Educational systems and structures

This book explores teaching and learning in lower secondary classrooms in the three PISA domains science, mathematics and reading.

This book comprises the full selected Regular Lectures from the Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-12), which was held at COEX in Seoul, Korea, from July 8th to 15th, 2012.

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This book delves into two divergent, yet parallel themes; first is an examination of how educators can design the experiences of learning, with a focus on the learner and the end results of education; and second, how educators learn to design educational products, processes and experiences.

This inclusive cross-cultural study rethinks the nexus between engineering education and context.

This book focuses on the changes in academic careers and their implications for job attachment and the management of academic work.

This book examines teacher agency in implementing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curriculum reform in the Chinese university context.

This volume provides a succinct up-to-date summary of global research on principal instructional leadership as it has evolved over the past 50 years.

This volume represents the most comprehensive collection ever produced of empirical research on Holocaust education around the world.

This volume focuses on our understanding of the reading comprehension of adolescents in a high stakes academic environment.

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In this book, Dieter Lenzen analyzes the world's three major educational systems: the Continental-European, the Atlantic (Anglo-American) and the East Asian.

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities.

This book presents systematically six types of schools, with different improvement capacities.

This book discusses mass higher education development in East Asian countries by means of three main issues: the strategy for higher education development; the way professors and students in the region are experiencing the rapid developments; and the challenges imposed by mass higher education.

Building from the history of inequality in education up to current problems, this text posits viewpoints on how to cultivate humanistic leaders in education to best benefit underserved children around the world.

This volume contributes to debates about the teaching profession by reviewing international and national reports on its status, as well as on reforms of various education systems.

This book is the first of two volumes that look at the changed landscape of higher education and the academic profession.

This book explores the perceptions of academic staff and representatives of institutional leadership about the changes in academic careers and academic work experienced in recent years.

The contributions to this volume aim to stimulate discussion about the role of assessment in the learning experiences of students in music and other creative and performing arts settings.

This book describes the design, development, delivery and impact of the mathematics assessment for the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).

This book analyses and describes the effects of the reforms of the European science systems on research.

This volume provides an empirical and qualitative analysis of the nature and extent of the Japanese academic profession, with a special focus on the changes that occurred in the period between 1992 and 2007.

This book documents and disseminates experiences from a wide range of universities, across the five continents, which showcase how the principles of sustainable development may be incorporated as part of university programmes, and present transformatory projects and programmes, showing how sustainability can be implemented across disciplines.

This book explores the dynamics of curriculum policy processes involved in the adoption, production and enactment of the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IBPYP), accredited by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO).

This book is the outcome of a colloquium series organized by The University of Sydney in which leading and emerging researchers were invited to name what they took to be the deep flaws at the heart of contemporary educational and policy and practice in Australia and globally - to voice their potentially 'heretical' views on what most urgently needs to be done.

In recent years, funding agencies like the Institute of Educational Sciences and the National Science Foundation have increasingly emphasized large-scale studies with experimental and quasi-experimental designs looking for 'objective truths'.

This updated second edition presents an analytical description of the education systems of all European countries, following common guidelines.

This book provides a thorough review of the research literature on the effect of school size in primary and secondary education on three types of outcomes: student achievement, non-cognitive outcomes and costs per student.

Approaches and methods in comparative education are of obvious importance, but do not always receive adequate attention.

This book analyses local school district governance in a comparative, cross-cultural perspective based on national studies of local school boards in the Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

How can we deal with the diversity of theories in mathematics education?

This book presents a research focus on diversity and inclusivity in mathematics education.

This book surveys and examines different approaches and practices that contribute to the changes in mathematics instruction, including (1) innovative approaches that bring direct changes in classroom instructional practices, (2) curriculum reforms that introduce changes in content and requirements in classroom instruction, and (3) approaches in mathematics teacher education that aim to improve teachers' expertise and practices.

This book shows that the introduction of the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) of credit points as a new accounting unit at universities has led to increased bureaucracy and the schoolmaster-style regimentation of Bachelor's and Master's courses.

This volume focuses on the ethical significance of human rights, aiming at contributing to a universal culture of human rights with deep roots and wide horizons.

The papers in this book cover issues related to the development of novel statistical models for the analysis of data.

Die Unzufriedenheit mit dem Schulsystem ist groß: Kinder sind unter- oder überfordert, Eltern beklagen zu großen Druck und ein zu hohes Lernpensum.

This volume is the first to compile the insights of experienced and informed education researchers and practitioners involved in the delivery of university pathway programs.

This timely analysis brings greater clarity to the question of how ICT-supported innovations are experienced in small low- to middle-income countries and developing regions with implications for international education and development.

The goal of this guide and manual is to provide a practical and brief overview of the theory on computerized adaptive testing (CAT) and multistage testing (MST) and to illustrate the methodologies and applications using R open source language and several data examples.

This book examines new trends and developments in research related to the mathematical education of pre-service elementary teachers, and explores the implications of these research advances for theory and practice in teacher education.

This book investigates and critically interprets the underrepresentation of the global South in global knowledge production.

This book presents a global overview of discourses of globalization, current research in education and education policy reforms.

This book is a guide to help teachers, parents, guidance counselors and other stakeholders understand the importance of intervention for gifted children and to become an advocate for those individuals who are developmentally advanced.

This book offers a new approach to workforce education for youth.

This book aims to make a contribution to the theory, research and practice on quality and equity in education by providing a comprehensive overview of these two dimensions of educational effectiveness and proposing a methodological instrument that may be used to measure the contribution that each school can make to promoting equity.

This book documents ongoing research and theorizing in the sub-field of mathematics education devoted to the teaching and learning of mathematical modelling and applications.

Damit Inklusion gelingen kann, braucht es förderkompetente und handlungsstarke Lehrerinnen und Lehrer.

This book advocates that teachers should play an active role in high-stakes language testing and that more weight should be given to teacher judgement.