NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
International Adult Literacy…1
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 1 to 15 of 64 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Driessen-Willems, Marion; Severens, Floor; Darlington, Emily; Bartelink, Nina; Kremers, Stef; van Assema, Patricia; Bessems, Kathelijne – Health Education, 2023
Purpose: Adapting the Health Promotion School (HPS) approach to context specifics is acknowledged as being essential for implementation and achieving optimal effectiveness. This study aims to explore implementation variations on seven HPS spectra (such as top-down to bottom-up involvement of stakeholders) on which implementation of the HPS…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Health Promotion, Foreign Countries, Health Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Tempera, Tiago; Tinoca, Luís – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2023
Future teachers first come into contact with diversified teaching strategies, such as Project-Based Learning, in initial teacher education programmes. Such strategies contrast with the type of methods that they experienced throughout their own schooling, which are essentially teacher centred. The present research aims to understand how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Projects, Preservice Teacher Education, Active Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Vera Maria Silvério do Vale; Maria Filomena da Fonseca Gaspar – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: The Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management (IY-TCM) program is an evidence-based intervention intended to promote the social and emotional skills of children and to reduce the frequency of inappropriate types of behavior. This paper reports on its initial implementation in Portugal. The primary aim of this study is to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Interpersonal Competence, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Gabriel Cipriano; Susana Da Cruz Martins – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2024
In recent decades, the potential benefits of introducing technologies into large-scale tests have been much discussed. Yet the path to effective technology use on large-scale testing has fallen short of expectations, especially when these tests have medium or high stakes for students. After a temporary cancelation of external assessment of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Testing, High Stakes Tests, Technology Uses in Education
European Training Foundation, 2023
Qualifications frameworks are tools for describing qualifications of an education or training system by classifying them into levels. Each level provides a clear description of what the holder of a qualification knows, understands and is able to do. They are important tools for making qualifications transparent and comprehensible, within and…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Global Approach, Regional Programs, Nonformal Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
João Grácio; Nuno Dorotea; Maria Rosário Rodrigues – Educational Media International, 2024
This primary school teachers' (1CEB) community of practice started its activity in the school year 2020/2021, being organized around three main goals: (i) implement a small community of practice with 1CEB teachers, focusing on issues related to the curricular integration of Digital Technologies (DT); (ii) create lesson plans and other materials…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Elementary School Teachers, Program Implementation, Teacher Attitudes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Carneiro, Alan Silvio Ribeiro – Language Policy, 2021
The final decolonization of Timor-Leste, in 2002, happened during an era characterized by intensification of globalization processes and, as a result, the reconstruction of the country involved diverse types of multilateral and bilateral cooperation. The cooperation projects of Portugal and Brazil took on the main role in the development of local…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, International Cooperation, Teacher Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Carla Sofia Farinha; Sandra Sofia Caeiro; Ulisses Azeiteiro – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: This study aims to expand knowledge and provide further insights on how education for sustainable development (ESD) has been integrated into programmes at higher education institutions (HEIs) in Portugal. Design/methodology/approach: A questionnaire survey was given to key actors in charge of sustainability implementation at each…
Descriptors: Universities, Program Implementation, Sustainable Development, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Aleixo, Ana Marta; Azeiteiro, Ulisses M.; Leal, Susana – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: The study aims to examine the vertical integration of the sustainable development goals (SGDs) in Portuguese public higher education institutions, namely, at the level of undergraduate and master's degrees, and the extent to which Portuguese higher education institutions (HEI) are preparing for the United Nations' call to promote SDGs.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Educational Objectives, Higher Education
Bocconi, Stefania; Lightfoot, Michael – European Training Foundation, 2021
The purpose of this Joint Research Centre and European Training Foundation (JRC-ETF) joint report is to propose a methodology for the scaling up of SELFIE on the basis of several case studies from EU Member States and South Eastern European countries. Designed to support schools in using digital technologies for teaching and learning effectively,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Innovation, Educational Technology, Technology Integration
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Cardoso, Sónia; Rosa, Maria J.; Videira, Pedro; Amaral, Alberto – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2017
Purpose: This paper aims to look at the characteristics of internal quality assurance (IQA) systems of higher education institutions to understand whether these systems tend to reproduce a given model, externally defined and suggested to institutions, or rather to be shaped by institutions' features and interests. Design/methodology/approach: The…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Carvalho, Ana Raquel; Santos, Carlos – Education Sciences, 2021
Rethinking the role of education in the 21st century implies acknowledging the power of learning and the urgency of making learning provision more meaningful, inclusive, and student-centred, which assumes particular importance when learner disengagement is still a global issue in elementary and secondary education. Rooted in social constructivism…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Peer Teaching, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Cardoso, Sónia; Rosa, Maria J.; Videira, Pedro – Quality in Higher Education, 2018
Academics' support for quality assurance (QA) depends on several factors, including their sense of ownership, which seems to be influenced by academics' participation in QA's implementation. This paper aims to understand whether this participation is indeed contributing to academics' ownership of QA. Findings from a survey of Portuguese academics'…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Teacher Participation, Program Implementation, Accreditation (Institutions)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Farinha, Carla Sofia; Azeiteiro, Ulisses; Caeiro, Sandra Sofia – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to determine, from key actors' perspective, how sustainability has been integrated into the policies and strategies of higher education institutions (HEIs), particularly Portuguese public universities, within the framework of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UN DESD) 2005-2014.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Higher Education, Universities
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Maratos, Frances A.; Matos, Marcela; Albuquerque, Isabel; Wood, Wendy; Palmeira, Lara; Cunha, Marina; Lima, Margarida P.; Gilbert, Paul – Psychology of Education Review, 2020
Given current retention and well-being crises within the teaching profession worldwide, this research sought to explore implementation efficacy of a Compassionate Mind Training (CMT) programme in cross-cultural school-settings. A six-module CMT curriculum was implemented in teaching staff of two primary schools in the UK (N = 76) and one primary…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Altruism, Program Implementation, Well Being
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5