Medium- and Long-Term Educational Consequences of Alternative Conditional Cash Transfer Designs: Experimental Evidence from Colombia - Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Linden, Leigh L.; Saavedra, Juan E. (American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019)
In 2005 the city of Bogota, Colombia, introduced three conditional cash transfer programs for secondary schooling, randomly assigning socioeconomically disadvantaged students to different payment structures. We show, through administrative data, that forcing families to save one-third of the transfer increases long-term human capital accumulation by means of additional tertiary education—which is not incentivized—, casting doubt on conditionalities as a driving mechanism. Directly incentivizing on-time tertiary enrollment does no better than forcing families to save a portion of the transfer. Whereas forcing families to save increases enrollment in four-year universities, incentivizing tertiary enrollment only increases enrollment in low-quality colleges.
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Keywords: Education; Financial Aid; Returns to Education; Human Capital; Household Saving; Human Development; Income Distribution; Labor Productivity; Economic Development: Human Resources; Migration; Occupational Choice; Personal Finance; State and Local Government: Health; Public Pensions; Analysis of Education; Educational Finance; Skills; Welfare

Bangladesh Primary Education Annual Sector Performance Report (ASPR) 2019 - Directorate of Primary Education (2019)
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Meeting the Academic and Social-Emotional Needs of Nigeria’s Out-of-School Children What works and what doesn’t for an accelerated learning program - IRC (International Rescue Committee, 2019)
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The potential of MOOCs for large-scale teacher professional development in contexts of mass displacement - Kennedy, Eileen; Laurillard, Diana (2019)
The mass displacement of people across the world, currently estimated at 65 million, creates a massive demand for new forms of education for children, young people and adults. However, this cannot be addressed without attending to what this means for teachers and other professionals involved in education and training. Clearly, there is a need for large-scale teacher professional development (TPD). Digital technology has the potential to meet this demand, but challenges are presented by the poor digital infrastructure in contexts of mass displacement. Data from two projects are analysed to explore the viability of scaling up TPD in the form of co-designed massive open online courses (MOOCs). The first data set is from a co-designed TPD MOOC project Blended Learning Essentials, to show that digital technology can be effective for scaling up TPD, but that a sustainability plan must be in place from the outset. The second data set is from a project that built on the first to run stakeholder co-design workshops in Lebanon, as a way of developing large-scale TPD in this most challenging context. Lebanon has the highest proportion of refugee to host communities in the world. This case study indicates that MOOCs could be viable in such a context, but also highlights the need to balance the generic principles being offered with a focus on localized practice. A theory of change is presented to outline a method of meeting these challenges by employing a co-design methodology to create self-sustaining digital TPD in the context of Lebanon, and to test this model with the contexts of mass displacement experienced by other participants in the MOOC.
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Keywords: Google Scholar/ "blended learning" refugee education; RER theme_supporting educators; ___working_potential_duplicate

The potential of MOOCs for large-scale teacher professional development in contexts of mass displacement - Kennedy, Eileen; Laurillard, Diana (London Review of Education, 2019)
The mass displacement of people across the world, currently estimated at 65 million, creates a massive demand for new forms of education for children, young people and adults. However, this cannot be addressed without attending to what this means for teachers and other professionals involved in education and training. Clearly, there is a need for large-scale teacher professional development (TPD). Digital technology has the potential to meet this demand, but challenges are presented by the poor digital infrastructure in contexts of mass displacement. Data from two projects are analysed to explore the viability of scaling up TPD in the form of co-designed massive open online courses (MOOCs). The first data set is from a co-designed TPD MOOC project Blended Learning Essentials, to show that digital technology can be effective for scaling up TPD, but that a sustainability plan must be in place from the outset. The second data set is from a project that built on the first to run stakeholder co-design workshops in Lebanon, as a way of developing large-scale TPD in this most challenging context. Lebanon has the highest proportion of refugee to host communities in the world. This case study indicates that MOOCs could be viable in such a context, but also highlights the need to balance the generic principles being offered with a focus on localized practice. A theory of change is presented to outline a method of meeting these challenges by employing a co-design methodology to create self-sustaining digital TPD in the context of Lebanon, and to test this model with the contexts of mass displacement experienced by other participants in the MOOC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Keywords: BLENDED learning; CO DESIGN MOOCS REFUGEES TEACHERS THEORY OF CHANGE; DIGITAL technology; Design; Digital technology; Education; Lebanon; MASSIVE open online courses; MOOCs; Online instruction; PROFESSIONAL education; Professional development; TEACHER development; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2095772; ___working_potential_duplicate; __finaldtb; co-design; refugees; teachers; theory of change

The EdTech Lab Series: Insights from rapid evaluations of EdTech products - Sampson, Rob; Johnson, Doug; Somanchi, Anmol; Barton, Hannah; Joshi, Ruchika; Seth, Madhav; Shotland, Marc (Central Square Foundation, 2019)
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Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) - HundrED.org (2019)
Simple, scalable, effective and learner centered. We tailor instruction to a child with fun, level-targeted activities to enable them to learn basic numeracy. Our model is a 30-day intervention implemented one hour a day. The pillars; assess and group students by ability, use targeted instruction, employ fun and engaging learner appropriate materials and maintain strong implementation systems.
Section: innovation KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2405685:Q788MU3T

