of learning capabilities. In Research evidence in education library. London: EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London. Retrieved March 20, 2011, from http://www.eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default.aspx?tabid=1851
   Google Scholar
• Iqbal , H. M. and Shayer , M. 2000 . Accelerating the development of formal thinking in Pakistan secondary school students: Achievement effects and professional development issues . Journal of Research in Science Teaching , 37 ( 3 ) : 259 – 274 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lin , C. , Hu , W. , Adey , P. and Shen , J. 2003 . The influence of CASE on scientific creativity . Research in Science Education , 33 : 143 – 162 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mbano , N. 2003 . The effects of a cognitive acceleration intervention programme on the performance of secondary school pupils in Malawi . International Journal of Science Education , 25 ( 1 ) : 71 – 87 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McGuinness, C. (1999). From thinking skills to thinking classrooms: A review and evaluation of approaches for developing pupils’ thinking (Research Report No. 115). Norwich: Department for Education and Employment.
   Google Scholar
• Moll , L. C. 1990 . Vygotsky and education: Instructional implications and applications of sociohistorical psychology , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) . 2010 . The high cost of low educational performance , Paris : Author .
   Google Scholar
• Shayer , M. 1999 . Cognitive acceleration through science education II: Its effects and scope . International Journal of Science Education , 21 ( 8 ) : 883 – 902 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shayer , M. 2003 . Not just Piaget, not just Vygotsky, and certainly not Vygotsky as an alternative to Piaget . Learning and Instruction , 13 : 465 – 485 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shayer , M. and Adey , P. 2002 . Learning intelligence: Cognitive acceleration across the curriculum from 5 to 15 years , Buckingham : Open University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Shayer , M. , Adey , P. S. and Wylam , H. 1981 . Group tests of cognitive development-ideals and a realization . Journal of Research in Science Teaching , 18 : 157 – 168 .
   Google Scholar
• Shayer , M. and Adhami , M. 2010 . Realizing the cognitive potential of children 5–7 with a mathematics focus: Post-test and long-term effects of a 2-year intervention . British Journal of Educational Psychology , 80 ( 3 ) : 363 – 379 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shayer , M. and Ginsburg , D. 2009 . Thirty years on – a large anti-Flynn effect? (II): 13- and 14-year-olds. Piagetian tests of formal operations norms 1976–2006/7 . British Journal of Educational Psychology , 79 : 409 – 418 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shayer, M., Ginsburg, D., & Coe, R. (2007). Thirty years on – a large anti-Flynn effect? The Piagetian test volume & heaviness norms 1975–2003. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 77, 25–41.
   Google Scholar
• Shayer , M. , Küchemann , D. E. and Wylam , H. 1976 . The distribution of Piagetian stages of thinking in British middle and secondary school children . British Journal of Educational Psychology , 46 : 164 – 173 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shymansky , J. , Wang , T.-L. , Annetta , L. , Yore , L. and Everett , S. 2012 . How much professional development is needed to effect positive gains in K-6 student achievement on high stakes science tests? . International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education , 10 ( 1 ) : 1 – 19 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Smith , M. K. , Wood , W. B. , Adams , W. K. , Wieman , C. , Knight , J. K. , Guild , N. and Su , T. 2009 . Why peer discussion improves student performance on in-class concept questions . Science , 323 ( 5910 ) : 122 – 124 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tashakkori , A. and Teddlie , C. 2008 . “ Quality of inferences in mixed methods research: Calling for an integrative framework ” . In Advances in mixed methods research , Edited by: Bergman , M. M. 101 – 119 . London : Sage .
   Google Scholar
• Taylor , J. , Roehrig , A. D. , Hensler , B. S. , Connor , C. M. and Schatschneider , C. 2010 . Teacher quality moderates the genetic effects on early reading . Science , 328 ( 5977 ) : 512 – 514 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted). (2008). Success in science. London: Author. Reference No. 070195. Retrieved March 20, 2011, from http://www.ofsted.gov.uk
   Google Scholar
• Thomson , S. , De Bortoli , L. , Nicholas , M. , Hillman , K. and Buckley , S. 2011 . Challenges for Australian education: Results from PISA 2009: The PISA 2009 assessment of students’ reading, mathematical and scientific literacy , Melbourne : Australian Council for Educational Research .
   Google Scholar
• Thomson , S. , Wernert , N. , Underwood , C. and Nicholas , M. 2008 . TIMMS 07: Taking a closer look at mathematics and science in Australia , Melbourne : Australian Council for Educational Research ACER . (2008 Retrieved March 20, 2011, from http://www.acer.edu.au/timss07/
   Google Scholar
• Tucker-Drob , E. M. , Rhemtulla , M. , Harden , K. P. , Turkheimer , E. and Fask , D. 2011 . Emergence of a gene X socioeconomic status interaction on infant mental ability between 10 months and 2 years . Psychological Science , 22 ( 1 ) : 125 – 133 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Turkheimer , E. , Haley , A. , Waldron , M. , D'Onofrio , B. and Gottesman , I. I. 2003 . Socioeconomic status modifies heritability of IQ in young children . Psychological Science , 14 ( 6 ) : 623 – 628 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tytler , R. 2007 . Re-imagining science education: Engaging students in science for Australia's future. , Camberwell : Australian Council for Educational Research Press . Retrieved March 20, 2011, from http://www.acer.edu.au
   Google Scholar
• Woods-McConney, A., Oliver M., McConney A., Maor D., & Schibeci, R. (in press). Science engagement and literacy: A retrospective analysis for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous students in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. Research in Science Education, doi: 10.1007/s11165-011-9265-y
   Google Scholar
• Yin , R. 2003 . Case study research: Design and methods , 3 , Thousand Oaks , CA : Sage .
   Google Scholar