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BC Student Outcomes, 2016
Student feedback is essential to maintaining quality and ensuring relevance in the education system. BC Student Outcomes provides that feedback by surveying former post-secondary students who took apprenticeship technical training, baccalaureate programs, and associate degree, diploma, or certificate programs. In 2016, over 28,000 former students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Surveys, College Students, Academic Degrees
Adamson, Frank – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2016
Policymakers worldwide are trying to figure how best to organize, govern, and support their education systems. They must manage multiple goals, such as workforce development, nurturing knowledgeable citizens, and ensuring educational opportunity. Some countries approach these issues with a public investment in teacher professionalization and a…
Descriptors: Privatization, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Achievement Gap
British Columbia Ministry of Education, 2014
The Service Plan outlines the work the Ministry of Education will continue to undertake to modernize education in British Columbia (B.C.) and achieve its vision. The Ministry's work on that transformation focuses on two broad priority areas: (1) Transforming how they support and enable better learning outcomes for B.C. children; and (2)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, Individualized Instruction
Pregot, Michael – School Business Affairs, 2012
How do other countries fund their public schools? Through an analysis of common traits, such as the total percentage of funding for education in relation to the annual gross domestic product (GDP) and the annual per-pupil expenditures (correlated to the U.S. dollar), one can start to develop a clearer perspective on basic school-funding…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Expenditure per Student, Public Schools
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Vaughan, Norman; Cloutier, David – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
The purpose of this student-faculty partnership research study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a blended four-year Bachelor of Education Elementary Program at a Canadian university using the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) framework. Data was collected from the first graduating cohort of students from the B.Ed. program in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Research, College Faculty
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Khampirat, Buratin; McRae, Norah – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2016
Cooperative and Work-integrated Education (CWIE) programs have been widely accepted as educational programs that can effectively connect what students are learning to the world of work through placements. Because a global quality standards framework could be a very valuable resource and guide to establishing, developing, and accrediting quality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, Work Experience Programs, Education Work Relationship
Allaire, Stéphane – Canadian Journal of Education, 2015
Networked learning communities are growing and they offer new opportunities for reflection on practice in education. Many authors have studied the processes followed and the contents produced by such communities. On the other hand, few have observed how collective asynchronous discourse can be enacted in the classroom. This objective was pursued…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Asynchronous Communication, Intervention, Statistical Analysis
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Bigras, Nathalie; Lemay, Lise; Bouchard, Caroline; Eryasa, Joell – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This paper aims to describe the quality of play as offered by early childhood educators working with four-year-olds within an educational childcare service. It also aims to identify the correlation between the quality of play support and a child's cognitive, language and socio-emotional development. Finally, it focuses on the factors associated…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Care, Child Care Centers, Educational Quality
British Columbia Ministry of Education, 2017
This Annual Service Plan Report discusses the results related to measures in the Ministry of Education's 2016/17-2018/19 Service Plan. British Columbia's education system continues to rank among the best in the world. This year over 640,000 students attended public and independent schools in every corner of the province, eager to develop their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading
Frankowski, Andrea; van der Steen, Martijn; Bressers, Daphne; Schulz, Martin; Shewbridge, Claire; Fuster, Marc; Rouw, Rien – OECD Publishing, 2018
Prepared for a Strategic Education Governance learning seminar, this working paper analyses the ways in which the Dutch government tried to reach overarching goals in education, in a system characterised by a high degree of distributed autonomy of education institutions and the participation of multiple actors, and consequently a government highly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement
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Petrarca, Diana M.; Hughes, Janette M. – McGill Journal of Education, 2014
The predominant form of research dissemination resides in the scholar's domain, namely academic conferences and peer-reviewed journals. This paper describes how two colleagues and researchers integrated documentary filmmaking with research methods in their respective scholarly work, supporting the case for documentary film as an alternative form…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Faculty Publishing, Film Production, Research Reports
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Cherry, Joan M.; Freund, Luanne; Duff, Wendy M. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2013
Using a web-based survey, this study explored students' perceptions of their master's programs in information studies at six Canadian universities. Findings indicate that students rate most aspects of their programs positively, although few respondents give the highest ratings, indicating that there is substantial room for improvement. When asked…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Masters Programs, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes
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Lemay, Lise; Bigras, Nathalie; Bouchard, Caroline – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2015
The objective of this study was to examine how quantity, type, and quality of care interact in predicting externalizing and internalizing behaviors of 36-month-old children attending Quebec's educational child care from their first years of life. To do so, the authors examined two hypothesized models: (1) a mediation model where quantity, type,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care Centers, Child Care, Child Behavior
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Lehrer, Joanne S. – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2013
This article explores the views of professionals from the Centre for Assistance and Support to Initiatives, Organisations, and Professionals in Early Childhood (CASIOPE) and its member organizations on how reflective practice in early childhood professional learning is understood, put into practice, and evaluated. Findings from this case study…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Teachers
Ministry of Advanced Education, 2014
British Columbia's Ministry of Advanced Education's "2014/15-2016/17 Service Plan" supports achievement of government's strategic priorities of a: (1) Strong Economy; and (2) Secure Tomorrow. The Ministry will continue to work towards its vision of a leading-edge post-secondary system for strong communities and bright futures. To realize…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Quality
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