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Daddow, Angela A.; Schneider, Britta – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
Students who have followed routes to Western universities other than the 'traditional' one--that is, an uninterrupted path from school to university--face greater challenges to their democratic participation in higher education than their "traditional" counterparts. Until recently, universities have predominantly expected students with…
Descriptors: Social Work, Bachelors Degrees, Partnerships in Education, Action Research
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Nolan, Andrea; Paatsch, Louise – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2018
Learning through play has traditionally been a central tenet in early childhood education, however, in recent times primary schools have begun to consider the benefits of introducing a play-based approach into early years classrooms to support young children's learning, especially in the areas of language and literacy. This study focuses on the…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Grade 1, Professional Identity
Naidu, Sham – Online Submission, 2012
"Performativity," it is argued, is a new mode of state regulation which makes it possible to govern in an "advanced liberal" way. It requires individual [teachers] to organize themselves as a response to targets, indicators and evaluations. To set aside personal beliefs and commitments and live an existence of calculation. The…
Descriptors: State Regulation, Teachers, Evaluation, Beliefs
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Goepel, Janet – Teacher Development, 2012
This paper considers the nature of teacher professionalism in England today, tracing how it has changed and developed according to the impact of government policy and the introduction of standards for teachers. It examines the recently published Teachers' Standards with their emphasis on classroom practice together with the requirement for…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Public Policy, National Standards
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Chan, Sing Pui; Wong, Siu Man – Early Education and Development, 2010
Research Findings: Assessment and accountability have been given prominent attention in the field of education in recent decades. Educators have been debating what assessment is, how it is practiced in school, and how it is used for accountability purposes. A case study was conducted of the assessment practices in a Hong Kong preschool to…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Early Childhood Education, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
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Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Collins, Clarin – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2012
The SAS Educational Value-Added Assessment System (SAS[R] EVAAS[R]) is the most widely used value-added system in the country. It is also self-proclaimed as "the most robust and reliable" system available, with its greatest benefit to help educators improve their teaching practices. This study critically examined the effects of SAS[R] EVAAS[R] as…
Descriptors: Evidence, Urban Schools, Private Schools, Program Effectiveness
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Cochran-Smith, Marilyn – Journal of Teacher Education, 2009
Currently the press to make policy and practice decisions on the basis of evidence is being coupled with recognition that real change requires shifts in organizational culture. Consequently, there are now many efforts to "re-culture" organizations by making evidence central to decision making. In this article, the authors problematize the notion…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Organizational Culture, Educational Change, Teaching Methods
Earley, Penelope M., Ed.; Imig, David G., Ed.; Michelli, Nicholas M., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
What constitutes a high quality teacher education program and what standards teacher candidates should meet before receiving their teaching credential? This volume advances deep understanding of the nature and sources of policy affecting the preparation of teachers in the U.S. and the conflicts or interconnections of these policies with the…
Descriptors: Expertise, Social Justice, World Views, Teacher Education Programs
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Buchanan, John; Gordon, Sue; Schuck, Sandy – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2008
Universities in many western nations are experiencing increasing performance measures for academic accountability. This paper maps the pitted pathway that has led Australian universities from mentoring to monitoring and from performance enhancement to performance evaluation, and reviews implications for teaching and learning in higher education.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Mentors, Quality Control, Foreign Countries
Montgomery, Ken; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Campbell, Carol – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2011
In this multi-method case study, the authors explore the success of school reform in Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), whose school reform combines a portfolio strategy and a managed instruction approach. Portfolio strategy is a term used to describe an approach that decentralizes resources and decision-making to school sites--increasingly in…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), School Restructuring, Educational Change, Accountability
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Du, Yi; Fuglesten, Larry – ERS Spectrum, 2001
Discusses Edina School District's School Profiles composed of multiple indicators from student achievement assessment results, school demographic data, and survey responses. Focuses on student, staff, and parent surveys, and shows how the surveys were developed, presented, and used by the schools to support comprehensive and ongoing efforts to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement
Marwick, Judith D. – 1998
The academic outcomes assessment movement focuses on measuring student learning as a direct outcome of the teaching process. This paper supports the idea that community colleges are well situated as leaders in the area of academic outcomes assessment, since the purpose of this movement--improving student learning--is one and the same with the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), College Outcomes Assessment
McKillip, William D. – 1975
This document explores some aspects of Competency Based Teacher Education (CBTE) in the area of elementary mathematics teaching methods. The essential and distinguishing features of CBTE are examined. The following topics are discussed in detail: (1) how competencies may be identified; (2) the effects of a competency orientation on methods…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cognitive Objectives, Competency Based Teacher Education, Elementary Education
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Elmore, Richard F. – Journal of Staff Development, 2006
In this article, the author examines successful schools with high concentrations of poor and minority children--those in which students were doing as well as or better than those in affluent schools on statewide standardized tests--to see what they were doing to improve the level of instruction in their classrooms. These high-performing,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Faculty Development, Teacher Expectations of Students, Educational Malpractice
Davies, Peter – 2002
The key features of student achievement were examined at twelve sixth form colleges (SFCs) in the United Kingdom with an emphasis on strategies to maintain and improve performance. It was found that students at SFCs have on average higher prior attainment and suffer less deprivation than their counterparts in General Further Education and Tertiary…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Academic Persistence
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