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Michael Graffin; Rachel Sheffield; Rekha Koul – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2022
The international "FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL): Challenge" is a popular educational robotics and STEM competition designed to promote primary and early high school students' STEM interests and careers, and twenty-first century skill development. The "FLL Challenge" currently involves over 318,000 students (aged 9-16 years) in…
Descriptors: Robotics, Competition, STEM Education, Student Attitudes
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Dulun, Öykü; Lane, Jennie F.; Ateskan, Armagan – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2019
This study used comparative case study methodology to investigate student perceptions of different programmes that prepare them for a challenging high school education programme: the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP). Given the benefits and challenges of the programme, educators and stakeholders want to ensure students feel…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, International Schools, High Schools
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Artelt, Cordula; Schneider, Wolfgang – Teachers College Record, 2015
Background/Context: Because metacognitive knowledge includes knowledge about adequate learning strategies, and because an effective use of learning strategies is associated with higher levels of performance, substantial relationships can be assumed between metacognitive knowledge, strategic behavior, and performance. However, such a pattern of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Knowledge Level, Learning Strategies, Reading Skills
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Myers, Brian E.; Barrick, R. Kirby; Samy, Mohamed M. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to assess Egyptian Agricultural Technical School (ATS) teachers' implementation of active learning strategies in their classrooms. Methods: The Stages of Concern Questionnaire was administered to 230 participants in active learning workshops. After eliminating headmasters, supervisors and people no longer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Schools, Learning Strategies, Innovation
Asian Centre of Educational Innovation for Development, Bangkok (Thailand). – 1984
Eleven participants from six countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, and the Republic of Korea) participated in the UNESCO regional workshop which is the subject of this report. The four objectives of the workshop were to: (1) review and exchange experiences on research and pilot studies to improve teaching/learning…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Educational Development, Educational Research
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Massey, Alf; Hamnett, Lisa – International Schools Journal, 2001
States that making simple comparisons of test results between different schools, countries, or subjects can often produce misleading results. Illustrates the kinds of problems that can arise by investigating the results obtained by candidates from Egypt in Cambridge International Examinations' June 1998 International General Certificate of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Biculturalism, Bilingualism, Cross Cultural Studies