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White, Eric R. – Journal of General Education, 2015
American higher education is facing several significant challenges: rapidly rising tuitions, a lack of support from politicians and the public in general, a demand for higher graduation rates, and the lack of a clear articulation of mission. Coping with these issues and many others is a formidable task. No matter what possible solutions and…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Faculty Advisers, Higher Education, Paying for College
Misra, Pradeep Kumar – Cogent Education, 2015
India, a country of 1.27 billion, nowadays needs reforms, improvements, and new approaches in teacher education to cater to the demands of changing economy and society. This call to improve teacher education becomes more significant considering the fact that 50% of India's current population is below the age of 25 and over 65% below 35. There are…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Education Curriculum, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Lauen, Douglas Lee; Fuller, Bruce; Dauter, Luke – American Journal of Education, 2015
The debate over charter school effectiveness relies largely on neoclassical logic: individual parents or students express demand for a widening array of school types and then experience variable levels of organizational quality. We argue that market-like behavior is nested in segments of local organizational fields with different types of charter…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Effectiveness, Achievement Gains, Academic Achievement
Petrosino, Anthony; Morgan, Claire; Fronius, Trevor; Tanner-Smith, Emily E.; Boruch, Robert F. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
Due to evidence linking education and development, funding has been invested in interventions relevant to getting youth into school and keeping them there. This article reports on a systematic review of impact studies of these school enrollment interventions. Reports were identified through electronic searches of bibliographic databases and other…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Literature Reviews, Best Practices, School Holding Power
Csomay, Eniko; Pollard, Elizabeth; Bordelon, Suzanne; Beck, Audrey – Journal of General Education, 2015
Despite the desire of employers to hire those with the critical-thinking and communication skills a general education (GE) program can offer, the value of GE programs is often questioned due to concerns about four-year graduation rates, perceived low immediate economic payoff, and a dearth of evidence to support their efficacy. This article…
Descriptors: General Education, Critical Thinking, Communication Skills, Graduation Rate
Natia, James Adam; Al-hassan, Seidu – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2015
The Basic School Computerization policy was created in 2011 to introduce computers and e-learning into the entire educational system to promote training and life-long learning. Using data obtained by Connect for Change Education Ghana Alliance, this paper investigates the extent to which school administration, and teaching and learning are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, School Surveys, Data Analysis
Wood, Roy – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the evolution of "folk" understandings of quality in higher hospitality education and the consequent implications of these understandings for current quality concerns in the field. Design/methodology/approach: The paper combines a historical survey of the stated topic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hospitality Occupations, Educational Quality, Higher Education
Mehta, Jal – American Educator, 2015
In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education released its now famous report, "A Nation at Risk," which warned of "a rising tide of mediocrity" in American schooling. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education but largely written by a group of prominent academics, "A Nation at Risk" invoked a crisis…
Descriptors: Risk, Research Reports, Position Papers, Content Analysis
Stiefel, Leanna; Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Wiswall, Matthew – Educational Researcher, 2015
Research finds that small high schools deliver better outcomes than large high schools for urban students. An important outstanding question is whether this better performance is gained at the expense of losses elsewhere: Does small school reform lift the whole district? We explore New York City's small high school reform in which hundreds of new…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Educational Change, Small Schools, High Schools
Boals, Timothy; Kenyon, Dorry M.; Blair, Alissa; Cranley, M. Elizabeth; Wilmes, Carsten; Wright, Laura J. – Review of Research in Education, 2015
In conducting this review, we examine literature that explores the merits and shortcomings of ELP test design and testing as they have evolved over time through the current era of CCR standards. In the first section, we situate the role of language testing in its broader historical and policy context. In the second section, we examine the evolving…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Language Tests
McNally, Sandra – Centre for Economic Performance, 2015
England's performance in international tests of student achievement continues to be disappointing. Further improvement is essential not only for students' themselves but also for economic growth. This briefing considers the impact of Academies, school spending and teacher quality. Research evidence suggests that it is right to protect school…
Descriptors: Evidence, Academic Achievement, Performance Based Assessment, International Education
Giffin, Richard B.; Geddie, Mary; Moser, Ernest; Griffin, B. Wynne – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2012
This paper is the second of a two part study comparing The Sixth Edition of the Uniform Accountancy Act as prepared and adopted by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA)with the actual regulatory practice of the various jurisdictional boards of accountancy in place just prior to the release of the most recent NASBA…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Accounting, Federal Legislation, Educational Quality
Qian, Liu – Higher Education Studies, 2012
In the light of the problems existing in assessment of the course of "athletic physiology" in universities at present, this article makes reflections upon the assessment mode of students for this course and takes a general survey on development of the evaluation system by comprehensively employing both the quantitative method and…
Descriptors: Athletics, Exercise Physiology, Evaluation Methods, Educational Assessment
Miller, Louise – American Journal of Business Education, 2012
This paper describes a student project assignment used in an accounting information systems course. We are now truly immersed in the internet age, and while many required accounting information systems courses and textbooks introduce database design, accounting software development, cloud computing, and internet security, projects involving the…
Descriptors: Accounting, Information Systems, Internet, Database Management Systems
Royce Sadler, D. – Education Inquiry, 2012
The terms assessment, evaluation and quality assurance have various interpretations in higher education. The first two, assessment and evaluation, share considerable conceptual ground and interconnected histories. Quality assurance, on the other hand, is a more recent development. The issue of academic achievement standards in particular has…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Quality Assurance, Higher Education, Academic Achievement