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AlHashmi, Shefa – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2021
Large scale educational assessments conducted in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) show a substantial gap between the performance of different types of schools. This study used the 2015 Program of International Student Assessment (PISA) to investigate how student- and school-related variables accounted for the variation among schools. The results…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Achievement Gap
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Beck, Clive M.; Kosnik, Clare; McGlynn-Stewart, Monica Eileen; MacKay, Tiffany; Longe, Belinda Monique; Middleton, Julie – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This paper is based on a study of 20 elementary teachers, especially in their tenth year of teaching (2013-2014). At this time, the teachers were working under heavy pressure from their government and school districts to implement "inquiry learning." While broadly accepting this pedagogy, however, the teachers varied substantially in…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Implementation