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Multiple Determinants of Interaction Quality among Childcare Providers
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Lee, Ji Young; Sung, Jihyun – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2023
Background: Improving childcare quality is an important goal in South Korea as many infants attend childcare centers. The quality of teacher-child interactions is a common and crucial predictor of childcare quality. Thus, it is imperative to identify the relative contributions of the variables associated with improving the interaction quality of…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Foreign Countries, Caregiver Child Relationship, Interaction
Parental Reasons for School Choice in Elementary School: A Systematic Review
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Rohde, Luis Augusto; Campani, Fausto; Oliveira, José Renato Gonçalves; Rohde, Catarina W.; Rocha, Thiago; Ramal, Andrea – Journal of School Choice, 2019
The quantitative literature on parental reasons of school choice for their elementary school children was systematically reviewed using all major databases. The quality of the studies was assessed through a modified version of the Newcastle-Ottawa scale. Among 3982 references reviewed, 26 studies were included from 14 countries. Although large…
Descriptors: School Choice, Parent Attitudes, Elementary Schools, Elementary School Students
Effects of In-Class and Out-of-Class Writing Assignments on L2 Writing Strategy Use and Writing Quality
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Na, SunJung; Yoon, Hyunsook – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2016
This study investigated the effects of time on L2 writing quality and learners' use of writing strategies throughout the entire writing process. The analysis involved 69 Korean undergraduates' writing strategy questionnaires, retrospective interviews, and writing assignments, all of which were evaluated according to timed (in-class) and untimed…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Achievement, Writing Strategies, Educational Quality
The Instructional Factors That Lead to Cheating in a Korean Cyber University Context
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Costley, Jamie – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2017
Purpose: This paper looks at a particular type of cheating that occurs in an online university setting. That is, when students who have a connection from outside the online learning environment conspire to cheat together. It measures the correlations between student variables and cheating, instructional variables and cheating and learning outcomes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cheating, Ethics, Student Behavior
Perceptions and Career Prospects of the Distance Doctor of Education Degree: Voices from the Mid-Career ELT Tertiary Practitioners
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Kung, Fan-Wei – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2017
The advancement of computer technologies has brought a plethora of technological innovations in educational settings. It is no exception in teacher training and education programmes around the world as the growth of professionalism has made the distance doctoral programmes possible for mid-career English language teaching (ELT) practitioners. The…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cultural Pluralism
PIAAC Technical Standards and Guidelines
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OECD Publishing, 2014
The Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will establish technical standards and guidelines to ensure that the survey design and implementation processes of PIAAC yield high-quality and internationally comparable data. This document provides a revised version of the technical standards and guidelines originally…
Descriptors: Adults, International Assessment, Adult Literacy, Competence