Purpose: This study aims to enhance the understanding of university management as a crucial aspect for ensuring the continuous improvement and quality assurance of institutions, considering that universities are knowledge-based institutions and proposing a framework based on intellectual capital and specific university management activities based…

Background/purpose: While reading skills are important in EFL classrooms, EFL students in Indonesia encounter various challenges. Therefore, the present study aimed to provide insights related to the needs and perceptions of EFL students in reading courses. In addition, the study also explores how curriculum design and pedagogical practices can be…

While transformational leadership has been extensively studied in educational contexts, systematic bibliometric mapping of its knowledge evolution remains unexplored in school-setting research. This review, using VOSviewer bibliometric analysis methods combined with content analysis, used an analytical framework combining bibliometric clustering…

This plan builds on a record of proven success. DoDEA has become the top-performing school system in the country, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. But success is not a finish line--it's a foundation. DoDEA now faces a new set of challenges and opportunities that demand both clarity and boldness. Students are growing…

This paper examines the transformative educational reforms introduced in Thailand starting December 1995, collectively known as Sukavichinomics. The reforms targeted four key areas: school quality and coverage, teacher training and recruitment, curriculum development, and administrative decentralization. These initiatives aimed to improve…

Exploring the factors influencing science teacher professional development (STPD) and their interactions may provide insight into promoting professional development and improving science education. However, existing research mainly focuses on STPD in larger domains, such as individual, external, and contextual, without paying systematic attention…

This study examined Sri Lankan English as a Second Language (ESL) undergraduate learners' reading-to-write task performance over six weeks. The Experimental Group (EG; n = 33) read and summarized articles rated as curious on a Likert scale measuring curiosity, while the Control Group (CG; n = 31) read articles rated as incurious (low-curiosity end…

This report presents the findings of the process evaluation of the Stronger Practice Hubs (SPH) programme. The SPH programme was launched in November 2022 to run as a two year programme, though was subsequently extended to the end of March 2025. The aim of the programme was to support settings to address the impact of the pandemic on young…

This article introduces asset-based innovation in rural education (ABIRE) as a framework for rethinking school improvement in rural communities and integrates the ethics of care as a conceptual lens to view improvement efforts. Rather than focusing on external problems or shortcomings, ABIRE centers the strengths, relationships, and resources…

The Grand Challenges for Assessment in Higher Education project was launched in 2020 when Singer-Freeman and Robinson identified a list of important challenges in higher education assessment. As part of the Grand Challenges project, volunteers have been discussing the future of accreditation and how assessment professionals can use findings to…

Currently, there is a paucity of research concerning the National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform's Schools to Watch national school improvement program. Of the handful of existing studies, very few have examined or addressed student learning or achievement. In this this study we systematically collected and analyzed data from the 34…

Ideas about educational improvement are contextual and contested. This study proposes a critical and pragmatic framework to analyse systemic improvement, taking into account the paradoxes and limitations of quantitative sources. The study compared 83 subnational educational systems of three federal countries in Latin America: Argentina, Brazil,…

Purpose: Follett's relational process theory illuminates key aspects of interdependence among organizations in the field of education that are essential to fostering capacities for interorganizational resilience. The article argues for the necessity of developing mutualism in systems of education as essential preparation for times of instability…

Purpose: The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to determine whether there are speech rhythm differences between preschool-age children who stutter that were eventually diagnosed as persisting (CWS-Per) or recovered (CWS-Rec) and children who do not stutter (CWNS), using empirical spectral analysis and empirical mode decomposition of the…

This study focuses on the impacts of programs designed to develop and support teacher leaders to improve instruction in their schools. Using surveys of teachers in 45 schools in four districts and interview data, we found that the frequency of teachers' work with a teacher leader on professional growth, instructional planning, and…