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Biology

Looking at Biology
This composite report provides a detailed insight into students’ experience of Biology in the senior cycle. It provides an analysis of the quality of teaching and learning arising from fifty-seven subject inspections carried out between the 2006/07 and the 2009/10 school years.
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English

Looking at English - Teaching & Learning English in Post-Primary Schools
This composite report is the product of an analysis and synthesis of inspection reports on the teaching and learning of English in seventy-five post-primary schools. The inspections were carried out between January 2005 and May 2006.
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English as an Additional Language

Looking at EAL (Post-Primary Schools)
This report presents the findings of an Inspectorate evaluation of provision for students who are learning English as an additional language (EAL) in Irish post-primary schools.
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Geography

Looking at Geography
This report is based on the findings and recommendations made by inspectors in fifty schools where subject inspections were carried out between January 2006 and October 2007. The reports analysed have resulted from inspections carried out as part of whole-school evaluation (WSE) and stand-alone subject inspections.
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Guidance

Looking at Guidance
Looking at Guidance is based on fifty-five inspection reports carried out from September 2006 to May 2007. The report presents findings on the quality of Guidance provided to students in post-primary schools based on observations of practice, discussions with managements, staff members and students, examination of documents by the inspectors, and students’ responses to a questionnaire.
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History

Looking at History - Teaching & Learning History in Post-Primary Schools
This report has been compiled on the basis of the findings and recommendations made by inspectors of History in a total of fifty schools where subject inspections were carried out between September 2004 and May 2006.
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Home Economics

Looking at Home Economics
This report is based on an analysis of the findings of subject inspection reports on the quality of teaching and learning in Home Economics in fifty post-primary schools. The subject inspections were conducted between February 2006 and April 2007, and all the reports were published on the web site of the Department of Education and Science.
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Irish

Looking at Irish at Junior Cycle
This composite report provides a summary and interpretation of individual subject inspection reports on Irish at junior cycle in 75 second level schools, representing 10% of all second level schools. The reports relate to the 2004-2005 school year, a time prior to the publication of school inspection reports.
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Materials Technology (Wood) and Construction Studies

Looking at Materials Technology (Wood) and Construction Studies
Looking at Materials Technology (Wood) and Construction Studies is a composite report based on the subject inspection reports issued to schools following inspections.
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Mathematics

Looking at Mathematics: A composite report, based on findings of subject inspections in Mathematics conducted in the 2009-2010 school year
Looking at Mathematics is a composite report, based on the findings of subject inspections in Mathematics during which inspectors observed almost 400 lessons, interacted with students, examined students’ work and had discussions with teachers, co-ordinators of Mathematics and members of in-school management.
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Music

Looking at Music
Looking at Music is the result of an analysis of inspection reports undertaken in schools between January 2006 and May 2007. Inspectors of Music conducted the inspections in a range of second-level schools and across a variety of school programmes.
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Science

Looking at Science
Looking at Junior Cycle Science is based on the outcome of subject inspections carried out by inspectors of the Department of Education and Science in post-primary schools in the years 2004–06. As well as commenting on current practice in post-primary science education, the report is aimed at promoting good practice in schools.
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Social, Personal and Health Education

Looking at Social, Personal and Health Education: Teaching and Learning in Post-Primary Schools
Looking at Social, Personal and Health Education is a composite report, based on the findings of subject inspections in Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE), including Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE), carried out in 63 post-primary schools during the 2010/2011 academic year.
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