How TV white space is helping bridge the digital divide - Harris, Briony (On the Issues, 2019)
How the need for reliable internet in Essex County, New York, led to a business that services the local community.
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Growth Mindset Predicts Student Achievement and Behavior in Mobile Learning - Kizilcec, René F.; Goldfarb, Daniel (Proceedings of the Sixth (2019) ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, 2019)
Students’ personal qualities other than cognitive ability are known to influence persistence and achievement in formal learning environments, but the extent of their influence in digital learning environments is unclear. This research investigates non-cognitive factors in mobile learning in a resourcepoor context. We surveyed 1,000 Kenyan high school students who use a popular SMS-based learning platform that provides formative assessments aligned with the national curriculum. Combining survey responses with platform interaction logs, we find growth mindset to be one of the strongest predictors of assessment scores. We investigate theory-based behavioral mechanisms to explain this relationship. Although students who hold a growth mindset are not more likely to persist after facing adversity, they spend more time on each assessment, increasing their likelihood of answering correctly. Results suggest that cultivating a growth mindset can motivate students in a resource-poor context to excel in a mobile learning environment.
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WhatsApp utilisation at an initial teacher preparation programme at a university of technology in South Africa - Mabaso, Nkosinomusa; Meda, Lawrence (Proceedings of the 7th Teaching & Education Conference, London, 2019)
Table of Content - Article Detail - Proceedings of the 7th Teaching & Education Conference, London
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Over 6 lakh slum dwellers in Dhaka: minister - Star Online Report (The Daily Star, 2019)
Local Government Division minister Tazul Islam informs the parliament that around 6.46 lakh people are now living in around 3,394 slums in Dhaka.
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Improving reading and arithmetic outcomes at scale: Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL), Pratham’s approach to teaching and learning - Lakhsman, Samyukta (Revue internationale d’éducation de Sèvres, 2019)
In India, depsite a gross enrolment rate of more than 95%, performance levels remain low, particularly for children of illiterate or undereducated families. To contend with this, the “Teaching at the Right Level » project was implemented. This has taken many forms: the “camps for learning”, either repeated short term sessions (6 to 10 days), or long term sessions (30 to 50 days); and partnership arrangements with public school system authorities. The project’s methodology, attained objectives and its prospects are presented.
Publisher: Centre international d’études pédagogiques (CIEP) KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2339240:IXHYXHXW 2405685:9ERHJMQM
Keywords: ⚠️ Invalid DOI; ⛔ No DOI found

Pathways to Impact: Insights from Research Partnerships in Uganda and India - Hinton, Rachel; Bronwin, Rona; Savage, Laura (IDS Bulletin, 2019)
This article sets out a perspective from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) on the challenges of achieving research uptake. Two country case studies are presented from India and Uganda, which explore research projects under the Economic and Social Research Council ESRC-DFID-funded Raising Learning Outcomes programme. These case studies focus on relationships between the key stakeholders that enable policy debate relevant to the funded research. They are not a direct assessment of the impact that this research has had. Rather, this article explores the messy and iterative processes that DFID advisers are engaged in within the networks that they are embedded (and those that they are not), the way that they use partnerships to access evidence and promote it into policy debate, and the other drivers that matter. This article is important as a contribution to ongoing efforts to improve the quality and usage of education evidence in low-income contexts.
Number: 1 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.19088/1968-2019.105 2339240:JWHLVPZ9 2405685:U3THZZ5F
Keywords: Impact; Policy Engagement; Research Partnership; Research Uptake

Mapping the landscape of education research by scholars based in sub-Saharan Africa Insights from the African Education Research Database - Rose, Pauline; Downing, Pheobe; Asare, Samuel; Mitchell, Rafael (Zenodo, 2019)
This report outlines key features of education research undertaken by scholars based in sub-Saharan Africa, as represented in the African Education Research Database. The database catalogues social science research with implications for education policy and practice in sub-Saharan Africa, published in reputable journals and written by at least one researcher based in the region. In exclusively cataloguing research conducted by researchers based in sub-Saharan Africa, the African Education Research Database is a unique resource for educational development research and policy in the region.
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Project Information Document (PID): Sierra Leone Free Education Project (P167897) - World Bank (World Bank Group, 2019)
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A primer on standardized testing: History, measurement, classical test theory, item response theory, and equating - Himelfarb, Igor (Journal of Chiropractic Education, 2019)
This article presents health science educators and researchers with an overview of standardized testing in educational measurement. The history, theoretical frameworks of classical test theory, item response theory (IRT), and the most common IRT models used in modern testing are presented.A narrative overview of the history, theoretical concepts, test theory, and IRT is provided to familiarize the reader with these concepts of modern testing. Examples of data analyses using different models are shown using 2 simulated data sets. One set consisted of a sample of 2000 item responses to 40 multiple-choice, dichotomously scored items. This set was used to fit 1-parameter logistic (PL) model, 2PL, and 3PL IRT models. Another data set was a sample of 1500 item responses to 10 polytomously scored items. The second data set was used to fit a graded response model.Model-based item parameter estimates for 1PL, 2PL, 3PL, and graded response are presented, evaluated, and explained.This study provides health science educators and education researchers with an introduction to educational measurement. The history of standardized testing, the frameworks of classical test theory and IRT, and the logic of scaling and equating are presented. This introductory article will aid readers in understanding these concepts.
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Planning for the Total Cost of Edtech Initiatives - edWeb (edWeb, 2019)
Strategic planning for edtech is an endless journey—and not just because of constantly evolving hardware and software. Upgrading infrastructure, device maintenance, and ongoing professional development, in addition to program and device costs, mean tech initiatives need permanent budget lines that take into account the total cost. In the edWebinar, “Strategic Technology Planning and Investment,” which is part of CoSN’s Empowered Superintendent series for edWeb, three superintendents who’ve been in the trenches for all aspects of district edtech plans discussed effective financial planning for technology.
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Community-Based Teacher Training: Transformation of Sustainable Teacher Empowerment Strategy in Indonesia - Mardapi, Djemari; Herawan, Tutut (Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2019)
Teacher empowerment is a central issue in relation to the efforts to improve the quality of education. However, teacher empowerment will remain an abstract idea if its implementation is not supported by an appropriate strategy. The demands for a quality education will be unreciprocated if teachers do not have the opportunity to empower themselves. This research aims to investigate the teacher empowerment strategy in Indonesia, which has been conducted by employing a community-based teacher training program. This study has highlighted several research questions: What is meant by community-based training program? Why is the training program needed? Who is the target of the training program? What model has been used to implement the training? What are the results of the training that has been executed? This research was conducted from November 2018 to January 2019. The research data were collected by means of documentation studies and interviews. The data analysis was carried out quantitatively and qualitatively, where the quantitative analysis was processed based on the document study data, meanwhile the qualitative analysis was performed based on the interview data. The research results showed that community-based teacher training was transformation of teacher development strategy as a follow-up on teachers’ competency test in Indonesia. The community-based teacher training succeeded in increasing the professionalism of teachers in Indonesia, particularly in terms of implementing their pedagogical and professional competencies. The training is also successful in motivating the teachers to engage themselves in continuous learning efforts through building strong teachers’ network and working collaboratively with colleagues. Quantitatively, training was proven to increase the average of teacher competency by 23.97 (on a scale of 100). The research results are expected to provide information about the best practice in teacher coaching that is conducted massively in a national scope based on the local community so that a lifelong learning culture for teachers is established to support the development of sustainable education.
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Education for sustainable development in Africa: a critique of regional agendas - Tikly, Leon (Asia Pacific Education Review, 2019)
Education is often perceived in policy agendas as playing a transformative role in realising sustainable development and the SDGs on the continent. The assumption is based, however, on an insufficiently critical understanding of the historical role of education in supporting unsustainable development. The article provides a critical account of the relationship between education policy and sustainable development in Africa as an aspect of the postcolonial condition, i.e. as an aspect of the colonial legacy and of Africa’s position in relation to contemporary processes of globalisation. It is argued that if education is to play a transformative role in relation to sustainable development then education policy needs to be fundamentally re-oriented and harnessed to wider processes of economic, cultural and political transformation in the interests of social and environmental justice.
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A longitudinal study of learning, progression, and personal growth in Sierra Leone - Johnson, David; Hsieh, Jenny (University of Oxford, 2019)
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The Influence of Teachers’ Professional Development Activities on the Factors Promoting ICT Integration in Primary Schools in Mongolia - Li, Shengru; Yamaguchi, Shinobu; Sukhbaatar, Javzan; Takada, Jun-ichi (Education Sciences, 2019)
This paper examines the influences of professional development activities on important teacher-level factors that are important for the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education for primary school teachers in Mongolia. The study utilizes the survey data collected in 2012 (n = 826) and 2016 (n = 1161) to identify the changes in factors that are important to the use of ICT in education. The study result shows that six teacher level factors that are important for the ICT integration have been improved over time through professional development activities. These are professional competency in educational use of ICT, collaboration for ICT integration, benefits on use of ICT, autonomy to innovate, recognition as a professional, and skills and practices in educational use of ICT. This provides supporting evidence to educational practitioners for the implementation of effective professional development programs to promote ICT integration in education, especially in the developing country’s context.
Number: 2 Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3390/educsci9020078 2339240:XWWZXZ76 2405685:EENQXYD4
Keywords: ICT in education; ___working_potential_duplicate; auto_merged; education policy; educational change; factors promoting ICT integration; teacher’s professional development

