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Votke, Megan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of the current research is to determine the effect of changing the English Language Art curriculum on the reading growth of fourth-grade students who attended a public school district located in a suburban community in the Northeastern part of the United States. This ex-post facto study is designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the…
Descriptors: English, Language Arts, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
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Wheelahan, Leesa; Moodie, Gavin – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2021
This paper critiques the emergence of micro-credentials in higher education. It argues that micro-credentials build on the discourse of employability skills and 21st century skills within human capital theory, and that they increase the potential of human capital theory to 'discipline' the HE curriculum to align it more closely with putative…
Descriptors: Criticism, Credentials, Higher Education, Employment Potential
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Richards, Jack C.; Pun, Jack – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
The use of English to teach content subjects has been a growing trend in many parts of the world. It is labelled in a variety of ways, such as content-based learning, content and language integrated learning, immersion education, theme-based language teaching, and bilingual education, but it is referred to in this paper as English-medium…
Descriptors: Classification, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Jia, Luo – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2019
This paper applies the key principles of mutuality, and knowledge categorization, along with Bernstein's notions of classification and framing of knowledge, to analyze the transition of Tibetan traditional knowledge into the modern university. This paper presents an action research along with an anecdotal reflection based on the author's personal…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Development, Universities, Minority Groups
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Lee, Heather A. – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2015
If Christian schools desire students to achieve higher-level thinking, then the textbooks that teachers use should reflect such thinking. Using Risner's (1987) methodology, raters classified questions from two Christian publishers' fifth grade reading textbooks based on the revised Bloom's taxonomy (Anderson et al., 2001). The questions in the A…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Christianity, Textbooks, Thinking Skills
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Latif, Rabia – Advances in Physiology Education, 2014
Lecture-Based Teaching (LBT) remains the predominant form of teaching in healthcare profession education. It is excellent in providing an overview of a particular topic to a large number of students. However, the concern, which has been highlighted time and again, is the monotony and passive nature of this form of information transmission, which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Medical Students
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Reynolds-Young, Danielle; Hood, Sally – ORTESOL Journal, 2014
Although course assignments require English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher candidates to design activities, performance assessments, and lessons that balance the teaching of the English language and academic content, the ESL teacher candidates remain perplexed as to how to teach without a prescribed curriculum. The answer is challenging, given…
Descriptors: Course Content, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Achieve, Inc., 2010
This appendix accompanies the report "Taking the Lead in Science Education: Forging Next-Generation Science Standards. International Science Benchmarking Report," a study conducted by Achieve to compare the science standards of 10 countries. This appendix includes the following: (1) PISA and TIMSS Assessment Rankings; (2) Courses and…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Foreign Countries, Science Education, Research Skills
Weiler, Hans N. – 1979
This paper provides a critical review of the state of the comparative study of educational innovation and reform and proceeds to identify a number of theoretical issues and challenges on which further comparative work is likely to shed additional light. The review portion of the paper deals with the heuristic, political, and theoretical utility of…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Classification, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education
Banathy, Bela H. – 1969
The potential value and limitations of contrastive linguistic analysis (CLA) in pedagogical application are examined in this article. Attempts to quantify learning tasks in the modes of difference and difficulty are illustrated by the use of four diagrams: (1) a method of computing actual learning tasks, (2) two contrastive continuums, (3) a…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Course Objectives
Jacobs, Paul I.; White, Margaret N. – 1971
The present study was undertaken to assess whether training that was known to produce transfer within the Cognition of Figural Relations (CFR) domain of Guilford's Structure-of-Intellect model would also produce transfer to other operations in Guilford's model. Fifty subjects, matched for pretest score on a double classification task, were…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development
Pritchard, Florence Fay – 1993
This paper is the introduction to a workshop session demonstrating how English and language-arts teachers can teach critical thinking and writing simultaneously to students in grades 4 through 14. It describes how to transform specific skills into frames for critical thinking and writing such as: (1) explaining; (2) categorizing; (3) comparing and…
Descriptors: Classification, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Critical Thinking
Moore, Julie; Knuth, Randy; Borse, Jennifer; Mitchell, Marlon – 1999
Two recent trends in education--increased technology and accountability--are driving efforts to define technology competencies and standards for teachers. The first lists of competencies from these efforts are just now being completed. While some of these competencies are linked to teacher certification and re-certification, others are developed…
Descriptors: Accountability, Benchmarking, Classification, Comparative Analysis