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Cohen, Aviv – Educational Review, 2019
Civic education research in different national settings points to how citizenship conceptions act as factors that frame and steer practice. This review of research conducted in Israel over the last 40 years questions a reality in which the choice of a leading civic ideology is controversial, due to the fundamental aspects of citizenship in Israel…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Democracy, Ideology
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Haake, Ulrika; Silander, Charlotte – European Journal of Education, 2021
The Swedish system of research funding has undergone major changes, while competitive funding schemes gradually have gained popularity, at the expense of institutional block grants. In recent years, there has been a strong drive to improve research performance in universities as a result of governmental desires, resulting in performance-based…
Descriptors: Universities, Performance Based Assessment, Excellence in Education, Foreign Countries
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Kidder, Jeffrey L.; Binder, Amy J. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2022
Released in the wake of postwar concerns over European totalitarianism, "Higher Education for American Democracy" offered a blueprint for a more socially inclusive college experience--one that could help bolster informed and thoughtful civic participation throughout the nation. Much of the six-volume report commissioned by President…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Democracy, Activism, College Students
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Mackiewicz, Jo; Thompson, Isabelle – Written Communication, 2022
Questions are an important means by which students actively participate in and exercise some control over the moment-to-moment focus of writing center conferences. Through quantitative and qualitative analysis of student questions in 35 writing center conferences, we examined the frequency and type of students' questions, finding no differences…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Writing Workshops, Tutors
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Krishnan, Sandhya; Gehrtz, Jessica; Lemons, Paula P.; Dolan, Erin L.; Brickman, Peggy; Andrews, Tessa C. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
Most science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) departments inadequately evaluate teaching, which means they are not equipped to recognize or reward effective teaching. As part of a project at one institution, we observed that departmental chairs needed help recognizing the decisions they would need to make to improve teaching…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Teacher Evaluation, Educational Improvement, Guides
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Adhikary, Rino Wiseman; Hardy, Ian; Lingard, Bob – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2020
This article illustrates how the British Council Bangladesh (BCB) made use of panel discussions and commissioned research as policy vehicles to persuade the government of Bangladesh of the value of social enterprises for public service delivery, including in education. Drawing upon Appadurai's notion of 'imagined worlds' in relation to influential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business, Entrepreneurship, Educational Policy
Fennell, Francis; Kobett, Beth McCord; Wray, Jonathan A. – Corwin, 2023
For fans of the bestselling book "The Formative 5: Everyday Assessment Techniques for Every Math Classroom" comes this updated and expanded edition for understanding and implementing highly effective, research-backed formative assessment techniques into seamless, daily practice with students in grades K-12. "The Formative 5 in…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education
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Ivarsson, Jenny – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2019
In this forum article, I reflect on the findings by Eva Silfver in "Gender performance in an out of school science context." Silfver has studied a class of 14-15-year-old students during a visit to a science center. The students are supposed to write a computer program that will steer a Lego car. In their activities, Silfver identifies…
Descriptors: Science Teaching Centers, Sex Stereotypes, Sex Role, Performance
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Boerner, Heather – Community College Journal, 2019
The purpose of the American Association of Community Colleges' (AACC) Competencies for Community College Leaders is to guide the development of emerging leaders and to assist colleges with the selection of employees dedicated to the community college mission, vision, and values. Recently after over two years, college presidents on the AACC's…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Administration, Competence, Leadership Qualities
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Dewaele, Alexis; Anderson, Lindsey; Klima, Noel; Lauwerier, Emelien – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2023
Background: Research impact is at least partly generated through collaborative interactions, yet the associations between knowledge production and impact are far more complex than relatively simple linear models generally describe. Aims and objectives: In this case study, we focus on a community-university partnership and try to answer the…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, Universities
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Nhem, Davut – Policy Futures in Education, 2023
This article aims to address a puzzle of whether New Generation School (NGS) initiative has any impacts on the deep-rooted, vexing culture of shadow education in Cambodia. The purpose of the NGS project is to build good human resources with STEM knowledge, ICT, and 21st-century skills, all of which are the necessary commodities in this current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutoring, Private Education, STEM Education
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Barbot, Baptiste; Hein, Sascha; Trentacosta, Christopher; Beckmann, Jens F.; Bick, Johanna; Crocetti, Elisabetta; Liu, Yangyang; Rao, Sylvia Fernandez; Liew, Jeffrey; Overbeek, Geertjan; Ponguta, Liliana A.; Scheithauer, Herbert; Super, Charles; Arnett, Jeffrey; Bukowski, William; Cook, Thomas D.; Côté, James; Eccles, Jacquelynne S.; Eid, Michael; Hiraki, Kazuo; Johnson, Mark; Juang, Linda; Landi, Nicole; Leckman, James; McCardle, Peggy; Mulvey, Kelly Lynn; Piquero, Alex R.; Preiss, David D.; Siegler, Robert; Soenens, Bart; Yousafzai, Aisha Khizar; Bornstein, Marc H.; Cooper, Catherine R.; Goossens, Luc; Harkness, Sara; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
Although developmental science has always been evolving, these times of fast-paced and profound social and scientific changes easily lead to disorienting fragmentation rather than coherent scientific advances. What directions should developmental science pursue to meaningfully address real-world problems that impact human development throughout…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Policy, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Chan, Sheng-Ju; Chou, Chuing – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
In the past two decades, Taiwan has gone through a series of drastic higher education transformations in response to the multi-faceted demands from globalization and domestic social change. Among the driving forces, new public management and neoliberal ideology have reshaped the nature and culture of higher education in Taiwan. The current study…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Decision Making, Neoliberalism
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Webb, P. Taylor; Sellar, Sam; Gulson, Kalervo N. – Learning, Media and Technology, 2020
The use of data to govern education is increasingly supported by the use of knowledge-based technologies, including algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI), and tracking technologies [Fenwick, T., E. Mangez, and J. Ozga. 2014. "Governing Knowledge: Comparison, Knowledge-Based Technologies and Expertise in the Regulation of Education."…
Descriptors: Data Use, Artificial Intelligence, Educational Trends, Futures (of Society)
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Hsing, Pen-Yuan – School Science Review, 2020
Started in north-east England in 2015, MammalWeb aims to improve our knowledge of British mammals through the use of motion-sensing camera traps. Fundamental to the project is the involvement of local communities and individuals who act as citizen scientists. They contribute to the collection and analysis of the camera trap photographic data.…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Scientific Research, College School Cooperation, Foreign Countries
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