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Siippainen, Anna; Toivonen, Hanna; Paakkari, Antti – Global Studies of Childhood, 2023
This article examines the local evaluation and assessment practices of Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) based on Actor-Network Theory (ANT). We employ the concept of translation to discuss how evaluation and assessment practices unfold in networks and how actors come together in negotiations and contestations that seek to orient…
Descriptors: Democracy, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Child Care
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Arévalo Gross, Cinthia Josette; Rodríguez-Bilella, Pablo; Olavarría, Claudia – American Journal of Evaluation, 2023
Evaluation has been expanding as an important discipline in Latin America, yet there are significant challenges regarding capacity development through educational and training initiatives in the region. This paper first analyzes the evolution and state of the field in terms of the teaching of, and training in evaluation in Latin America, with a…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Evaluation Methods, Teaching Methods, Specialists
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Alsandeli, Ishraq Abdulredha; Alattar, Rihab Abduljaleel Saeed – Arab World English Journal, 2022
This study investigates how American and Iraqi writers utilize the evaluative resources in newspaper opinion articles (henceforth, op-eds) from a critical discourse analysis perspective. It explores how American and Iraqi writers of op-ed pieces draw on the evaluative resources to establish their attitudes, create rhetorical effects, and serve…
Descriptors: North Americans, Arabs, Newspapers, Opinions
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McDonnell, Jane; Curtis, Will – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2014
This paper reports on an action research project into the development of a "democratic feedback model" with students on an education studies programme at a post-1992 university in the UK. Building on work that has explored the dialogic dimensions of assessment and feedback, the research explored the potential for more…
Descriptors: Action Research, Feedback (Response), Higher Education, Democracy
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Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2016
By bringing together the national German sports game community and an international scientific community in a joint conference, the 6th International Teaching Games for Understanding Conference (TGfU) Meets the 10th German Sports Games Symposium of the German Association of Sport Science (DVS), held July 25-27, 2016, at the German Sport University…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Team Sports, Racquet Sports, Athletics
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Kurt, Serhat – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2012
Background: Turkey is a fast-developing country facing a lot of different problems. One of the problems is inadequate education. A large project was started to improve Turkish elementary education. The project includes many different purposes from physical refurbishment of school buildings, to increasing technology use in education. The author of…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Democracy, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries
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Wang, Victor C. X., Ed.; Bryan, Valerie C., Ed. – IGI Global, 2014
Today's ever-changing learning environment is characterized by the fast pace of technology that drives our society to move forward, and causes our knowledge to increase at an exponential rate. The need for in-depth research that is bound to generate new knowledge about curriculum and program development is becoming ever more relevant.…
Descriptors: Andragogy, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development, Program Development
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Gondogdu, Kerim; Yildirim, Ali – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2010
The purpose of this research was to investigate the perceptions of home and school concerning ideally implemented primary democracy and human rights education. In this qualitative study, data were collected from six voluntary classroom teachers and 16 parents in a selected school through interviews. The results of the interview yielded five major…
Descriptors: Democracy, Civil Rights, Case Studies, Interviews
McMahon, Brenda J., Ed.; Portelli, John P., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012
The focus of this book extends the discourse on student engagement beyond prescriptive definitions and includes substantive ethical and political issues relating to this concept. As such, this collection includes voices of educational theorists, practitioners, and students. It provides a counter discourse to the current dialogue on student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learner Engagement, Urban Schools, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
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Aubourg, Rene W.; Good, David H.; Krutilla, Kerry – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2008
The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis conjectures a nonlinear relationship between pollution and economic growth, such that pollution per capita initially increases as countries economically develop, but then reaches a maximum point before ultimately declining. Much of the EKC literature has focused on testing this basic hypothesis and,…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Social Action, Debt (Financial), Foreign Countries
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Hart, Roger A.; Rajbhandary, Jasmine – New Directions for Evaluation, 2003
Describes the participatory evaluation methods developed so that children participating in children's clubs in Nepal could use them in periodic reviews of their own functioning as creators of democratic organizations. (SLD)
Descriptors: Democracy, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Participation
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Kushner, Saville – American Journal of Evaluation, 2005
What is the relationship between theory and design in evaluation pretending to be "democratic?" When do we feel able to relinquish elements of intellectual control over evaluation? If not in qualitative versus quantitative tendencies, where lie key value divisions in evaluation? To elicit the views of two leading United Kingdom-based…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Democracy, Theories, Evaluators
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Henry, Gary T. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2001
Describes the development of evaluation within the United States and traces the connections between evaluation and the documents that founded the United States. Analyzes the demands placed on evaluation by modern democracies and comments on the importance of the selection of evaluation indicators and the necessity of systematic evaluation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Democracy, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Foreign Countries
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Mammen, K. John – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2006
The article addresses the concept of quality assurance (QA) and its relation to quality in higher education which itself is a component of total quality management. It then examines the regulatory policies for higher education followed by the meaning of the concept of democracy in the South African Constitution and its impact and implications on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Democracy, Total Quality Management, Quality Control
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Kyle, William C. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2006
When the United Nations General Assembly authorized holding the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, it was hardly a secret--or even a point in dispute--that progress in implementing sustainable development had been disappointing since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. With poverty deepening and environmental…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Democracy, Position Papers, Sustainable Development
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