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Aisling M. Leavy; Mairéad Hourigan; Michelle Fitzpatrick – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2024
Children require access to high-quality statistics education to develop the skills to participate in a technological and data-reliant workforce. This study consisted of a five-lesson integrated STEM unit designed to develop the statistical literacy of 62 6th-grade (11-12 years old) emerging bilingual (EB) learners. Learning was situated in the…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Statistics Education, Bilingual Students, Science and Society
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Pitsia, Vasiliki; Karakolidis, Anastasios; Lehane, Paula – Educational Assessment, 2021
Evidence suggests that the quality of teachers' instructional practices can be improved when these are informed by relevant assessment data. Drawing on a sample of 1,300 primary school teachers in Ireland, this study examined the extent to which teachers use standardized test results for instructional purposes as well as the role of several…
Descriptors: Data Use, Student Evaluation, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
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McNamara, Gerry; Brown, Martin; Gardezi, Sarah; O'Hara, Joe; O'Brien, Shivaun; Skerritt, Craig – SAGE Open, 2021
School self-evaluation (SSE) has emerged as a widely used approach to school evaluation in recent decades. This has occurred in the context of what is referred to as "New Public Management," an element of which seeks to empower public institutions to make decisions locally about improving their processes and standards. Inspection regimes…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Groups), Decision Making, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes