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Pamela Mlakalaka; Tando Rulashe – South African Journal of Education, 2024
Managing school finances by school governing bodies (SGBs) in South African secondary schools has proven to be a challenge that has several negative consequences for education, infrastructure, and other resources. The purpose of this article was to assess the efficiency of financial management systems (FMSs) in selected schools in the Amathole…
Descriptors: Money Management, Educational Finance, School Administration, School Districts
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Yenchun Wu; Marco Fabio Benaglia – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2024
For over two decades now, the application of Citizen Science to Education has been evolving, and fundamental topics, such as the drivers of motivation to participate in Citizen Science projects, are still under discussion. Some recent developments, though, like the use of Artificial Intelligence to support data collection and validation, seem to…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Scientific Research, Science Education, Educational Development
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John Olayemi Okunlola; Suraiya Rathankoomar Naicker; Chinaza Uleanya – Cogent Education, 2024
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has brought about significant changes in organizational leadership. However, the accelerated transformation towards digitization was not without the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, the COVID-19 pandemic aided the digital revolution in several organizations across the globe. This paper presents…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Leadership, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Md Alimul Haque; Shameemul Haque; Sana Zeba; Kailash Kumar; Sultan Ahmad; Moidur Rahman; Senapathy Marisennayya; Laiq Ahmed – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2024
E-Learning Education systems are gaining attention day-to-day because of their inclusive pertinence in the distance education system. Due to COVID-19, the online learning education system has become very popular. Most probably, all education systems have been using the IoT-based E-Learning system to continue the students' education without…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Internet, Information Networks, Technology Uses in Education
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Yang Du; Susu Zhang – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2025
Item compromise has long posed challenges in educational measurement, jeopardizing both test validity and test security of continuous tests. Detecting compromised items is therefore crucial to address this concern. The present literature on compromised item detection reveals two notable gaps: First, the majority of existing methods are based upon…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Item Analysis, Bayesian Statistics, Educational Assessment
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Wirzén, Johan; Hedegaard, Joel – Educational Studies, 2023
The aim of the present study is to investigate how the concept of systematic quality work is perceived by school teachers. Eleven interviews were conducted and analysed according to the phenomenographical method, inspired by qualitative content analysis. Five qualitatively different descriptive categories were identified: (i) tools for…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Educational Quality, Evaluation Methods, Quality Assurance
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Flavin, Michael – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
This article analyses speeches made by UK higher education ministers, from the election of the Conservative government in May 2015 through to September 2020. The article uses disruptive innovation as a theoretical framework through which to analyse ministers' perspectives on innovation. The methodology is content analysis with a directed approach.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Innovation, Efficiency
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Temoso, Omphile; Myeki, Lindikaya W. – Research in Higher Education, 2023
Recent high dropout and low graduation rates in the South African higher education institutions as well as government funding cuts and the economic uncertainty due to COVID-19 pandemic have heightened the urgency for the higher education sector to improve its productivity. However, empirical evidence on the productivity growth of the sector…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Productivity, Disadvantaged Schools
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Perlman-Arrow, Sara; Loo, Noel; Bobrovitz, Niklas; Yan, Tingting; Arora, Rahul K. – Research Synthesis Methods, 2023
The laborious and time-consuming nature of systematic review production hinders the dissemination of up-to-date evidence synthesis. Well-performing natural language processing (NLP) tools for systematic reviews have been developed, showing promise to improve efficiency. However, the feasibility and value of these technologies have not been…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Screening Tests, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Rohemi Zuluaga; Alicia Camelo-Guarín; Enrique De La Hoz – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2023
This research aims to design a helpful methodology for estimating universities' relative impact on students as a sustainability factor in higher education. To this end, the research methodology implemented a two-stage approach. The first stage involves the relative efficiency analysis of the study units using Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Practices, Efficiency
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Martin Flegl; Sonia Valeria Avilés-Sacoto; David Güemes-Castorena; Estefanía Caridad Avilés-Sacoto – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2023
Education has been considered a cornerstone for human and economic development. Although there is a national educational strategy in most countries, various implementations are at the state level. This paper studies academic efficiency at the primary and secondary levels and the human development dimensions -- long and healthy life, being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Economic Development, Efficiency
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Junaid King; Raj Mestry – Perspectives in Education, 2023
The South African Schools Act, No. 84 of 1996 (RSA, 1996) heralded a shift in decision-making powers through decentralising school governance from the state to local communities. One of the primary functions of school governing bodies (SGBs) is to manage school finances. It is imperative for SGBs to design and implement irrefutable finance…
Descriptors: Governance, Governing Boards, Educational Finance, Money Management
Kilgore, Wendy – American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2023
Academic operations in higher education are essential to improving learner outcomes and helping them pursue academic and professional goals. These operations encompass policy, practice, technology and human resources. The purpose of operational efficiency in higher education is to achieve objectives with the fewest resources possible. The goal is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Efficiency, College Administration, Foreign Countries
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Xingyuan Gao; Jianping Shen; Megan Russell Johnson; Huilan Krenn; Erika Burkhardt – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
In this article, we intend to illustrate the notion, practice, and evaluation methods and results related to building an effective, efficient, and equitable early care and education (ECE) system. We point out the dominant approach, in practice and evaluation, of focusing on a single ECE program to improve ECE, propose a model of developing an ECE…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Development, Educational Assessment
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Alberto Testoni; Raffaella Bernardi; Azzurra Ruggeri – Cognitive Science, 2023
In recent years, a multitude of datasets of human-human conversations has been released for the main purpose of training conversational agents based on data-hungry artificial neural networks. In this paper, we argue that datasets of this sort represent a useful and underexplored source to validate, complement, and enhance cognitive studies on…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Cognitive Science, Natural Language Processing, Data Use
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