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Haider, Usman; Batool, Syeda Hina; Malik, Amara; Mahmood, Khalid; Safdar, Muhmmad – Information and Learning Sciences, 2022
Purpose: Reporters are considered unique in terms of their information needs and seeking from other groups of masses. As they are running information business, the purpose of the study is to know about their skills of seeking, evaluating and engaging with information effectively and efficiently. Design/methodology/approach: A cross-sectional…
Descriptors: Journalism, Internet, Information Literacy, Search Strategies
Prentice, Caitlin M.; Ott, Eleanor – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2021
Schools play a key role in the lives of young refugees and asylum seekers, yet it is unclear to what extent educators are prepared to effectively teach this population. In this study, we examined how educators acquire knowledge relevant to teaching refugee pupils through a survey (n = 295) and nestled case studies of 17 teachers at two schools in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Teaching Methods, Teacher Education
Rehm, Martin; Daly, Alan; Bjorklund, Peter; Liou, Yi-Hwa; del Fresno, Miguel – Elementary School Journal, 2021
Educational leadership is a widely discussed topic in educational science. However, although the study of social networks in (informal) educational settings is gaining interest in recent years, the intersection between leadership and online social networks has received limited attention. This article investigates the informal sets of networks in…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Elementary Schools, Principals, Faculty Development
Ketting, Evert; Brockschmidt, Laura; Ivanova, Olena – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2021
The purposes of this paper are: to assess how comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is implemented in schools in the World Health Organisation's European Region; and to investigate the evidence supporting its effectiveness. Data were collected in 2016-2017, using a validated questionnaire sent to representatives of governmental and…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sex Education, Program Implementation, Teaching Methods
Mungai, David N. – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Environmental Sustainability Performance Contract (PC) targets were introduced in the 2012/13 financial year as part of the broader public sector reforms and a strategy for performance improvement in the public service that includes Kenyan public universities. However, no evaluation has been conducted to assess performance improvement and impact.…
Descriptors: Sustainability, State Universities, Foreign Countries, Reports
Kayhan, Nilay; Özaydin, Latife – Journal of Education and Learning, 2018
Down syndrome (DS), one of the developmental (cognitive) deficits, is the most common syndrome that arises from genetic disorders. The mothers of children with DS who encounter the most intense emotional situations since the tendency to take responsibility the children's care and development usually belongs them. Among these intensive feelings,…
Descriptors: Mainstreaming, Parent Attitudes, Down Syndrome, Preschool Children
Hepworth, Allison D. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The ultimate aim of translational research in the prevention sciences is to establish evidence-based programs and services that facilitate the adoption or maintenance of positive health behaviors. Success is indicated by reductions in the incidence of mental and behavioral health disorders at the individual and population levels, and universal…
Descriptors: Infants, Prevention, Health Behavior, Obesity
Gordon, Jessica E.; Ball, Anna L. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2017
Undergraduate epistemology typically transitions from an absolute perspective with a reliance on external knowledge authority to a more open epistemology that utilizes metacognition to evaluate knowledge claims. In the undergraduate agricultural classroom, student epistemic development, combined with deeply embedded agricultural beliefs and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Knowledge Level, Epistemology, Metacognition
Hopkins, Liza; Lorains, Jen; Issaka, Ayuba; Podbury, Rachel – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2017
Participation in early childhood development and education services is an important contributor to how well children develop throughout their early years and their success later in life. This article reports on research which examined how multicultural groups identify and use their community connections to share information and inform…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Decision Making, Cultural Pluralism
Wang, Jie; Xu, Fenghua – Chinese Education & Society, 2014
Using the Wuling Mountain area as a case study, the authors discuss the significance as well as five problems of developing information technology for vocational education in contiguous destitute areas. Recommendations are provided at the end of the article. [Translated by Michelle LeSourd.]
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Vocational Education, Equal Education
Education Week, 2012
"Quality Counts 2012," the 16th edition of "Education Week"'s annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Public Education, Educational Quality, Competition
Alexander, Nicola A.; Choi, Wonseok – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
We provide an expanded environmental scan to assess the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) faced by education communities. Grounded in the literature, we identified 48 indicators and grouped them into 6 broad categories: (1) budget levels, (2) funding patterns, (3) community needs, (4) external economic conditions, (5)…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Urban Schools, Educational Assessment, Educational Indicators
Roy, Carole – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2012
The importance of alternative forms of information is undeniable in a democratic society. Yet mass media often ignore important issues as well as grassroots struggles and victories. Over the past two decades, citizens of one small Canadian town have initiated a documentary film festival as a means to learn about diverse problems and/or share…
Descriptors: Mass Media, Access to Information, Information Sources, Information Dissemination
Khoboli, Benedict; Kibirige, Israel; O'Toole, J. Mitchell – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2013
This case study analyses teachers' presentations made during a professional development workshop on the implementation of learner-centred science teaching in Lesotho secondary schools. Teachers revealed their understanding of learner-centred teaching through products such as pictures, diagrams, stories including metaphors and letters. These…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Educational Policy, Science Curriculum
Kanbar, Nancy – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2012
The population growth together with the unsustainable consumption pattern is putting increasing stress on the planet's natural resources. The increasing realisation that humans are harming the environment is taking the form of a global movement intended to change behaviour towards sustainability, now recognised as a framework that links humans to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Arabs, Business Administration Education