Educational systems and structures

This book presents a new and refreshing look at student assessment from the perspective of leading educational theorists, researchers, and practitioners.

This survey provides unprecedented scope and detail of analysis on higher education in the Asia-Pacific region.

Higher education policy has increasingly gained a European dimension, with its own distinct influence over national education policies.

This work represents a publishing event in education research.

This book is concerned with the general issues of ageing, learning and education for the elderly and then with the more specific issues of why, how and what elders want to learn.

This book provides a provocative but carefully argued addition to the theory and practice of education in developing countries.

Contributors to this volume examine structures and processes that school boards have in place directly relating to the process of principal or vice-principal succession.

Reading Comprehension: Assisting Children with Learning Difficulties examines the complex nature of reading comprehension.

Socio-scientific issues (SSI) are open-ended, multifaceted social issues with conceptual links to science.

External drivers are pressing for a more privatized approach to higher education and research, a greater reliance on technology and the more efficient use of resources.

This ground-breaking and exhaustive analysis of university ranking surveys scrutinizes their theoretical bases, methodological issues, societal impact, and policy implications, providing readers with a deep understanding of these controversial comparators.

At the beginning of the 21st century, new features have emerged within the field of comparative education.

Globalization has brought dramatic changes to the character and functions of education in most countries around the world.

The quality of education is a term that is frequently used in public debates.

How are curriculum policies translated into opportunities to learn in the classroom?

Advances in Business Education & Training is a Book Series to foster advancement in the field of Business Education and Training.

The studies contained in this volume present a sampling of policy and legislation relating to adult learning in various parts of the world.

How are students in Asia and the Pacific taught to be effective citizens?

This book discusses the recent assessment movements in the eastern and western worlds with particular focuses on the policies, implementation, and impacts of assessment reform on education.

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.

Transitions to new educational experiences are a universal rite of passage encountered by children worldwide.

This book explores current thinking about the role of corrective feedback in language learning and teaching.

Within educational research that seeks to understand the quality and effectiveness of teachers and school, the role emotions play in educational change and school improvement has become a subject of increasing importance.

As educational policy trends converge in many countries, such as demands for greater accountability, decentralization, and more culturally sensitive practices for an increasingly diverse student body, there is growing interest in cross-national comparisons and generalizations about leadership qualities and practices that result in successful schools.

There are an estimated forty-eight million Latinas/os living in the United States, roughly sixteen percent of the population.

This book examines issues that have emerged as higher education systems and individual institutions across East Asia confront and adapt to the changing economic, social, and educational environments in which they now operate.

The contributing authors of this multidisciplinary text agree that workplace learning truly is extraordinary when it is marked by structural congruence and a positive synergy among the intended and formal preparation of professionals, that tacit learning occurs within the hidden curriculum, and that the subsequent demands, both formal and tacit, are embedded in subsequent workplace settings.

Shift happens: Emerging technologies and globalization have resulted in political, social and cultural changes.

Oxford is one of the world's great universities but this has not meant that it is exempt from pressures for change.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of navigating the on-going systemic challenges, hardships, and problems facing many indigenous teacher education programs today, helping to foster a commitment to developing quality indigenous teacher education programs that are sustainable, distinctive and excellent.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of selected research concerning global and comparative trends in dominant discourses on human rights education.

In this book we respond to a higher education environment that is on the verge of profound changes by imagining an evolving and agile problem-based learning ecology for learning.

Globalisation and Historiography of National Leaders: Symbolic Representations in School Textbooks, the 18th book in the 24-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, explores the interrelationship between ideology, national identity, national history and historical heroes, setting it in a global context.

This book examines the transformative power and the limitations of one of Europe's most significant university reforms from an ethnographic and historical perspective.

This book contains 15 Full Length Test Papers for IBPS Bank PO examination.

This book explores pedagogical concepts, metaphors and images of non-white, non-western researchers and research students on the inter/nationalization of education.

This book explores the interrelationship between ideology, the state, and education reforms, placing it in a global context.

Globalisation and National Identity in History Textbooks: The Russian Federation, the 16th book in the 24-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, discusses trends in dominant discourses of identity politics, and nation-building in school history textbooks in the Russian Federation (RF).

To overcome the problem, present series of handbooks on every subject has been prepared.

This book offers an accessible, practical and engaging guide that provides sample instructional activities supported by theoretical background information, with a focus on the nature of the instructional process in relation to several variables.

This book reflects the considerable appeal of the Anthropocene and the way it stimulates new discussions and ideas for reimagining sustainability and its place in education in these precarious times.

The book has been designed to cater to the real time problems faced by the aspirants who want to succeed in National Talent Search Examination, Olympiads, and Scholarship-cum-Merit Tests conducted by various State Boards etc.

In the book, the author has provided the CAT Aspirants with detailed concepts and problem solving skills.

This publication focuses on the state of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and education technology (EdTech) in Bangladesh, Cambodia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Uzbekistan.

This study examines international approaches in technical and vocational education and training (TVET), and determines their suitability for developing countries.

This publication describes the key issues facing the school education system in Pakistan, highlights the challenges, and suggests some possible directions for reform---with a focus on two provinces: Sindh and Punjab.

This comparative study provides an overview of the textbook production chain, starting with its origins in the curriculum, and suggests ways in which policymakers can make improvements at every point in the chain.

This publication presents findings from a study that analyzes trends in the demand and supply of skills in Indonesia's electricity sector.

This publication introduces the Diagnose-and-Supplement System of Basic Skills (DASOBS), an online-offline system for academically low-achievement students from grades 1 to 10 in the Republic of Korea.

Assessment of student learning outcomes (ASLO) is one of the key activities in teaching and learning.