Education Strategic Plan 2019-2023 - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (2019)
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Effect of M-Learning on Students' Academic Performance Mediated by Facilitation Discourse and Flexibility - Shuja, Aleema; Qureshi, Ijaz A.; Schaeffer, Donna M.; Zareen, Memoona (Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2019)
Conventional classroom instruction had already been transformed in to electronic mode of teaching and learning. Use of mobile technology is evolving in global and local context, as in Pakistan. Gaining insights from Media Richness Theory, the study intends to examine how m-learning pedagogy, opens up avenues for students' learning and enhances their educational performance, endorsed by facilitation discourse and flexibility. In this cross-sectional study, data was collected from students in Private Universities in Lahore Pakistan. Drawing results from structural equation modelling, findings revealed that use of mobile devices is on great demand for providing flexible and discussion-oriented learning to students and lifts up their academic output. Facilitation discourse and flexibility play a robust intervening role in producing pronounced impact of m-learning on learners' effectiveness.
Publisher: Laboratory of Knowledge Management & E-Learning KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2339240:9C84A8N2 2405685:HYP2M2IS
Keywords: Academic Achievement; College Students; Discussion (Teaching Technique); Distance Education; Educational Technology; Foreign Countries; Handheld Devices; Private Colleges; Productivity; Teacher Role; Technology Uses in Education; Telecommunications; ⛔ No DOI found

WhatsApp: Creating a virtual teacher community for supporting and monitoring after a professional development programme - Moodley, Maglin (South African Journal of Education, 2019)
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Assessment of the effectiveness of ICT on Teacher Trainees in Colleges of education. A Case of St. Monica's College of Education - Osei Frimpong, Kojo; Asare, Samuel; Caroline, Owusu-Mintah (Asian Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology, 2019)
The use of ICT in teacher training colleges has relatively improve teaching and learning. The effective use of various ICT tools such the computer, smart phones and PDAs has brought innovative ideas in teacher trainees. This study aimed at finding out the factors influencing the use of ICT tools in enhancing teaching and learning process in the various teacher training institutions in Ghana. A survey was used in order to investigate the study. It was revealed from the findings of the study that students and tutors in the various colleges of education have now accepted the use of ICT in teaching and learning process. However some students still see ICT as difficult due to various factors such as inadequate computers in the various colleges for practical tution and poor access to the internet for learning.
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Positive disruption: health and education in a digital age - Pathways for Prosperity Commission (2019)
Positive disruption: health and education in a digital age offers guidance on how digital technologies can be used to improve the lives of people in developing countries, while keeping a careful eye on the limitations and risks of focusing solely on hardware over people and processes. Technology is not a silver bullet and history is littered with poor investments in this area. To ensure health and education services are effective, efficient and equitable, governments need to be wise with their choices.
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How low cost wireless broadband networks are connecting ‘last-mile’ communities in Djibouti - ITU (ITU News, 2019)
By ITU News Twenty per cent of Djibouti’s homes have access to a computer, while internet access is available to just under 10 per cent of households, according to ITU Data. Within the framework of the Djibouti Vision 2035, the country has embarked on a programme to strengthen its ICT sector with a view to providing quality telecommunication services at
Section: Broadband/Network KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2339240:PCSI9Z3T 2405685:P3J7K3QM

