Describes the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program, a prestigious and rigorous international program for students in the last two years of secondary education, which earns students a diploma recognized for university admission throughout the world. (SR)

Describes a program at the University of Exeter (England) with help from the Teaching and Learning with Technology Project (TLTP) that developed a range of multimedia resources for student teachers in the United Kingdom (UK), disseminated them outside the UK, and is now investigating whether they can successfully be internationally transferable.…

Discusses some results of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and responds to criticisms of that study. (WRM)

Describes the REUSE projects in Germany that were the result of the demand for harmonization of German cataloging rules with AACR2 (Anglo American Cataloging Rules 2). Discusses the comparison of bibliographic data; international authority files; USMARC format; and the trend toward internationality. (Author/LRW)

This abstract describes a session that planned to feature participants of the International OAI (Open Archives Initiative) forums, discussing digital libraries and their role in knowledge dissemination and creation, global strategies for interoperability, author self-archiving issues, empowering users, and technology and user processes. (LRW)

Discusses how recent changes in funding have encouraged Australian universities to market their programs overseas, but that the commercialization of university degrees has had some unexpected, mainly negative, consequences. (EV)

Examines the cultural adaptation process experienced by people working in foreign environments. Reviews current organizational gaps in managing cross-cultural challenges; examines the phenomenon of culture shock; and presents a model for applying HPT (human performance technology) strategies to change culture shock to cross-cultural competence.…

Data from international comparative studies in education are generally derived from complex, multi-stage sample designs and rotated assessments. Consequently, care must be taken not only in estimating variance components but also in interpreting them. Target population definitions, the nature of the sampling stages and their sampling units, and…

It is generally thought that evaluation originated with the civil service exams that were administered in ancient China. However, modern evaluation and, of particular importance to this article, evaluation standards, originated in the United States. Why this occurred is part of a larger question about the development of social and educational…

In 2006 and 2008, two large trans-national residential summer schools on conservation science were organized as intensive programs. Learners were not only second/third cycle students in both exact sciences and humanities, but further practicing restorers; consequently their educational background, and even their way of approaching scientific…

The Spanish educational system will require certain changes in order to achieve the Bologna objectives for the European Higher Education Area, including a more professional profile, with new activities and roles for both students and teachers, who must assume new skills that will affect concepts and attitudes related to the teaching and learning…

Although in the past the field of youth development has been subsumed within or occluded by other traditional development sectors such as education, a re-emerging emphasis on security in US government foreign assistance has tended to foreground youth as a frame of reference for international development programming and public diplomacy. While…

Tandi Clausen-May is a principal research officer in the Department for Research in Assessment and Measurement at the National Foundation for Educational Research. In this article, she examines the accessibility for learners with special educational needs of some of the mathematics questions from tests used in the 2003 cycle of two international…

This paper reports on a commissioned research project to evaluate the impact of support (mainly funding) given by the UK Government's National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) to various projects under the general heading of "science learning" over a four-year period (2000-2004). Findings emerging from the study…

A growing international consensus exists that societies have an obligation to promote and protect children's rights to survival, protection, participation, and development. These three essays consider UNICEF's role in implementing the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. "The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child:…