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Multilevel Relations between External Accountability, Internal Accountability, and Math Achievement: A Cross-Country Analysis
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Pilnam Yi; In-soo Shin – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2018
External accountability policies have spread fast across various educational systems over the past decades. This research examines the relations of internal and external accountability with students' math achievement drawing on PISA 2012. With a sample of 44 educational systems, of which external accountability policies were identified, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Mathematics Achievement, Educational Policy
Computers and Education: The Wrong Approach Continually Being Executed
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Walker, Jacob J. – Online Submission, 2005
This opinion paper explores the use of computers in the U.S. Public Education System, concluding that technology is underutilized and not fulfilled most of the educational promises attributed to the tool. Drawing upon research and personal experience, the paper explores 8 possible reasons for the problem, including: the computer itself; not enough…
Descriptors: Public Education, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Paraprofessional Personnel
The Problem of Centralization: Health and Education Policies in Great Britain and the United States.
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Hanneman, Robert A.; Hollingsworth, J. Rogers – 1978
The paper compares aspects of decision making in health and education in the United States and Great Britain from 1890-1970. The major purpose is to demonstrate variety in the degree of centralization within the two policy areas during this period. Centralization is defined as the degree to which all resources of a given type are controlled by one…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education
Targeting Employment Services (Kalamazoo, Michigan, April 29-May 1, 1999).
Eberts, Randall W., Ed.; O'Leary, Christopher J., Ed.; Wandner, Stephen A., Ed. – 2002
This document contains 13 papers on targeting employment services. The following papers are included: "Targeting Employment Services under the Workforce Investment Act" (Stephen A. Wandner); "Predicting the Exhaustion of Unemployment Compensation" (Robert B. Olsen, Marisa Kelso, Paul T. Decker, Daniel H. Klepinger);…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counseling Services, Decision Making, Delivery Systems
Skills for the New Millennium. Paper Presentations: Session G.
2000
This document contains 14 papers from the skills for the new millennium section of an international conference on vocational education and training (VET) for lifelong learning in the information era. The following papers are included: "Research on Vocational Education and Training as a Field for Knowledge Development--Starting Points for the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Career Guidance, Case Studies, Counseling Techniques
Vocational and Adult Education in Europe.
van Wieringen, Fons, Ed.; Attwell, Graham, Ed. – 1999
This book contains 25 papers on vocational and adult education in Europe and the United States. The following papers are included: "Vocational and Adult Education in Europe: Introduction to the Volume" (Fons van Wieringen, Graham Attwell); "Introduction to Section 1: Markets and Institutions in Vocational and Adult Education"…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Apprenticeships