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Direct linkLekholm, Alli Klapp; Cliffordson, Christina – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2008
The purpose of the study was to use multivariate multilevel techniques to investigate whether it was possible to separate different dimensions in grades that relate to subject-matter achievement and to other factors. Data were derived from The Gothenburg Educational Longitudinal Database (GOLD), and the subjects were 99,070 ninth-grade students…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Family Characteristics, Academic Achievement, Educational Attainment
Download full textMullis, Ina V.S., Ed.; Martin, Michael O., Ed.; Minnich, Chad A., Ed.; Stanco, Gabrielle M., Ed.; Arora, Alka, Ed.; Centurino, Victoria A.S., Ed.; Castle, Courtney E., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2012
For more than 50 years, the International Association for the Evaluation of
Educational Achievement (IEA) has been instrumental in developing an
analytical model for understanding the relationships between educational
policy (the intended curriculum), classroom and instructional practices (the
implemented curriculum), and educational learning…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Policy, Mathematics Curriculum, Science Curriculum
Eurydice, 2010
The guiding principles and procedures for pupil assessment in Portuguese compulsory education were established by the Implementing Order No. 1/2005, 5th January, with amendments introduced by the Implementing Orders No. 18/2006, 14th March and No. 5/2007, 10th January, and apply to the learning objectives and competencies defined for the various…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Compulsory Education, Formative Evaluation
Varsavsky, Cristina; Anaya, Marta – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2009
This article gives an overview of the state of mathematics education in Argentina across all levels, in the regional and world contexts. Statistics are drawn from Mercosur and UNESCO data bases, World Education Indicators and various national time-series government reports. Mathematics results in national testing programmes, Programme for…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Research, Educational Indicators, Foreign Countries
Preston, John – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2006
Class strategies, how individual members of class fractions tactically gain advantage in fields including education, have been used to analyse schooling and initial post-compulsory education. In this paper, class strategies are applied to adult education in considering participation across social classes. Using empirical data from a biographical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Strategies, Adult Education
Zhai, Bo – Frontiers of Education in China, 2007
Educational balance refers to the ideal that educational organizations and people who receive education enjoy equal treatment in educational activities under the thought of fair education and principle of educational equity, and the educational policy as well as legal system that guarantee its actual operations. The essence of balanced education…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Equal Education, Supply and Demand, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedGardner, Peter – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 1983
Support is growing for the thesis that, since freedom is valuable, compulsory education needs justifying. Proposals by consent theorists involving prior, subsequent, and hypothetical consent are examined. These theories make no substantive contribution to solving the problem of justifying education. (SR)
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedLloyd, Ieuan – Educational Review, 1983
One's aims must be the same for all stages of education including early childhood education, which covers compulsory and noncompulsory education at a variety of institutions. There is a case for making all the years of early education compulsory. (JOW)
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Objectives, Preschool Education
Moss, John J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation describes how the medical categories of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Reading Disability (RD) have become commonsense ways to understand educational problems. I explore historical precursors of ADD and RD followed by a report on fieldwork I conducted in a first grade classroom of mostly Latino and low-income children. I…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Identification, Rating Scales, Grade 1
Pelkonen, Panu – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2009
It is possible that human capital produces positive externalities to the society indirectly, through non-market channels such as health or crime. Another such channel could be the effect of education on the functioning of democratic decision-making. Measures of the functioning of democracy are bound to be controversial, but one such measure--voter…
Descriptors: Evidence, Municipalities, Human Capital, School Restructuring
Stickney, Jeff – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2006
Offering a cautionary tale about the abuses of paradigm-shift rhetoric in secondary school reforms, the paper shows potential misuses and ethical effects of the relativistic language-game in post-compulsory education. Those initiating the shift often shelter their reform from the criticism of non-adepts, marginalizing expert teachers that adhere…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Compulsory Education, Educational Change, Public Education
White, Patrick – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2007
This paper presents selected findings from an ESRC-funded research project examining the choices and occupational aspirations of 59 students approaching the end of their compulsory schooling. It concentrates on the development of a choice model conceptualising the decisionmaking processes of the young people involved in the study, whilst avoiding…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Occupational Aspiration, Compulsory Education, Institutional Research
Deng, Meng; Harris, Kymberly – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2008
China has initiated experiments on "Learning in Regular Classrooms" (LRC) since the mid-1980s in response to the international trend of inclusive education and the domestic need of serving large numbers of children with disabilities. LRC is the main strategy to promote compulsory education for youngsters with disabilities. Despite the…
Descriptors: General Education, Compulsory Education, Disabilities, Foreign Countries
Stedron, Jennifer M.; Shah, Tajel; Bautsch, Brenda; Martin, Patricia; Deye, Sunny; Bailey, Lamar; Handel, Stephen J.; Vasavada, Natasha; Shen, Yilan; Exstrom, Michelle; Shelton, Sara; Santiago, Helen; Bell, Julie Davis; Quin, Bradley J.; Baum, Sandy; Bell, Julie Davis; Sturtevant, Anne; Bautsch, Brenda; Williams, Ronald; Kerouac, Pamela; Badolato, Vincent – College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, 2010
There are formidable challenges at every level of the system that confront students who aspire to enroll and succeed in college. In 2007, the College Board formed the Commission on Access, Admissions and Success in Higher Education to study the educational pipeline as a single continuum and identify solutions to increase the number of students who…
Descriptors: Public Policy, State Action, State Legislation, State Surveys
Zhou, Minglang, Ed.; Hill, Ann Maxwell, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
This volume is the first to comprehensively examine Chinese's affirmative action policies in the critical area of minority education, the most important conduit to employment and economic success in the People's Republic of China after the economic reforms begun in the late 1970s. This book contains four parts. Part I, "Debating China's…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Consolidated Schools, Indigenous Populations, Compulsory Education
