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Badu, Edward; Kissi, Ernest; Boateng, Emmanuel B.; Antwi-Afari, Maxwell F. – Africa Education Review, 2018
Education is the mainstay of the development of any nation; and in developing countries it has become the backbone of human resource development, ensuring effective growth of the economy; however, its corresponding infrastructure development is lacking. Governments around the globe are finding it difficult to provide the needed infrastructure.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Educational Facilities, Educational Facilities Improvement
Umar, Ibrahim Y.; Ma'aji, Abdullahi S. – Journal of STEM Teacher Education, 2010
This article focuses on assessing the facilities in Government Technical College workshops in the context of a developing country. A descriptive survey design was adopted. Two research questions and a hypothesis were formulated to guide the study. A 35-item questionnaire was developed based on the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE)…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Educational Facilities, Vocational Education, Case Studies
Silver, Daniel – Sociological Methods & Research, 2020
This article pushes forward a critical dialogue about the value of visualization as a method of sociological theorizing. Building on a nascent literature, I argue theory diagrams may operate not only conjunctively but also disjunctively, independent from empirics; that their theoretical value lies not only in capturing sociological problems but…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Sociology, Inferences, Logical Thinking
Gray, Lena – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2020
This article conceptualises the relationship between exam board insider research and the policy-making context in which they operate. Exam board researchers are constrained by commercial and political interests in disclosing their knowledge. and face pressures in disseminating research, but also find themselves working in contexts where calls to…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Educational Policy, Standard Setting, Exit Examinations
Braun, Henry – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2015
Many states have implemented, or are implementing, accountability systems for schools and educators that incorporate test-based indicators. There is substantial disagreement on the merits of this trend, but the general consensus appears to be that value-added scores or median (mean) growth percentiles contain useful information with respect to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Schauer, Frantisek; Lustig, Frantisek; Dvorak, Jiri; Ozvoldova, Miroslava – European Journal of Physics, 2008
The present state of information communication technology makes it possible to devise and run computer-based e-laboratories accessible to any user with a connection to the Internet, equipped with very simple technical means and making full use of web services. Thus, the way is open for a new strategy of physics education with strongly global…
Descriptors: Physics, Educational Technology, Internet, Science Laboratories
Schaffhauser, Dian – T.H.E. Journal, 2009
The common approach to scaling, according to Christopher Dede, a professor of learning technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is to jump in and say, "Let's go out and find more money, recruit more participants, hire more people. Let's just keep doing the same thing, bigger and bigger." That, he observes, "tends to…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Educational Innovation, Measures (Individuals), Multidimensional Scaling
Dolan, Jon; Pederson, Curt – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2004
Oregon State University's demand for bandwidth to support scientific collaboration and research continues to grow exponentially, while state funding declines due to hard economic times. The challenge faced by these authors was to find creative yet fiscally responsible ways to meet OSU's bandwidth demands. Looking at their options for high-capacity…
Descriptors: Internet, Information Transfer, Synchronous Communication, Computer Networks