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Harris, Alma; Jones, Michelle; Adams, Donnie – Educational Research, 2016
Background: Around the globe, education policy borrowing remains pervasive and prevalent. The strategies, interventions and innovations of education systems that perform well, in international assessments, are enthusiastically borrowed and copied in the anticipation of similar educational performance and outcomes. Purpose: This purpose of the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, International Assessment, Policy Formation, Comparative Education
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Han, Christine; Hoskins, Bryony; Sim, Jasmine Boon-Yee – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
From 2009 to 2011, a team from the Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies carried out a mixed-methods study of young people in England and Singapore. With regard to civic attitudes, the study showed that there was a greater sense of political self-efficacy and collective (school) efficacy in Singapore than in…
Descriptors: Voting, Citizen Participation, Foreign Countries, Correlation
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers