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Quality Assurance in Vietnamese Higher Education: The Evaluation of the Policy
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Cuong Huu Nguyen; Thanh Quy Nguyen; Hien Thi Thu Ta – Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 2025
This chapter aims to analyze and evaluate the policy related to quality assurance in Vietnam from the macro to the micro level during the past 20 years, focusing on the past five years. First of all, the chapter provides a context explanation of Vietnam, a booming country in the Asia--Pacific region with its economic rise and education…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Capacities Facilitating School Change Involving Project-Based Learning at the Middle School Level
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Browder, Lee Shane – ProQuest LLC, 2014
With schools continuing to fall short of No Child Left Behind standards and with future challenges just around the corner, educators must identify and make positive changes in schools. Researchers must work to recognize and exhibit how student achievement is fostered and inform educators of options on how to move in a positive direction according…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Middle School Students, Academic Achievement
Activity-Based Teaching in Social Studies Education: An Action Research
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Akkus, Zekerya – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
The aim of this study was to determine pre-service social studies teachers' skills to plan and apply the activity-based teaching and contribute to their development of these skills. In the study, the action research design of qualitative research was used. The sample of the study consisted of 6 pre-service teachers who were 4th year students at…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Action Research, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Developing Instructional Leaders through Assistant Principals' Academy: A Partnership for Success
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Gurley, D. Keith; Anast-May, Linda; Lee, H. T. – Education and Urban Society, 2015
This article describes findings from a single-case qualitative study of a unique 2-year professional development academy for practicing assistant principals designed and implemented in partnership between school district personnel and university educational leadership faculty members. The study was conducted based on the theoretical framework of…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Partnerships in Education, Assistant Principals, Program Descriptions
Schools' Capacity to Absorb a "Healthy School" Approach into Their Operations: Insights from a Realist Evaluation
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Deschesnes, Marthe; Drouin, Nathalie; Tessier, Caroline; Couturier, Yves – Health Education, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how a Canadian intervention based on a professional development (PD) model did or did not influence schools' capacities to absorb a Healthy School (HS) approach into their operations. This study is the second part of a research project: previously published results regarding this research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Professional Development, Capacity Building
What Is the Nature of the Principal's Leadership in Elementary Schools Where Response to Intervention Has Been Implemented?
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Roberts, Jennifer M. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The revised Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA, 2004) has offered a change of practice regarding the identification of students with a learning disability. Under IDEA (2004) educators are encouraged to use Response to Intervention (RTI) as a method to determine eligibility for special education services. In an RTI…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Responsibility, Response to Intervention, Federal Legislation