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Gorur, Radhika; Wu, Margaret – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
Australia has declared its ambition to be within the "top five" in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) by 2025. So serious is it about this ambition, that the Australian Government has incorporated it into the "Australian Education Act, 2013". Given this focus on PISA results and rankings, we go beyond…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Educational Policy, Federal Legislation
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Cheng, Yahua; Zhang, Jie; Li, Hong; Anderson, Richard; Ding, Fengjiao; Nguyen-Jahiel, Kim; Shu, Hua; Wu, Xinchun – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2015
A study involving 106 fourth graders and two teachers from a school in Beijing investigated the impact of a peer-led, open-format discussion approach, called collaborative reasoning (CR), on students' reading comprehension and teacher's professional learning. Mixed results of effects of CR on children's reading comprehension were found. After…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students