Writing assignments are infrequent and are focused on from.
Writing assignments often emerge from critical thinking.
Writing assignments closely reflect critical thinking activities: focus is increasingly on content and audience.
A/eri
4
J
0
1.4
English
2
o
0
1.0
Math
3
5
0
~>2
Reading Russia
1
8
1
2
Ü
0
1.5
Misc.
NA
NA
NA
NA
t the secondary level, median ratings generally ranged from 1.0 to 1.4 on a scale from one (low) to three (high), with a few isolated teachers scoring a higher levels on some elements (see fable 3). These results again indicated that most teachers were using methodologies from the Soviet era. Teachers of Azeri language and literature, biology, history, and Russian language and literature tended to use more higher order questions than teachers in the other subject areas. Teachers of geography used multiple sources of data more than teachers in other fields, most of which were maps and globes. Teachers of mathematics tended to use writing assignments emerging from critical thinking activities more than other teachers, a somewhat surprising finding in that subject area.
A Table 3
Classroom Observations Categorized by Subject Area: Secondary Level