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Academic Benchmarking and the Provision of Quality Secondary Education in Tanzania
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Haruni Machumu; Apolonia Agaptus – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2024
The academic benchmarking process is broadly employed by private secondary education providers and educational stakeholders in Tanzania to examine the benefits and drawbacks of service delivery. The study explored the use of academic benchmarking in providing quality education in Tanzanian secondary schools. Employing a cross-sectional research…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Academic Standards, Benchmarking, Secondary Schools
Do School Preferences Differ between Mothers and Fathers? International Evidence from PISA
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John Jerrim; Claudia Prieto-Latorre; Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo; Oscar David Marcenaro-Gutierrez – Oxford Review of Education, 2024
A sizeable literature -- spanning education, sociology and economics -- has investigated the issue of parental school preferences and school choice. A notable gap in the existing evidence base is an exploration of how such preferences differ between mothers and fathers. We present new cross-national findings on this matter, drawing on survey data…
Descriptors: Father Attitudes, Mother Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies, Preferences
Effective Ways of Modernization and Internationalization of Education in Kazakhstan
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Aigerim Kosherbayeva; Ardak Alipbek; Rinad Kosherbayev; Aknyr Baimahova; Albina Niyazova – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2024
This paper examines the problem of modernization of the national education model, based on the program documents "Mangilik El" and "Rukhani Zhangyru," the project "New humanitarian knowledge: 100 new textbooks in the Kazakh language," "Daryn" programs, etc., aimed at the spiritual development of the nation.…
Descriptors: International Education, Foreign Countries, Reputation, Educational Quality
Prestige, Status, and Esteem and the Teacher Shortage
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Klimek, Scott G. – Journal of Education and Learning, 2019
1,127 U.S. high school senior and college undergraduate perceptions of teaching's prestige, status, and esteem were explored in this study. The population consisted of 302 high school seniors and 825 college undergraduates from the Midwestern region of the United States. The study included 51 statements where participants rated their perceptions…
Descriptors: Reputation, Value Judgment, High School Seniors, Undergraduate Students
Prestige, Status, and Esteem and the Teacher Shortage
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Klimek, Scott Gene – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Perceptions of prestige, status, and esteem of the teaching career were explored in this study. The population consisted of 1,127 high school seniors and college undergraduates. The study included 51 statements where participants rated their perceptions of teaching's prestige, status, and esteem on an 8 point Likert scale. The data was factor…
Descriptors: Reputation, Value Judgment, High School Seniors, Undergraduate Students
International Test Score Comparisons and Educational Policy: A Review of the Critiques
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Carnoy, Martin – National Education Policy Center, 2015
Stanford education professor Martin Carnoy examines four main critiques of how international test results are used in policymaking. Of particular interest are critiques of the policy analyses published by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). Using average PISA scores as a comparative measure of student achievement is misleading…
Descriptors: Criticism, Reputation, Test Validity, Error of Measurement