Assessing Early Childhood Fluid Reasoning in Low- and Middle-Income Nations: Validity of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence Across Seven MAL-ED Sites - Ruan-Iu, Linda; Pendergast, Laura L.; Rasheed, Muneera; Tofail, Fahmida; Svensen, Erling; Maphula, Angelina; Roshan, Reeba; Nahar, Baitun; Shrestha, Rita; Williams, Brittney; Schaefer, Barbara A.; Scharf, Rebecca; et al. (Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2019)
An adapted version of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence—Third Edition (WPPSI-III) was administered to assess cognitive functioning among 1,253 5-year-old children from the Malnutrition and Enteric Disease (MAL-ED) study—an international, multisite study investigating multiple aspects of child development. In this study, the factor structure and invariance of the WPPSI-III were examined across seven international research sites located in Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Nepal, Pakistan, South Africa, and Tanzania. Using a multiple indicator multiple cause (MIMIC) modeling approach, the findings supported the validity of a fluid reasoning dimension (comprised of block design, matrix reasoning, and picture completion subscales) across each of the seven sites, although the scores were noninvariant. Accordingly, these scores are recommended for research purposes and understanding relationships between variables but not for mean comparisons or clinical purposes.
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On Tipping Points and Nudges: Review of Cass Sunstein's How Change Happens - Brescia, Raymond H. (2019)
In How Change Happens, Cass Sunstein explores the mechanisms through which social change can occur, the triggers that can cause it, and the pitfalls along the road to change. For Sunstein, small influences, which arise through what he has called “nudges,” can have large impacts, particularly where they indicate that support for existing norms has fallen. When this occurs, it can reveal hidden preferences that might have existed all along, but individuals were discouraged from making them public because of the existence of those norms. Once support for an existing norm begins to disappear, it can create a tipping point and then a “norm cascade”: when support for a new norm takes hold securely in society. In recent years, several works have appeared that have attempted to explain the sources of social change by looking at examples of successful campaigns and trying to divine the sources of such successes. Sunstein offers a different perspective. He provides more of a theoretical view on the sources of social change, not just identifying the levers that can bring it about but also some guidance on how to utilize them. It is a welcome addition to the scholarship on social change and stands as an elegant and insightful complement to some of the other, recent and more inductive scholarship on the subject. As a way to test Sunstein’s theory of social change, this review asks whether that theory can help explain recent developments, namely, the victory of the marriage equality campaign and the rise of a new and emboldened white nationalism in the wake of the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency. As a review of these phenomena shows, Sunstein’s theory of change helps to provide insights into how such change came about, but, it also raises more questions. Indeed, questions still linger, like when is a nudge enough, can we identify what will make something “tip”? Nevertheless, Sunstein offers deep insights into the inner workings of social change and how norm entrepreneurs can understand not just how change happens but also how to bring it about.
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Keywords: Nudges; Social Change

A systematic review of personalized learning: comparison between E-Learning and learning by coursework program in Oman - Tawafak, Ragad; Romli, Awanis; Iqbal Malik, Sohail; Alnaseeri, Mohanaad; Alfarsi, Ghaliya (International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 2019)
There is a need for several applications and technologies in the higher education institutions in Oman to enhance the educational process. This systematical study investigates the simultaneous influence of technology implementation with e-learning and traditional coursework program instruction on the enhancement and development of assessment method for undergraduates in different programs. This paper aims to analyze the current articles that handle with the learning process and compare between the understanding and acceptance of E-Learning mechanism and traditional coursework method of teaching for improving assessment method and evaluation of academic performance. The method works on the benefits of increasing E-Learning process for educational skills as an assistance tool with faculty material and class discussion. In this study, surveys were distributed to two different universities and college in Oman to assess their satisfaction of learning model. The findings of this paper assisted the model that may help to improve both the teaching method and academic performance of student learning outcomes.
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Unlocking Talent Through Technology Malawi - VSO (2019)
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Upgrading the ICT questionnaire items in PISA 2021 - Lorenceau, Adrien; Marec, Camille; Mostafa, Tarek (2019)
This paper explains the rationale for updating the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2021 questionnaire on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and shows how it covers policy topics of current relevance. After presenting key findings based on previous ICT-related PISA data, the paper provides a summary of the PISA 2021 ICT framework guiding the development of the questionnaire. The paper then describes the process followed by the OECD/PISA secretariat for the development of the PISA 2021 ICT questionnaire items. The paper concludes by drawing some lessons that would inform future development of this instrument.
shortDOI: 10/ggjtph KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1787/d0f94dc7-en 10/ggjtph 2339240:ZALQGM98 2405685:HAXV82VZ

Literature search protocol for the Evidence hub: Education partnerships between the state and non-state sector. - Rose, P; Downing, P (2019)
This methodological note provides an overview of a joint project to catalogue the research evidence on collaborations between the state and non-state sector in education in low income, lower-middle and upper-middle income countries. This document outlines the search protocol for the literature search, data extraction, and the development of the database.
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Keywords: Secondary Review; _zenodoOTHER

“He is suitable for her, of course he is our relative”: a qualitative exploration of the drivers and implications of child marriage in Gezira State, Sudan - Dean, Laura; Obasi, Angela; Sony, Asma El; Fadul, Selma; Hassan, Hanaa El; Thomson, Rachael; Tolhurst, Rachel (BMJ Global Health, 2019)
Introduction Child marriage is a fundamental development challenge for women and girls, with significant negative health and social outcomes. Sudan has a high rate of child marriage, with 34% of women aged 20–24 married before their 18th birthday. Since limited preventive interventions exist, we aimed to inform the evidence base to strengthen strategic action, using mixed qualitative methods to enhance study credibility. This study is the first to conduct a rigorous qualitative examination of the drivers of child marriage from the perspective of key stakeholders involved in marriage decision making within Sudan, and makes a significant contribution towards global knowledge by developing an evidence-based conceptual framework. Methods Initially, we completed 14 focus group discussions separated by gender with mothers, fathers, and girls married as adolescents, and 23 key informant interviews. We then used a critical incident case study approach to explore 11 ‘cases’ of child marriage (46 interviews). Results Findings indicate that gendered social norms and values, underpinned by religious beliefs and educational accessibility, interconnect to shape marriage decisions. In this context, many child marriages are triggered by an intrakinship proposal and further enabled by the relative lack of autonomy and influence of girls and women in marriage decision-making processes. Discussion Interconnected drivers demand context-specific holistic and multisectoral approaches, which should include simultaneous strategies to expand access to education, health services and livelihood opportunities, and evoke legal change, and participatory social and attitudinal processes that include the engagement of religious leaders and men.
Publisher: BMJ Specialist Journals Section: Research KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001264 2339240:CZMCDL8D 2405685:YWXI8CIJ
Keywords: child health; qualitative study

