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Bell, Lilian Fleur – Education 3-13, 2005
This article outlines BPRS funded investigations into my own school's and other establishments' practices and processes within data analysis, needs identification and tracking of children's academic progress. It describes the evaluation of my school's then current practices and policies and the use of questionnaires and semi-structured interviews…
Descriptors: Investigations, Student Evaluation, Academic Achievement, Data Analysis
Hill, Jennifer; Waldfogel, Jane; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2002
In policy research a frequent aim is to estimate treatment effects separately by subgroups. This endeavor becomes a methodological challenge when the subgroups are defined by post-treatment, rather than pre-treatment, variables because if analyses are performed in the same way as with pre-treatment variables, causal interpretations are no longer…
Descriptors: Child Care, Test Bias, Policy Analysis, Policy Formation
O'Donoghue, Tom; Vidovich, Lesley – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2004
This paper reports the findings of a case study aimed at investigating the forces influencing curriculum policy in one Catholic school in Western Australia (WA). The student-outcomes' focused Curriculum Framework was released in 1998 and is mandated to be implemented in all WA schools by 2004. This has made non-government schools answerable to the…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, State Church Separation
Birtwistle, Tim – Education and the Law, 2004
Is academic freedom an issue in British universities? It should be because there is no legal protection guaranteeing academic freedom. Individuals have some direct statutory references but nothing of substance that actually provides a definitive statement. There are a variety of statutory provisions dealing with what may appear to be aspects of…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy, Professional Autonomy, Foreign Countries
Van Hoorebeek, Mark – Education and the Law, 2004
"Sony Music v. Easyinternetcafe" has introduced a new facet to the debate concerning the copyright legality of peer-to-peer file transfer. The judgment and subsequent settlement has highlighted that companies offering services that are used to infringe copyright may be held to account in the UK courts. Liability may extend from the…
Descriptors: Sanctions, Copyrights, Computer Software, Court Litigation
Pearce, Diane; Gordon, Liz – London Review of Education, 2005
This paper examines the legislative framework developed in New Zealand over the last 15 years to facilitate greater parental choice in education. The discussion is set within the context of changes to admission practices in a number of education systems to advance the privatisation agenda, and outlines the resurgence of interest in the development…
Descriptors: School Choice, Foreign Countries, Educational Legislation, Admission Criteria
Lopez-Goni, Irene – History of Education Quarterly, 2005
The Basque School, as well as a type of school, is an educational phenomenon that emerged and underwent most of its development during the twentieth century. Some initial confusion existed between the terms "Basque school," "bilingual school" and "ikastola," due to the undefined nature of the Basque model of schooling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Regional Schools, Indo European Languages, Spanish Culture
Kraak, Andre – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2005
This article investigates the contribution skills development can make in promoting South Africa's wider socio-economic development. It provides a broad overview of the emerging gap between those who are benefiting from South Africa's transition to democracy and those who are not. Overcoming these worsening social conditions has become a major…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Progress, Vocational Education, Skill Development
Thakrar, Jayshree; Zinn, Denise; Wolfenden, Freda – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
The challenges to teacher educators in sub-Saharan Africa are acute. This paper describes how the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) consortium is working within institutional and national policy systems to support school-based teacher professional development. The TESSA consortium (13 African institutions and 5 international…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Consortia, Educational Resources
O'Regan, Kerry – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2006
How universities and university people deal with plagiarism is articulated in universities' plagiarism policies. Universities, policies and people are all located in a bigger context, one which is being increasingly shaped by global issues. Some global issues of particular relevance to plagiarism are associated with the Internet and its attendant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Plagiarism, Educational Policy
Hill, LaVerne Williamson – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2006
Decision making in the public sector encompasses many topics of interest to the academic researcher--environmental issues, health and human services, budget planning, and so on. Expertise in data collection and analysis is critical to the policy-making process and can be provided by academic researchers. But the "real world" policymaker…
Descriptors: Public Sector, Public Policy, Policy Formation, Decision Making
Hunt, John – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2006
Since the implementation of the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) in 2002, the impact upon America's schools has been signicant in many areas. In a positive sense, NCLB has caused schools and school districts to examine the performance and academic achievement of subgroups, often for the first time. This examination has certainly highlighted…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Federal Programs, Staff Development, Educational Improvement
US Agency for International Development, 2006
It is common to find well-crafted and coherent policy designs failing to attain desired results in developing counties. Pakistan is no exception. Despite having taken a significant number of initiatives in a quest to further its Teacher Professional Development (TPD) objectives, progress remains less than satisfactory. While a number of studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Governance, Developing Nations
Schuller, Tom; Jochems, Wim; Moos, Lejf; van Zanten, Agnes – European Educational Research Journal, 2006
The EERJ roundtable took as its point of departure the experience of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) in carrying out policy research. CERI has conducted four reviews of national educational research and development (in New Zealand, England, Mexico and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
Carter, David S. G., Ed.; O'Neill, Marnie H., Ed. – 1995
This book focuses on educational change processes in the context of larger scale educational reform. The first of 2 volumes, the book contains 11 chapters that examine the historical, social, and economic forces at work in the formulation and implementation of educational policy. The chapters present different cross-cultural experiences of…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Decentralization, Educational Change, Educational History