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Care, Esther; Vista, Alvin; Kim, Helyn – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2020
This paper marks the second in a series of five reports detailing the work of the Optimizing Assessment for All (OAA) project at Brookings to strengthen education systems capacity to integrate 21st century skills into teaching and learning, using assessment as a lever for changing classroom practices. Twenty-first century skills (21CS) are now…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, 21st Century Skills, Teaching Methods, Student Evaluation
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Lin, Yu-sien – Journal of Education and Learning, 2012
Albeit school teachers' traditional concepts are believed one of the obstacles of fostering children's creativity, their voices and demands were not heard among the attempts of promoting creativity education in Taiwan. This study aims to gain an in-depth understanding of primary school teachers' responses of adopting creative pedagogy in an Asian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creative Teaching, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 6
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Lee, Che-Di – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2014
Instructional written materials play important roles as teachers' agents in effective teaching practices. Worksheets are one of the most frequently used materials. In this exploratory study, the relationships between worksheet usage and science achievement in 32 countries were examined through the use of TIMSS and PIRLS data and multiple…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Worksheets, Cross Cultural Studies, Science Achievement
Lee, Che-Di – Online Submission, 2014
Instructional written materials play important roles as teachers' agents in effective teaching practices. Worksheets are one of the most frequently used materials. In this exploratory study, the relationships between worksheet usage and science achievement in 32 countries were examined through the use of TIMSS and PIRLS data and multiple…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Worksheets, Cross Cultural Studies, Science Achievement
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Sheehan, Kevin; Laifer, Larry – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2011
Working at the sixth grade level, the authors write about their effort to interest students in current events and their historical roots. This article outlines a series of learning experiences and assessments that the authors created for sixth grade students at Lockhart School in Massapequa, New York. These learning experiences culminated in a…
Descriptors: Current Events, Grade 6, Social Studies, Elementary School Students
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Vista, Alvin; Care, Esther – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2011
Background: Research on gender differences in intelligence has focused mostly on samples from Western countries and empirical evidence on gender differences from Southeast Asia is relatively sparse. Aims: This article presents results on gender differences in variance and means on a non-verbal intelligence test using a national sample of public…
Descriptors: Evidence, Intelligence, Investigations, Females
Singh, Michael; Zhao, Da Cheng – Australian Teacher Education Association, 2009
This paper explores the possibilities for building research-oriented, school-engaged teacher education through the professional learning of volunteer teacher-researchers. Volunteerism in education covers a broad spectrum of people and activities ranging from working in school canteens to supporting language and literacy programs. This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Researchers, Volunteers, Teacher Education
Bisland, Beverly Milner – Online Submission, 2006
The purpose of this study is to investigate elementary students' explanations of how physical features of the land influence the location of humanly defined structures including trade routes, such as the silk routes. The silk routes were a series of caravan trade routes that extended from Turkey to China and were located as far south as India and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Grade 6, Prior Learning
Dyson, Laurel, Ed.; Hendriks, Max, Ed.; Grant, Stephen, Ed. – Information Science Publishing, 2007
Information Technology and Indigenous People provides theoretical and empirical information related to the planning and execution of IT projects aimed at serving indigenous people. It explores many cultural concerns with IT implementation, including language issues and questions of cultural appropriateness, and brings together cutting-edge…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge