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Burke, Lindsey M.; Kissel, Adam; Alacbay, Armand; Beltramini, Kyle – Heritage Foundation, 2023
Higher education accreditation creates barriers to entry for innovative start-ups while being a poor gauge of program quality and student outcomes. What began as a voluntary system became a de facto requirement, with accreditors abusing their power. To harness the potential of new learning modes, policymakers should consider meaningful structural…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Educational Quality, Quality Control
OECD Publishing, 2020
Kazakhstan has made tremendous progress in ensuring universal access to primary and lower-secondary education. Nevertheless, results international surveys reveal that almost two-thirds of students from Kazakhstan complete schooling without mastering the basic skills needed to be successful, and that student achievement is increasingly inequitable.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, School Effectiveness, Educational Policy
Florida Department of Education, 2020
This technical assistance paper provides policy and guidance to individuals with test administration responsibilities in adult education programs. The Florida assessment policies and guidelines presented in this paper are appropriate for state and federal reporting. Therefore, guidance and procedures regarding the selection and use of appropriate…
Descriptors: Technical Assistance, Adult Education, Students with Disabilities, Testing Accommodations
Chazan-Cohen, Rachel; Zaslow, Martha; Raikes, Helen H.; Elicker, James; Paulsell, Diane; Dean, Allyson; Kriener-Althen, Kerry – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2017
This brief is an effort to explore the meaning of the word "curriculum" when applied to working with infants and toddlers. The idea for the brief emerged from the early childhood community--specifically two groups of applied researchers funded by the Administration for Children and Families, INQUIRE and NITR. [See insert box on page 12…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Early Childhood Education, Curriculum
State Educational Technology Directors Association, 2019
This report summarizes current state policies and practices in the selection and implementation of digital instructional materials. It is based on the 2019 updates to the Digital Instructional Materials Acquisition Policies for States (DMAPS) online portal. Since its inception in 2015, DMAPS has been updated annually and expanded to include new…
Descriptors: State Policy, Instructional Materials, Educational Policy, Educational Technology
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Knight, Ben – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2017
This paper documents the evolution of attempts to codify and standardise teachers' work in England with particular attention to how this phenomenon has impacted the Initial Teacher Education (ITE) sector. In recent decades the teaching profession in England has undergone various iterations of competency criteria, culminating with the current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standards, Teaching (Occupation), Preservice Teacher Education
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Dill, David D.; Beerkens, Maarja – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2013
The new demands of mass systems of higher education and the emerging environment of global academic competition are altering the traditional institutions for assuring academic standards in universities. As a consequence many nations are experimenting with new instruments for academic quality assurance. Contemporary government control of academic…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Academic Standards, Quality Control, Competition
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Pham, Thi Lan Phuong – Tertiary Education and Management, 2012
Significant changes in the policies of higher education in Vietnam have changed the structure and governance of the system since the mid-1990s. The most commonly agreed-upon positive outcome of the governance renovation process is that the formation of a nationwide quality assurance scheme, which is stimulated by accreditation, in the higher…
Descriptors: Incentives, Higher Education, Quality Control, Governance
Stephens, Samuel A. – Child Care & Early Education Research Connections, 2016
This Research-to-Policy Resource List compiles research-based policy documents published in 2010 and later on the following topics: Early learning guidelines for infants and toddlers; Program standards for settings serving infants and toddlers; Core competencies and credentials for caregivers of infants and toddlers; Use of infant/toddler…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Educational Policy, Infants, Toddlers
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Davidge, Gail – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2013
This article seeks to explore the dilemmas that schools and their members encounter whilst striving to establish a co-operative culture within an educational landscape contoured by decades of neo-liberal policy "reform". In order to (re)consider the construction of democratic subjectivity within contemporary educational discourse, the…
Descriptors: Cooperation, School Culture, Educational Policy, Democratic Values
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Lange, Lis; Saavedra, F. Mauricio; Romano, Jeanine – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2013
This chapter presents a synthesis of the conceptualization and practice of institutional research (IR) in higher education (HE) in emerging countries across Southern Africa, Latin America and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions. The chapter contextualizes the growing need for IR in these regions, identifies problems and challenges…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Change, Institutional Research, Global Approach
Caron, B.; Kendall, R.; Wilson, G.; Hash. M. – Early Learning Challenge Technical Assistance, 2017
The Early Learning Challenge (ELC) program awarded more than $1 billion in four-year grants to 20 States to implement comprehensive and cohesive high-quality early learning systems that support young children with high needs and their families. A key lever in making these improvements was the enhancement of States' Quality Rating and Improvement…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Student Needs, Quality Control
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Jawaid, Arif – English Language Teaching, 2014
Benchmarking is a very common real-life function occurring every moment unnoticed. It has travelled from industry to education like other quality disciplines. Initially benchmarking was used in higher education. .Now it is diffusing into other areas including TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), which has yet to devise a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Benchmarking, Educational Improvement
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Shah, Mahsood – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2013
The renewal of strategy development and implementation is important in the context of the changing higher education landscape. Changing government policy and the political agenda require a university to engage in careful strategy development and implementation which result in long-term sustainability. The political interest of the government will…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Rewards, Strategic Planning
Universities UK, 2012
The concordat to support research integrity sets out five commitments that will provide assurances to government, the wider public and the international community that research in the UK continues to be underpinned by the highest standards of rigour and integrity. Developed in collaboration with the funding and research councils, the Wellcome…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Integrity, Research Administration, Educational Research
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