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Nazar Khalid; Jere Behrman; Emily Hannum; Amrit Thapa – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2024
Floods cause extensive damage in high-income countries, including the United States, but problems are more severe in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) that lack preventative and mitigating infrastructure. Marginalized children's education in LMICs might be particularly vulnerable. Using the Indian Human Development Survey, we investigate…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Student Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Natural Disasters
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Ali Çagatay Kilinç; Nedim Özdemir – Educational Studies, 2025
This study investigated the mediated distributed leadership effects on student achievement through teacher job satisfaction and disciplinary climate in Turkish high schools. We employed school-, teacher-, and student-level datasets drawn from the 2018 PISA and TALIS datasets and performed a multilevel structural equation model (MSEM). The results…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Centralization, Educational Practices, Teacher Attitudes
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Tierney, William G.; Sabharwal, Nidhi S. – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background/Context: Developing countries desire institutions ranked as "world-class," and want to increase postsecondary participation. Limited public monies require decisions that usually augment the welfare of one objective at the expense of another. An additional conundrum concerns the need for quality assurances. Research needs to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Higher Education, Postsecondary Education
Agustina S. Paglayan – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
Because primary education is often conceptualized as a pro-poor redistributive policy, a common argument is that democratization increases its provision. But primary education can also serve the goals of autocrats, including redistribution, promoting loyalty, nation-building, and/or industrialization. To examine the relationship between…
Descriptors: Mass Instruction, Elementary Education, Role of Education, Democratic Values
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Sharma, Umesh; Forlin, Chris; Marella, Manjula; Jitoko, Filipe – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2017
The Pacific Island countries are committed to promoting disability-inclusive education through enactment of the Pacific Education Development Framework. To support this move, key stakeholders have identified the need for developing local and contextually appropriate indicators for measuring progress of disability-inclusive education. This paper…
Descriptors: Pacific Islanders, Educational Indicators, Inclusion, Disabilities
Custer, Samantha; King, Elizabeth M.; Atinc, Tamar Manuelyan; Read, Lindsay; Sethi, Tanya – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2018
Governments, organizations, and companies are generating copious amounts of data and analysis to support education decision-making around the world. While continued investments in data creation and management are necessary, the ultimate value of information is not in its "production," but its "use." Herein lies one of the…
Descriptors: Surveys, Foreign Countries, Data Collection, Data Analysis
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Wamba, Nathalis – Journal of Education and Learning, 2015
The purpose of this researcher was to examine the in-service experiences of seven headteachers in Luwinga ward in Mzuzu, Malawi, and the challenges they encountered in their first year on the job. A modified version of the questionnaire and interview guide developed by the members of the International Study of the Preparation of Principals at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Principals, Administrator Education
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Ishengoma, Esther; Vaaland, Terje I. – Education & Training, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify important university-industry linkage (UIL) activities that can stimulate the likelihood of employability among students. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 404 respondents located in Tanzania, comprising students, faculty members and employees from 20 companies operating within the oil and…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Universities, Industry, Employment Potential
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Moradi, Fatemeh; Amiripour, Parvaneh – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2017
In this study, an attempt was made to predict the students' mathematical academic underachievement at the Islamic Azad University-Yadegare-Imam branch and the appropriate strategies in mathematical academic achievement to be applied using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model. Survey research methods were used to select 91 students from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prediction, Mathematics Achievement, Low Achievement
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Sandefur, Justin; Pritchett, Lant; Beatty, Amanda – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
The differential patterns of grade progression have direct implications for the calculation of learning profiles. Researchers measure learning in primary school using survey data on reading and math skills of a nationally representative, population-based sample of children in India, Pakistan, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Research demonstrates that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Primary Education, Reading Skills, Mathematics Skills
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Al-Azawei, Ahmed; Parslow, Patrick; Lundqvist, Karsten – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
Although the implementation of e-learning initiatives has reached advanced stages in developed countries, it is still in its infancy in many developing nations and the Middle East in particular. Recently, few public universities in Iraq have initiated limited attempts to use e-learning alongside traditional classrooms. However, different obstacles…
Descriptors: Barriers, Educational Opportunities, Electronic Learning, Program Implementation
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Uba, Chijioke Dike; Nwoga, Kechinyerem Amaka – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2016
Although the need for a better understanding and deconstruction of the barriers that underpin and impede the realisation of inclusive education in many developing countries is acknowledged, few studies focus specifically on exploring how stigma affects the choices that parents in developing countries make on behalf of their children. This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociocultural Patterns, Mothers, Social Bias
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Sopu, Hans T.; Chisaki, Yoshifumi; Usagawa, Tsuyoshi – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
The Kingdom of Tonga is an isolated least developing country located on the northeast of New Zealand with a population of 103,252 (2011 census) and with a gross domestic product per capita of USD $2,545.20. Before educational systems in a least developing country like the Kingdom of Tonga begin employing e-learning, an assessment of the current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Use Studies, Social Media
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Protonotarios, Vassilis; Stoitsis, Giannis; Kastrantas, Kostas; Sanchez-Alonso, Salvador – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2013
Learning analytics is a domain that has been constantly evolving throughout recent years due to the acknowledgement of its importance by those using intelligent data, learner-produced data, and analysis models to discover information and social connections for predicting and advising people's learning [1]. Learning analytics may be applied in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Electronic Learning, Use Studies
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Mudavanhu, Young – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
The objective of my study was to find out teacher educators' views of student teachers in developing nations using Zimbabwe as a case, what they learn and changes that occur. The study was interpretive in nature and used qualitative research methodology. Research participants were teacher educators who had left their countries to either study or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Teacher Attitudes, Student Teachers
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