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Tienken, Christopher H. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2013
Education bureaucrats in 45 states have approved the Common Core State Standards ([CCSS], 2010) as the de facto national curriculum. The implementation of the CCSS will be monitored by a national standardized test in language arts and mathematics. The confluence of a standardized curriculum enforced with a standardized test will entrench a…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Curriculum Development, National Standards, Standardized Tests
Chan, Selena – International Journal of Training Research, 2016
In 2008, the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA), responsible for the quality assurance of all qualifications, embarked on a review of all qualifications between Levels 1 and 6 on the 10-level National Qualifications Framework (NQF). The review process mandated the reviewed qualifications to be founded on outcome statements of graduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, Qualifications, Standard Setting
Rowland, Charity Mary; Quinn, Emily Dayle; Steiner, Sandra A. M. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2015
The Individualized Education Program (IEP) is a legal document developed for each student with a disability. The IEP outlines the student's learning needs and associated educational goals, as well as the program placement and services required to support the attainment of these goals in the least restrictive environment. Most IEPs include all…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Individualized Education Programs, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Academic Standards
Johnson, Ian M. – Education for Information, 2013
The Bologna Declaration of 1999 is the basis for continuing reforms in higher education intended to support international mobility in employment within the European Union. This paper describes the standardised structure and nomenclature for courses that have been implemented, together with a credit transfer system, a quality assurance regime, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Academic Degrees, National Standards
Allen, Martin – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2013
Well before the examinations grade crisis of 2012, Michael Gove had set out clear intentions for reforming public examinations. Though he claimed to be improving examinations and assessment by replicating practices that took place in high-performing countries and thus improving the ability of the UK economy to "compete", this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Standards, Educational Change, Standardized Tests
Evers, Williamson M. – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2015
This report provides the historical background and interpretive analysis needed to understand controversies surrounding Common Core and its associated tests. In this report, Williamson M. Evers presents a revised and expanded version of his expert report for "Jindal v. United States Department of Education et al.," No. 14-CV- 534 (M.D.…
Descriptors: Federal Regulation, Common Core State Standards, Compliance (Legal), Educational History
Rothman, Robert – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2013
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) represent the first time that nearly every state has set common expectations for what students should know and be able to do. In the past, each state set its own standards, and the results varied widely. And while states collectively developed these common standards, decisions about the curriculum and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, Standard Setting, Benchmarking
Robinson, Sandra P. A., Ed.; Knight, Verna, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
Critical thinking is an essential skill for learners and teachers alike. Therefore, it is essential that educators be given practical strategies for improving their critical thinking skills as well as methods to effectively provide critical thinking skills to their students. The "Handbook of Research on Critical Thinking and Teacher Education…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods
Miwa, Makiko; Kasai, Yumiko; Miyahara, Shizuko – Education for Information, 2011
The GlobaLIS Project intends to attain the globalization of Japanese library and information science (LIS) professional education by defining the requirements for internationally transparent and harmonized educational programs for LIS professionals. We asked three research questions in a stepwise manner: (1) What are the basic requirements for…
Descriptors: Library Education, Curriculum Development, Global Approach, Quality Control
Minkara, Mona S.; Weaver, Michael N.; Gorske, Jim; Bowers, Clifford R.; Merz, Kenneth M., Jr. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
There exists a sparse representation of blind and low-vision students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. This is due in part to these individuals being discouraged from pursuing STEM degrees as well as a lack of appropriate adaptive resources in upper level STEM courses and research. Mona Minkara is a rising fifth…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Blindness, Chemistry, Doctoral Programs
Conley, David T. – Educational Leadership, 2011
The Common Core State Standards, released in June 2010, offer an opportunity to shift education away from shallow, test-prep instruction and toward a focus on key cognitive skills, writes Conley. Two consortia of states are now developing common assessments to measure these standards--assessments that will be designed to capture deeper, more…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, State Standards, Thinking Skills, Educational Needs
Sesso, Gloria – History Teacher, 2009
In this article, the author recalls the time she met Gary Nash at UCLA on July 13, 1992, when they began the work of creating the National Standards in History. Professor Nash was the leader in the development of the United States History Standards. In creating the Standards, they were to focus on Historical Thinking. They needed to organize the…
Descriptors: United States History, Historical Interpretation, Females, Teachers
McBride, Holly – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2012
According to the author, last year they set out to apply the four-step approach that they found in research from the University of Kentucky to design a unit for their language arts curriculum. They identified the appropriate standards, figured out what skills they would teach in conformance with the standards and what outcomes were expected, and…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Units of Study, Activity Units, Program Descriptions
Manley, Katherine – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J3), 2013
The strength of our nation's economy is dependent on a workforce that is highly skilled, and skilled workers are in high demand. Institutions preparing these individuals for employment have high expectations to meet. Since 1998 when the Department of Labor released the Workforce Investment Act, employers, and the nation as a whole, have been…
Descriptors: Corporate Education, Partnerships in Education, Job Skills, Vocational Education
Boud, F.; Bayard, O.; Chatti, S.; Axinte, D.; Nicolescu, M.; Agirre, J. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2009
The need for a flexible and versatile workforce that is constantly learning and upgrading its skills has led to a continual demand for courses in which employees are re-trained and updated on a lifelong basis. Students and workers now have to be prepared for a labour market in which they can be expected to change jobs many times, and they need to…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Lifelong Learning, Engineering Education, Curriculum Development