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Direct linkYoo, Jisung – Policy Futures in Education, 2018
Central to improving the quality of education is developing a teacher evaluation system that promotes teachers' professional growth, the improvement of student learning, and educational equality for all students regardless of social factors such as socio-economic status, educational environment, race, and gender. To address these issues in South…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Socioeconomic Status
Ahmad, Fatimah; Greenhalgh-Spencer, Heather – Policy Futures in Education, 2017
This paper argues for a more complex literature around gender and math performance. In order to argue for this complexity, we present a small portion of data from a case study examining the performance of Kuwaiti students on the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and on Kuwait national math tests. Westernized discourses suggest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, International Assessment
Strom, Katie; Martin, Adrian D. – Policy Futures in Education, 2016
This article examines how one first-year physics teacher translated his inquiry-based, socially just pre-professional learning into classroom practice in his first several months of teaching, using rhizomatics, a non-linear theory of social activity, as a theoretical and methodological frame. This case highlights the complexity of enacting a…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Science Teachers, Physics, Inquiry
Sarin, Meera Nath – Policy Futures in Education, 2015
This article is based on a case study conducted at a government (state-run), girls' secondary school in a low-income neighbourhood in New Delhi that was conducted in March, 2012, two years after the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE) came into force. The study examined how RTE and its related reforms were being…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Quality, Equal Education, Secondary Schools
Pepin, Birgit – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
In this article the concept of the Didactic Contract is used to investigate student "transition" from upper secondary into university mathematics education. The findings are anchored in data from the TransMaths project, more particularly the case of an ethnic minority student's journey from his school to a university mathematics course…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, College Mathematics, Student Adjustment, Minority Group Students
Allodi, Mara Westling – Policy Futures in Education, 2013
The principles of new public management -- market mechanisms, accountability and standards -- have been applied in the education system. These methods are supposed to increase efficiency, but there is also a risk of negative consequences from the services provided if the measures of performance target a reduced range of goals, ignore relevant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Junior High Schools, Educational Administration
