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Sproule, Leonard; Mombourquette, Carmen P. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2020
Through the analysis of semi-structured interview responses from four school principals centered on their implementation of a new competencies based curriculum called Career and Technology Foundations (CTF), we sought to better understand their experience with implementing this new program of studies in its optional year of implementation. Four…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Vocational Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Song, Kyoung-oh; Hur, Eun-Jung; Kwon, Bo-Young – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
While professional development has been emphasised in many countries, few comparative studies have examined the degree of teachers' participation in professional development and its effect on teachers. Using the TIMSS 2007 data, this study analyses to what extent teachers participated in professional development in 50 TIMSS countries and examines…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Faculty Development, Teacher Participation, Teacher Attitudes
Fleming, Grace; Massengale, CoCo; Auchstetter, Amelia – Texas Comprehensive Center, 2018
In Texas, Title I schools that have reached achievement levels well above what was expected given their levels of poverty, receive official designations as Reward Schools for demonstrating high academic performance, high academic progress, or both. In 2014, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) partnered with the Texas Comprehensive Center (TXCC) at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Poverty, High Achievement, Disadvantaged Schools
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Lawanto, Oenardi; Stewardson, Gary – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2013
Inasmuch as design is a central activity in K-12 engineering education, understanding the students' motivation during engaging in engineering design activities will help educators to develop and evaluate strategies for engineering design challenges, and improve curriculum. The objective of this study is to better understand the relationship…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Questionnaires, Correlation, Predictor Variables