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Keslair, François – OECD Publishing, 2018
This paper explores the impact of test-taking conditions on the quality of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) assessment. Interviewers record information about the room of assessment and interruptions that occurred during each interview. These observations, along with information on interviewer assignment…
Descriptors: Interviews, Testing, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries
Pardellas Santiago, Miguel; Meira Cartea, Pablo; Iglesias da Cunha, Lucía – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2017
Purpose: This paper deals with the experiences of three European universities that have implemented transition initiatives, using the Transition Network's methodology to promote their sustainability plans. The Transition Communities' model for change is presented from a socio-educational perspective as an effective methodology for encouraging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Sustainability, Educational Environment
Huong, Vu Thi; Casadesus, Marti; Marimon, Frederic – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2017
The aims of this study are threefold in their approach to English academy teaching: (i) to assess learner satisfaction, (ii) to assess the impact of satisfaction on loyalty and (iii) to assess the three constructs that we considered to be the antecedents of learner satisfaction: learner motivation, learner attitude and service quality. To collect…
Descriptors: Outcome Measures, Student Satisfaction, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation
Almeida, Rut; Bruno, Alicia; Perdomo-Díaz, Josefa – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2016
This paper presents some results of an investigation on the number sense of a group of pre-service secondary teachers from Spain. The objective of this research was to analyze students' use of strategies associated to number sense and compare them with those obtained in a previous study with pre-service primary teachers in Taiwan, (Yang, Reys…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Mathematics
Sánchez-Rivas, Enrique; Sánchez-Rodríguez, José; Ruiz-Palmero, Julio – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2016
This article reveals the results of a research study that was carried out in Spain in 2012 with the purpose of discovering the influence of the gender variable on the incorporation of the Internet in the educational programmes of primary and secondary public education centres. By using a multiple case study carried out in situ, the research team…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Internet, Technology Uses in Education
Benítez, Isabel; Padilla, José-Luis – Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2014
Differential item functioning (DIF) can undermine the validity of cross-lingual comparisons. While a lot of efficient statistics for detecting DIF are available, few general findings have been found to explain DIF results. The objective of the article was to study DIF sources by using a mixed method design. The design involves a quantitative phase…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mixed Methods Research, Test Bias, Cross Cultural Studies
Jiménez-Castillo, David; Sánchez-Fernández, Raquel; Marín-Carrillo, Gema M. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2017
This study explores the effectiveness of the sequential use of lectures and video podcasting in higher education. Drawing together several theories, this paper examines the influence of student's perceived prior knowledge gained from lectures and technology acceptance model-related variables on student's self-reported assimilation of new material…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Multimedia Materials
Tragant, Elsa; Marsol, Anna; Serrano, Raquel; Llanes, Àngels – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
Comparative studies in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) often show CLIL students to be at something of an advantage over their non-CLIL peers. However, such studies are often difficult to interpret given problems of cross-group comparability (different schooling systems, different number of instructional hours, bias attributable to…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing, English (Second Language)
Garcia Laborda, Jesus; Luque Agullo, Gloria; Muñoz, Ana Isabel; Bakieva, Margarita – Online Submission, 2015
The debate over the Foreign Language Test (English) in the University Entrance Examination (PAU) has become a critical issue in the Spanish Educational system. Despite the Ministry of Education's interest in changing a test that has its strong emphasis on reading, writing and grammar but a general negligence towards listening and speaking, limited…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Entrance Examinations, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
Strubell, Miquel; Marí, Isidor – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
Catalan companies have, until very recently, had the Spanish-speaking world as their main market. Following long periods of legal and official repression of the public and commercial use of Catalan, globalisation now places them in a new, multilingual context that makes feasible the use of Catalan alongside that of other languages. This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Languages, Language Usage
Pérez-Marín, Diana; Boza, Antonio – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2013
Pedagogic Conversational Agents are computer applications that can interact with students in natural language. They have been used with satisfactory results on the instruction of several domains. The authors believe that they could also be useful for the instruction of Secondary Physics and Chemistry Education. Therefore, in this paper, the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Laborda, Jesus Garcia – Online Submission, 2010
Language testing is a relatively new field of interest that has become of common interest in the last twenty years not only for traditional purposes but because of the power that language testing has acquired in relation to immigration and also for its implications for educational reforms. The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Entrance Examinations, Computer Assisted Testing, Language Tests
Käpplinger, Bernd, Ed.; Lichte, Nina, Ed.; Haberzeth, Erik, Ed.; Kulmus, Claudia, Ed. – Online Submission, 2014
This book assembles over 50 papers from the 7th Triennial European Research Conference of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA), which was held from the 4th to the 7th of September 2013 at Humboldt-University in Berlin. The title of the conference was "Changing Configurations of Adult Education in Transitional…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Higher Education, Nontraditional Students
Kraaijenbrink, Jeroen; Groen, Aard – Industry and Higher Education, 2006
With the current growth of the Internet, we expect significant changes in how and to what extent companies acquire business information. By comparing two studies on information seeking by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) carried out in 1982 and 2003 respectively, and comparing the results with other studies, this paper indicates that the…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Internet, Small Businesses, Online Searching
Benczúr, David – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2005
Introduction: A number of theoretical works focus on the potential revolutionary impact of the Internet and other Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) upon Competitive Intelligence, but only a few empirical research papers can be found on it. Is the real impact still unknown, or is it too insignificant to talk about? The present paper…
Descriptors: Occupational Surveys, Mass Media Effects, Mass Media Role, Mass Media Use