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Pedersen, Daphne E.; White, Frank – Teaching Sociology, 2011
Universities across the nation have been called upon to provide evidence of student learning through direct means of assessment. Value-added assessment, which aims to document the development of student learning from the beginning of the university experience to the end, has been called "accountability's new frontier" by the American…
Descriptors: Evidence, Sociology, Accountability, Student Evaluation
Athayde, Rosemary – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to present evidence on the impact of enterprise education on young people still at school in London, UK. The study was designed to measure the effect of participation in a Young Enterprise (YE) Company Program on young people's attitudes toward starting a business, and on their enterprise potential.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Entrepreneurship, Outcomes of Education
Karp, Melinda Mechur; Bickerstaff, Susan; Rucks-Ahidiana, Zawadi; Bork, Rachel Hare; Barragan, Melissa; Edgecombe, Nikki – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2012
College 101 courses--also called student success, introduction to college, orientation to college, or freshman experience courses--provide students with information about college and campus services, assistance with academic and career planning, and techniques to improve study habits and personal skills. This study investigated College 101 courses…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, First Year Seminars, School Orientation, Student Development
Goodman, Kathleen M.; Magolda, Marcia Baxter; Seifert, Tricia A.; King, Patricia M. – About Campus, 2011
Since 2006, 19 institutions across the United States have been trying to figure out how to work smarter through their participation in the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education. Drawing on data from the first year of the study, the robust, mixed-methods study the authors report in this article evaluated growth in the first year of…
Descriptors: Evidence, Educational Experience, Liberal Arts, Inferences
Cowan, Paula; Maitles, Henry – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2011
As the education for citizenship agenda continues to impact on schools in the UK and with the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) in conjunction with the Scottish Government introducing its Lessons From Auschwitz (LFA) project for students and teachers in Scotland, this article focuses on the Scottish context and investigates the school processes by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Citizenship Education, Program Effectiveness
Muralidharan, Karthik; Sundararaman, Venkatesh – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009
Performance pay for teachers is frequently suggested as a way of improving education outcomes in schools, but the theoretical predictions regarding its effectiveness are ambiguous and the empirical evidence to date is limited and mixed. We present results from a randomized evaluation of a teacher incentive program implemented across a large…
Descriptors: Incentives, Language Tests, Academic Achievement, Teacher Motivation
Ladwig, James G. – Review of Research in Education, 2010
This chapter attempts to survey contemporary debates and research on outcomes of schooling that have been grouped together under the convenient label "nonacademic". This is not an affirmative labeling. As the nomenclature indicates, it is not a label that groups together things that share like properties. Rather, this is a label of…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Environmental Education, Democracy, Civics