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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Educational Improvement"”.
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Investing in Education: Venture Philanthropy and the Marketized Practice of Educational Improvement
… of a venture philanthropy firm focusing on educational improvement and what new meanings and practices does it produce in one urban district? This study collected data using embedded ethnographic methods including over 200 hours of observations, 21 interviews, and document collection …
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Star Coalescence: A mechanism for school practitioners to leverage the relational infrastructure of educational improvement networks
… the work of teacher innovators to bolster school improvement efforts requires research to understand how education practitioners recognize problems, develop solutions, and scale-up their own initiatives. Collaborative governing arrangements such as Networked Improvement Communities (NICs) are …
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Facilitating teacher leadership in Kazakhstan
… to facilitate teacher leadership for sustainable improvement of practice and enhancing the teacher’s role in education reform in Kazakhstan. By drawing on a non-positional approach to teacher leadership, this study sought bottom-up approaches to educational reform, school leadership and …
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Educational Attitudes of Saudi Elementary School Teachers (Saudi Arabia)
… of this research was to investigate certain educational attitudes of 300 Saudi elementary teachers in Jeddah, Riyadh, and the Eastern Region. It focused on identifying attitudes toward (1) instructional strategies, (2) instructional resources, (3) specific subject areas, (4) discipline, (5) …
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Promoting Voluntary Reading of a Group of Seventh-Grade Students in an Urban Setting
… that might address this issue most germane to educational improvement and student success.
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Students' perceptions of the effectiveness of selective physical education
… officials. Engaged in the ongoing process of educational improvement, educational facilitators and curriculum coordinators increasingly are looking at physical education classes. One of the major objectives of physical education is to promote a lifelong involvement in physical activity.</p> …
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The Impact of the Leadership and Management on Academic performance in Secondary Schools in Tanzania. The case of Iringa Region.
… challenges in acquiring and using resources for educational improvement in general and academic performance in particular. A total of responses from 56 respondents were collected through questionnaires, interviews, checklists, documentary reviews, informal discussions and observation. The …
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Conselho Municipal de Educação e plano de ações articuladas: o município de Riachuelo-RN (2007-2013)
… Project number 15756 of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Level Personnel (CAPES), being titled as “Avaliation of Articulated Action Plan: a survey in the cities of Rio Grande do Norte, Pará and Minas Gerais, in the period from 2007 to 2012. In this research, it has been studied, …
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Reforming or Transforming?: The Politics and Implementation of Equity-Based Instructional Reform
… used in education discourse as a goal of educational improvement efforts. Yet, the term can be conceptualized in many ways, and equity conceptions are rarely interrogated in policy studies (Bulkley, 2013; Jencks, 1988; Levinson et al., 2022). Still, equity conceptions reflect an underlying …
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The influence of a Teaching School Alliance on classroom staff's professional development
… are an innovation in system-level leadership for educational improvement. Launched in 2010, they are intended to form partnerships or ‘alliances’ with other schools and providers to share learning, excellent practice and innovative ideas, principally in teacher education and development. But there …
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Data-Focused Decision Making: One School's Journey
… has become a keystone in national policy for educational improvement and a foundational condition in the award of federal grant monies (U.S. Department of Education, 2008, 2009a, 2009b, 2010). Principals are expected to lead their schools in the use of data and are accountable for adequate …
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Factors affecting faculty's intent to use e-learning systems at a university in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
… Education has seen massive investment toward the educational improvement in e-learning systems through building and maintaining an advanced level of Information Technology infrastructure, improving the utilization and flexibility of Information Technology resources, and enhancing and developing …
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Developing skills to explain scientific concepts during initial teacher education: the role of peer assessment
… Yet it is highlighted as a crucial aspect of educational success. Success in educational improvement depends mainly on the teachers (because they enact a reform by putting it into practice), and teacher thinking is likely to influence teacher decision-making. How teacher conceptions and …
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Examining the individual and collaborative use of standardised data by primary teachers in Northern Ireland and exploring teachers’ knowledge, confidence and attitudes in relation to the use of standardised data to improve pedagogy
… application of standardised data to support educational improvement reflects the wider movement towards evidence-based policy and practice, both in education and other fields. At the heart of these data-related reform measures lies the assumption that standardised data will be used by …
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UNDERSTANDING INFORMAL LEARNING IN VIRTUAL PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITIES OF TEACHERS IN KAZAKHSTAN
Reinforced internationally in the context of educational improvement, teachers’ professional networks, as a source of social capital, have been conceptualised as an integral part of teacher professionalism, as well as an essential element of successful educational change, and in the context of what …
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The Challenge of Education and the Work of Non-Profits in Southeast Asia: Select Case Studies in Cambodia and the Philippines in Modern Times
… Both entities, in one way or another, focus on educational improvement—BFT by teaching knowledge leading to self-sustaining enterprises and PR by educating Indigenous People to maintain their forest environment and then to go beyond to develop their talents. This study also provides a …
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Issues in the Interpretation of PISA in Ireland: A Study of the Content and Design of PISA with Comparative Analyses of the Junior Certificate Examinations and TIMSS (1 Volume)
… appropriateness of the data it yields to inform educational policy. Analyses described in this dissertation were carried out to identify aspects of the design and interpretation of the PISA assessments of reading and mathematics which may be problematic and/or at odds with conclusions drawn. …
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No interior da mudança: caminhos e contratempos na melhoria educativa em territórios periféricos
O presente estudo analisa criticamente os impactos da Avaliação Externa das Escolas (AEE) em agrupamentos de escolas e escolas não agrupadas localizadas em territórios do interior de Portugal, com especial enfoque na persistência de áreas críticas de melhoria, na apropriação das recomendações …
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Teacher Professional Development: The Impact of Delivery Structure, Student Physical Presence, and Technology-Enhanced Instruction
<p>In an ever-changing labyrinth of standards, accountability, and standardized testing, educators seek ways to improve instruction. Teachers need learning experiences that help them navigate an environment in which a growing list of student performance standards and standardized tests determine …