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Han, Christine; Peirolo, Silvia – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2021
Teacher absenteeism constitutes a significant barrier to achieving quality education in many low- and middle-income countries globally, where teachers' school absence rates range from 3 per cent to 27 per cent. Tanzania Mainland has made significant progress in achieving universal primary education and improving the quality of education. Since…
Descriptors: Teacher Attendance, Educational Quality, Barriers, Outcomes of Education
Russell, Jennifer Lin; Sherer, Jennifer Zoltners; Iriti, Jennifer; Long, Courtney – Nellie Mae Education Foundation, 2021
The Better Math Teaching Network (BMTN) is looking to transform high school math instruction in New England and beyond. Through this network, researchers and practitioners are working together to make high school Algebra I classes more student centered. This report outlines findings from the first year of this developmental evaluation of the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Mathematics, High School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Data Quality Campaign, 2021
The 2020 election brought about legislative change across the country. New and veteran policymakers need information about the schools in their state. What programs are the most cost effective and work best for students? How can states attract and retain great teachers? What information do parents need to ensure that their kids are on track to…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Data Collection, Data Analysis
Iriti, Jennifer; Sherer, Jennifer Zoltners; Russell, Jennifer Lin; McNelis, Rosemary; Matthis, Christopher – Nellie Mae Education Foundation, 2021
As the Better Math Teaching Network (BMTN) matured, different strategies for sharing network learning emerged. These strategies became more formalized and intentional as BMTN members developed tools and routines to spread the learning. Our multi-year evaluation sought to understand the affordances and constraints of each strategy. In the sections…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Educational Improvement, Sustainability, Networks
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Bates, Agnieszka – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2014
The introduction of the "National Strategies" for primary education in 1998, positioned "strategy" as a powerful instrument for mobilising the school "workforce" in England in the cause of continuous improvement. Government approaches to strategy formulation and enactment appear to reflect an instrumentalist…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries, Strategic Planning, Phenomenology
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Duff, Megan; Wohlstetter, Priscilla – Educational Researcher, 2019
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has generated considerable buzz in education circles and the general media. But how much has really changed, and what does this mean for states as they begin the process of implementing a new federal education law? In this article, we apply principal-agent theory to explore intergovernmental relations under…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Discourse Analysis
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Kyriakides, Leonidas; Charalambous, Evi; Creemers, H. P. M. (Bert); Dimosthenous, Andria – Educational Research, 2019
Background: Recent effectiveness studies have investigated the relationship between two dimensions of effectiveness -- namely, quality and equity. Specifically, the question of whether effective schools can also reduce the initial differences in student outcomes attributed to student background factors has been examined. In this context, the…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Equal Education, Educational Quality, Disadvantaged Environment
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Jiang, Yu; Zhang, Jiahui; Xin, Tao – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2019
This article is an overview of the National Assessment of Education Quality (NAEQ) of China in reading, mathematics, sciences, arts, physical education, and moral education at Grades 4 and 8. After a review of the background and history of NAEQ, we present the assessment framework with students' holistic development at the core and the design for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement, National Competency Tests
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Lynch, David; Smith, Richard; Yeigh, Tony; Provost, Steve – International Journal of Educational Management, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to compare measures of socio-economic status (Index of Community Socio-educational Advantage values (ICSEA)), school performance, school funding and school readiness in terms of their impact on student performance. In this respect, the paper tests the proposition -- given research that suggests the teacher is…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Academic Achievement
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Desyatov, Tymofiy – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2019
The article proves that the influence of integration processes of the growth of the role of globalization requires the necessity of using and adapting international educational standards and criteria of assessing the quality in the field of national education. It is noted that contemporary European practice involves the development of culture of…
Descriptors: Global Approach, International Education, Standards, Educational Quality
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Schneider, Ben Ross; Estarellas, Pablo Cevallos; Bruns, Barbara – Comparative Education Review, 2019
Recent governments in Ecuador (2007-17) have achieved impressive improvements in education. Enrollments increased significantly, and Ecuador's learning gains on regional tests from 2006 to 2013 were among the largest in the region. Ecuador's recent PISA performance provides further confirmation of genuine progress in raising student learning. A…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Strategies
Demie, Feyisa – Trentham Books, 2019
What if disadvantage need not correlate with poor academic achievement? If instead of researching the 'underachieving' groups (minorities, children for whom English is not their home language, and children of families in poor socioeconomic circumstances) you look at what works in schools to raise the attainment of all these groups, the results are…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Access to Education, Universities, Disadvantaged
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Nordengren, Chase; Guskey, Thomas R. – Learning Professional, 2020
The importance of high-quality evaluation is underscored in Learning Forward's Standards for Professional Learning: Evaluation provides information that supports advocates, professional learning planners, and anyone who wants to know "about the contribution of professional learning to student achievement" (Learning Forward, 2011). Most…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Faculty Development, Academic Achievement, Decision Making
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Mumhure, Godwin; Jita, Loyiso C.; Chimbi, Godsend T. – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2020
For centuries, teacher professional development has largely been done by external experts who advise teachers on how to improve classroom practice and learner performance. This research explores a relatively unchartered idea of history subject panels/clusters as an innovation meant to break away from orthodox teacher professional development…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Sustainability, Educational Innovation, History Instruction
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Mitchell, Tamra – Educational Considerations, 2020
Since July of 2017, approximately 72 Kansas school districts and approximately 183 schools have volunteered to redesign their schools around four redesign principles as part of the Kansans Can School Redesign Project. The earliest cohort of volunteer schools were led by the two redesign specialists through a planning process that included engaging…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Stakeholders, Family Role, School Role
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