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Bowers, Alex J. – OECD Publishing, 2020
Are teachers and principals aligned in their perceptions of the core components of the theory of Leadership for Learning across countries, or are there subgroups of schools in which there is misalignment? The purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which a congruency-typology model of leadership for learning is distributed across…
Descriptors: Classification, Teacher Attitudes, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
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Bowker, Julie C.; Sette, Stefania; Ooi, Laura L.; Bayram-Ozdemir, Sevgi; Braathu, Nora; Bølstad, Evalill; Castillo, Karen Noel; Dogan, Aysun; Greco, Carolina; Kamble, Shanmukh; Kim, Hyoun K.; Kim, Yunhee; Liu, Junsheng; Oh, Wonjung; Rapee, Ronald M.; Wong, Quincy J. J.; Xiao, Bowen; Zuffianò, Antonio; Coplan, Robert J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
The goal of this study was to evaluate the measurement invariance of an adapted assessment of motivations for social withdrawal ("Social Preference Scale--Revised"; SPS-R) across cultural contexts and explore associations with loneliness. Participants were a large sample of university students (N = 4,397; M[subscript age] = 20.08 years,…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Withdrawal (Psychology), Motivation, Foreign Countries
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Zeng, Lily Min; Fryer, Luke K.; Zhao, Yue – Higher Education Quarterly, 2023
Higher education's rapid expansion is paired with growing social expectations of its benefits and concern on its teaching quality. In response to these, institutional/national surveys based on an array of theories are widely used in universities for quality assurance, enhancement, and benchmarking. This paper reviews three major types of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Quality Assurance, Surveys
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Laundon, Melinda; Cunningham, Samuel; Cathcart, Abby – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2023
Teaching evaluation is deeply entrenched in institutional quality assurance and is a feature of a range of policies including academic recruitment, promotion, and performance management. Universities must ensure that evaluation practices meet regulatory requirements, while balancing student voice and wellbeing. There is extensive literature…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Educational Strategies, Educational Practices
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Elwick, Sheena; White, E. Jayne – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2022
A paradox concerning age exists in early childhood education (ECE) across many countries today, evident in the literature, curriculum, policy, funding, and provision. This paradox comprises two distinct approaches that call for either a specialised developmental approach to discrete age groups or a generic attitude concerning childhoods with no…
Descriptors: Age, Early Childhood Education, Literature Reviews, Teacher Surveys
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Gerry Czerniawski; Ainat Guberman; Ann MacPhail; Eline Vanassche – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
Though teachers in schools are increasingly being asked to take responsibility for the education and training of prospective and practicing teachers, little empirical research has been undertaken into the support that they require to perform their duties effectively. This study provides an international needs analysis of the professional learning…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Educational Needs, Faculty Development, International Assessment
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Urick, Angela; Bowers, Alex J. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2019
While research to date on school leadership has identified instructional leadership as an effective means to improve academic achievement, little is known about how teachers and principals view instructional leadership both individually and collectively. We analyzed the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) of 2008 of 59,152…
Descriptors: Administrator Surveys, Teacher Surveys, International Assessment, Teacher Attitudes
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Perry, Ben D.; Cameron, Melissa S.; Cooke, Matthew B.; Towstoless, Michelle; Hryciw, Deanne H.; Hayes, Alan; Lexis, Louise; Tangalakis, Kathy – Advances in Physiology Education, 2023
An Australia-wide consensus was reached on seven core concepts of physiology, one of which was "structure and function" with the descriptor "Structure and function are intrinsically related to all levels of the organism. In all physiological systems, the structure from a microscopic level to an organ level dictates its…
Descriptors: Physiology, Science Instruction, Foreign Countries, Scientific Concepts
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Bennett, Dawn; Ananthram, Subramaniam – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
This article presents the development, validation and deployment of a scale with which higher education students self-assess their perceived employability. Underpinned by social cognitive career theory and Yorke and Knight's (2007) USEM model for students' attainment of employability, a perceived employability questionnaire was developed and…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Measures (Individuals), Self Evaluation (Individuals), Student Attitudes
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Dockery, Alfred Michael; Bawa, Sherry; Coffey, Jane; Li, Ian W. – Australian Educational Researcher, 2022
This paper focusses on how careers advice provided to Australian secondary school students varies according to students' socio-economic background. National data for students in Years 11 and 12 from five cohorts of the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth initiated between 1998 and 2015 are analysed. Students from higher socio-economic…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Access to Information, Occupational Information, Socioeconomic Background
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Langan, A. Mark; Harris, W. Edwin – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2019
The purpose of this study is to use machine learning and exploratory data analysis to interrogate patterns of metrics from a national-level student survey. Analysis of over 1.8 million returns detected long-term stability of the predictors of student satisfaction, with survey items relating to course management and teaching being consistently most…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Student Surveys, Research Methodology, Predictor Variables
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2022
"Apprentice and Trainee Outcomes 2021" provides a summary of the outcomes of apprentices and trainees who completed an apprenticeship or traineeship during 2020, with the data collected in mid-2021. The figures are derived from apprentices' and trainees' responses to the National Student Outcomes Survey (SOS), which is an annual survey…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Trainees, National Surveys
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Lee, Jihyun; Lee, Jung-Sook; Ellis, Neville – Educational Assessment, 2023
This study examines public opinion about the National Assessment Program--Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) in Australia, based on an online survey conducted with a sample of New South Wales (NSW) residents (n = 2,017). Our study participants did recognize the benefits of NAPLAN despite their opinion generally trending toward negative viewpoints of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, National Competency Tests, Numeracy
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Richard O'Donovan; Nicola Sum – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
This paper examines the psychometric properties of an existing school-based Parent Opinion Survey (POS) in order to investigate its validity as a measure of parent sentiments which may (eventually) be used to better inform the decision making of school leaders. The study focusses on the POS administered by all Victorian public schools at the time…
Descriptors: Parent Surveys, Parent Attitudes, Family School Relationship, Outcomes of Education
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Ewan Wright; Anne L. L. Tang; Syeda Kanwal Hassan – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2024
This article reports on an international mixed-method study on student leadership that sought to maximize opportunities for students to be engaged as researchers. Applying the conceptual lens of student voice, we reflect on students' contributions to each stage of the research. This included efforts to integrate the components of Mitra's 'pyramid…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Educational Research, Student Leadership, Mixed Methods Research
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