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Schmidt, William H.; Houang, Richard T.; Sullivan, William F.; Cogan, Leland S. – OECD Publishing, 2022
The OECD Future of Education and Skills 2030 (E2030) project's overall goal is that of looking to the future in terms of how school curricula should evolve given the technological advances and other changes that societies are now facing. Towards that end, the E2030 project centres on the idea that education needs to equip students with the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Futures (of Society), Mathematics Curriculum, Educational Trends
Polat-Yaseen, Zeynep – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
This study was designed for two major goals, which are to describe students' mental models about atom concept from 6th to 8th grade and to compare students' mental models with visual representations of atom in textbooks. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected with 4 open-ended questions including drawings which were quantified using the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Schemata (Cognition), Visualization
Gove, Amber; Cvelich, Peter – RTI International, 2011
As necessary as reading is to the success of a child--and entire nations--many low-income countries overlook the fundamental duty of their school systems to produce readers. Galvanized by the Education For All (EFA) mission to provide universal access to primary education by 2015, donors and low-income countries have focused on scaling up inputs…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, International Education, Textbooks, Beginning Reading
Parveva, Teodora; Noorani, Sogol; Ranguelov, Stanislav; Motiejunaite, Akvile; Kerpanova, Viera – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2011
Competence in mathematics is integral to a wide range of disciplines, professions and areas of life. This Eurydice report reveals crucial elements of the policies and practices that shape mathematics instruction in European education systems, focusing on reforms of mathematics curricula, teaching and assessment methods, as well as teacher…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Low Achievement, Teacher Education Programs, Mathematics Curriculum
Abu Nasr, Julinda; And Others – 1983
This document is divided into two parts: (1) "A Study of Sex Role Stereotype in Arabic Readers" and (2) "A Guide for the Identification and Elimination of Sexism in Arabic Textbooks." In part 1, a sample of 79 Arabic readers were read word for word and the images pertaining to females were recorded. The results of the survey…
Descriptors: Arabs, Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education, Females
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Heyneman, Stephen P.; And Others – 1978
This paper reviews studies from twelve less-industrialized countries on the relationship between textbook availability and academic achievement. The studies included a variety of measures, methodologies, and reporting procedures and focused on different achievement indicators, for example, math, science, reading, and language. The paper points out…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Statistical Studies
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 1984
This study describes the provision of elementary education in Papua New Guinea. Chapter One briefly discusses streams of primary education, hiring of teachers, education boards, and the ministry of education. Chapter Two describes the existing education system in terms of compulsory education, the structure of the education system, educational…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Elementary Education
Engin, Ali Osman – Online Submission, 2006
This research has been done to find out the factors influencing the students' successes in learning a foreign language (English). In other words, the effects of the methods and techniques, used by the teachers on the staff to teach the chosen foreign language, on the students' success. The main aim of our study is to make the foreign language…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
Alberta Learning, Edmonton. – 2002
The Learning Equation (TLE) is a software product that provides mathematics programming to students. It was introduced to grade 9 students in Alberta in 1997-1998, and in 1998-1999, its use was extended to grades 7, 8, and 10. TLE is designed to follow the Alberta mathematics curriculum closely. It can be implemented in several ways, and in some…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Software Development, Computer Software Evaluation
Ahmad, Qazi Kholiquzzaman – Asian-South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education, 2007
The main objective of the study is to gain an understanding on educational expenditure at primary and secondary levels in Bangladesh. In estimating educational expenditure by source, it has been sought to determine: (1) sources of financing of primary and secondary education; (2) rural-urban variation; (3) variation between boys and girls; (4)…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Budgets, Textbooks, Secondary Education
Mikk, Jaan – Online Submission, 2005
The good knowledge of the correlates of educational achievement highlights the ways to the efficient use of economic and human capital in raising the efficiency of education. The present paper investigates the correlates and compares the values of the correlates for the Republic of Lithuania with the average international values. The data for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Correlation
Bodenman, Paul S. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1959
The Office of Education frequently receives requests for information regarding the educational developments in the Soviet Zone of Germany. This bulletin is issued by the Office of Education as another in its longstanding series of international education publications. Unlike most bulletins in this series that are based on firsthand interviews and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Administration, Technical Education, Educational Facilities
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1880
In this report, the Commissioner of Education presents a general review of the U.S. educational condition, discusses the work of the Commissioner's office, and offers summaries of education statistics, using diagrams. Also provided are a summary of educational condition in the states and territories and comparative statistics and remarks on…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, School Statistics, Communicable Diseases, Whites