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Kolobe, Lineo; Mihai, Maryke – Perspectives in Education, 2021
This study aims at finding the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) as an intervention tool for progressed learners in teaching and learning of English first additional language (FAL) comprehension in the intermediate phase. With learner progression proving a challenge facing the South African education system, the aim of this…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Darwin, Stephen – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
Conventional student-led evaluation is now an orthodox feature of the North American, UK and Australian higher education landscape. Increasingly, it is guiding major institutional decisions around educational quality, academic promotion and more recently institutional funding by government. Yet significant research around student-led evaluation…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Promotion, Evaluation Methods, Educational Quality
Elwick, Alex, Ed.; Riggall, Anna, Ed. – CfBT Education Trust, 2013
St Mark's Church of England Academy is an 11-18 academy situated in Mitcham, South London. It offers a commitment to high achievement within a community of care, underpinned by the Christian values of hope, love and trust. The academy encourages the development of the moral and spiritual well-being of students, alongside their academic success.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Public Schools, High Achievement
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ten Bruggencate, Gerdy; Luyten, Hans; Scheerens, Jaap; Sleegers, Peter – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2012
Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the means by which principals achieve an impact on student achievement. Research Design: Through the application of structural equation modeling, a mediated-effects model for school leadership was tested, using data from 97 secondary schools in the Netherlands. Findings: The results showed a small…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement, School Effectiveness, School Organization
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Urban, Klaus K. – Early Child Development and Care, 1997
Proposes a more dimensional, holistic, child- and action-oriented educational-psychological approach for working with gifted preschool children, based on experiences with the Hanover Project and findings that previous kindergarten educational reforms in Germany did not sufficiently recognize and promote gifted preschool children. Examines…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Child Behavior, Child Development, Childhood Needs
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McGinn, Noel; And Others – 1992
This report examines factors contributing to grade repetition in rural elementary schools in Honduras. Forty schools in four Honduran departments were randomly selected from lists of schools with the highest and lowest repetition rates. Subjects were 1,854 students in Grade 1 or 3 during the 1990 school year who were still in the school in March…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Elementary Schools
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Finnish National Board of Education, Helsinki. Research and Development Bureau. – 1973
English abstracts of fifty-five research projects commissioned by the National Board of Education in Finland between 1971 and 1973 are cataloged in this bulletin. The research reports are available from ten different centers listed in the front of the bulletin. The reports are listed consecutively based on an internal numbering system; abstracts…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Achievement Tests, Classroom Research, Comparative Education
Wirt, John; Choy, Susan P.; Bae, Yupin; Sable, Jennifer; Gruner, Allison; Stennett, Janis; Perie, Marianne; Pratt, Rebecca, Ed.; Pfile, Ross, Ed.; Connor, Sonia, Ed.; Livingston, Andrea, Ed. – 1999
The current status of education for 1999 is presented as an indicator report, analyzing key data that measure the health of education, monitor important developments, and show trends in major aspects of education. Each year, about 60 indicators are selected that represent a consensus of professional judgment on the most significant national…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Distance Education, Educational Assessment