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Yunusova, Gulnaz R.; Karunas, Ekaterina V. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Relevance of the issue is caused by the change of a knowledge-oriented educational paradigm into an individual-oriented one. This change means that an individual is the most significant value in the modern process of teaching. The aim of the article is to find a theoretical proof for an individual study program design and test it in pedagogical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individualized Education Programs, Program Design, Program Implementation
Fiester, Leila – ExpandED Schools, 2014
In 1998, George Soros and Herb Sturz seized an opportunity to significantly improve children's lives by founding The After-School Corporation (TASC). They believed that increasing the quality and availability of after-school programs, with the ultimate goal of changing public policy, could transform the potential for many New York City kids who…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Educational Quality, Models, Program Development
Koury, Amanda S. – University of Pittsburgh Office of Child Development, 2013
This Special Report is a summary of the author's original paper, "It's About Time: Extending Learning to Narrow the Achievement Gap." The family income of students is a consistent predictor of academic achievement across the United States, where an achievement gap between the most and least affluent students has long persisted and shows…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Extended School Year, Summer Programs
Foy, Pierre, Ed.; Arora, Alka, Ed.; Stanco, Gabrielle M., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2013
TIMSS measures trends in mathematics and science achievement at the fourth and eighth grades in participating countries around the world, while also monitoring curricular implementation and identifying promising instructional practices. Conducted on a regular 4-year cycle, TIMSS has assessed mathematics and science in 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Guides, Databases, International Studies
Froese-Germain, Bernie – Canadian Teachers' Federation (NJ1), 2011
This paper presents some of the major issues raised in Education International's preliminary analysis of the overall PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) 2009 study. Some of these issues are: (1) PISA has serious limitations. The study does not cover the full curriculum, focusing on a narrow set of subject areas, neglecting such…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation
Holohan, Ronald J. – 1988
These reports describe and evaluate Illinois Central College's Quality Undergraduate Education for Student Transfers (QUEST) program. The core of the program is to develop in students 15 competencies identified as essential to an educated person: communication skills, mathematics skills, appreciation of physical well-being, understanding of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Core Curriculum