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Nketekete, Malefetsane E. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2023
This study was undertaken to assess the extent of changes brought by the Lesotho General Certificate of Secondary Education (LGCSE). The LGCSE replaced the British General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCE O level). The new system was hailed as modern and progressive, recognizing wider ability performance. The study employed a comparative…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Accounting, Course Descriptions, Secondary School Curriculum
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Hernandez, Isaac Frausto – Open Journal for Educational Research, 2021
The purpose of this article is to explore the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) assessment under its Institutional Testing Program (ITP) modality as it acts as a curriculum artifact along Mexican undergraduate degree programs considered within the exit criteria. A discourse historical approach (DHA) (Wodak, 2008; Wodak & Meyer,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Exit Examinations
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Akin, Mehmet Ali; Minaz, Muhammet Baki – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2018
This study aims to represent metaphoric perceptions of students related to central examination applied in transition to secondary school institutions. Within the study, the phenomenology approach from qualitative research techniques was used. To collect data, a semi-structured interview form developed by researchers was used. Data were collected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Figurative Language
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Coffey, Simon – Language Learning Journal, 2022
This article reflects on the epistemological steamrolling that the 2021 Ofsted Curriculum Research Review (OCRR) accomplishes: in part, by the positioning of the problem and solution through highly selective cherry-picking (omitting key causal factors); in part, through the discursive move of acknowledging complexity before offering simple and…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
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Johnson, Martin – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2017
This paper uses the remote interactions of professional examiners working for a UK-based awarding body as a vehicle for discussing the benefits of the use of different methods for analysing such discourse. Communication is an area of interest for sociocultural theory because it can potentiate cognitive shifts in participants and affords learning.…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Discourse Analysis, Examiners, Experimenter Characteristics
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Buckner, Elizabeth; Hodges, Rebecca – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2016
Cheating on exams is a rampant and highly developed practice among youth in the Arab world, often involving elaborate networks, advanced technology and adult authorities. Rather than viewing cheating as mere laziness or immorality, this article interrogates the social meanings of cheating by comparing the practices and discourses of cheating on…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Cheating, Exit Examinations, Secondary School Students