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Sumita Srivastava; Hans Kaushik; Shweta Khemani; Jaspreet Kaur – Review of Education, 2025
Entrepreneurial education plays a vital role in equipping students with the skills and mind-set necessary for success in the dynamic business landscape. While existing literature acknowledges the importance of entrepreneurial education, there is a lack of specific guidance on how courses can be designed to effectively cultivate entrepreneurial…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Business Education, Educational Improvement, Systems Approach
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Saban, Ahmet – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2021
Conducted based on the idea that there are similarities between "action research" and "curriculum development" processes, in this study, the aim was to develop a model that practitioners can use to understand and improve the practical curriculum. To this end, first, the phenomena of "curriculum", "curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Action Research, Models, Problem Solving
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Herman, Rebecca; Wang, Elaine Lin; Gates, Susan M. – RAND Corporation, 2022
The job of the school principal has become much more complex and demanding over the past several decades. Many university-based principal preparation programs--which prepare the majority of school principals--have struggled with how to make the fundamental changes needed to prepare principals for today's schools. To test a path forward, The…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Principals, Educational Cooperation, Curriculum Development
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El-Hamamsy, Laila; Pellet, Jean-Philippe; Roberts, Matthew; Kovacs, Helena; Bruno, Barbara; Zufferey, Jessica Dehler; Mondada, Francesco – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2023
Context: Introducing Computer Science (CS) into formal education can be challenging, notably when considering the numerous stakeholders involved which include the students, teachers, schools, and policy makers. We believe these perspectives should be considered conjointly, which is possible within Research Practice Partnerships (RPPs). RPPs look…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Research and Development, Partnerships in Education, Computer Science Education
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Kaya, Suat – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2021
This study was conducted to examine the needs of the students of cabin services program regarding English in order to guide the design of a vocational English language curriculum. The research design used in this study was the concurrent triangulation approach, one of the mixed methods models. This approach can be used when the researcher collects…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Vocational English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Air Transportation
Kopko, Elizabeth; Brathwaite, Jessica; Raufman, Julia – Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness, 2022
Test-only placement systems are associated with inaccurate placement determinations that can perpetuate college achievement gaps by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES). In response to the pitfalls of traditional, test-only placement systems, colleges across the country are increasingly experimenting with and adopting alternative…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Student Placement, Achievement Gap, Race
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Gardner, Madelyn; Melnick, Hanna; Meloy, Beth; Barajas, Jessica – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
A number of states are considering policy proposals to update credential or degree requirements for early educators. Practitioners, policy experts, and researchers have expressed concern, however, that well-intentioned policies to raise educator qualifications without sufficient supports may have negative consequences for the adequacy; stability;…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Labor Force Development
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Hsu, Funie – CATESOL Journal, 2017
The colonial legacy of English instruction has become especially relevant within the field of TESOL. While it is promising that increasing attention is being paid to the issue of colonialism and its historical and contemporary impact on the teaching of English, educators might be left without a clear sense of how to traverse the precarious path of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Policy, Second Language Instruction
Faxon-Mills, Susannah; Hamilton, Laura S.; Rudnick, Mollie; Stecher, Brian M. – RAND Corporation, 2014
Many states have adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), which emphasize "deeper learning" skills, such as mastery of core academic content, critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration. But can the new tests being developed to align with the CCSS be used to promote deeper learning and high-quality classroom instruction?…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Academic Achievement, Critical Thinking, Participative Decision Making
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Owusu-Manu, D.; Badu, E.; Edwards, D. J. – Industry and Higher Education, 2011
Procurement in the corporate world is increasingly complex, multi-faceted and interdisciplinary. This paper explores existing knowledge specifications relating to procurement management competencies and proposes a new procurement management competency framework (PMCF) and a competency-based postgraduate programme for postgraduate students in…
Descriptors: Purchasing, Competency Based Education, Graduate Study, Business Administration Education
Faxon-Mills, Susannah; Hamilton, Laura S.; Rudnick, Mollie; Stecher, Brian M. – RAND Corporation, 2013
The Hewlett Foundation commissioned RAND to review research about the effects of assessment and to summarize what is known about assessment as a lever for reform. To explore the likely influence of new assessments on teaching practice and the conditions that moderate that relationship, researchers conducted a series of literature reviews. The…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Academic Achievement, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving
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Reid, M. J. – Research in the Schools, 2010
The curriculum deliberations of 3 fourth-grade teachers who met weekly to plan their lessons were explored in this qualitative case study. These teachers participated voluntarily and routinely produced viable plans for the coming week. With their planning meetings recorded and transcribed, the resulting transcripts were analyzed using Schwab's…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Teachers, Case Studies, Transcripts (Written Records)
Brown, Brentt; Vargo, Merrill – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2014
California has embarked on a major new wave of curriculum reform with the adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the new English Language Development (ELD) standards, and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The adoption of the CCSS builds a legacy of standards-based education reform in California that began with the…
Descriptors: State Standards, Program Implementation, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies
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Smith, Barbara Leigh; MacGregor, Jean – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2009
Purpose: In the USA, as elsewhere, there is an ongoing need to improve quality in higher education. Quality improvement models from business have not been widely embraced, and many other approaches to accountability seem to induce minimal compliance. This paper aims to contend that learning communities represent a viable alternative in the quest…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Educational Improvement
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Mooney, Ann; Boddy, Janet; Statham, June; Warwick, Ian – Health Education, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to consider the opportunities and difficulties in developing health-promotion work in early years settings in the UK. Design/methodology/approach: As the first study of its kind conducted in the UK, a multi-method approach was adopted involving: an overview of health-related guidance and of effective…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Health Personnel, Foreign Countries, Health Education
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