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Jing Chen; Zhuo Wang; Li Zhang; Yujia Zhao; Yongjun Ma – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2025
To attract and retain rural teachers, the Chinese government has piloted the Free Teacher Education Programme (FTEP) since 2007. Examining the FTEP participants' intentions and reasons for default helps stakeholders make effective and timely adjustments to existing policies and regulations so that more capable preservice teachers may be retained…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Rural Education
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Wang, Huan; Chu, James; Loyalka, Prashant; Xin, Tao; Shi, Yaojiang; Qu, Qinghe; Yang, Chu – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016
An alarming number of students drop out of junior high school in developing countries. In this study, we examine the impacts of providing a social-emotional learning (SEL) program on the dropout behavior and learning anxiety of students in the first two years of junior high. We do so by analyzing data from a randomized controlled trial involving…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Statistical Analysis, At Risk Students
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Yao, Haogen – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2017
This study develops a sequential mixed model of Delphi-Propensity Score Matching to discuss how an NGO's socio-emotional support affects the decisions of dropout, work, and two types of upper secondary schooling in rural China. Data were collected from 6,298 students in 2012 after a subgroup of them were treated. The analysis shows that…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Academic Aspiration, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Yi, Hongmei; Li, Guirong; Li, Liying; Loyalka, Prashant; Zhang, Linxiu; Xu, Jiajia; Kardanova, Elena; Shi, Henry; Chu, James – Comparative Education Review, 2018
An increasing number of policy makers in developing countries have made the mass expansion of upper-secondary vocational education and training (VET) a top priority. The goal of this study is to examine whether VET fulfills these objectives of building skills and abilities along multiple dimensions and further identify which school-level factors…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Vocational Education, Longitudinal Studies, Safety
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Hu, Xiangen, Ed.; Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Hershkovitz, Arnon, Ed.; Paquette, Luc, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2017
The 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2017) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Optics Velley Kingdom Plaza Hotel, Wuhan, Hubei Province, in China. This years conference features two invited talks by: Dr. Jie Tang, Associate Professor with the Department of Computer…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Graphs, Data Use
Chinese Education, 1977
Reviews the economic and political benefits derived from revolutionary cadre training school projects as discussed in a Cadre School Work Conference. (AV)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Education, Conference Reports, Dropouts
Bennet, Nicholas – Literacy Discussion, 1975
A new system of education designed to solve problems facing rural areas in developing countries is needed. Guidelines for the rural development functional literacy systems for Upper Volta, Tanzania, China, Cuba, and Thailand are described. (BP)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Dropouts, Educational Change, Educational Needs
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Hobbs, Mary Kay – Indian Journal of Adult Education, 1980
The author draws upon her field observations in China during 1976 to describe how the People's Republic is trying to provide a broader base for popular participation in development. Discusses the changing nature of schooling, the importance placed on learning, and specific examples of changes in education. (CT)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Dropouts, Educational Innovation, Nonformal Education
2000
This document contains 35 papers from the program development section of an international conference on vocational education and training (VET) for lifelong learning in the information era. The following are among the papers included: "Using Quality Indicators to Create World-Class Curricula: From Concept to Application" (Curtis Finch,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Learning, Bachelors Degrees, Benchmarking