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Jaafar, Sonia Ben; Bodolica, Virginia; Spraggon, Martin – Educational Review, 2023
The academic literature pertaining to the discipline of international education acknowledges that the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme is expanding globally. Given the growing influence of the IB on international schooling, our study seeks to map the field of IB research drawing on a systematic review of 295 documents published from…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Educational Research, Educational Development, Academic Achievement
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Christopher Bridge; Dell Horey; Brianna Julien; Belinda Thompson; Birgit Loch – Student Success, 2024
It has long been recognised that a key element in improving student transition, retention and success in higher education is cross-institutional consistency and unity of action among disparate academic, policy and support units. However, transferring this principle into practice often requires overcoming departmental silos, negotiating shared…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Student Experience, Communities of Practice
Francisco Javier Olvera Callejas – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation argues for an expansive understanding of academic fiction in the postwar period--specifically as associated with the rise and fall of the "Golden Age of the American University"--beyond the conventional forms of the campus and academic novel. Rather than restricting academic fiction solely to types of novels that are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Educational History, Educational Trends
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Adam Barton; Gloria Lee – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2024
The scorching, arid northeastern state of Ceará, Brazil has long been known for growing cashews and coconuts. Now, it's defied expectations by cultivating one of the world's best public elementary school systems, despite high rates of poverty. How Sobral transformed its public school system and attained near-universal literacy offers lessons for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Elementary Schools, Poverty
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José Luis Jiménez-Andrade; Ricardo Arencibia-Jorge; Miguel Robles-Pérez; Julia Tagüeña; Tzipe Govezensky; Humberto Carrillo-Calvet; Rafael A. Barrio; Kimmo Kaski – Research Evaluation, 2024
This paper analyzes the research performance evolution of a scientific institute, from its genesis through various stages of development. The main aim is to obtain, and visually represent, bibliometric evidence of the correlation of organizational changes on the development of its scientific performance; particularly, structural and leadership…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Performance, Bibliometrics, Correlation
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Muweesi Charles; Marcellina Athieno; Muhamadi Kaweesi; Kaahwa Yuda Taddeo; Anthony Muwagga Mugagga – European Journal of Education, 2025
The study sought to establish the contribution of infrastructural availability to school growth and sustainable improvement of academic performance in selected secondary schools in Tororo District. The study employed a qualitative approach, and data were collected from school administrators, the management team and teachers using open-ended…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement
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Yudai Ishii; Keiichi Ogawa – Educational Process: International Journal, 2024
Background/purpose: School-based management (SBM) has gained international attention for the promotion of student learning and educational development. Senegal is one of the initiatives of French speaking African countries that adopted the move towards promoting SBM at the school level, but lacks substantial evidence of its effectiveness in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, African Culture, School Based Management
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Mulugeta Tsegai Gebre-eyesus; Nigusse Weldemariam Reda – Africa Education Review, 2024
War and conflict have long been recognised as impediments to economic and social development in countries worldwide. However, the specific impact of war on education, particularly in regions engaged in internal conflicts with their central governments, remains under-documented. The Tigray War, a protracted and multifaceted conflict in the Tigray…
Descriptors: War, Conflict, Sustainable Development, Learning Motivation
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Wheeler, Lindsay B.; Bach, Dorothe – International Journal for Academic Development, 2021
This study explored three US educational development (ED) programs: a weeklong course design institute, a new faculty learning community (NFLC), and a STEM learning community (STEM-LC). We compared observed instruction and student achievement for 239 STEM undergraduate courses taught by instructors who had or had not engaged in ED. Courses taught…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Evaluation, Faculty Development, STEM Education
Eric Stribling – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Engineering higher education is growing rapidly across the world, especially in the Global South. For many of these countries, the dominant engineering university models were imported and established by colonial European empires. These imported systems of higher education and engineering evolved to meet the local contexts of Europe and the United…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Higher Education, Colonialism, Foreign Countries
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Hugues Engel – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2025
Thanks to a wealth of research on college student retention, we have today a good understanding of the factors that facilitate student success. However, actions taken to promote student success are far from always effective. The teaching-learning environments differ between institutions and provide, to a greater or lesser extent, the conditions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Romance Languages, Classical Languages
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Feng, Siyuan – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2021
Private supplementary tutoring, or shadow education, has become a global phenomenon, and China is among the countries where it is most prevalent. By 2019, China's private tutoring industry had grown into a prominent sector providing educational services to millions of students and parents. This article examines the development process of shadow…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Private Education, Tutoring, Commercialization
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Siyam, Nur; Hussain, Malak – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2022
Curriculum mapping is a method in which teachers record the operational curriculum to be used for ongoing curriculum review and development. Therefore, schools aim to establish a fluid system for maintaining and updating the curriculum. As teachers are the main practitioners of curriculum mapping, this study aimed to investigate the factors that…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Curriculum Development, Educational Development, Concept Mapping
Hemphill, Clara – Teachers College Press, 2023
In cities across the United States, affluent White newcomers are moving into historically Black neighborhoods, presenting both a challenge and an opportunity for public schools. In many cases, the newcomers either avoid their local schools or use their political power to push aside families who have lived in the neighborhood for years. But there's…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Community Schools, Public Schools, Urban Schools
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Scott, Ian – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2018
South Africa's higher education system is falling far short of producing the mix of competent graduates required to meet the country's need for social and economic development. The problem of poor patterns of student success is longstanding, and is persisting despite the policy changes and many educationally sound interventions that have taken…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Educational Development
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