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Faqiang Li – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation consists of two chapters on topics in Industrial Organization. In Chapter 1, I discuss a central question of the policy debate on public education: how to get more for less. Charter schools have been a tool in this arena to pressure traditional public schools to improve or lose students to them. Moreover, charter schools…
Descriptors: Industry, Charter Schools, Educational Policy, Access to Education
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Samantha Burns; Leah Brathwaite; Anne Hepditch; Stephanie Turner; Beth Carson; Helen Bernard-Ward; Michal Perlman – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
High-quality outdoor environments (OEs) are essential for young children's physical, emotional, and intellectual development. The goal of this study was to explore the attributes of high- and low-quality OEs in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings identified by different stakeholder groups. We conducted 41 focus groups/interviews…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Outdoor Education, Educational Quality, Physical Environment
Christie L. Goodman Ed. – Intercultural Development Research Association, 2024
The "IDRA Newsletter" serves as a vehicle for communication with educators, school board members, decision-makers, parents, and the general public concerning the educational needs of all children across the United States. The focus of this issue is "Language Rights." Contents include: (1) Navigating Policy Landscapes for…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Educational Policy, Civil Rights, Court Litigation
Spyridoula Tsouganatou – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this dissertation is to identify quality indicators for visual based learning material for technology education classes for grades 6th to 9th. This is a three round Delphi study aimed in answering the following research question. RQ: What are the quality indicators that contribute to the successful selection of visual-based learning…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Ulrika Bergmark; Ann-Charlotte Dahlbäck; Anna-Karin Hagström; Sara Viklund – Educational Action Research, 2024
Mentoring is a central aspect of action research processes and raises ethical issues concerning roles and responsibilities, particularly when teachers and researchers collaborate. The purpose of the study is to explore mentoring and the roles of mentors in action research from an ethical stance. The theoretical basis is the philosophy of care…
Descriptors: Mentors, Researchers, Interpersonal Relationship, Action Research
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Muzhou Li; Weichun Zhong – History of Education, 2024
The accredited secondary school enrolment system, which originated from the certificate enrolment system of American universities in the 1870s, was the main enrolment method of Christian universities in modern China. This study mainly uses methods of literature and comparison. It focuses on the design and implementation of the system, including…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Colleges, Admission (School), Secondary Schools
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Kim Stienstra; Antonie Knigge; Ineke Maas – npj Science of Learning, 2024
We study to what extent schools increase or decrease environmental and genetic influences on educational performance. Building on behavioral genetics literature on gene-environment interactions and sociological literature on the compensating and amplifying effects of schools on inequality, we investigate whether the role of genes and the shared…
Descriptors: Genetics, Environmental Influences, Interaction, Educational Quality
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Xin Chen – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background: Past studies clarified the relationship between dimensions of teaching and achievement emotions. However, more information is needed about the underlying process behind this relationship among students with different mathematical abilities. Aims: This study examined the association between students' perceived teaching quality and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Quality, Mathematics Achievement, Secondary School Students
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Liying Rong; Feng Deng; Zhen Zhong; Ken Spours – Education and Urban Society, 2024
Investment in preschool education is increasingly seen as a policy priority in middle and high-income countries due to the early benefits it provides children in their educational journeys. This article discusses the impact of recent increased investment in preschool education in China which has served as a correction to relative historical…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Investment, Foreign Countries, Urban Schools
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Nomeeta Maqsood; Paula Prendeville; Sabeen Hussain Bhatti – Journal of Education for Business, 2024
Developing quality higher education is essential to increase the prosperity of a country. This research examined the impact of Faculty Development Programmes (FDPs) on business schools' performances in Pakistan, facilitated by the Training and Development Wing of the National Business Education Accreditation Council. Informed by Kirkpatrick's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Business Schools, Program Effectiveness
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Elizabeth A. Jach; Benjamin S. Selznick; Teniell L. Trolian – American Journal of Distance Education, 2024
Evidence firmly indicates that applied learning -- through problem-based approaches, community-based engagement, and/or cross-disciplinary collaborative actions -- provides distinctive and developmental benefits to students. Though applied learning has traditionally been facilitated in face-to-face contexts, the rise of online education, coupled…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Electronic Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Educational Quality
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Adrie Visscher; Marta Pellegrini; Natasha Dmoshinskaia; Veerle van Luppen – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Why we need better reports of teacher professional development interventions for finding out what works where: Worldwide, billions of dollars are invested yearly in the professional development of in-service teachers ($14 billion in the USA alone, as of 2014; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2014). This makes the question of what effects TPD…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Intervention, Publications, Educational Research
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Yanmei Fu – European Journal of Education, 2024
Classroom instruction is the cornerstone of teaching methodologies, supported by educational and pedagogical research. It is the primary way students acquire knowledge and skills. The quality of the curriculum directly affects the effectiveness of personnel training. Assessing the curriculum quality is crucial for improving classroom instruction.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Development, Educational Quality
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Torres-Arcadia, Celina; Nava-Lara, Sergio; Rodríguez-Uribe, César; Glasserman-Morales, Leonardo David – Journal of Educational Administration, 2022
Purpose: The paper aims to present what is known from the school principals who participated in the International Successful School Principalship Project (ISSPP) in Mexico. The paper reviews 14 publications (5 articles, 5 conference papers and 4 books) on successful school principals in Mexico that were published between 2009 and 2021 as part of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Administrator Effectiveness, Educational Quality
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Smeplass, Eli; Leiulfsrud, Håkon – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2022
A sociological case study of Norwegian teachers reveals how teacher education reforms have inadequate definitions of teacher competence. Legislators, officials and the media continue to uphold the image of a school system and teaching profession in crisis in several OECD countries. For the Nordic welfare states, education is a public good.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Educational Change, Teacher Competencies
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