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Anna Mountford-Zimdars; Julia Gaulter; Neil Harrison – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
This original study followed up ten beneficiaries of a UK charity-led programme that supported disadvantaged students in applying to elite US universities. First interviewed in 2015 during their early university days in the United States, in our 2019 follow-up all participants had graduated. Six remained in the United States and four had returned…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Disadvantaged, College Applicants, Selective Admission
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Harrison, Mark G.; King, Ronnel B.; Wang, Hui – British Educational Research Journal, 2023
Instructional quality is associated with better academic outcomes for students. This study aimed to investigate how teachers' job satisfaction was associated with clarity of instruction and cognitive activation as measures of instructional quality. In addition, we investigated whether this association between teachers' job satisfaction and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Effectiveness, Job Satisfaction, Educational Quality
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Finefter-Rosenbluh, Ilana – British Educational Research Journal, 2022
International migration is attaining new records, diversifying nations' cultural-social landscapes. The number of international migrants is estimated to be about 272 million globally, with nearly two-thirds being labour migrants, surpassing historic projections. Concomitantly, migrant teachers are becoming more prevalent in educational markets;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Migrants, Religious Schools
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Eaton, Sarah Elaine – British Educational Research Journal, 2020
Considerations for conducting ethical research with human participants in languages other than English are addressed to some extent in regulatory and guiding statements for researchers, but in ways that are minimal or vague. In this article, I examine guiding documents for research ethics from four countries: the UK, Canada, Australia and the USA,…
Descriptors: Ethics, Cross Cultural Studies, Guidelines, Informed Consent
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Holloway, Sarah L.; Pimlott-Wilson, Helena – British Educational Research Journal, 2020
Education researchers have explored the marketisation of schools resulting from neoliberal education policy, but little attention has been paid to supplementary education markets. Supplementary education services, such as private tuition, are delivered outside of school but designed to improve performance within it. A small body of research…
Descriptors: Marketing, Private Education, Private Financial Support, Tuition
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Skourdoumbis, Andrew – British Educational Research Journal, 2019
This article provides a critical and theoretical exploration into teacher performance dispositions (orientations towards performance). The article explores research literature on dispositions, highlighting the representation of teachers in education policy and standards documents across several nations of the OECD: Australia, the USA and the UK.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Policy, Standards