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Ormond, Barbara Mary – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2019
This paper examines how a standards-based form of assessment in operation in New Zealand has impacted upon the knowledge taught to secondary history students. The segmentation of history into assessable components along with assessment mechanisms which encourage the reduction in the number of standards being attempted has impacted upon both the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Standards, Educational Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Park, Young Shin; Park, Jo Hoon – Asia-Pacific Science Education, 2020
The study introduces exemplary explicit teaching strategies as enacted by a middle school STEAM teacher. Through a 10-lesson climate change STEAM program, data were collected to explore explicit teaching strategies using O-TOP (Oregon Collaborative for Excellence in the Preparation [OCEPT] Teaching Observation Protocol) and NGSS 8 Practices (Next…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Teaching Methods, STEM Education, Art Education
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Hayden, H. Emily; Eades-Baird, Michelle – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2020
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) have described discipline-specific literacy skills needed to successfully engage with science concepts, and science assessments ask students to use language in many and varied forms to mediate their science thought and actions and prove mastery of content. Yet…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Academic Standards, Interdisciplinary Approach, Scientific Concepts
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Rasco, Angulo – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2020
In this paper we analyse what standardization is and what it, with special reference to its application in education. For this we also show that standardization is a device of prevailing neoliberal policies. Such policies, contrary to established rhetoric, do not diminish the role of the state and administrations, but rather increase it, by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Standards, Neoliberalism, Educational Policy
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Williamson, Abigail – English Teaching Forum, 2020
Graciela Chera is hesitant to talk about herself and her classroom. She claims that she is not doing anything special, yet she is clearly making a powerful impact on her students and the English-teaching community in Paraguay. In this article, learn how Graciela Chera balances academic rigor with fun team spirit as she teaches students of all ages…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Parks, Melissa – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2020
Maximizing classroom time to include meaningful content-based learning with fun engaging activities that simultaneously challenge and encourage students is a hallmark of a successful school day. This article shares one instructional approach that does a model eliciting activity (MEA). A MEA is a real-world, problem-based scenario framed around a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Teaching Methods, Problem Based Learning, Letters (Correspondence)
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Bousted, Mary – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2020
Established in 1992, Ofsted is championed by government ministers as the guardian of educational standards in schools and colleges. Ofsted has never produced any research on the validity of its inspection judgements. Ofsted has no evidence, other than rising percentages of schools being awarded positive Ofsted grades, to support its assertion that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Agencies, Inspection, Educational Quality
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Cooper, Andrew A. – PRIMUS, 2020
Mastery grading is an approach to grading in which students are assigned term grades based on whether they meet certain enumerated objectives, rather than accumulating points. In this note, I describe my experiences using a mastery system, which I call techniques grading, which applies the insights behind the standards-based and specifications…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Grading, Mastery Learning, Evaluation Methods
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Pak, Katie; Polikoff, Morgan S.; Desimone, Laura M.; Saldívar García, Erica – AERA Open, 2020
The ambitious goals of standards-based reform call for both technical and adaptive leadership to address problems of practice involving the technical and adaptive alignment of teachers' instruction to the standards. Thus, standards-aligned curriculum implementation necessitates both types of strategies; otherwise, adaptive challenges will persist.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Academic Standards, Educational Change, Standard Setting
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Mockler, Nicole – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
Discourses of 'teacher quality' have been on the rise in Australia since at least the standards-focused policy reforms of the 1990s. This paper uses a corpus-assisted analysis to explore recent deployments of 'teacher quality' and 'teaching quality' in the Australian print media, drawing on 432 articles collected from the 12 Australian national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, Teacher Effectiveness, Newspapers
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Casson, Ann; Cooling, Trevor – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2020
Religious Education (RE) in England and Wales functions within a post-secular culture. In the last fifty years, approaches characterised by academic rigour, impartiality, and professionalism have been prioritised. In this post-secular culture, the notion of bricolage aptly describes how some young people seek meaning, explore the spiritual…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Foreign Countries, Christianity, Secondary School Students
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Holland, Christopher – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2020
The following article examines the implementation and controversy that surround climate change education and the implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). In order to fully understand why NGSS and climate change education continue to generate significant public debate, one must examine the work of both climate advocates and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Science Education, Climate, Science Curriculum
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Gershenson, Seth – Education Next, 2020
Grade inflation is pervasive in American high schools. Is rampant grade inflation cause for concern? How teachers' grading standards affect student success is an empirical question--one that the author addresses in this article in a new study of roughly 350,000 North Carolina students taking Algebra I between 2006 and 2016. The author first…
Descriptors: Grading, Grade Inflation, Academic Standards, High School Students
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Lewis, Drew – Innovative Higher Education, 2020
This paper describes a study examining how mathematics anxiety, test anxiety, and communication apprehension are related to student behavior in courses using standards-based grading. An observational study of mathematics courses with 221 participants found that test anxiety increased over the semester although many students reported lower stress…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Grading, Mathematics Instruction, Academic Standards
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Novgorodtseva, T. Yu.; Pegasova, N. A.; Ivanova, E. N.; Nikiforova. I. A.; Azarenko, A. A. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
The actuality of this research is determined by the acceptance of standards where a new sense of a concept "educational results" is given. Thus, a necessity to evaluate subject, cross-curriculum and personal results of students appears. The ways to evaluate the level of organization of the universal educational actions are reflected in…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries, Academic Standards, Educational Quality
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