Educational systems and structures

This book examines four theses regarding Asian higher education and development: interplay between cultural traditions, economic development, globalization, and the evolution of the 'hybrid' university.

This book describes how different nations have defined the core competencies and skills that young people will need in order to thrive in the twenty-first-century, and how those nations have fashioned educational policies and curricula meant to promote those skills.

Assessment is central to ensemble music.

The book analyzes worldwide changes in school organization and the teaching profession, and how the profession has been impacted by education policies that promote assessments and accountability.

This edited book analyses the implementation of green transformation policies and the UN Sustainable Development Goals across the European Union, in the context of lifelong learning and educational practices.

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This book examines the idea of opening education to the outside world in China since post-COVID-19.

The Importance of Average calls attention to the policies and practices that discriminate against the silent majority of students in the American educational system.

The completely updated and expanded new edition of this well-established text incorporates DSM-5 changes as well as other new developments.

For many years the benefits conferred by a higher education went undisputed.

In Peer Feedback in the Classroom, National Board Certified Teacher Starr Sackstein explores the powerful role peer feedback can play in learning and teaching.

Assessing English Language Learners explains and illustrates the main ideas underlying assessment as an activity intimately linked to instruction and the basic principles for developing, using, selecting, and adapting assessment instruments and strategies to assess content knowledge in English language learners (ELLs).

In this much needed resource, Maryellen Weimer-one of the nation's most highly regarded authorities on effective college teaching-offers a comprehensive work on the topic of learner-centered teaching in the college and university classroom.

Despite feedback's demonstratively positive effects on student performance, research on the specific components of successful feedback practice is in short supply.

The issues addressed in this easy to read book address the most common issues faced by new or veteran principals such as: attributes of successful principals, leading instructional improvement, crafting a school improvement plan, overcoming resistance from naysayers, leading effective teams, creating conditions for the success of teachers, motivating unmotivated staff, increasing the attendance of students, handling disciplinary issues to help students become self-managed, communication strategies to build respect for the school, maximizing the use of time, and handling conflict productively.

This book provides insight into the importance of advanced innovative technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and Metaverse as part of information and communication technology (ICT) solutions in education.

This book is an exposition of how political, cultural, historical, and economic structures and processes shape the nature and character of curriculum landscapes globally.

This collection is the first of its kind, bringing together Holocaust educational researchers as well as school and museum educators from across the globe, to discuss the potentials of Holocaust education in relation to primary school children.

This is Volume 18, Issue 1 2005, a Special Issue of Applied Measurement in Education looking at the area of Vertically Moderated Standard Setting.

This book explores new trends and developments in mathematics education research related to proof and proving, the implications of these trends and developments for theory and practice, and directions for future research.

The first book to tell the story of the Advanced Placement program, the gold standard for academic rigor in American high schoolsThe Advanced Placement program stands as the foremost source of college-level academics for millions of high school students in the United States and beyond.

Neoliberal logics of government shaping childhood today produce market-based frameworks for understanding childhood risks.

Responding to profound social, political and technological changes, recent global trends in education have included the emergence of new forms of curriculum policy.

Based on groundbreaking new ideas, this treatise signals a return to a rebuilding and reshaping of the curriculum as the primary tool for education This book presents a new definition of "e;curriculum"e; and what it should consist of, with a view toward creating a more ethical, educated, and thinking person.

This book introduces a new framework for analyzing second language (L2) learners' written texts.

The Workshop on the Role of Language in School Learning: Implications for Closing the Achievement Gap was held to explore three questions: What is known about the conditions that affect language development?

This book seeks to revive dialectical materialist interpretations of sexuality, relevant to K-12 settings and society.

What students are deemed to have achieved when they are sixteen is the measure of how successful or otherwise their progress through the system of compulsory education has been.

The book examines the preparation and presentation of psychological data reports for various stakeholders (e.

What does it mean to be starting an academic career in the twenty first century?

Drawing on developments in cognitive science, Bracher formulates pedagogical strategies for teaching literature in ways that develop students' cognitive capabilities for cosmopolitanism, the pursuit of global equality and justice.

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Mädchen im Jugendalter sind häufig von einer Körperunzufriedenheit betroffen, die mit gesundheitlichen Risiken wie Diätverhalten und (sub-)klinischen Essstörungen assoziiert ist.

Learning design is an ill-structured process that must account for multiple stakeholders, contextual constraints, and other instructional needs.

In foreign language education, decisions must be taken on what languages to teach, who will teach them, in which schools (i.

This collection provides evidence-based strategies for conducting effective and ethical education research with individuals and groups who are marginalised from mainstream society.

This highly original collection presents speculative fiction as fiction-based research to re-imagine education in the  future.

Following a 2011 report by the National Research Council (NRC) on successful K-12 education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), Congress asked the National Science Foundation to identify methods for tracking progress toward the report's recommendations.

education is and what its functions should be.

This book addresses issues surrounding writing centers in the Arabian Gulf region.

Practical Temperature Measurement introduces the concepts of temperature and its measurement to engineers, physicists and chemists of all disciplines.

Black males face several active and inactive discriminations across society.

The editors of this volume suggest that there are missing elements in the conceptualization upon which standard test theory is based.

This book focuses on the phenomenon of a '21st century curriculum' and its role in preparing students for work and life in a rapidly changing global knowledge society.

This book discusses current challenges related to teaching geography, mainly at the secondary school and higher education level.

This edited volume offers a comprehensive reference point to an interdisciplinary and trans-boundary analysis of the sustainability of Asian tertiary education systems.