Do children benefit from internet access? Experimental evidence from Peru - Malamud, Ofer; Cueto, Santiago; Cristia, Julian; Beuermann, Diether W. (Journal of Development Economics, 2019)
This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in Peru. We compare children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access to (i) those who did not receive laptops and (ii) those who only received laptops without internet. We find that providing free internet access led to improved computer and internet proficiency relative to those without laptops and improved internet proficiency compared to those with laptops only. However, there were no significant effects of internet access on math and reading achievement, cognitive skills, self-esteem, teacher perceptions, or school grades when compared to either group. We explore reasons for the absence of impacts on these key outcomes with survey questions, time-diaries, and computer logs.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2018.11.005 2339240:DR36TXTM 2405685:RNJDQM5M
Keywords: Academic achievement; Cognitive skills; Digital skills; Education; Experimental; Internet access; Technology

Policy adoption of learner-centred pedagogy in Rwanda: A case study of its rationale and transfer mechanisms - van de Kuilen, Hester S.; Altinyelken, Hulya Kosar; Voogt, Joke M.; Nzabalirwa, Wenceslas (International Journal of Educational Development, 2019)
This study explores why and how learner-centred pedagogy (LCP) as a policy has been adopted in Rwanda, despite ample evidence of the failure of LCP in developing countries. The case of Rwanda, as a late adopter, shows that at this stage of pedagogy diffusion the influence of global mechanisms and actors has been amplified. This study draws upon interviews with key stakeholders and relevant documents during the 2011–2016 period. The transfer process is examined by analysing the rationale offered and mechanisms deployed by the Rwandan government and aid agencies.
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Keywords: Competence-based education; Curriculum reform; Education policy transfer; Learner-centred pedagogy; Policy adoption; Rwanda

Channeling Fisher: Randomization Tests and the Statistical Insignificance of Seemingly Significant Experimental Results* - Young, Alwyn (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019)
I follow R. A. Fisher'sThe Design of Experiments (1935), using randomization statistical inference to test the null hypothesis of no treatment effects in a comprehensive sample of 53 experimental papers drawn from the journals of the American Economic Association. In the average paper, randomization tests of the significance of individual treatment effects find 13% to 22% fewer significant results than are found using authors’ methods. In joint tests of multiple treatment effects appearing together in tables, randomization tests yield 33% to 49% fewer statistically significant results than conventional tests. Bootstrap and jackknife methods support and confirm the randomization results.
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A Conceptual Model for Measuring and Supporting Self-Regulated Learning using Educational Data Mining on Learning Management Systems - Araka, Eric; Maina, Elizaphan; Gitonga, Rhoda; Oboko, Robert (2019 IST-Africa Week Conference (IST-Africa), 2019)
Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) is a field in educational psychology that as attracted tremendous research studies from various communities including ICTs. Recent studies and meta-analysis have greatly contributed to the domain knowledge that the use SRL strategies boost academic performance for learners. Despite these developments in SRL, our understanding on the tools and instruments to measure SRL in online learning environments is limited as the use of traditional tools developed for face-to-face classroom settings are still used to measure SRL on e-learning systems. Additionally, most of these studies focus on SRL on Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) environments and only analyse SRL strategies with limited attention to the scaffolds or interventions employed to stimulate growth of SRL skills in learners. The modern Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as Moodle allow storage of datasets on student activities. Consequently, it is possible to use Educational Data Mining (EDM) to extract learner patterns which can be used to support SRL and explore how SRL strategies change over time and inform the instructor. In view of this, the research examines the current SRL measurement and promotion tools for e-learning environments and proposes a conceptual model grounded on EDM for implementation as a solution to measuring and promoting SRL strategies for learners within LMS.
ISSN: 2576-8581 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.23919/ISTAFRICA.2019.8764852 2339240:VAYVYVZ9 2405685:IGGGX8LC
Keywords: Data mining; Electronic learning; Instruments; Interventions; Learning Management systems; Learning management systems; Measurement and Promotion; Online learning; Process control; Scaffolds; Self-Regulated Learning; Software agents; Tools; e-learning

Technology-Mediated Learning Theory - Bower, Matt (British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019)
Technology-enhanced learning research, such as that relating to the use of online technologies in formal learning contexts, is sometimes criticised for being under-theorised. This paper draws together areas of research and theory that have previously been somewhat separately treated, to support the integrated analysis and research of situations where technology mediates learning. First, key areas of research and theory relating to technology-mediated learning are introduced, along with their associated conceptual underpinnings and assumptions, in terms of premises. These areas are then explained with relation to one another regarding how they can be used to holistically understand learning in contexts where technology mediates learning. The implications of the theoretical concepts are discussed in terms of the future conduct of technology-mediated learning research, as well as the scope and conditions under which the theorisations apply.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1111/bjet.12771 2339240:DUA7DI6P 2405685:48HFJPQV
Keywords: Educational Technology; Electronic Learning; Learning Theories; Meta Analysis; Technology Integration; Technology Uses in Education

