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Meredith E. Young; Sneha Shankar; Christina St-Onge – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2024
Medical school admissions is a contentious and high stakes selection activity. Many assessment approaches are available to support selection; but how are decisions about building, monitoring, and adapting admissions systems made? What shapes the processes and practices that underpin selection decisions? We explore how these decisions are made…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, College Admission, Selective Admission, Undergraduate Study
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Siti Nor Amalina Ahmad Tajuddin; Khairul Azam Bahari; Fatima Mohamed Al-Majdhoub; Nia Kurnia Maliki; Shanthi Balraj Baboo – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2024
The emergence of digitalisation focusing on media literacy is becoming more prevalent and thus forcing educators to embrace innovations as our digital natives are now shifting their attention to digital technologies. This study aimed to develop and measure an assessment instrument for media literacy focusing on knowledge, skills, and values for…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Media Literacy, Student Evaluation, Intelligence
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Chilisa, Bagele; Mertens, Donna M. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2021
Transformative change is needed if the world is to achieve the sustainable development goals. Such change requires attention to culture, ethics, and values. We discuss the need to be responsive to the voices of Indigenous scholars in terms of the assumptions that guide methodological choices in the evaluation of international initiatives. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Social Change, Cultural Relevance
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Braun, Annette; Maguire, Meg – Critical Studies in Education, 2020
This paper explores how six English primary school teachers enact assessment and attainment-focused policy and asks what this performative policy work does and whether it shapes or requires a new kind of primary teacher subjectivity. The paper draws on a small study of policy enactments in two primary schools in Greater London in order to discuss…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary School Teachers, Policy Analysis, Values
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Biasutti, Michele; Concina, Eleonora – International Journal of Educational Management, 2021
Purpose: The aim of this article is to examine the perspectives, experiences, roles and values of Italian primary school principals regarding the inclusion of migrant children. Design/methodology/approach: The method of the study is qualitative and consists of a semi-structured interview, which was carried out with 17 primary school principals and…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Values
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Brown, Martha A.; Di Lallo, Sherri – American Journal of Evaluation, 2020
Talking Circles are safe spaces where relationships are built, nurtured, reinforced, and sometimes healed; where norms and values are established; and where people connect intellectually, spiritually, and emotionally with other members of the Circle. The Circle can also be an evaluation method that increases voice, decreases invisibility, and does…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Cultural Relevance, Evaluation Methods, Social Justice
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Kokko, Suvi; Lagerkvist, Carl Johan – American Journal of Evaluation, 2017
Using a case example of an innovative sanitation solution in a slum setting, this study explores the usefulness of the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique in a program planning and evaluation context. Using a qualitative image-based method to map people's mental models of ill-structured problems such as sanitation can aid program planners and…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Evaluation Methods, Sanitation, Slums
Paraskevi Neophytou – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study was to explore Cypriot preschool teachers' and parents' perceptions and attitudes toward the value and contribution of the developed educational assessment instrument for the early identification and intervention for students at risk to present learning disabilities. In this research study, a qualitative research was used…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, At Risk Students
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Yi Xing, Lim; Binti Mohd Fadzil, Hidayah – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
This research is driven due to significant role of textbooks possessed in a country. The purpose of this study is to analyse the Malaysian Form Two Science textbook as this learning tool may acts as one of the reason that affects national Science education. The textbook was analysed based on content element adapted from Florida University…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Content Analysis, Science Instruction
OECD Publishing, 2018
In 2015, 193 countries committed to achieving the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a shared vision of humanity that provides the missing piece of the globalisation puzzle. The extent to which that vision becomes a reality will depend on today's classrooms; and it is educators who hold the key to ensuring that the SDGs become a real…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Global Approach, Teacher Role, Educational Quality
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Gokce, Asiye Toker – European Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This study aimed to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool to enhance ethical evaluation literature. The tool consists of two subscales named "Bases of ethical evaluation," and "Grounds of ethical evaluation." In order to determine the factor structure of the scales, both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were…
Descriptors: Ethics, Questionnaires, Religious Factors, Evaluation Methods
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Schleicher, Andreas – ECNU Review of Education, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the educational demands in the digital age from tomorrow's teachers and policy-makers, and to encourage and incentivize all actors to develop the innovative learning environments that we need for tomorrow's schools. Design/Approach/Methods: As a conceptual paper, this article has consulted and analyzed a wide…
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Curriculum Design, Educational Change, School Culture
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Ritchie, Jenny – Journal of Pedagogy, 2016
This paper offers an overview of complexities of the contexts for education in Aotearoa, which include the need to recognise and include Maori (Indigenous) perspectives, but also to extend this inclusion to the context of increasing ethnic diversity. These complexities include the situation of worsening disparities between rich and poor which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Pacific Islanders, Poverty
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Ndoda, Gladys Ruvimbo; Sikwila, Mike Nyamazana – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2014
The authors design the innovation and learning perspective of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) of "Ubuntu and client service charter nexus." This article borrows and advances the research carried out by Khomba, Vermaak and Gouws (2011). The point of departure is on praxis of ubuntu/unhu as a holistic approach in the re-modelling of the BSC…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, African Culture, Holistic Approach, Mixed Methods Research
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Wang, Qi; Shao, Yi; Li, Yexin Jessica – Child Development, 2010
This study examined the relation of language to the development of a cultural self. Bilingual children ages 8-14 from Hong Kong (N = 125) were interviewed in either English or Chinese. They recalled autobiographical events and described themselves, and indicated their agreement with Chinese interdependent versus Western independent values.…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Memory, Foreign Countries, Bilingualism
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