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Lazaridou, Angeliki – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2009
Information about how school principals operate pertains mainly to the actions of principals. However, the kinds of knowledge that the principalship demands have not been isolated as clearly, more often than not being conflated with actions. As principals' duties become more complex, it becomes more important to ground specific practices in robust…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Supply and Demand, Job Skills
Achieve, Inc., 2010
This appendix accompanies the report "Taking the Lead in Science Education: Forging Next-Generation Science Standards. International Science Benchmarking Report," a study conducted by Achieve to compare the science standards of 10 countries. This appendix includes the following: (1) PISA and TIMSS Assessment Rankings; (2) Courses and…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Foreign Countries, Science Education, Research Skills
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Nagy, Philip – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1994
Illustrates the use of forced classification for assessing student solutions to ill-structured problems. The analysis, applied to discussions by children of a social problem, consists of content categorization; quality ratings within content categories; and categorical discriminant analysis, with student grade and judged quality as discriminating…
Descriptors: Classification, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Bordage, Georges – 1982
The applicability of Rosch and coworkers' concept of prototypes to the mental categorization of medical disorders, and the influence of clinical experience on those memory structures were studied with 100 preclinical medical students and 77 experienced physicians from Quebec, Canada. The third-year medical students were French-speaking and read…
Descriptors: Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Experience, Comparative Analysis
Paquin, Andre, Ed. – Canadian Counsellor, 1980
In seven articles discusses topics related to the practice of employment counseling in Canada including: (1) assessment in employment counseling; (2) problem- solving approaches to group employment issues; (3) competency-based training and certification for counselors; (4) taping client interviews; and (5) clients typology most likely to benefit…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Classification, Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Training
Hyslop-Margison, Emery J. – 1999
The career preparedness component of British Columbia's Career and Personal Planning (CAPP) curriculum commits two fundamental category mistakes in its classification of employability skills, both with potentially serious consequences for education. The first type of category mistake is incorrectly conflating distinct categories of concepts under…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Education, Career Planning, Classification