NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 4 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Wall, Dianne – Language Testing, 1996
Suggests that any model of washback must include insights from the theory of educational innovation to help explain why tests do not always have the desired or feared effect. Key concepts in educational innovation are reviewed, showing how these concepts are manifested in a case study in washback and outlining how they are being applied in recent…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Cognitive Development, Educational Innovation
Draisma, Tom – 1975
The relationship between the secondary education system and wider political, economic, and sociocultural developments in Africa is examined. Special emphasis is given to the problems of political ideology and education in Zambia; but as Zambian socialist ideology and educational history show similarities to other African nations, the author's…
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Change Strategies, Colonialism
Steele, Roger E., Comp. – 1994
Selected papers are as follows: "Member Perceptions of the Association for International Agricultural & Extension Education" (Eaton et al.); "Historical Review of U.S. Involvement in International Agricultural Education between World War II and Enactment of Title XII" (Thuemmel, Meaders); "Educational Needs of…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Developing Nations
Manning, Sabine, Ed.; Raffe, David, Ed. – 2000
These 24 papers represent the proceedings of a program presented by the research network on vocational education and training (VET). They include "School-Arranged or Market-Governed Workplace Training?" (Ulla Arnell-Gustafsson); "Prospects for Mutual Learning and Transnational Transfer of Innovative Practice in European VET"…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Courseware, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change