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Oddvar Aalde; Inga Staal Jenset – Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
Scholars and policymakers have consistently argued for the importance of coherence in teacher education (TE). Despite this attention to coherence, challenges of fragmentation and disconnect remain, and little research exists on how study program leaders (SPLs) in TE work to achieve coherence. This article explores how SPLs in two selected TE…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Program Development, Administrators, Ethnography
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Seraji, Farhad; Ansari, Saied; Chosarih, Muhammad Reza Yousefzadeh – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Increasing children's access to media has attached greater significance to media literacy education, the content and methods of which have changed with media development. This study aimed to investigate the effects of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) method on media literacy competencies in elementary students. To this end, 95 female sixth-grade…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Communities of Practice, Elementary School Students, Literacy Education
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Lisa Fohlin; Mara Westling Allodi; Mina Sedem; Martin Karlberg – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
The Determinants of Implementation Behavior Questionnaire for school settings (DIBQ-S) was administered to examine questionnaire internal structure evidence and ascertain 127 Swedish school staff's perceived barriers to and facilitators of implementing the Inclusive Behavioral Support in Schools program. Using confirmatory factor analysis, we…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Inclusion, Teacher Attitudes, Barriers
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Sfakianaki, Eleni; Kaiseroglou, Nikolaos; Kakouris, Andreas – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2023
Purpose: Primary education (PE) forms the foundation of high-quality education systems, but it is often underestimated. This paper aims to develop and empirically validate a measurement instrument to study the current stage of total quality management (TQM) implementation in PE. Design/methodology/approach: This study developed a seven-dimensional…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Total Quality Management, Primary Education, Measures (Individuals)
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Debananda Misra; Bjørn Stensaker – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
A key policy challenge in establishing new universities is the potential risk of lower academic standards and mission drift, which can affect policy effectiveness and outcomes. While regulation and funding tend to be preferred policy instruments for securing control of higher education expansion and achieving policy objectives, this article…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Program Implementation
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Vennegoor, Gerjanne; Van Assema, Patricia; Eekhout, Iris; Lezwijn, Jeanette; Molleman, Gerard; Jansen, Maria – Journal of School Health, 2023
Background: Implementation of Health Promoting School (HPS) programs can be challenging due to the dynamic school context. Navigating between program fidelity and adaptation, as well as integrating the program, is essential for successful implementation, and consequently, for program effects. As part of an evaluation study in the Netherlands, this…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Test Construction, Psychometrics, Questionnaires
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Bai, Xuemei; Gu, Xiaoqing; Guo, Rifa – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
This study aimed to verify the applicability of the community of inquiry (CoI) survey instrument in MOOC involving 1,186 college students from 11 different disciplines in China. Exploratory factor analysis was used to explore potential factor structure models, and confirmatory factor analysis was utilized to verify the four-factor structure…
Descriptors: Models, Audits (Verification), Construct Validity, Communities of Practice
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Manzi, Jorge, Ed.; Sun, Yulan, Ed.; García, María Rosa, Ed. – Teacher Education, Learning Innovation and Accountability, 2022
This book presents some of the leading technical, professional, and political challenges associated with the development and implementation of teacher evaluation systems, along with characterizing some of these systems in different countries around the world. The book promotes a broader comprehension of the complexities associated with this kind…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation
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Keogh, Sarah C.; Stillman, Melissa; Leong, Ellie; Awusabo-Asare, Kofi; Sidze, Estelle; Monzón, Ana Silvia; Motta, Angelica – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2020
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is a key component of efforts to improve sexual and reproductive outcomes for young people. While many governments have established policies and curricula for CSE, there are no quantitative measures of the quality of their implementation in schools. We describe the construction of a school-level index to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Sex Education, Educational Quality
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Sabah, Saed; Akour, Mutasem M.; Hammouri, Hind – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2023
This study developed and validated the Science Practice Scale (SPS) and investigated the implementation of scientific teaching practices by Grade 8 science teachers in Jordan. The responses of 235 8th grade science teachers who participated in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study [TIMSS] of 2019 were analysed using the Rasch…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Science Achievement
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Al-Motlaq, Mohammad A.; Abuidhail, Jamila; Salameh, Taghreed; Awwad, Wesam – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Objective: To develop an instrument to study family-centred care (FCC) in traditional open bay Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs). Methods: The development process involved constructing instrument's items, establishing content validity by an expert panel and testing the instrument for validity and reliability with a convenience sample of 25…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neonates, Medical Services, Program Implementation
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Sankey, Carol; Girard, Sophie; Cappe, Emilie – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2021
The aim of this study was to assess the social validity and document the implementation of a psychoeducational program designed to support parents after their child's diagnosis, from both parents' and professionals' perspectives. A complete version (five workshops and five individual follow-ups) and a shortened version (five workshops only) of the…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Psychoeducational Methods, Parent Education, Parenting Skills
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Kandemir, Mehmet Ali; Franklin, Teresa; Perkmen, Serkan; Yildiz, Yildiz – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2022
The current study serves two basic purposes: (1) to develop and validate a scale designed to examine students' mobile learning acceptance behavior in mathematics, and (2) to examine factors that influence their intentions to use mobile learning in their future. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) was the theoretical…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Attitude Measures, Mathematics Education, Electronic Learning
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Topping, Keith J. – Research Papers in Education, 2020
Measuring the implementation fidelity (IF) or integrity of interventions is crucial, otherwise a positive or negative outcome cannot be interpreted. Direct and indirect methods of IF measurement tend to over-emphasize teacher behaviour. This paper focuses on IF measured by student behaviour collected through computers. Attainment was measured by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Testing, Mathematics Tests, Mathematics Achievement
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Tzivinikou, Sotiria; Charitaki, Garyfalia; Kagkara, Dimitra – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2021
The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties (factor structure, reliability and construct validity) of the Brief Distance Education Attitudes (DEA) scale. Four hundred twenty-two SEND teachers filled out socio-demographic data forms and the DEAS. Factors were extracted by EFA (Principal Components Analysis) and confirmed by…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Attitude Measures, Special Education Teachers, Foreign Countries
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