Currently, large scale assessments have noticeably encouraged the research interest in the systemic context which academic learning is embedded in. However, so far there are hardly any empirically validated findings concerning the interrelation between the conditions of academic learning on both, the level of the school system as well as on the individual school’s level, and their subject-specific impacts upon learning outcomes. Thus, these correlations are this project’s object of research. The establishment of natural science subjects in the educational courses of forms 5 to 10 on the level of the educational system and their integration within the individual school’s “cultural inner life” on the single school level is being researched. The context criteria for successful natural science tuition which have to be elaborated will make a contribution to the design and development of intervention strategies at a subsequent stage of the researchers` overall enterprise.  
 
Hence, an instrument for quality enhancement in the field of natural science education ought to emerge.  
 
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