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Bedell, Kristin Dana – ProQuest LLC, 2023
"Citizen science" popularly refers to a participatory approach in which lay persons voluntarily contribute data toward scientific enterprise. Although citizen science may provide unique opportunities for pre-college students to engage in data-intensive science practices, little is known about whether or how citizen science interacts with…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Epistemology, Decision Making, Student Participation
Portilla, Ximena A.; Mattera, Shira; Wulfsohn, Samantha – MDRC, 2020
Improving the quality of teaching and instruction takes time and planning and may be costly and require intensive work. This is particularly true when trying to make improvements among multiple preschool sites, because preschool systems often lack a cohesive infrastructure for supporting high-quality implementation of curricula and teacher…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Curriculum, Curriculum Implementation, Educational Quality
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Tee, Meng Yew; Samuel, Moses; Bin Mohd Nor, Norjoharuddeen; Nadarajan, Shanthi – Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2016
Little continues to be known about what actually happens in classrooms, particularly from a national perspective. Descriptions of classroom practices from a national vantage point can provide a bird's eye view of salient patterns and variations within an education system, especially one as centralised as that of Malaysia. With these descriptions,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Educational Practices, Curriculum Implementation
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Mandinach, Ellen B.; Gummer, Edith S. – Educational Researcher, 2013
Data-driven decision making has become increasingly important in education. Policymakers require educators to use data to inform practice. Although the policy emphasis is growing, what has not increased is attention to building human capacity around data use. Educators need to gain data literacy skills to inform practice. Although some…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Schools of Education, Data, Teacher Education Curriculum
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Robinson, Viviane; Phillips, Gwenneth; Timperley, Helen – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2002
Many school reform initiatives now require school leaders to make curriculum and resourcing decisions on the basis of evidence about their likely impact on student achievement. In this paper, we discuss the implications of this policy demand in the context of a descriptive study of schools' capacity to collect, analyze, and use collective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Teacher Leadership, Resource Allocation