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Yasmine Dominguez-Whitehead; Felix Maringe – International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 2020
Purpose: This paper provides a cross-national analysis of PhD supervision models, milestones and examination procedures in order to compare PhD programs and their practices. Design/methodology/approach: A comparative approach is employed, which systematically interrogates PhD supervision models, milestones and examination procedures in the United…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Models, Comparative Education, Educational Practices
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Neisler, Otherine Johnson, Ed. – Palgrave Studies on Leadership and Learning in Teacher Education, 2022
This handbook provides a global overview of the design, implementation and assessment of academic development centers within higher education institutions. The current nature of our complex, rapidly changing world makes it imperative that colleges and universities worldwide find ways to educate their students in new and better ways: this is…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Program Design, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation
Tait, Aaron; Faulkner, Dave – ASCD, 2018
The world needs great individual educational changemakers capable of identifying problems and creating bold, scalable solutions. But the world also needs Dream Teams--groups of talented administrators, teachers, staff, students, and community members who are passionate about making things better for kids, believe that school-based change is the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Change Agents, Educational Improvement
Petrilli, Michael J.; Griffith, David; Wright, Brandon L. – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2016
A companion piece to "High Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA," this report appraises states' current (or planned) accountability systems as they affect high-achieving students in high school. They were examined and rated based on whether they incorporate under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) the…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Accountability, State Regulation, State Standards
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Lee, Jihyun; Lim, Cheolil; Kim, Hyeonsu – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2017
In response to pedagogical challenges in higher education, blended learning has become a prevalent practice in colleges and universities. Flipped learning (FL) represents a newly emerging form of blended learning, where students individually watch online lectures prior to class and then engage in classroom learning activities interacting with…
Descriptors: Instructional Development, Instructional Design, Models, Blended Learning
Duman, Tayyip; Karagöz, Savas – Online Submission, 2016
Teachers and their education, as the most important elements in educational systems, have been one of the mostly debated issues in Turkish national education system. The success of an education system largely depends on the quality of the teachers who plan and practice teaching and learning process. Reviewing Turkish educational history with a…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Innovation
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Nassar-McMillan, Sylvia; Conley, Abigail Holland – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2011
In our ever-present age of accountability, career development professionals are increasingly called upon to document evidence-based outcomes and other metrics of programme effectiveness. In this article, we will review the key components of effective programme evaluation, including purposes and types of evaluation. Our review will span empirical…
Descriptors: Evidence, Career Development, Accountability, Program Effectiveness
Griffiths, Jennifer L. – Online Submission, 2010
The student teaching component of most teacher preparation programs in the United States varies from 30 to 300 hours of field service (Levine, 2006); typically this is a culminating activity comprised of a 15-week engagement at a school in two separate grade levels. California Multiple Subject Credential candidates typically divide their 15-week…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Teaching Models, Interviews, Self Esteem
Priluck, Randi; Wisenblit, Joseph – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2011
This paper describes two models of assessment of undergraduate business learning in two similar universities located on the East Coast of the United States. Both models stem from seeking continued accreditation by the AACSB and are focused on a group of student skills identified by the faculty as essential to undergraduate business education. The…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Models, Educational Assessment, Undergraduate Study
Grove, Michael C. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Despite wave after wave of educational reform in the United States our students continue to lag behind their peers in other industrialized countries on virtually all measures of academic achievement. Effective professional development (PD) is seen as a key to improving instructional practice and therefore student learning, but traditional forms of…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, Faculty Development, Transfer of Training
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VeLure Roholt, Ross; Rana, Sheetal – Child & Youth Services, 2011
Few formal post-secondary educational programs in the United States focus on youth work, thus youth workers often enter the field with diverse backgrounds and varying levels of experience working with youth. Drawing on mounting evidence that quality youth service requires skilled staff, professional-development opportunities have received…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Program Evaluation, Action Research, Professional Development
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Kelsey, Kathleen D.; Stafne, Eric T. – Journal of Extension, 2012
As Americans shift their work and leisure activities online, Extension seeks to remain viable by delivering programs through a website known as eXtension. eXtension is predicated on the voluntary labor of Extension specialists and educators who form Communities of Practice to create and deliver content through the website. Evaluation of eXtension…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Communities of Practice, Online Courses, Web Sites
Pianta, Robert C., Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2012
Comprehensive and authoritative, this forward-thinking book reviews the breadth of current knowledge about early education and identifies important priorities for practice and policy. Robert C. Pianta and his associates bring together foremost experts to examine what works in promoting all children's school readiness and social-emotional…
Descriptors: Expertise, Research Needs, Mathematics Education, School Readiness
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King, Jean A. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2010
The author is increasingly sensitive to the Venn diagram of overlapping expertise in which program evaluation intersects a content area such as public health, urban education, or--in the case of Katherine Hay--international development. Many evaluators practice in these areas of overlap, experts in the evaluation of a specific domain. Given her…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Developing Nations, Intellectual Disciplines, Evaluators
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Sloane, Finbarr C.; Oloff-Lewis, Jennifer; Kim, Seong Hee – Irish Educational Studies, 2013
The government of Ireland, like many European countries, is currently under severe pressure from external forces to grow the economy. One possible way to maintain and grow its economy is through the production of a highly educated and globally competitive workforce. In an effort to develop such a workforce, the government, through the Department…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Accountability, Foreign Countries, Models
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