Connecting the Last Mile, a Fundamental of Digital Transformation - Garba, Aminata A. (2019)
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Summative GPE country program evaluation - Thompson, Dale E (2019)
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Capturing cost data: a first-mile problem - Holla, Alaka (2019)
Before we bought our house, my husband and I knew the price. The real estate agent wasn’t allowed to give us a back-of-the-envelope estimate right at the end of the process. She wasn't allowed to just declare that the house was low cost, affordable, or sustainable for our budget. We ...
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The Need For Bilingual Education In Afghanistan – OpEd - Hatsaandh, Abdul Hamid (Eurasia Review, 2019)
Although Afghanistan a linguistically diverse country, yet only two languages, Pashto and Dari, are used as mediums of instruction in schools. Bilingual education is, so far, alien to Afghanistan. …
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L1-based multilingual education in the Asia and Pacific region and beyond - Benson, Carol; Kirkpatrick, Andy; Liddicoat, Anthony J. (The Routledge International Handbook of Language Education Policy in Asia, 2019)
This must-have handbook offers a comprehensive survey of the field. It reviews the language education policies of Asia, encompassing 30 countries sub-divided by regions, namely East, Southeast, South and Central Asia, and considers the extent to which these are being implemented and with what effect. The most recent iteration of language education policies of each of the countries is described and the impact and potential consequence of any change is critically considered. Each country chapter provides a historical overview of the languages in use and language education policies, examines the ideologies underpinning the language choices, and includes an account of the debates and controversies surrounding language and language education policies, before concluding with some predictions for the future.
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IDENTIFICAÇÃO DO MODELO DE NEGÓCIO DE UMA START-UP/TIC: ESTUDO DE CASO NA EMPRESA GEEKIE - Lulia Filho, Herivelto; Turri, Silvia Novaes Zilber; Silva, Eduardo Corneto; Santos, Edna de Souza Machado (Investigação Científica nas Ciências Humanas e Sociais Aplicadas 3, 2019)
This study does not only understand the state of the art of the startups, but also understand how a small company of technology-based structure, shape its business model to grow and strengthen their business. For this this article has how objective of research, identify and describe the business model of a Startup/ICT Brazilian that work in the area of the education. It was used the concepts of case study, when analyzing the company Start-up/ICT Geekie, but will be used only secondary data, being this research a documentary research. The results show that the adaptive learning platform Start-up/ICT Geekie offers innovative service, personalizing and customizing education schools where works. The business model creates value for students, teachers and schools. Limitations of this article are in not obtaining primary data direct in the Geekie company and have only one company as study focus which limits the understanding of the business model of firms in the education sector.
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Do higher salaries yield better teachers and better student outcomes? - Cabrera, José María; Webbink, Dinand (Journal of Human Resources, 2019)
We study the effects of a policy aimed at attracting more experienced and better qualified teachers in primary schools in disadvantaged neighborhoods in Uruguay. Teachers in these schools could earn higher salaries, and more experienced teachers are given priority in choosing teaching positions. Eligibility for the program was based on a poverty index with a cutoff rule. Estimates from regression discontinuity models show that the policy successfully led to ‘hiring experience from other schools’, and also increased tenure. Overall, the effect on student outcomes was small. We rationalize this result by showing that the program may have increased experience in ways that are not strongly associated with improved student outcomes. Consistent with this, we do find achievement gains for students in schools that saw a reduction in the share of very inexperienced teachers. The results underscore that increases in teacher pay may only improve student outcomes if it increases those teacher characteristics that actually improve student outcomes.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3368/jhr.55.4.0717-8911R3 2339240:7TS6UAPR 2405685:IIE4HRSX
Keywords: I2; J24; disadvantaged students; student performance; teacher experience; teacher salaries

Malawi Economic Outlook - African Development Bank (African Development Bank - Building today, a better Africa tomorrow, 2019)
Recent macroeconomic and financial developments Growth in Malawi’s economy decelerated in 2020 to 1.7% from 5.7 % in 2019. The slowdown in GDP growth was driven by the outbreak of COVID–19, which necessitated a partial lockdown of the economy, resulting in subdued economic activities—mainly in tourism, the accommodation and food subsectors, transportation, and agriculture. Other sectors affected by disruptions from the COVID–19 pandemic disruptions were manufacturing and mining and quarrying.
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Gauging the E-Readiness for the Integration of Information and Communication Technology Into Pre-Tertiary Education in Ghana: An Assessment of Teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) - Gyaase, Patrick Ohemeng; Gyamfi, Samuel Adu; Kuranchie, Alfred (International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education (IJICTE), 2019)
Countries are investing in information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure and educating their citizens for effective ICT utilization. The attainment of the anticipated benefits hinges on effective integration of ICT in various levels of education. Effective integration of ICT requires...
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Rigorous large-scale educational RCTs are often uninformative: Should we be concerned? - Lortie-Forgues, Hugues; Inglis, Matthew (Educational Researcher, 2019)
There are a growing number of large-scale educational randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Considering their expense, it is important to reflect on the effectiveness of this approach. We assessed the magnitude and precision of effects found in those large-scale RCTs commissioned by the UK-based Education Endowment Foundation and the U.S.-based National Center for Educational Evaluation and Regional Assistance, which evaluated interventions aimed at improving academic achievement in K?12 (141 RCTs; 1,222,024 students). The mean effect size was 0.06 standard deviations. These sat within relatively large confidence intervals (mean width = 0.30 SDs), which meant that the results were often uninformative (the median Bayes factor was 0.56). We argue that our field needs, as a priority, to understand why educational RCTs often find small and uninformative effects.
Publisher: American Educational Research Association KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3102/0013189X19832850 2339240:D96NKMSM 2405685:5ZWZTBBI

Challenge and srivers of over-Enrollment in the early years of primary school in Uganda - Weatherholt, Tara; Jordan, Rachel; Crouch, Luis; Barnett, Ed; Pressley, Jennifer (International Journal of Early Childhood, 2019)
Consistent over-enrollment, together with low official repetition rates, in the early years of school indicates inaccurate reporting of repetition, which may mask the reasons for low primary school completion. Actual repetition rates may be higher and pose issues for teachers through overcrowding of classrooms and issues for governments through inefficient education systems. This research explores repetition rates of students in Primary 1 in Uganda and considers the implications for efficiency and quality of education for the early years of school. The sample comprised 1440 students in Primary 1 classrooms in 120 schools. Interviews were conducted with 1318 caregivers of randomly selected students and 1439 teachers of the same students, and official records from 118 schools were examined to compare age and repetition rates. Findings showed that caregiver- and teacher-reported repetition is much higher than officially reported by schools; that repetition is strongly linked to non-attendance in pre-primary schooling; and that caregivers reported more over-age students, fewer target-age students, and more under-age students than official school records. Policy implications include the need for dialogue around repetition rates and the possible efficiency effects of less-costly, pre-primary education on the total primary schooling cycle.
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Keywords: Early childhood; Education efficiency; Low-income countries; Pre-primary education; Repetition

