Ten years after the Hyland Report: achievements so far and future challenges

dc.contributor.authorHyland, Áineen
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-20T10:49:35Z
dc.date.available2025-08-20T10:49:35Z
dc.date.issued2024-05en
dc.description.abstractTen years ago this author presented a paper at the annual conference of the Irish Science Teachers’ Association (ISTA) entitled “The design of Leaving Certificate science curriculum: an international comparison”. At that time the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) had introduced a new curriculum for Junior Cycle which was challenging for students and teachers because of its vagueness and lack of clarity. The template which the NCCA had used to design the subject syllabi consisted only of themes and learning outcomes and teachers were concerned that the same template would be used to design new Leaving Certificate syllabi. The paper presented by this author in 2014 (subsequently referred to as the Hyland report) looked at curriculum design in various English speaking jurisdictions around the world but failed to find even one example of the syllabus design being used by the NCCA. This author cautioned against using the Junior Cycle template for new or revised Leaving Cert subjects.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationHyland, Á. (2024) 'Ten years after the Hyland Report: achievements so far and future challenges', Science, 59(2), pp. 8-12. Available at: https://tinyurl.com/yc3z23cv (Accessed: 20 August 2025)en
dc.identifier.endpage12en
dc.identifier.issued2en
dc.identifier.journaltitleScienceen
dc.identifier.startpage8en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17792
dc.identifier.volume59en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherIrish Science Teachers' Associationen
dc.relation.urihttps://tinyurl.com/yc3z23cven
dc.rights© 2024, Áine Hyland. Published by the Irish Science Teachers' Association.en
dc.subjectLeaving Certificateen
dc.subjectScience curriculumen
dc.subjectIrelanden
dc.titleTen years after the Hyland Report: achievements so far and future challengesen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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