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Direct linkHughes, Conrad – Journal of Research in International Education, 2014
The International Baccalaureate's Middle Years Programme (IBMYP) is designed to support the development of creativity, critical thinking, international-mindedness and values. However, close inspection of the programme's assessment structure suggests that many of the competence-related and dispositional elements of the programme's…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Creativity, Creative Thinking, Competence
Foley, Simon – Journal of Research in International Education, 2013
This article explores student attitudes and perceptions relating to peer assessment, as observed at the International School of Lausanne, where the case study was restricted to students in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Economics course of the programme. Informed by a review of literature on the relative merits of peer assessment,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Evaluation, Student Attitudes, International Schools
Frank-Gemmill, Gerda – Journal of Research in International Education, 2013
In recent years the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma has become widely accepted as a university-entry qualification in the UK, but there has been little quantitative research into the achievements of IB students at degree level. This study investigates IB students from one selective independent school who entered UK universities between…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement Programs, Outcomes of Education, Statistical Analysis
Hill, Ian – Journal of Research in International Education, 2012
This article attempts to trace the evolution of the concept of international mindedness from the 17th century until the present, using four aspects to focus the discussion: education and other trends, ease of interaction across frontiers, determinants of international mindedness, and international mindedness in practice. Education trends start…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Advanced Placement Programs, Teaching Methods, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Culross, Rita; Tarver, Emily – Journal of Research in International Education, 2011
This is the summary of a series of research studies into the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme (DP) in the USA, beginning with the investigation of how the first class of IB DP graduates in an individual school perceived the impacts and benefits of the programme, through further investigations of teacher perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Investigations, Student Attitudes, High School Graduates, Followup Studies
Cambridge, James – Journal of Research in International Education, 2010
Bernstein (1999, 2000) proposes that contrasting educational discourses construct contrasting retrospective, prospective, decentred (market) and decentred (therapeutic) pedagogic identities. In different times and geographical locations the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme (DP) has been projected onto a variety of pedagogic…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Foreign Countries, Geographic Location, Teacher Attitudes
Myers, John P. – Journal of Research in International Education, 2010
This research examined US high school students' thinking about economic and cultural globalization during their participation in an international education program. The findings mapped the students' categories for the two aspects of globalization and showed that the students' positions were shaped by relatively stable narratives characterizing the…
Descriptors: International Education, Global Approach, Minority Groups, High School Students
Tarc, Paul – Journal of Research in International Education, 2009
The International Baccalaureate (IB) emerged in the 1960s after a significant demand arose for an internationally recognized secondary school-leaving diploma among a subset of the international school community. In tension with the practical demands of producing and sustaining a mobile diploma were underlying liberal-humanist visions of a…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Educational History, Secondary Schools, International Programs
Zhang, Yue; McGrath, Ian – Journal of Research in International Education, 2009
This article describes a case study conducted at an International Baccalaureate World School in mainland China in which the majority of faculty and over 98 per cent of students are Chinese. The purpose of the study was to investigate and compare the teacher-student relationships of Chinese and non-Chinese teachers, with a specific focus on the…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship
Israel, John – Journal of Research in International Education, 2007
In this article authenticity is defined by componential concepts, common to spoken and written communication through language, which frame assessments of interchanges produced for "high-stakes" examination purposes. They are referents for analysis and critique of International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme evaluations of second and foreign…
Descriptors: Credibility, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Modern Languages
Tao, Liqing; Yuan, Haiwang; Zuo, Li; Qian, Gaoyin; Murray, Bruce – Journal of Research in International Education, 2006
This article investigates China's middle school and secondary school teacher expectations of student book use as an aspect of learning environments. A questionnaire was used to probe the following teacher expectations: physical accessibility of books, homework, mastery of texts and types of extra-curricular reading materials. Results showed…
Descriptors: Homework, Teacher Expectations of Students, Reading Materials, Foreign Countries
Carber, Steven; Reis, Sally – Journal of Research in International Education, 2004
This article discusses commonalities that exist between two popular educational approaches that provide options for a wide range of student achievement levels, the Schoolwide Enrichment Model and the International Baccalaureate, especially the Primary Years Programme, in classroom practice. Introductions to the International Baccalaureate and…
Descriptors: School Culture, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Enrichment, Educational Strategies
