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Direct linkChan, Chin Han; Fellows, Christopher M.; Hess, Michael; Hiorns, Roger; Hoven, Voravee P.; Russell, Gregory T.; dos Santos, Cla´udio G.; S?turcova´, Adriana; Theato, Patrick – Journal of Chemical Education, 2017
Polymer education relies on generally agreed terminology and nomenclature rules. The Polymer Division of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) generates and recommends such rules for naming processes and materials in polymer science. It is the goal of IUPAC that these recommendations be applied in polymer science curricula…
Descriptors: Plastics, Science Education, Chemistry, Academic Standards
Kelly, Anthony – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
Like its 2008 predecessor, the, 2014 Research Excellence Framework was a high-stakes exercise. For universities and their constituent departments, it had zero-sum implications for league table position in a way that the 2001 exercise did not, and "post facto" it is having a significant effect on investment and disinvestment as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Competition, Intellectual Disciplines
Piro, Jody; Anderson, Gina – Action in Teacher Education, 2015
The purpose of this study was to benchmark the types of Socratic questioning that were occurring in a Socrates Café, an online discussion forum, in a graduate-level diversity course in teacher education. The Universal Intellectual Standards were used to analyze Socratic questioning. Results suggested that the nine Universal Intellectual Standards…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Critical Thinking, Questioning Techniques, Teaching Methods
Download full textAcuña, Tina Botwright; Kelder, Jo-Anne; Able, Amanda J.; Guisard, Yann; Bellotti, William D.; McDonald, Glenn; Doyle, Richard; Wormell, Paul; Meinke, Holger – Journal of Learning Design, 2014
This paper reports on the perspective of industry stakeholders in a national project to develop a Learning and Teaching Academic Standards (LTAS) Statement for the Agriculture discipline. The AgLTAS Statement will be aligned with the Science LTAS Statement published in 2011 and comprise a discourse on the nature and extent of the Agriculture…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Agricultural Education, Vocational Aptitude, Benchmarking
Gora, Joseph – Australian Universities' Review, 2011
In this article the author discusses public reaction generated by the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. He argues that it is not simply that the methodologies adopted by the main rankers -- Times Higher Education (THE), QS and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University -- are diverse and open to the usual interpretation, but there…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Classification, Benchmarking, Educational Quality
Whitehurst, Grover J. – Brookings Institution, 2011
Exploring the critical role of school choice in the future of education reform, Grover (Russ) Whitehurst introduces the Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI), an interactive web application that scores large school districts based on thirteen categories of policy and practice. The intent of the ECCI is to create public awareness of the…
Descriptors: School Choice, Competition, School Districts, Educational Change
Castellano, Katherine E.; Ho, Andrew D. – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2013
This "Practitioner's Guide to Growth Models," commissioned by the Technical Issues in Large-Scale Assessment (TILSA) and Accountability Systems & Reporting (ASR), collaboratives of the "Council of Chief State School Officers," describes different ways to calculate student academic growth and to make judgments about the…
Descriptors: Guides, Models, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains
Kendall, John S.; Ryan, Susan S.; Richardson, Amy T. – Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), 2005
This paper describes a practical method for identifying and communicating expectations of student performance in the classroom. The method has been used at McREL for clients who require a systematic approach to setting performance expectations and communicating these to their constituents. This document in organized in the following sections: (1)…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Standard Setting
Vedder, Richard; Coleman, James; Robe, Jonathan; Ruchti, Thomas – Center for College Affordability and Productivity (NJ1), 2008
This study summarizes recent and continuing research conducted by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP) on the metrics used for measuring college performance. Unlike other rankings, this study does not concentrate on the inputs of college education such as endowment size, number of faculty, or the educational preparation of…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Access to Education, Student Costs, Productivity
