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Sampaio, Marta; Leite, Carlinda – Improving Schools, 2017
This article presents a study that aimed to understand the contributions of self-evaluation (SE) processes towards the development of curricular and social justice and educational improvement. The study focuses on data collected from the schools' external evaluation (SEE) process and from the TEIP programme (Educational Territories of Priority…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Self Evaluation (Groups), Social Justice, Intervention
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Tal, Tali; Peled, Einat – Environmental Education Research, 2017
In this study, our aim was to understand how environmental education has been implemented in Israeli elementary schools. We selected ten schools that had implemented Education for Sustainability programs and analyzed their mission statements and curriculum documents. We observed each school's activities and interviewed teachers. Our analysis shows…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Semi Structured Interviews, Curriculum Development
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Alkis-Küçükaydin, Mensure; Uluçinar Sagir, Safak; Kösterelioglu, Ilker – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2016
Science Course Curriculum was revised in Turkey in 2013 and some methods and strategies were suggested to be included such as argumentation. This study includes the evaluation of in-service training applied as pilot study for introducing argumentation to elementary school teachers. The study consists of applying needs analysis, preparing and…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Persuasive Discourse, Pilot Projects
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Karp, Melinda Mechur; Raufman, Julia; Efthimiou, Chris; Ritze, Nancy – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
In response to strikingly low completion rates in public 2-year colleges, including for students who are well-prepared academically, most community colleges across the country offer student success courses as one approach to improving outcomes for students. Some colleges have begun to revise these courses in response to research indicating that…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, First Year Seminars
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Kundu, Goutam Kumar; Bairi, Jayachandra – Journal of International Education in Business, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to introduce the concept of a checklist, focusing on the detailed analysis of requirements of the AACSB International--the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) standards related to the learning and teaching area--for evaluation of implementation readiness in a business school setting.…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Readiness, Business Administration Education, Business Schools
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Thorburn, Malcolm – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2017
Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland outlines a policy vision of a more progressive, integrated and holistic form of education; a commitment which contains an obligation for health and well-being (HWB) to be a responsibility of all teachers. A critical policy analysis approach was utilized in order to review school-level progress in different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, National Curriculum, Excellence in Education
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Dyment, Janet; Morse, Marcus; Shaw, Simon; Smith, Heidi – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2014
The paper examines how outdoor education teachers in Tasmania, Australia have implemented and perceive a new pre-tertiary Outdoor Leadership curriculum document. It draws on an analysis of in-depth semi-structured interviews with 11 outdoor education teachers. The results revealed that teachers were generally welcoming of the new higher-order…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outdoor Education, Teacher Attitudes, Semi Structured Interviews
Ozcan, Deniz; Uzunboylu, Huseyin – Online Submission, 2015
The aim of this study is to determine the needs of special education teachers about curriculum development, and to implement the constructivist approach to in-service training programme for special education teachers. Furthermore, this study seeks to evaluate the developed in-service training programme. The descriptive and experimental methods…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Training, Inservice Teacher Education, Curriculum Development
Nichols, Ruth I. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this phenomenological study was two-fold: (a) to explore and describe the perceived impact of Pepperdine University's Educational Leadership Academy (ELA) on 2003-2006 ELA graduates' career advancement, career enhancement, and personal growth; and (b) to obtain ELA graduates' suggestions for ELA program improvement to better prepare…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Career Development, Phenomenology, Qualitative Research
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Hongboontri, Chantarath – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
This mixed-methods study borrowed Schwabian notions of practical curriculum inquiry (1969, 1971, 1973, 1983) to investigate students' perceptions of their English as a foreign language (EFL) curriculum and instruction in light of their interactions with the four commonplaces; i.e., teachers, learners, subject matter, and milieu. Data were gathered…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes
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Dilkes, Jessica; Cunningham, Christine; Gray, Jan – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
A new national curriculum has recently been implemented across Australia. This paper reports on a case study of a regional Western Australia government school as they re-wrote and taught the phase one learning areas: maths, English, science and HASS. Results showed what it is like to work in an environment where continual change is not only…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Educational Change, Curriculum Implementation
Edgecombe, Nikki; Cormier, Maria Scott; Bickerstaff, Susan; Barragan, Melissa – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2013
In this paper, the authors draw on empirical data from CCRC's Scaling Innovation project to examine trends in developmental education instructional reform and outline a framework for reform adoption and adaptation. The paper's findings are based on two qualitative data sources: a scan of developmental education reforms that involved changes to…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Evidence
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McGill, Monica M. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2012
Digital games are marketed, mass-produced, and consumed by an increasing number of people and the game industry is only expected to grow. In response, postsecondary institutions in the UK and the U.S. have started to create game degree programs. Though curriculum theorists provide insight into the process of creating a new program, no formal…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Organizations (Groups), Computer Games