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Crick, Ruth Deakin; Knight, Simon; Barr, Steven – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2017
Central to the mission of most educational institutions is the task of preparing the next generation of citizens to contribute to society. Schools, colleges, and universities value a range of outcomes--e.g., problem solving, creativity, collaboration, citizenship, service to community--as well as academic outcomes in traditional subjects. Often…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Holistic Approach, Data Collection, Data Analysis
Inforna, Michael D. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined teacher and administrator perceptions of their school as a learning organization and the degree to which students graduate "college-ready." The study followed a mixed-methods design to explore the hypothesis that the extent to which teachers and administrators perceive their school as a learning organization is…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Graduates
Michalenko, Joshua J.; Lan, Andrew S.; Waters, Andrew E.; Grimaldi, Philip J.; Baraniuk, Richard G. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2017
An important, yet largely unstudied problem in student data analysis is to detect "misconceptions" from students' responses to "open-response" questions. Misconception detection enables instructors to deliver more targeted feedback on the misconceptions exhibited by many students in their class, thus improving the quality of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Misconceptions, Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response)
Crone, Deanne A.; Carlson, Sarah E.; Haack, Marcia K.; Kennedy, Patrick C.; Baker, Scott K.; Fien, Hank – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2016
The use of data-based decision making (DBDM) in schools to drive educational improvement and success has been strongly promoted by educational experts and policymakers, yet very little is documented about the actual DBDM practices used in schools. This study examines DBDM practices in 25 middle schools through 80 standardized observations of data…
Descriptors: Observation, Intervention, Data, Decision Making
OECD Publishing, 2016
This report reviews the collection, availability and quality of system-level data and metadata on education from countries participating in the PISA for Development project: Cambodia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Senegal and Zambia. PISA for Development aims to increase low income countries' use of PISA assessments for monitoring progress towards…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Data Collection, Achievement Tests
Akmaliah, Zaidatol; Pihie, Lope; Asimiran, Soaib; Bagheri, Afsaneh – South African Journal of Education, 2014
Entrepreneurial leadership, as a distinctive type of leadership required for dealing with challenges and crises of current organizational settings, has increasingly been applied to improve school performance. However, there is limited research on the impact of school leaders' entrepreneurial leadership practices on school innovativeness. The main…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Styles
Byker, Erik Jon; Banerjee, Aditi – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2016
For more than a decade, hundreds of thousands of India's young adults have volunteered to collect data for an annual household education related survey. The survey is called the Annual Status of Education Report or ASER, for short. The ASER survey is a unique methodology of citizen-led assessments. The purpose of this article is to describe and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Field Studies, Annual Reports, Educational Assessment
Ellis, Robert A.; Han, Feifei; Pardo, Abelardo – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
The field of education technology is embracing a use of learning analytics to improve student experiences of learning. Along with exponential growth in this area is an increasing concern of the interpretability of the analytics from the student experience and what they can tell us about learning. This study offers a way to address some of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Outcomes of Education, Observation
Kong, Rui; Gao, Xiaowei; Zhong, Wanxing; Zhou, Xiaoling – Frontiers of Education in China, 2015
MBA education has become the fastest growing segment of education in China in recent years and a segment that can now be considered indispensable. However, how best to teach it has long been a source of debate. One of the key issues is how to match student traits with teaching methods. While engaged as teachers of marketing management, the authors…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Masters Degrees, Masters Programs, Educational Quality
Suss, Gavin – Journal of International Education Research, 2013
The past 15 years have been a dramatic and unique period for education systems all over the world. The challenges have become more complex and the need for schools to promote their agenda has become cardinal and, in some cases, even critical. Today, parents, children, pupils and teachers are motivated by their senses and the positioning of leading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Principals, Teachers
Weber-Mayrer, Melissa M.; Piasta, Shayne B.; Yeager Pelatti, Christina – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2015
Professional development (PD) for early childhood educators has received increased attention as a means of bolstering young children's learning and development. Theory and research indicate that educators' characteristics play roles in both their own learning and that of children; however, little research has explored who participates in PD. This…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, State Programs, Faculty Development, Preschool Teachers
Karagiorgi, Yiasemina; Nicolaidou, Maria; Yiasemis, Christos; Georghiades, Petros – Improving Schools, 2015
This article aims to illustrate a school self-evaluation project implemented in three Cyprus primary schools. The project adopted three theoretical assumptions, namely, an orientation towards school improvement, a participatory school-level approach allowing support from a critical friend and a focus on effective teaching. In line with a…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Groups), Educational Improvement, Effective Schools Research, Data
Sims, Brian T. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to research both imperially validated and conceptualized school board best practices, as well as their utilization within Missouri school districts from differing geographic regions, with differing total school populations and differing level of school success. School success for this study was defined as district…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Best Practices, School District Size, Educational Improvement
Winokur, Ilene Kay – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine how teachers' perceptions of transformational leadership behavior of head of department (HOD) as instructional leader related to their motivation to transfer learning through professional development in public high schools in Kuwait. The study also addressed two other training transfer factors: ability to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transformational Leadership, Professional Development, Public School Teachers
Steyn, G. M. – Africa Education Review, 2013
This study investigates a South African principal's view of implementing invitational education (IE) as an example of a professional development programme (PD) within a particular school setting. Two types of literature inform this study: leadership supportive of school development and the invitational education approach to teaching and learning.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Photography, Ethnography, Principals