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Children's Learning in Classrooms: Challenges in Developing a Methodology to Explain "Opportunity to Learn."
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Alton-Lee, Adrienne; Nuthall, Graham – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 1992
This study investigated students' learning during specific units, linking it to teaching methods. Researchers observed students, recorded classes, and conducted pretests, posttests, and follow-up, examining content learned, content understanding, class memories, and learning experiences. Results indicated critical elements necessary for students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Context Effect
The Real World of Performance Indicators. A Review of Their Use in Selected Commonwealth Countries.
David, Dorothy – 1996
This document reviews how performance indicators are currently being used in several Commonwealth countries the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada, and identifies some of the issues associated with performance indicator development and application. It also examines whether there are any agreed upon "key", or common, indicators that…
Descriptors: Administration, Case Studies, Decision Making, Evaluation
Portraying Children's Classroom Experiences. Learning in Science Project. Working Paper No. 42.
Tasker, Ross; Osborne, Roger – 1980
The Learning in Science Project identified the learner as the key perspective for in-depth study into problems and difficulties in the teaching and learning of science at the 10- to 14-year-old level. Two complementary research foci were established to explore this viewpoint: (1) interviewing children using strategies designed to establish various…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Higher Education Research & Development, Volume 1, Number 1, 1982.
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Powell, J. P., Ed. – Higher Education Research & Development, 1982
Five articles on higher education in Australia and New Zealand are presented, along with two review articles. "Australian Higher Education Research and Society. Part I: Post-War Reconstruction and Expansion, 1940-1965" (D. S. Anderson and E. Eton) is a review of research on higher education in Australia and New Zealand since World War…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Case Studies, Cognitive Style, College Students
A Case Study on Special Education in New Zealand.
Brown, D. F. – 1988
As part of a Unesco study of its member states, this case study reviews New Zealand's services for the education of disabled persons. The policy objective in special education in New Zealand is to ensure that provision is made for the education of all persons with special teaching needs within a program which is universal, integral with other…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Educational Administration
International Perspectives on the First-Year Experience in Higher Education. The First-Year Experience Monograph Series No. 52
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Nutt, Diane, Ed.; Calderon, Denis, Ed. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2009
Students around the globe have unique first-year experiences but struggle with many of the same challenges. This monograph focuses on their journeys and provides insights for educators interested in learning about how institutions across the globe provide supports to students dealing with first-year transition issues. Based on the successful…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Studies, Program Attitudes, College Freshmen