Proposals for curriculum reform under the Secondary Education Modernisation Programme (SEMP) call for a curriculum that respects diverse cultural experiences of students in Trinidad and Tobago, and that gives all students ...

This article notes that the goal of mathematics education is the development of a healthy "mathematical disposition," but that the beliefs, negative attitudes, and misconceptions about mathematics and its teaching and ...

In this work, interactive worksheets were used to teach a unit of integrated science to a group of 32 lower secondary school science students in Trinidad and Tobago. Observational checklists, students' journals, and ...

This article discusses strategies for teaching literary appreciation to adolescents in secondary schools in Trinidad and Tobago. It provides an example of the successful use of Barrington Levy's Vice Versa Love with fourth ...

An optimization approach for suggesting product design parameters based on emotive responses is proposed that combines Kansei techniques and particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO). The approach involves designing ...

This study examined self-efficacy in 77 primary and secondary school teachers, most of whom were taking an educational psychology course at The University of the West Indies (UWI). Participants completed Gibson and Dembo's ...

This article reports on a study into the levels of thinking promoted in selected lower secondary science classrooms in Trinidad and Tobago. Twenty-seven teachers, 10 of whom were professionally certified, were observed ...

The second part of this article deals with the debates and controversies surrounding ethnomathematics within the mathematics education community, and discusses some of the implications for teaching, learning, and society ...