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de Freitas, Rogério Gonçalves; Chaves, Vera Lúcia Jacob; Nozaki, Hajime Takeuchi – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD) created the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) as a political actor in global education through a logic of governance by numbers (Grek, 2009). This article discusses how PISA has became a major showcase for the OECD as an assessment tool par excellence while also…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Neoliberalism, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
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Samei, Borhan; Olney, Andrew M.; Kelly, Sean; Nystrand, Martin; D'Mello, Sidney; Blanchard, Nathan; Sun, Xiaoyi; Glaus, Marcy; Graesser, Art – Grantee Submission, 2014
We present a machine learning model that uses particular attributes of individual questions asked by teachers and students to predict two properties of classroom discourse that have previously been linked to improved student achievement. These properties, uptake and authenticity, have previously been studied by using trained observers to live-code…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Models, Discourse Analysis, Academic Discourse
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Thomas, Sue; Keogh, Jayne; Hay, Steve – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
Recent education policy places a heavy emphasis on parents in relation to students' success at school. This paper explores how parents and teachers account for school success. Using membership categorisation analysis, it interrogates data collected in different interview situations across sites over a period of 20 years. The analysis shows how…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Policy, Parent Attitudes, Classification
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Liu, Eric Zhi-Feng; Cheng, Shan-Shan; Lin, Chun Hung – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2013
Online Q&A discussion forums have recently become important information resources for students and studies have shown that online discussion forums have a positive influence on learning outcomes. However, it remains unclear how the specific characteristics of these forums contribute to this effect. This paper employed a set of evaluative…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Discussion, Information Sources