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Wootten, Leeanne Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The International Baccalaureate Continuum offers both local elite and the expatriate populations around the world a transferable and transportable education package from pre-Kindergarten to grade 12. IBC full diploma graduates are positioned to be accepted into the best universities in the world. For critics, the IBC is Western elitist and for the…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, 21st Century Skills, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
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Jurasaite-O'Keefe, Elena – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2022
This article explores how international-mindedness is defined and cultivated in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Program (MYP) schools in different regions of the world as young adolescents face their main developmental task of identity development. An online survey that contained demographic and open-ended questions was…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, International Education, Middle School Students, Advanced Placement Programs
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Lee, Moosung; Kim, Hyejin; Wright, Ewan – Educational Review, 2022
This comparative analysis aims to capture the complex roles and positionings of the International Baccalaureate (IB) in conjunction with local education systems in Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea. Our analysis focused on how the IB's institutional legitimacy is presented in the three societies. We conducted a documentary analysis of texts on…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
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Bunnell, Tristan; Donnelly, Michael; Lauder, Hugh; Whewall, Samuel – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
There has been reference in literature to the concepts of a Transnational Capitalist Class and a Global Middle Class, but there has been little discussion of how education may form any sense of class solidarity for these groups. In national contexts, ruling class socialisation has been achieved through elite private schooling. But the notion of…
Descriptors: International Education, Social Class, Global Approach, Socialization
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McGrew, Sarah – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2022
This study investigated an approach to teaching students to evaluate online information in the context of a high school history class. Over the course of a semester, I collaborated with a teacher to teach and refine a series of eight lessons focused on "civic online reasoning." We aimed to use students' historical reading as a bridge to…
Descriptors: United States History, History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Civics
Tucker, Michelle Preston – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The problem addressed in this study was that low-income, high-achieving students have lower success rates in higher education institutions socially and academically compared to students of higher-income status regardless of academic ability. The purpose of this qualitative, case study was to investigate how low-income students who excelled in high…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, High Achievement, College Students, Academic Achievement
Brittany L. Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The current political trends to ban the teaching of race and racism in public schools, to eliminate Advanced Placement African American Studies classes, and to whitewash U.S. history standards, maintain hegemonic discourses, while simultaneously devaluing the teaching of Black histories and sanitizing the legacy of race and racism in U.S. society.…
Descriptors: Race, Racism, Advanced Placement Programs, Black Studies
John Stewart Clark – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The problem was the impacts of the International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum on Chinese teachers' self-efficacy and student-centered learning practices were unknown. The purpose of this causal-comparative study was to determine the impacts of the International Baccalaureate curriculum on Chinese teachers' reports of self-efficacy and…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Foreign Countries, Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy
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Dickson, Anisah; Perry, Laura B.; Ledger, Susan – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2021
Policy makers in the US and several other countries are recommending that more schools offer an International Baccalaureate (IB) programme. However, little is known about the challenges that IB programmes present for teaching and learning particularly those meeting national curriculum. In this study, we examined the challenges of the IB's Middle…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Middle School Students, National Curriculum, Foreign Countries
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Phillips, Sarah Fierberg; Lane, Brett – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2021
The U.S. economy requires a highly educated workforce, yet too few black, Latino, and low-income students attend, persist, and graduate from college. The present study examines the college outcomes of participants in a model Advanced Placement® (AP) intervention to shed light on its effectiveness and determine whether improving AP participation…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, College Students, Outcomes of Education, Predictor Variables
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Sönmez, Görsev; Gürkan, Burcu; Aksoy, Nuri Can – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2021
IBEC program is an international certificate program aiming at educating in-service teachers to be IB teachers by offering them opportunities to improve the quality of their classroom teaching, increase their access to teaching jobs worldwide, interact with leading academics for research and publishing consultation, demonstrate their deep…
Descriptors: Program Design, Program Development, Program Evaluation, Advanced Placement Programs
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Dumar, John – Physics Teacher, 2021
When our school implemented AP Physics 1, I wanted to include a project that would extend over time, use more advanced data analysis, and teach students about handling experimental error. Using a donated 5-inch Newtonian telescope and an entry-level digital camera, the students gathered data from digital images of the four Galilean moons, Io,…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Advanced Placement Programs, Laboratory Equipment
Griselda Almonte Delgado – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Black male students are underrepresented in Advanced Placement (AP) courses. Studies on the perspective and experiences of high-performing Black male students with Advanced Placement (AP) is limited. Available research indicates that high-performing Black students are enrolled at half the rate of White students both nationally and locally in…
Descriptors: Males, African American Students, Advanced Placement Programs, High Achievement
Jason Michael Godfrey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In US-based postsecondary education, first-year students commonly have their compositional ability consequentially assessed on the basis of standardized tests. As a result, students who score above certain thresholds on ACT, SAT, or AP exams often are placed into honors or remedial courses; receive credit remissions; and/or test out of general…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Postsecondary Education, Standardized Tests, College Entrance Examinations
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Bibila, Stavroula – Curriculum Journal, 2020
Throughout the past 40 years, a number of terms have been used in the UK to refer to competency-based pedagogies that focus on preparing students for everyday 'life' and employment. The evolution of these generic forms of knowledge in official curricula has been accompanied by harsh practical realities when it comes to teaching, assessing and…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Educational Policy, Competency Based Education, Barriers
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