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Scott, Shelleyann; Webber, Charles F.; Lupart, Judy L.; Aitken, Nola; Scott, Donald E. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2014
This paper focuses on promoting fairness and equity in student assessment practices. The researchers used questionnaires and interviews and the study encompassed a total of 3312 individuals representing a range of stakeholders. The paper is presented in two parts: fairness and discrimination, and challenging policy and practice. Five key…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Equal Education, Educational Discrimination
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Hamel, Christine; Turcotte, Sandrine; Laferrière, Thérèse – International Education Studies, 2013
This paper investigates the presence (or absence) of Ely's (1999) conditions for implementing innovation in a rural context in the province of Quebec (Canada). The innovation, namely the Remote Networked School (RNS) initiative, is designed to bring new technology tools to enrich the learning environment of students and diminish teachers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Program Implementation, Educational Technology
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Turcotte, Sandrine; Hamel, Christine – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2008
Remote Networked Schools (RNS) is an initiative by the Quebec Ministry of Education, Leisure and Sports (MELS) to investigate solutions that the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) can offer for the preservation of small rural schools in Quebec, Canada. The implementation of RNS mobilized then--as it still does now--the local…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Small Schools, Rural Schools
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Nleya, Paul T. – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2009
The rapid growth and modernization of economies in developing countries like Botswana creates new and unmet demands for certain kinds of educated and skilled labour. The expansion of secondary and tertiary school systems has also created a problem of unemployed school leavers. The growth of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs),…
Descriptors: Private Sector, Labor Force Development, Trainees, Developing Nations