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Giordano, Keri; Eastin, Shiloh; Calcagno, Briana; Wilhelm, Salena; Gil, Alexandra – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2021
Coaching is becoming widely recognized as a tool to help early childhood educators enhance teaching and build professional skills. Although effective, the use of an external coach can be cost and time prohibitive. This study examined the effectiveness of internal peer coaches as compared to external coaches in implementation fidelity of an…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Preschool Teachers, Federal Programs, Low Income Students
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Johnston, Kirsty – Research in Drama Education, 2017
Could targeted inclusion initiatives press Canada's professional theatre community to tap the vast reserve of disabled people disenfranchised by its current practices? In 2015/2016, several long-standing professional institutions dedicated to fostering Canadian theatre joined with Canadian disability theatre artists in order to mark and understand…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Theater Arts, Drama, Disabilities
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Leal Filho, Walter; Brandli, Luciana Londero; Becker, Deisi; Skanavis, Constantina; Kounani, Aristea; Sardi, Chrysoula; Papaioannidou, Dimitra; Paço, Arminda; Azeiteiro, Ulisses; de Sousa, Luiza Olim; Raath, Schalk; Pretorius, Rudi Wessel; Shiel, Christine; Vargas, Valeria; Trencher, Gregory; Marans, Robert W. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: There is a widely held belief that sustainable development (SD) policies are essential for universities to successfully engage in matters related to sustainability, and are an indicator of the extent to which they are active in this field. This paper aims to examine the evidence which currently exists to support this assumption. It…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Universities, School Policy
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Moss, Peter; Urban, Mathias – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2017
In this article, the authors provide an update on what has happened over recent months with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's proposal for an International Early Learning Study, and review responses to the proposed International Early Learning Study, including the concerns that have been raised about this new venture in…
Descriptors: International Assessment, International Organizations, International Education, Early Childhood Education
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Nikolic, Vesna; Milutinovic, Slobodan; Nedanovski, Pece; Mrnjaus, Kornelija – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2017
Purpose: The paper aims to deal with the education for sustainable development (ESD) competences of university educators. The purpose of this paper is to provide a comparative analysis of opportunities for the development of ESD competences in higher education (HE) institutions in Serbia, Croatia and Macedonia. In addition, the paper explores the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Sustainable Development
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Forestier, Katherine; Adamson, Bob – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
Adopting a comparative perspective to address educational issues in different contexts was a hallmark of Jullien's work in the early-nineteenth century. Different emphases and approaches to comparative education methodology have emerged in recent times thanks to major developments in technology, but have these changes rendered Jullien's ideas…
Descriptors: Criticism, International Assessment, Comparative Education, Comparative Analysis
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Amy Taub; Michelle Maier; Marie-Andrée Somers; Benjamin Bui; James McCarthy – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Background/Context: There is a convergence of evidence that the quality of children's early care and education (ECE) experiences is critical for promoting children's development (Gormley, Phillips, & Gayer, 2008). Curriculum combined with professional development is thought to be the "strongest hope" for promoting quality (Weiland…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Preschool Teachers, Faculty Development
Carlson, Rosie M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This comparative case study analyzed two styles of coaching, team and individual, and the perceived impact each style has on instructional practices. This study was conducted in two elementary schools that are part of the same charter organization in California. The study identified the challenges and benefits of each style through interviews with…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Teaching Styles, Educational Practices, Comparative Analysis
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Bandaranayake, Bandara – Australian Educational Researcher, 2016
Applying qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), this study explores the configurations of conditions that contribute to the polarisation of high-performing and low-performing secondary schools in Victoria, Australia. It is argued that the success and failure of schools can be understood in terms of causal complexity, where one or several…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, School Effectiveness, Low Achievement
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Ali, Muhammad Abid – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2016
This research article explores the perceptions of Muslim educationists in Malaysia about the Islamic and the western education systems. Views of two faculty members, who are active proponents of Islamic education, were acquired through interviews and their perceptions on Islamic and western education systems were analyzed and then contrasted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Islamic Culture, Western Civilization, Muslims
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Choi, Hee Jun; Park, Ji-Hye – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2016
Korea has used three different teacher evaluation systems since the 1960s: teacher performance rating, teacher performance-based pay and teacher evaluation for professional development. A number of studies have focused on an analysis of each evaluation system in terms of its advent, development, advantages and disadvantages, but these studies have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Methods Research
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Abubakar, Binta Garba; Njoku, Joy N. – World Journal of Education, 2017
This study investigated the influence of Almajirci, on School Attendance and Academic performance Among Students of Almajiri Integrated Model School, Sokoto State. The sample size used was Three hundred and six Junior Secondary School students of Almajiri Integrated Model School Sokoto and Sultan Bello Secondary School Sokoto. Students of Almajiri…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Hypothesis Testing, Performance Based Assessment
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Cooper, A. Kat; Oliver-Hoyo, M. T. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2016
Argument construction is a valuable ability for explaining scientific phenomena and introducing argumentation skills as part of a curriculum can greatly enhance student understanding by promoting self-reflection on the topic under investigation. This article aims to use argument construction as a technique to support an activity designed to…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Rhetorical Invention, Scientific Literacy, Scientific Principles
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Karim, Abdul; Mohamed, Abdul Rashid; Rahman, Mohammad Mosiur – International Journal of Instruction, 2017
English in Action (EIA) is an ongoing teacher education project which places mobile technology at the centre of its action. Most of the studies carried out focused on the changes EIA brought in teachers' classroom actions. Along with this, they also explored the classroom to observe whether the input given during training program is implemented in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Electronic Learning, Comparative Analysis
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Dag, Isa – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2015
Human beings are social in nature and need acquisition and possession of knowledge for self-actualisation. This need can only be fulfilled in educational institutions. Turkish educational system is composed of pre-school, elementary, secondary and higher education. It is now evident that governments alone cannot meet the high demand of information…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Private Schools, Comparative Analysis
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