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Huang, Jiali; Tang, Yipeng; He, Wenjie; Li, Qiong – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2019
This study examines the relationship between key elements of the School Excellence Model (SEM) and student achievement in reading, mathematics and science as measured by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 and the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2013, using a sample of 166 schools in Singapore.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Models, Academic Achievement, Evidence
Aloisi, Cesare; Tymms, Peter – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2017
The stability of educational test results from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) over 15 years was examined, and the influence of demographics and social capital was assessed, as was the impact of educational reforms. The test results were remarkably stable, with correlations up to 0.99 for country-level results over 2…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
Yang Hansen, Kajsa; Gustafsson, Jan-Eric – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2016
The aims of the study were to examine changes in school segregation across different types of municipalities between 1998 and 2011 in Sweden, and to explore the extent to which these changes are the consequences of school choice. Multilevel models were applied to register data using a counterfactual approach. The results showed that school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, School Segregation, Municipalities
Ehren, Melanie C.; Shackleton, Nichola – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2016
In most countries, publicly funded schools are held accountable to one inspectorate and are judged against agreed national standards. Many inspectorates of education have recently moved towards more proportional risk-based inspection models, targeting high-risk schools for visits, while schools with satisfactory student attainment levels are…
Descriptors: Risk, Inspection, Secondary Schools, Foreign Countries
Maulana, Ridwan; Opdenakker, Marie-Christine; den Brok, Perry – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
Teaching is undoubtedly complex and the complexity of classroom practice implies that the structure of lessons making up teaching may differ and subject to change over time. The aims of this study were to investigate changes in observed lesson structure, and explore the effects of several teacher and contextual characteristics on differences in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Lesson Plans, Instructional Design
Long, Daniel A. – Educational Policy, 2014
Educational reformers use international evidence to argue that increasing the number of days in school and the length of the school day will improve academic achievement. However, the international data used to support these claims (1999 Third International Math and Science Survey and 2000 Program for International Student Assessment) show no…
Descriptors: Time Factors (Learning), Extended School Year, Extended School Day, Academic Achievement
Russell, Susan Garnett; Tiplic, Dijana – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
This paper investigates the extent to which rights-based education is utilised in textbooks from conflict-affected countries. Drawing on a unique dataset of 528 secondary social science textbooks from 71 countries from 1966 to 2008, we analyse factors that predict a rights discourse in texts. We find that textbooks from conflict-affected nations…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Textbooks, Content Analysis, Educational Change
Vanblaere, Bénédicte; Devos, Geert – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2016
The continuous professional development of teachers is crucial in our current knowledge-based society, yet empirical research on experienced teachers' learning outcomes is scarce. In this study, we examine perceived changes in classroom practices and in competence as outcomes. By making these outcomes measurable, we can relate them to several…
Descriptors: Experienced Teachers, Correlation, Community Characteristics, Outcomes of Education
Atar, Hakan Yavuz; Atar, Burcu – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of some of the changes such as student centered learning (i.e. inquiry science instruction), outfitting classrooms with latest technology and computers that the reform movement has brought about on students' TIMSS 2007 science achievements. Two-staged stratified sampling was used in the selection…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Educational Change, Science Instruction, Program Effectiveness
Paterson, Lindsay; Gow, Alan J.; Deary, Ian J. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2014
The long-term effects of secondary-school reforms in the first half of the 20th century are investigated through the long-term follow up of a sample of people born in Scotland in 1936 who were first surveyed in 1947. Members of the sample who were living in the Lothian region of Scotland were re-interviewed in 2004-2007, providing information…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Secondary Education, Followup Studies
Lee, Moosung; Walker, Allan; Chui, Yuk Ling – Journal of Educational Administration, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of different dimensions of instructional leadership on student learning in Hong Kong secondary schools, whose broader institutional contexts are critically characterized by high accountability policy environments. Design/methodology/approach: This study utilizes standardized test scores…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Interaction Process Analysis, Standardized Tests, Educational Change