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Chen, Jingping – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2015
In this commentary, I interpret Xinying Yin and Gayle Ann Buck's collaborative action research from a social-cultural perspective. Classroom implementation of formative assessment is viewed as interaction between this assessment method and the local learning culture. I first identify Yin and Buck's definition of the formative assessment, and then…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Cultural Context, Action Research, Educational Change
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Jackson, Jen – Australian Educational Researcher, 2015
In 2012, a new assessment and rating process for Australian early childhood education and care (ECEC) services was introduced, using a new National Quality Standard (NQS). The NQS assessment and rating process has similarities to observational assessment systems used in educational research, and involves similar strategies for upholding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality
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Egan, Kieran – Teaching Education, 2015
The "Learning in Depth" program is a simple but radical innovation, which was first implemented in Canada in 2008/2009 and is now being used in a dozen countries with many thousand students. The aim of the program is to ensure that every student becomes an expert on something during schooling. The unusualness of the program and the fact…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Program Descriptions, Program Implementation
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Karge, Belinda Dunnick; Moore, Roxane Kushner – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2015
The Common Core has become a household term and yet many educators do not understand what it means. This article explains the historical perspectives of the Common Core and gives guidance to teachers in application of Teaching Optimum Topic Exploration (TOTE) necessary for full implementation of the Common Core State Standards. An effective…
Descriptors: State Standards, Guidance Programs, Educational History, Educational Policy
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Polanin, Joshua R.; Espelage, Dorothy L. – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2015
School bullying and delinquent behaviors are persistent and pervasive problems for schools, and have lasting effects for all individuals involved (Copeland et al., "JAMA Psychiatry" 70:419-426, 2013; Espelage et al., "J Res Adolesc" 24(2):337-349, 2013a). As a result, policymakers and practitioners have attempted to thwart…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Bullying, Delinquency, Intervention
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Robinson, Rachel R. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
More states are considering what kinds of policies or processes can be put in place to successfully improve the degree attainment of their postsecondary students, and one popular option is a reverse transfer policy. Reverse transfer policies usually involve authorizing community colleges to award a degree or certificate to students that have…
Descriptors: Reverse Transfer Students, College Transfer Students, Transfer Policy, College Credits
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Friedel, Janice Nahra; Wilson, Sarah L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
For decades, higher education professionals and researchers have used the term reverse transfer to describe a specific group of students. A current review of community college literature and higher education policy reflects a contextual change of the term, and today reverse transfer has grown to include students who transfer from a two-year…
Descriptors: Reverse Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Literature Reviews, Qualitative Research
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Beach, Robert H.; Lindahl, Ronald A. – Educational Planning, 2015
The purpose of this article is to provide an introduction to strategic planning in education, including basic principles, templates, and factors that led to its rise to become a recognized approach in educational planning, and in the issues that have led to increasing reliance on other approaches to educational planning.
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Strategic Planning, Educational Improvement, Program Implementation
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Werts, Amanda Bell; Brewer, Curtis A. – Educational Policy, 2015
This policy implementation study examines the experiences of four elementary school principals using photomethods. We employ Rancière and Merleau-Ponty's theorizations on "democracy" and "making sense" to understand the lived policy experiences of school principals and these individual's potential for practicing democratic…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Program Implementation, Politics of Education
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Friend, Karen; Pettibone, Kristianna; Florin, Paul; Vela, Jamie; Nargiso, Jessica – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the three articles included in a special focus of "Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy" that address environmental change strategies targeting drug abuse prevention. We define environmental change strategies and their effectiveness in public health domains such as alcohol abuse, smoking, and…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Prevention, Alcohol Abuse, Obesity
Derman-Sparks, Louise; LeeKeenan, Debbie; Nimmo, John – Teachers College Press, 2015
With a focus on the leader's role in initiating and sustaining anti-bias education in programs for young children and their families, this book is both a stand-alone text and a perfect companion for "Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves." It emphasizes that this work is not only about changing curriculum, but requires…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Social Justice, Teaching Methods, Early Childhood Education
Poole, Jesse – Online Submission, 2015
The institution in this study is a medium size, public liberal arts institution located in a rural setting. At the beginning of Fall 2012 term, 5,366 undergraduate and 922 graduate students were enrolled in the university's ten-week quarter system. In an attempt to increase student success and retention, the institution implemented a student…
Descriptors: College Students, Rural Schools, At Risk Students, Academic Advising
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Robertson, Charles E. – Research-publishing.net, 2015
Although vocabulary acquisition research has shed much light on practical methods for increasing lexical knowledge (Nation, 1994), many foreign language teachers hesitate to implement focused vocabulary-training programs in their classrooms. The reasons most often cited for this hesitation are associated with the difficult tasks of creating,…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Program Implementation, Online Courses, Courseware
Gear, Adrienne – Stenhouse Publishers, 2015
Since "Reading Power" was launched ten years ago in an elementary school in Vancouver, it has evolved into a recognized approach to comprehension instruction being implemented across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and China. This groundbreaking approach shows teachers how to help students think while they…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods
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Ison, Mirta Susana; González, Daniela Fernanda; Korzeniowski, Celina – European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, 2020
This work has two objectives. The first is to describe a program to strengthen socio-cognitive abilities in initial education children (called PHSC), which is focused on training teachers on its implementation in the classroom. The second objective is to examine the effectiveness of the program when it is applied in schools with different…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education, Program Effectiveness
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