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Ghasemy, Majid; Hussin, Sufean Bin; Megat Daud, Megat Ahmad Kamaluddin Bin; Abdul Razak, Ahmad Zabidi Bin; Maah, Mohd Jamil Bin – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2017
This study was undertaken to determine the extent to which leadership capabilities and managerial competencies explain leadership performance in Malaysian Higher Education context. Data were collected from academic leaders in 25 public and private universities and colleges using a few previously developed scales in Malaysian context. Next, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Qualities, Competence, Higher Education
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Walsh, Ed – School Science Review, 2017
This article explores an approach to tracking student progress in GCSE courses that yields useful diagnostic information. As well as obtaining an overall score, teachers can learn more about some of the generic characteristics that affect performance.
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Progress Monitoring, Secondary School Science, Performance Factors
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Bowser, Audrey; Davis, Kimberley; Singleton, Jacques; Small, Topeka – SRATE Journal, 2017
This article examined a unique collaborative initiative between a team of graduate level faculty to improve the quality of course development and delivery using a collaborative review process. The collaborative review of teaching has become a widely accepted means for assuring quality distance learning coursework and for the purpose of evaluating…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Graduate Study, Delivery Systems, Distance Education
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Cruells Cadevall, Montserrat; Roca Vallmajor, Antoni; Escaja Sánchez, Núria; Fernández González, Javier; Garrido Ponce, José Antonio; Giménez Farreras, Jaume; Llauradó Tarragó, Montserrat; Rodriguez Raurell, Laura; Marcos, Josep Oriol Bernad; Arias, Carla Escobar; Vinent, Nuria López; Gratovil, Ma Lluisa Sagristà; Aragay, Carme Navarro – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2017
In scientific and technical degrees, the opinion of the final employers on the given subjects is really important. For this reason, the Quality Committee (CQ) of the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Barcelona prepared a survey for chemical, engineering and pharmaceutical companies asking about the academic training required by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Surveys, Competence, Comparative Analysis
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Subandi – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
Although the educational programme had been on going process since 68 years ago in Indonesia, but this state did not has provided qualified human resources. Since 32 years ago of the New Order Government authority, educational sector development has never been placed as a prime priority of development. The effect of Indonesian educational quality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Change Strategies, Human Resources, Labor Force Development
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Eddy, Pamela L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
Funded grant projects all involve some form of evaluation, and Advanced Technological Education (ATE) grants are no exception. Program evaluation serves as a critical component not only for evaluating if a project has met its intended and desired outcomes, but the evaluation process is also a central feature of the grant application itself.…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Technology Education, Grants, Federal Programs
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Sloan, Tyler – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2017
Graduation from high school is a tremendous achievement and requires perseverance, determination and the ability to retain information from the various courses and subject areas throughout this journey. Teachers, parents, and peers play an important role in helping a student to attain their maximum potential. Every student has different strengths…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Academic Achievement, Educational Improvement, Cooperation
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Price, Donna; Smith, Jeffrey K.; Berg, David A. G. – Assessment Matters, 2017
This research compares the relative effectiveness and efficiency of personalised feedback versus annotated exemplars as two approaches to providing high school students with formative feedback in the development of their writing skills. The study was a randomised experiment conducted "in situ" in two English classes in one high school in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Writing Evaluation, Formative Evaluation
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Marpaung, Marlin – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2017
This study is to find out the reading comprehension ability of the students at SLTP Advent 4 Paal Dua Manado, when being taught using the Direct Method and the Lecture Method. The population of this study was seventy-six second year students at SLTP Advent 4 Paal Dua Manado, who were divided into two groups, the experimental and control group. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
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Katemba, Caroline V.; Samuel – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2017
This research is entitled "Effectiveness of Utilizing Jigsaw 1 towards Improving Students' Reading Comprehension Ability." Experimental design was used in this study. The participants of this study were two classes of grade 8 of junior high school in Parongpong, Bandung, Indonesia ; each class consisted of 32 participants in grade 8A as…
Descriptors: Reading Improvement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Ability, Teaching Methods
Rios, Francisco Javier Larrain – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined the effects of a school improvement project involving Distributed leadership (DL), a perspective for studying or developing organization leadership through the interaction of organizational members and activities. This research was part of a larger DL Project taking place in York City School District, PA, which sought to…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Participative Decision Making, Change, Leadership
National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments, 2017
Improving school climate takes time and commitment from a variety of people in a variety of roles. This document outlines key action steps to engage students in the school climate improvement process. Key action steps are provided for the following strategies: (1) Participate in planning for school climate improvements; (2) Engage stakeholders in…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Improvement, Educational Strategies, Educational Planning
Holt, Alexander – Urban Institute, 2017
The federal role in higher education has grown over the past two decades, and now a new administration has the opportunity to strengthen policies that support students and their colleges and universities. To help inform these decisions, the Urban Institute convened a bipartisan group of scholars and policy advisers to write a series of memos…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Loan Programs, Program Improvement, Federal Aid
Carnoy, Martin – Economic Policy Institute, 2017
Betsy DeVos, the new U.S. secretary of education, is a strong proponent of allowing public education dollars to go to private schools through vouchers, which enable parents to use public school money to enroll their children in private schools, including religious ones. Vouchers are advanced under the rubric of "school choice"--the…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Student Improvement
Inforna, Michael D. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined teacher and administrator perceptions of their school as a learning organization and the degree to which students graduate "college-ready." The study followed a mixed-methods design to explore the hypothesis that the extent to which teachers and administrators perceive their school as a learning organization is…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Graduates
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