A Tablet based tool to aid learning of mathematics for Basic 1 & 2 pupils in Berekuso - Dotse, Etonam. Y. (Ashesi University, 2019)
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Using technology to bring education to the most remote areas - Global Partnership for Education (2019)
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Summative GPE country program evaluation - GPE (2019)
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Making a difference in the real world? A meta-analysis of the quality of use-oriented research using the Research Quality Plus approach - MacLean, Robert; Sen, Kunal (Research Evaluation, 2019)
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Keywords: ___working_potential_duplicate

Plano Estrategico de Educacao: 20ª Reunião Anual de Revisão, 2019 - Ministerio da Educacao e Desinvolvimento Humano (Republica de Mocambique, 2019)
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Disrupting education? Experimental evidence on technology-aided instruction in India - Muralidharan, Karthik; Singh, Abhijeet; Ganimian, Alejandro J. (American Economic Review, 2019)
We study the impact of a personalized technology-aided after-school instruction program in middle-school grades in urban India using a lottery that provided winners with free access to the program. Lottery winners scored 0.37 sigma higher in math and 0.23 sigma higher in Hindi over just a 4.5-month period. IV estimates suggest that attending the program for 90 days would increase math and Hindi test scores by 0.6 sigma and 0.39 sigma respectively. We find similar absolute test score gains for all students, but much greater relative gains for academically-weaker students. Our results suggest that well-designed, technology-aided instruction programs can sharply improve productivity in delivering education.
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Keywords: Analysis of Education; Returns to Education; Education: Government Policy; Human Capital; Human Development; Income Distribution; Labor Productivity; Economic Development: Human Resources; Migration; Occupational Choice; Quality: H; Relevance: H; Skills; _THEME: Teacher Professional Development; ___working_potential_duplicate; ⛔ No DOI found

AENN Data Utilisation + Dashboard Co-creation Workshop Report - Viamo (2019)
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Unbundling the 13 million out-of-school children in Nigeria - Ishaku, Joseph; Oraka, Onome (Southern Voice (Nigeria), 2019)
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Cyclone Idai: On the Ground Data from Mozambique - Becker, Nick (GeoPoll, 2019)
GeoPoll has conducted an SMS survey in Mozambique to reach those affected by Cyclone Idai. Data from Sofala province and Beira city following the cyclone.
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The Politics of Education in Developing Countries: From Schooling to Learning - Hickey, Sam; Hossain, Naomi (Oxford University Press, 2019)
Why have many developing countries that have succeeded in expanding access to education made such limited progress on improving learning outcomes? There is a growing recognition that the learning crisis constitutes a significant dimension of global inequality and also that educational outcomes in developing countries are shaped by political as well as socio-economic and other factors. The Politics of Education in Developing Countries focuses on how politics shapes the capacity and commitment of elites to tackle the learning crisis in six developing countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda.The problem of education quality is serious across the Global South. The Politics of Education in Developing Countries: From Schooling to Learning deploys a new conceptual framework-the domains of power approach-to show how the type of political settlement shapes the level of elite commitment and state capacity to improving learning outcomes. The domain of education is prone to being highly politicized, as it offers an important source of both rents and legitimacy to political elites, and can be central to paradigmatic elite ideas around nation-building and modernity. Of particular importance is the relative strength of coalitions pushing for access as against those focused on issues of higher quality education. This book concludes with a discussion of entry points and strategies for thinking and working politically in relation to education quality reforms and critical commentaries.
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Academic Bridge: is set to transform education system - Atieno, Lydia (The New Times | Rwanda, 2019)
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The Impact of an Educational Media Intervention to Support Children’s Early Learning in Rwanda - Borzekowski, Dina; Lando, Agnes Lucy; Olsen, Sara; Giffen, Lauren (International Journal of Early Childhood, 2019)
Children in developing countries often lack sufficient support for early learning skills prior to beginning school. This research evaluates an educational media intervention using an animated cartoon program, Akili and Me. The program was originally created in Tanzania to teach early learning skills. This program was adapted in content and language use in this study in Rwanda. The two-week intervention involved primary school students (mean age = 7.1 years) who were randomized into two groups (intervention and comparison group). The intervention group viewed one Ankit and Me episode a day for five days. This viewing was repeated the following week. Similarly, the comparison watched the same amount of television but the content consisted of local popular programs. Baseline and follow-up assessments evaluated 10 areas of early learning, using an adaptation of the International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA), and also children’s media receptivity. At follow-up, children in the intervention program, Akili and Me, had significantly higher scores for counting, number recognition, shape knowledge, letter identification, color identification, body part recognition, health knowledge, and vocabulary. The analyses provide promising evidence that locally produced educational media interventions can impact early learning skills, even among children living in resource-poor communities.
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Keywords: Literacy; Media receptivity; Numeracy; Rwanda; School readiness skills; Television; ___working_potential_duplicate

