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Shaima Banu Illahibaccus-Sona – Journal of Education in Muslim Societies, 2024
This study addresses the moral and behavioral decline among Mauritian youths that followed introduction of the CPP Value-Based Differentiated model which integrates moral and spiritual values into teaching practices. Evaluation involving university and high school students, along with instructors, indicates the model's effectiveness in instilling…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Values Education, High School Students, College Students
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Lam, Man-Ho Adrian – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2022
The sudden and unprecedented outbreak of the global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has brought along a series of abrupt and sweeping disruptions to almost all learning systems around the world. The pandemic has simultaneously revealed many weaknesses and problems associated with the existing educational model, which serves as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change
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Susan L. Douglass – Journal of Education in Muslim Societies, 2022
Education reform has focused on academic standards, but curriculum is still weighed down by outdated subject-area categories that are reinforced through various practices and institutions. T his article examines the possibilities for an integrative curriculum model that can accommodate the broad goals of holistic education and the needs of society…
Descriptors: Barriers, Educational Change, Academic Standards, Holistic Approach
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Kert, Serhat Bahadir; Kalelioglu, Filiz; Gulbahar, Yasemin – Informatics in Education, 2019
In this study, effectiveness of a computer science course at the secondary school level is investigated through a holistic approach addressing the dimensions of instructional content design, development, implementation and evaluation framed according to ADDIE instructional design model where evaluation part constituted the research process for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach, Computer Science Education, Secondary Education
Telfer-Radzat, Kimberly – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Despite a 100-year-old history and the existence of schools in nearly every country in the world, Waldorf education is a little known and poorly understood educational model that was developed in Europe by Austrian philosopher Rudolph Steiner. For many years it existed in the United States in the form of private schools. Few of their teachers or…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Educational Philosophy
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French, Erica; Summers, Jane; Kinash, Shelley; Lawson, Romy; Taylor, Tracy; Herbert, James; Fallshaw, Eveline; Hall, Cathy – Quality in Higher Education, 2014
There remains a lack of published empirical data on the substantive outcomes of higher learning and the establishment of quality processes for determining them. Studies that do exist are nationally focused with available rankings of institutions reflecting neither the quality of teaching and learning nor the diversity of institutions. This article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Quality Assurance, Outcomes of Education
Kaplan, Claire; Chan, Roy – National Center on Time & Learning, 2012
This report reshapes the field for expanded-time schools by outlining specific practices that can lead to dramatic increases in student achievement and preparation for success in college and the workforce. This report offers an in-depth examination of 30 expanded-time schools serving high-poverty populations with impressive track records of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Schedules, Time Management, Time Factors (Learning)
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Heiland, Linda; Switzer-Kemper, Cathy – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2007
Central Arizona College successfully defined student learning outcomes and is building a culture of evidence to support the Learning Paradigm. Recent data indicate great strides in the improvement of student learning. Qualitative research produced meaningful comparisons of leadership and faculty perceptions of the process of developing student…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education, Higher Education
Perna, Daniel M.; Davis, James R. – 2000
This book provides classroom teachers at every grade level and subject the tools and background to effectively work with standards as a guide in their planning. It explains the process by which educators can rearticulate state standards and align the locally rearticulated standards to their curriculum and student performance. Six chapters include:…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
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Robson, Maggie; Cohen, Norah; McGuiness, John – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 1999
Recent educational reforms in the United Kingdom have had the effect of compartmentalizing children's education into measurable outcomes (usually academic) and of undervaluing its socioemotional aspects. Introduces a symposium presenting different views of the implications of these reforms. Encourages all professionals involved in education to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Development, Economic Factors
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Garton, Susan – NASSP Bulletin, 1984
Recommended strategies for improving the education of economically disadvantaged students include dispelling teacher misconception, hiring teachers from disadvantaged backgrounds, using noncredentialed staff from the community, emphasizing mastery learning and holistic teaching, and revising the curriculum to incorporate heterogeneously grouped…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Holistic Approach
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Drake, Susan – Urban Review, 1992
Describes a case study focusing on the first year of a three-year change initiative in which holistic curriculum was implemented in a kindergarten through grade-eight school (Simcoe Street School) in Ontario (Canada). Documents the success of the implementation and its continued use as part of school philosophy. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Curriculum Development
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2007
In this report, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's (ASCD's) Commission on the Whole Child advances five major recommendations for ensuring that all children are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. This report frames education within the most fundamental context--the personalized engagement and nurturing of the…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Policy Formation, Curriculum Development, School Safety
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Ruiz, Nadeen T.; Figueroa, Richard A. – Education and Urban Society, 1995
Describes a longitudinal research project to introduce holistic-constructivistic pedagogy into bilingual special education classrooms. The authors report the process of teacher change as teachers shifted from a medical model to a contextual-performance model for viewing abilities and disabilities, the changes in students' attitudes toward reading…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Development, Educationally Disadvantaged
Instructor, 1992
Research suggests children have seven distinct intelligences (linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal). The article presents ideas to help elementary teachers develop intelligences in their students. It describes the project approach to providing multiple opportunities for using…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education