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Rothman, Robert – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2013
Based on data released December 3, 2013, from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), this Alliance for Excellent Education report reveals that the United States struggles to produce top performers in reading, math, and science at the rates of its international peers. These students, who the report calls the "deepest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement
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Schaeper, Hildegard – Studies in Higher Education, 2009
The Bologna Process places special emphasis on the outcomes of higher education in terms of employability and key competencies. Taking Germany as an example, this article examines whether the introduction of a two-tier degree structure actually has led to an enhanced acquisition of key competencies. Based on constructivist learning theories, in…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Higher Education, Regression (Statistics), Foreign Countries
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Chigeza, Philemon – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2008
This paper reports on implications of a research study with a group of 44 Indigenous middle school students learning the science concepts of energy and force. We found the concepts of energy and force need to be taught in English as we failed to find common comparable abstract concepts in the students' diverse Indigenous languages. Three…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Science Achievement, English (Second Language), Middle School Students
Cumming-Potvin, Wendy – Canadian Journal of Education, 2007
In this qualitative study, that took place in a coeducational government school in Western Australia, I adopt a social-constructivist perspective of learning (Rogoff, 1990; Vygotsky, 1986) to examine reading in an elementary classroom. The focus of this article is Nicholas, a grade-7 boy, who was identified as challenged by the literacy…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Qualitative Research
Mirici, I. Hakki – Online Submission, 2006
A new national curriculum in all subject areas is about to be introduced in elementary schools in Turkey. The new curriculum is based on a "Constructivist" approach. This discussion paper focuses on the new curriculum for English as a foreign language, noting that teachers need information about the philosophy of the new curriculum and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, National Curriculum
Chick, Helen L., Ed.; Vincent, Jill L., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
The first volume of the 29th annual conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education contains plenary lecture and research forum papers as listed below. Short oral communications papers, poster presentations, brief summaries of discussion groups, and working sessions are also included in the volume. The plenary…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary School Mathematics, Semiotics, Mathematics Education
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