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Abdalla, Mohamed – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The debate on charter schools is attributed to doubts that such schools are improving the performance of their students. While proponents of charter schools praise their flexibility and creativity, opponents of charter schools posited that charter schools increased segregation, and skimmed the cream of the crop from traditional schools (Miron,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Marketing, Public Schools, Comparative Analysis
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Mackintosh, Bonnie B.; McCoy, Dana Charles – Early Education and Development, 2019
Children from low-income families often enter kindergarten academically behind their higher income peers. Recent findings also indicate gaps in social-emotional aspects of school readiness, raising questions about cross-domain relations. Using a subsample (N = 3,485) of 3- and 4-year-olds attending center-based programming in the Head Start Impact…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Mathematics Skills, Young Children, Outcome Measures
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Eslamian, Azadeh; Rajabion, Lila; Tofighi, Bita; Khalili, Amir Hossein – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2019
The dynamic growth of the services sector globally, along with rapid advances in information technology, are creating new opportunities for social empowerment, economic growth, and innovation. This paper has considered the usage of IT-based services in education as a key factor for improving students' productivity. Moreover, a conceptual model was…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Productivity, Technology Uses in Education, Student Improvement
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Choo, Juliet; Tan, Yew Kong; Ong, Faith; Tiong, Shiuan Shiuan; Nair, Sangeeta; Ong, Jean; Chan, Angel – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2019
Service-learning (S-L) was adopted as a signature pedagogy in Ngee Ann Polytechnic in 2016. The present study investigated students' civic and academic learning, personal growth, and career preparation in S-L at the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, using mixed methods. The scales and subscales used in this study had acceptable internal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Best Practices, College Students
Wanzek, Jeanne; Roberts, Greg; Vaughn, Sharon; Swanson, Elizabeth; Sargent, Katherine – Exceptional Children, 2019
Students with disabilities are often included in general education social studies classes, but these classes can differ in the achievement level of the overall class, including wide variation in content-related background knowledge, reading achievement, or both. The purpose of this study was to examine how background knowledge and reading…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Improvement, Randomized Controlled Trials, Adolescents
Sarra Jouini – Online Submission, 2019
The political scene in Tunisia has drastically changed since the 2011 revolution. It has paved the way for free expression to become an essential component applicable to everyday life. It was thus fundamental to introduce competitive debating as a tool necessary to mediate and organize free speech inside educational practices. Although debating is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Debate
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Hardy, Ian; Lewis, Steven – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2018
The research reports how a particular school reform initiative--'Project 600'--constituted students in one school region Queensland, Australia. Drawing upon topological understandings of power and recent work on the visualisation of data in education, as well as the insights of key staff involved in the project, we reveal the complex and…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, School Statistics, School Effectiveness, Visualization
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Uchida, Akitoshi; Michael, Robert B.; Mori, Kazuo – AERA Open, 2018
A growing body of correlational research finds a relationship between self-efficacy--beliefs in one's capabilities--and academic success. But few studies have investigated whether self-efficacy is causally related to academic success. We hypothesized that an experience of success would promote self-efficacy in junior high school students and would…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Self Efficacy, Student Improvement, Junior High School Students
Fulton, Angela R. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Improving student performance in America's chronically underperforming schools has been a challenge for many decades. Despite various school reforms, little to no progress has been shown. Schools have continued to fail, and achievement gaps have widened. The current state of schools has called for a drastic intervention. School turnaround has…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Public Schools, Models, Program Effectiveness
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Altinkök, Mustafa – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
This research was conducted for the purpose of analyzing the effect of the movement education program through a 12-week-coordination on the development of basic motor movements of pre-school children. A total of 78 students of pre-school period, 38 of whom were in the experimental group and 40 of whom were in the control group, were incorporated…
Descriptors: Movement Education, Psychomotor Skills, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
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Quong, Terrence – International Journal on E-Learning, 2016
JCTIC has used open source software to develop a unique school online environment that has made evidence based practice viable in their school. In this paper the proposition is made that eLearning enables evidence based practice which in turn leads to improved student outcomes. Much has been written about evidence based practice in schools, but…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Evidence Based Practice, Student Improvement, Outcomes of Education
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Pereira, Filipe D.; Oliveira, Elaine H. T.; Oliveira, David B. F.; Cristea, Alexandra I.; Carvalho, Leandro S. G.; Fonseca, Samuel C.; Toda, Armando; Isotani, Seiji – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
Tools for automatic grading programming assignments, also known as Online Judges, have been widely used to support computer science (CS) courses. Nevertheless, few studies have used these tools to acquire and analyse interaction data to better understand the students' performance and behaviours, often due to data availability or inadequate…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Programming, Outcomes of Education, Student Behavior
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Almutairi, Faisal M.; Almodaires, Abdullah A.; Zeyab, Alaa J. – International Education Studies, 2020
In the current study, the aim is to determine the effectiveness of flipped learning approach in developing pre-service teachers' skills and knowledge in creating and editing digital videos. Furthermore, the approach was evaluated through the theoretical lens of constructivism and experiential learning. This research was conducted within a workshop…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Blended Learning, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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Chen, Ming-Hsiu Mia; Tsai, Shih-Ting; Chang, Chi-Cheng – Education Sciences, 2019
This study explored the effects of scenario simulation games and e-textbooks on the learning outcomes of elementary school students. The study subjects were 60 primary school students classified into two groups: The experimental group was provided with scenario simulation course materials, and the control group received e-textbook materials. The…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science
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Özdemir, Soner Mehmet – Participatory Educational Research, 2019
Continuous professional development is a process that requires constant and active learning for a teacher throughout his/her professional life. In this process, teachers are expected to perform activities aiming at increasing both their professional development and the quality of teaching within the classroom. One of these is lesson study. This…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Lesson Plans, Faculty Development, Professional Continuing Education
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