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Iranzo-García, Pilar; Camarero-Figuerola, Marta; Tierno-García, Juana-María; Barrios-Arós, Charo – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2020
A holistic distribution of leadership, where the entire community is committed both to learning and the organisation's development, is considered an important factor in educational success. Initial teacher education should contribute towards building teachers' identities as leaders (teacher-leaders). Our research examines how teaching competences…
Descriptors: Leadership, Professional Identity, Teacher Education, Foreign Countries
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López López, M. Carmen; Hinojosa Pareja, Eva F. – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2016
The article presents the construction and validation process of a questionnaire designed to study student teachers' beliefs about cultural diversity. The study, beyond highlighting the complexity involved in the study of beliefs, emphasises their relevance in implementing inclusive educational processes that guarantee the right to a good education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Construction, Construct Validity, Test Reliability
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Gil, Vicent; Reybrouck, Mark; Tejada, Jesús; Verschaffel, Lieven – Research Studies in Music Education, 2015
This intervention-based study focuses on the relation between music and its graphic representation from a meta-representational point of view. It aims to determine whether middle school students show an increase in meta-representational competence (MRC) after an educational intervention. Three classes of 11 to 14-year-old students participated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music, Music Education, Intervention
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Esteban-Sánchez, Natalia; Pizarro, Celeste; Velázquez-Iturbide, J. Ángel – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2014
An evaluation of the educational effectiveness of a didactic method for the active learning of greedy algorithms is presented. The didactic method sets students structured-inquiry challenges to be addressed with a specific experimental method, supported by the interactive system GreedEx. This didactic method has been refined over several years of…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Mathematics Instruction
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Madariaga, José-María; Huguet, Ángel; Janés, Judit – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2016
Catalonia is the Autonomous Community of Spain with the highest proportion of immigrant students. This study analyses the language attitudes of Catalan, as well as the possible explanatory variables for such attitudes, for a large sample with a high proportion of immigrant students and a great linguistic diversity. A questionnaire was given to…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Romance Languages, Foreign Countries, Sociocultural Patterns
Abetti, Pauline; Beardmore, Sarah; Tapp, Charles, Winthrop, Rebecca – Brookings Institution, 2011
The future of bilateral aid to basic education is at risk, placing the educational opportunities of many of the world's poorest girls and boys on the line. Some donor governments are reducing overall bilateral assistance, others are phasing out long-standing partnerships with particular developing countries and several are abandoning education as…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Opportunities, At Risk Students, Foreign Countries
Martin, Michael O., Ed.; Mullis, Ina V. S., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2013
TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) is an international assessment of mathematics and science at the fourth and eighth grades that has been conducted every four years since 1995, with the most recent assessment in 2011. PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) is an international assessment of reading…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Grade 4