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The importance of action research in teacher education programs
(Australia's Institutes for Educational Research, 2013)Following entry into the workforce, there are limited opportunities for new graduate teachers to engage in critically reflective activities about their educative practice. In an increasingly complex and challenging profession, ... -
The influence of the parents’ educational level and participants’ age in the derivation of equivalence-equivalence
(Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Oviedo, Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos del Principado de Asturias, 2014)Antecedentes: el objetivo de este trabajo fue el estudio del razonamiento analógico desde el fenómeno de equivalencia-equivalencia. Método: las variables estudiadas fueron la edad de los participantes y el nivel educativo ... -
The Intensification of Rankings Logic in an Increasingly Marketised Higher Education Environment
(John Wiley & Sons, 2014)Rankings and online comparison sites have both facilitated and shaped the marketisation of higher education in England, the UK as a whole and elsewhere. They have facilitated marketisation by introducing greater competition ... -
The Investment Case for Education and Equity
(UNICEF, 2015-01)Education is in crisis worldwide. Millions of children, especially the most marginalized, are excluded from school. Many millions more attend school, but they do not learn basic reading and math skills. In addition, ... -
The Kuznets Curve of Education : A Global Perspective on Education Inequalities
(London School of Economics. Centre for the Economics of Education, 2010-06)This paper depicts the world distribution of education over 140 years, improving and extending the database recently released by Morrisson and Murtin (2009), which focuses on average years of schooling. The document provides ... -
The Life-cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program
(IZA. Institute of Labor Economics, 2016-12)This paper estimates the long-term benefits from an influential early childhood program targeting disadvantaged families. The program was evaluated by random assignment and followed participants through their mid-30s. It ... -
The Maturing of the MOOC : Literature Review of Massive Open Online Courses and other Forms of Online Distance Learning
(Department for Business, Innovation and Skills [untranslated], 2013-09)This survey of MOOC and ODL literature aims to capture the state of knowledge and opinion about MOOCs and ODL, how they are evolving, and to identify issues that are important, whether consensual or controversial. -
The Measurement of Educational Inequality : Achievement and Opportunity
(Institute for the Study of Labor, 2011-11)This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its ... -
The medium makes the message: Effects of cues on students’ lecture notes
(Lynne P. Baldwin, 2010)Previous work has shown that students’ notes often fail to record key facts and concepts. The relatively recent widespread adoption of PowerPoint slides and handouts might now help students to record key issues, but only ... -
The Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children
(UNICEF. Office of Research, 2016)The document is an on-going, four-country study in Italy, Peru, Viet Nam and Zimbabwe, led by the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti and its academic partner the University of Edinburgh. Over the past 10 years, studies ... -
The Neuroscience of Mathematical Cognition and Learning
(OECD, 2016-06)The synergistic potential of cognitive neuroscience and education for efficient learning has attracted considerable interest from the general public, teachers, parents, academics and policymakers alike. This review is aimed ... -
‘The next teacher is going to be…Tereza Rico’ : exploring Gender Positioning in an all-girl Preschool Classroom
(Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2010)This article sets out a Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis, FPDA, approach to examine gender positioning in an all-girls preschool classroom in Colombia where English is mostly taught/learnt as a foreign language ... -
The Participation Decision Study : Private School Leaders’ Perspectives on Accessing Federal Funding Considering Environmental Factors Influencing NCLB Choice and Competition Mechanisms
(SAGE, 2014)The 2011 participation decision study involved exploration into the impact of the external education environment on the decision for private school participation in Federal funding, one deliberately declining player in the ... -
The Peruvian teacher in-service training program and its effects on student achievement
(Maastricht University, 2017)This paper assesses the impact of the Peruvian Ministry of Education teacher in-service training program (henceforth the program) on student achievement. Given the importance the Ministry attaches to interventions to ... -
The Policy Impact of PISA : An Exploration of the Normative Effects of International Benchmarking in School System Performance
(OECD, 2012)Little research has been done into how the results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) affect national educational reform and policy-making. This paper examines the normative impact of PISA by ... -
The Privatization of Education in Developing Countries : Evidence and Policy Implications
(UNESCO, 2015)This working paper reviews key findings from empirical research on the effects of specific modes of privatization of the school provision, particularly in developing countries. The overall question is: can the common good ... -
The Promise of Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
(BID, 2010)Early childhood development outcomes play an important role throughout a person's life, affecting one's income-earning capacity and productivity, longevity, health, and cognitive ability. The deleterious effects of poor ... -
The Promise of Preschool in Africa : A Randomized Impact Evaluation of Early Childhood Development in Rural Mozambique
(World Bank, 2012-02-06)We find that primary school enrollment rates increase significantly in treatment communities. Children who attended preschool are 24% more likely to be enrolled in primary school at endline compared to the control group, ... -
The Psychometric Properties of Child Care Quality Measures in Ecuador : Lessons for Monitoring Process Variables at Scale
(BID, 2016-10)This paper analyzes four instruments that are widely used to measure the quality of centers serving children ages 0 to 36 months - the CLASS, the ITERS-R, the CC-IT-HOME, and the MITRCC – and that were administered to a ... -
The Quality Factor : Strengthening National Data to Monitor Sustainable Development Goal 4. SDG 4 Data Digest 2017
(UNESCO, 2017)Section 1 examines the new SDG 4 monitoring framework and defines the global and thematic levels of monitoring education. It takes the reader through recent events and processes that culminated in the development of a ...