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European Training Foundation, 2023
Qualifications frameworks are tools for describing qualifications of an education or training system by classifying them into levels. Each level provides a clear description of what the holder of a qualification knows, understands and is able to do. They are important tools for making qualifications transparent and comprehensible, within and…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Global Approach, Regional Programs, Nonformal Education
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Alarcon-Pereira, Grecia; Rampasso, Izabela Simon; Tapia-Ubeda, Francisco J.; Rojas-Aguilar, Karol; Rojas-Córdova, Carolina – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: Considering the relevance of education for sustainable development (SD) to enhancing engineers' abilities to contribute towards sustainability-related issues, this study aims to help understand the global context of the insertion of SD into engineering education and to provide guidelines to further evolve research and efforts towards…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Engineering Education, Higher Education
Gula, Louie Petere – Online Submission, 2022
The purpose of the study: The aim of this study is to identify the prevalence of participants in physical activities, the motivation needed by the students to engage in the activity, challenges encountered by the implementors, health benefits, and recommendations and suggestions needed for the improvement of the implementation. Materials and…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Recreational Activities, Student Motivation, Barriers
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Worton, S. Kathleen; Furman, Ellis – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021
Background: Continued evolution of knowledge-to-action (KTA) theories requires increased attention to dynamics of power and ways to integrate multiple forms of knowledge. Peer learning -- a process through which knowledge users interact with other learners -- is a valuable but largely unexamined strategy for integrating practice-based knowledge in…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Cooperative Learning, Learning Strategies, Evidence Based Practice
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Maxwell, Bruce; Tremblay-Laprise, Audrée-Anne; Filion, Marianne; Boon, Helen; Daly, Caroline; van den Hoven, Mariette; Heilbronn, Ruth; Lenselink, Myrthe; Walters, Sue – Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
Despite a broad consensus on the ethical dimensions of the teaching profession, and long-standing efforts to align teacher education with wider trends in professional education, little is known about how teacher candidates are being prepared to face the ethical challenges of contemporary teaching. This article presents the results of an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethical Instruction, Preservice Teacher Education, Comparative Education
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Burn, Katharine; Mutton, Trevor – Oxford Review of Education, 2015
This review examines the kinds of relationship between research and practice that have been envisaged in programmes designed to provide opportunities for beginning teachers to engage in "research-informed clinical practice". Although the terminology varies, scope for inclusion is defined by an intention to facilitate and deepen the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Clinical Supervision (of Teachers), Theory Practice Relationship
OECD Publishing, 2014
The Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will establish technical standards and guidelines to ensure that the survey design and implementation processes of PIAAC yield high-quality and internationally comparable data. This document provides a revised version of the technical standards and guidelines originally…
Descriptors: Adults, International Assessment, Adult Literacy, Competence