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Serafina Pastore – Cogent Education, 2024
The interest in formative assessment, which is highly valued in current conceptualisations of teacher assessment literacy, has led to a renewed focus on initial teacher education (ITE) programmes, as well as on the assessment education domain. The conceptual understanding of the theory and practice of formative assessment has been long advocated…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Alignment (Education)
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Giulia Messina Dahlberg; Barbara Gross – Intercultural Education, 2024
In this paper, we critically discuss the impact of policy documents on the construction of national narratives on the provision of support for cultural-linguistic diversity in education systems in two European countries. The analysis focuses upon a selection of national policy documents that deal with the planning and provision of HLE since the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Heritage Education, Content Analysis, Government Publications
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Passey, Don – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
The subject of computer science (CS) and computer science education (CSE) has relatively recently arisen as a subject for inclusion within the compulsory school curriculum. Up to this present time, a major focus of technologies in the school curriculum has in many countries been on applications of existing technologies into subject practice (both…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Integrated Curriculum, Required Courses, Educational Policy
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Damiani, Valeria – Research Papers in Education, 2016
Despite Italy's extensive participation in most large-scale assessments, their actual influence on Italian educational policies is less easy to identify. The present contribution aims at highlighting and explaining reasons for the weak and often inconsistent relationship between international surveys and policy-making processes in Italy.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Nardi, Emma – Educational Research, 2009
In Italian secondary schools, it is not literature that is studied but the history of literature; it is not philosophy that is studied but the history of philosophy. Similarly, in higher education, history students even have to take an exam in the history of historiography. This is to say that in Italy, history plays a key cultural role. That is…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Educational History
Ruddock, Graham; Sainsbury, Marian – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2008
This study looks at the curricula for mathematics, science and literacy, comparing England's curricula with those of other countries based on performance in international comparative surveys. The main objective was to answer the question: How does the content of the Primary Curriculum in England at Key stage 2 compare in literacy, math and science…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Science Curriculum