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Anna Siippainen; Hannele Pitkänen – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
The rise of evaluation and data in education and education policy is a trend manifesting across a wide variety of policy contexts, holding in its grip national and global policies, with impacts that reach the level of individual children, teachers, and their subjectivities. Earlier research has mainly focused on the phenomenon in neoliberal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Educational Assessment
Hong, Quan Nha; Rees, Rebecca; Sutcliffe, Katy; Thomas, James – Research Synthesis Methods, 2020
Conducting mixed methods reviews is challenging. The aim of this article is to describe a range of rationales for and approaches to mixed methods reviews, with a particular focus on one research group. A case study was conducted to describe the mixed methods review process used at the Department of Health and Social Care Reviews Facility in…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Foreign Countries, State of the Art Reviews, Evaluation Methods
Strømsø, Helge I.; Bråten, Ivar; Brante, Eva W. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
We explored potential profiles of interest, attitudes, and source evaluation by performing cluster analysis in a sample of Norwegian upper-secondary students. Differences among the profile groups with regard to multiple-document use were examined. The profile groups were partly consistent with the default stances described by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Information Sources
Mary Opio-Göres; Ingo Kollar; Birgit Dorner – Journal of Social Work Education, 2024
Assessing cases of child welfare requires the ability to engage with different sources of information systematically. This study examined how case-based learning (CBL) can be used to support social work students (N = 104) acquire knowledge crucial to assessing cases of child welfare and whether benefits of CBL could be maximized by structuring the…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Metacognition, Concept Formation
Giraldo, Frank – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2021
In this reflection article I examine language assessment literacy initiatives and their possible impact on teachers, and I discuss the connections that exist between language assessment literacy and teachers' professional development. I explain that training for language assessment literacy may primarily foster teachers' knowledge and skills and,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Evaluation Methods, Language Teachers
Feekery, Angela Joy; Chisholm, Katherine; Jeffrey, Carla; Diesch, Fiona – Journal of Information Literacy, 2021
Creating information literate students and future employees is an expected outcome of a tertiary education. This paper shares insights from a successful collaboration between an academic and three university librarians to create an online learning module designed to develop students' professional information literacy capability: identifying…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, College Faculty, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Academic Libraries
Anderson, Kate; Hegarty, Seamus; Henry, Martin; Kim, Helyn; Care, Esther – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2018
This report describes an initiative undertaken from 2016-2017 by the Center for Universal Education (CUE) at the Brookings Institution and Education International (EI) to develop tools to measure the breadth of learning opportunities to which children and youth are exposed in an education system. The Breadth of Learning Opportunities (BOLO)…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Systems Analysis, Student Diversity, Access to Education
Mather, Nancy; White, Jennifer; Youman, Martha – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
Today 195 countries exist in the world. The purpose of this review was to provide a global picture of the services and opportunities for individuals with dyslexia. The intent was not to provide an exhaustive review of each topic, but rather to provide examples of what is occurring in different countries around the world. Through an Internet…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Cross Cultural Studies, Evaluation Methods, Identification
Cooper, Amanda; Klinger, Don A.; McAdie, Patricia – Educational Research, 2017
Background: Within the realm of public education, there is a well-known "knowledge to practice gap" on current conceptions of classroom assessment. A collaborative research project undertaken by the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO) and a research team at Queen's University explored the roots of this gap from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence Based Practice, Educational Assessment, Theory Practice Relationship
Silva, António; Rocha, Álvaro; Cota, Manuel Pérez – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2015
This paper introduces a new method of communication between the school and the family, using an Electronic Booklet developed in the course of the authors' investigation project with the purpose of rendering the communication between both parties more effective. Today there is a general agreement, within educational sciences, as to the fundamental…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Electronic Publishing, Learning Processes, Role
Allison, Caleb; Laxman, Kumar; Lai, Mei – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2016
Existing research shows that high school students do not possess information literacy skills adequate to function in a high-tech society that relies so heavily on information. If students are taught these skills, they struggle to apply them. This small-scale intervention focused on helping Geography students at a low-socioeconomic high school in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Low Income Students, Geography Instruction
Chan, Cheri C. Y.; Tardif, Twila – Developmental Psychology, 2013
This article examined the ability of young children to adapt their trust in testimony in relation to the strength of their prior knowledge across 2 cultures and 2 age groups. Kindergartners and second graders in the United States and Hong Kong (N = 128) viewed pictures of objects and made category judgments about each object: first, in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Kindergarten, Grade 2
Macedo-Rouet, Monica; Braasch, Jason L. G.; Britt, M. Anne; Rouet, Jean-Francois – Cognition and Instruction, 2013
In two experiments, we examined fourth and fifth graders' comprehension of the source of information in texts presenting controversial issues. In Experiment 1, participants read short texts in which two people presented different arguments regarding an issue. Participants identified who said what and evaluated each source's knowledge of the issue.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5, Reading Comprehension
Lucas, Amanda J.; Lewis, Charlie; Pala, F. Cansu; Wong, Katie; Berridge, Damon – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Research on preschoolers' selective learning has mostly been conducted in English-speaking countries. We compared the performance of Turkish preschoolers (who are exposed to a language with evidential markers), Chinese preschoolers (known to be advanced in executive skills), and English preschoolers on an extended selective trust task (N = 144).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Executive Function, Comparative Analysis
Oppenheim, Charles; Summers, Mark A. C. – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2008
Introduction: This study aimed to explore research assessment within the field of music and, specifically, to investigate whether citation counting could be used to replace or inform the peer review system currently in use in the UK. Method: A citation analysis of academics submitted for peer review in Unit of Assessment 67 in the 2001 Research…
Descriptors: Music, Periodicals, Correlation, Humanities