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Patrício, Lurdes D.; Ferreira, João J. – Higher Education Quarterly, 2023
As key players in innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems, Higher Education Institutions (HEI) assume a position as catalysts in creating and disseminating knowledge with repercussions in the societal, economic, political and innovation environments. In this scenario, HEI are facing the need to balance the performance of their traditional…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Comparative Analysis, Universities, Entrepreneurship
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National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2025
Also known as The Nation's Report Card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of student achievement and their learning experiences in various subjects for the nation, states, and 27 urban districts. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is currently…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Innovation, Futures (of Society), Achievement Tests
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Aydarova, Elena; Rigney, James; Dana, Nancy – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2021
As attacks on teacher education mount, teacher educators have been urged to take a more active part in policy deliberations. Yet the question of how teacher educators get their voices heard in policy contexts that are not receptive to their expertise remains underinvestigated. This qualitative case study addresses this gap by exploring the work of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teacher Educators, Advocacy, Neoliberalism
Yonaton Hillel Yares – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Quality high-school advising is essential to ensuring access to higher education. However, while efforts are being made in a number of areas to improve access to higher education, there has not yet been enough work done to assess the impact of DEI initiatives on post-secondary advising and, in turn, on college access for underserved students.…
Descriptors: Diversity, Inclusion, Equal Education, School Districts
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Puertas, Eloi – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2022
During the past COVID pandemic crisis, teachers of any level must adapt their teaching methodologies to an online learning environment. One of the fears most aspects was the course assessment. Nonetheless, a lot of teachers were attracted to using new tools, that previously exists on their online platforms. In Universitat de Barcelona learning was…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries
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Parcerisa, Lluís; Verger, Antoni; Pagès, Marcel; Browes, Natalie – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2022
In recent decades, the governance of educational systems has experienced dramatic changes in many countries. Schools have been given more autonomy whilst being held increasingly accountable at the central level through standardized testing and other forms of external evaluation. The mechanisms of performance-based accountability (PBA) and the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Professional Autonomy, Comparative Analysis, Performance Based Assessment
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Hildebrandt, Susan A.; Swanson, Pete – NECTFL Review, 2019
Used by over 800 educator preparation programs in more than 40 states and the District of Columbia, edTPA seeks to measure content-specific outcomes of beginning teachers as a high-stakes assessment. Many states also use edTPA to inform teacher licensure or certification decisions, making the assessment consequential for individual teacher…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
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Klapp, Alli; Jönsson, Anders – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2021
National goals and performance standards were introduced in Sweden during the 1990s as part of a curriculum reform. The intention was to detect shortcomings among students and provide support to those students who did not reach the passing grade in one (or several) subject/s. Despite this reform, approximately one-fourth of the students do not…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Foreign Countries, Educational Objectives, Factor Analysis
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McDonald, Fiona J.; Reynolds, John N. J.; Bixley, Ann; Spronken-Smith, Rachel A. – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2017
This study aimed to evaluate and compare approaches to learning by a longitudinal cohort of undergraduate students as they progressed from their first to third years of study in anatomy and physiology. "The Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students" (ASSIST) was completed at the beginning and end of their first year of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Learning Strategies, Educational Change, Longitudinal Studies
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Froneman, Sonica; Plotz, Mariana; Benadé, Trudie; Vorster, Hannatjie – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2015
The traditional transmission-based school curriculum in South Africa has been replaced by an outcomes-based school curriculum since 1998. In this article we report on a comparative study on the mathematical knowledge and skills of two cohorts of first-year students: the last cohort to be exposed to a transmission curriculum in Grades 10-12 and the…
Descriptors: Mathematical Aptitude, Mathematics Skills, Cohort Analysis, Comparative Analysis
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Hillman, Nicholas W.; Tandberg, David A.; Fryar, Alisa H. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2015
In 2007, Washington adopted the Student Achievement Initiative, a statewide performance accountability system designed to improve retention rates and degree productivity among community colleges. Using difference-in-differences analysis, we found that the policy change has had little immediate effect on retention rates or associate's degree…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Higher Education, Accountability, Community Colleges
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Denton, David W. – AILACTE Journal, 2013
Some states have used new teacher performance assessments in an attempt to improve teacher quality for more than two decades. New teacher performance assessments include performance expectations, scoring rubrics, and writing prompts, which are organized into subject-specific handbooks. Teacher candidates completing performance assessments assemble…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Portfolios (Background Materials), Educational Change
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Lenkeit, Jenny; Caro, Daniel H. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2014
Reports of international large-scale assessments tend to evaluate and compare education system performance based on absolute scores. And policymakers refer to high-performing and economically prosperous education systems to enhance their own systemic features. But socioeconomic differences between systems compromise the plausibility of those…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Socioeconomic Influences, Educational Policy
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Shin, Jung Cheol; Jung, Jisun – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2014
This study examined job satisfaction and job stress across 19 higher education systems. We classified the 19 countries according to their job satisfaction and job stress and applied regression analysis to test whether new public management has impacts on either or both job satisfaction and job stress. According to this study, strong market driven…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Educational Environment, Educational Change, College Faculty
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Wu, Mei-Jiun – Teachers College Record, 2013
Background/Context: Recently emerged with the implementation of the California's Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999 and the NCLB Act of 2001 is an increase in the number of education production function studies estimating the relationship between educational inputs and APIs. While the majority of past research on California school…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Student Characteristics, Demography, Educational Resources
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