What makes a good classroom? New UIS data on school conditions - UNESCO (UNESCO, 2019)
New data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) reveal serious disparities in the schooling conditions facing children and teachers – from access to electricity, clean drinking water and single sex-toilets to Internet access and computers. Classroom conditions are key in providing a quality education for all. For children who struggle to enrol in school, for example due to poverty or discrimination on the grounds of gender or disability, poor school conditions can further undermine their chances of a quality education. What are the new data looking at?
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1. Use of smartphones and social media is common across most emerging economies - Silver, Laura; Smith, Aaron; Johnson, Courtney; Jiang, JingJing; Anderson, Monica; Rainie, Lee (Pew Research Center, 2019)
Large majorities in the 11 emerging and developing countries surveyed either own or share a mobile phone, and in every country it is much more common to
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Examining the Impact of an English in Action Training Program on Secondary-School English Teachers’ Classroom Practice in Bangladesh - Karim, Abdul; Mohamed, Abdul (The Qualitative Report, 2019)
English teachers in Bangladesh have undergone numerous training programs. Both government-initiated and donor-sponsored training programs have been in operation in Bangladesh. Government initiated institutions to train teachers are Primary Training Institutes (PTIs) and Teacher Training Colleges (TTCs). However, researchers seemed to label training provided by PTIs and TTCs as inadequate. Bridging the gaps intrigued government of Bangladesh to devise donor-aided training programs, including English Language Teaching Improvement Project (ELTIP), English for Teaching, Teaching for English (ETTE), Secondary Education Quality and Access Enhancement Project (SEQAEP), Teaching Quality Improvement in Secondary Education Project (TQI-SEP). Studies reported their potential failure to bring changes in English teachers’ classroom practices. English in Action (EIA) was the last donor-funded project that incorporated schoolbased training program. The aim of the study was to examine the impact of EIA training program on secondary-school English teachers’ classroom practice in Bangladesh, drawing the questions in relation to the elements learned in the training program and the elements practiced in the training program. The present study undertook the Integrated Approaches to Teacher Development suggested by Hargreaves and Fullan (1992) and Reflective Model developed by Wallace (1991). This study adopted phenomenological approach since it subsumed the experience of an activity or concept from the participants’ perspective. Eight Participants were selected who had been trained from EIA training program and who had experience of participating in other donor-aided program, in the spirit of yielding the uniqueness of EIA which informed the sustainability of this program. It had been divulged that teachers learned a lot of activities that were related to English language teaching. However, the present studies observed limited practice of such activities in the classroom.
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Moving teachers to Malawi’s remote communities: A data-driven approach to teacher deployment - Asim, Salman; Chimombo, Joseph; Chugunov, Dmitry; Gera, Ravinder (International Journal of Educational Development, 2019)
There are severe geographical disparities in pupil-teacher ratios (PTR) across Malawi, with most teachers concentrated near commercial centers and in rural schools with better amenities. Most of the variation in PTR is concentrated in small sub-district areas, suggesting a central role for micro-geographic factors in teacher distribution. Employing administrative data from several government sources, regression analysis reveals that school-level factors identified by teachers as desirable are closely associated with PTR, including access to roads, electricity, and water, and distance to the nearest trading center, suggesting a central role for teachers’ interests in PTR variation. Political economy network mapping reveals that teachers leverage informal networks and political patronage to resist placement in remote schools, while administrative officials are unable to stand up to these formal and informal pressures, in part because of a lack of reliable databases and objective criteria for the allocation of teachers. This study curates a systematic database of the physical placement of all teachers in Malawi and links it with data on school facilities and geo-spatial coordinates of commercial centers. The study develops a consistent and objective measure of school remoteness, which can be applied to develop policies to create rules for equitable deployments and targeting of incentives. Growing awareness of disparities in PTRs among district education officials is already showing promising improvements in targeting of new teachers. Simulation results of planned policy applications show significant potential impacts of fiscally-neutral approaches to targeted deployments of new cohorts, as well as retention of teachers through data-calibrated incentives.
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Keywords: Data-driven model; Deployments; Malawi; Political economy; Schools; Teachers

Reforming teacher education in Nigeria: Laying a foundation for the future - Barnes, Adrienne E.; Boyle, Helen; Zuilkowski, Stephanie Simmons; Bello, Zaliha Nasiruddeen (Teaching and Teacher Education, 2019)
Teacher educators in Nigeria receive limited professional development, particularly regarding the instruction of early grade reading skills. As part of the USAID-funded Northern Education Initiative Plus project, Florida State University faculty provided intensive teacher educator professional development to staff at four Teacher Education Institutions in northern Nigeria. Positive impacts on teacher educator knowledge, skills, and attitudes were observed related to content and pedagogical knowledge, use of participatory teaching and learning activities in the college classrooms, and improvement in student teacher engagement and learning. Continued success of the implemented model for training will be dependent upon national adoption and scale up.
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Systems Research in Education: Designs and methods - Magrath, Bronwen; Aslam, Monazza; Johnson, David (Research in Comparative and International Education, 2019)
This exploratory paper seeks to shed light on the methodological challenges of education systems research. There is growing consensus that interventions to improve learning outcomes must be designed and studied as part of a broader system of education, and that learning outcomes are affected by a complex web of dynamics involving different inputs, actors, processes and socio-political contexts. How should researchers in comparative and international education respond to this call for complexity? To begin to answer this question, we draw on recent and ongoing research within the Raising Learning Outcomes in Education Systems research programme – a programme of 30 projects funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The paper explores critical ways in which the methods used by individual research projects, and across the programme as a whole, offer opportunities and raise challenges for advancing systems thinking in education research.
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Keywords: Research methodology; ___working_potential_duplicate; education systems; mixed-methods research

Global, regional and national burden of emergency medical diseases using specific emergency disease indicators: analysis of the 2015 Global Burden of Disease Study - Razzak, Junaid; Usmani, Mohammad Farooq; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A. (BMJ Global Health, 2019)
Objective There are currently no metrics for measuring population-level burden of emergency medical diseases (EMDs). This study presents an analysis of the burden of EMDs using two metrics: the emergency disease mortality rate (EDMR) and the emergency disease burden (EDB) per 1000 population at the national, regional and global levels. Methods We used the 1990 and 2015 Global Burden of Disease Study for morbidity and mortality data on 249 medical conditions in 195 countries. Thirty-one diseases were classified as ‘emergency medical diseases’ based on earlier published work. We developed two indicators, one focused on mortality (EDMR) and the other on burden (EDB). We compared the EDMR and EDB across countries, regions and income groups and compared these metrics from 1990 to 2015. Results In 2015, globally, there were 28.3 million deaths due to EMDs. EMDs contributed to 50.7% of mortality and 41.5% of all burden of diseases. The EDB in low-income countries is 4.4 times that of high-income countries. The EDB in the African region is 273 disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) per 1000 compared with 100 DALYs per 1000 in the European region. There has been a 6% increase in overall mortality due to EMDs from 1990 to 2015. Globally, injuries (22%), ischaemic heart disease (17%), lower respiratory infections (11%) and haemorrhagic strokes (7%) made up about 60% of EMDs in 2015. Conclusion Globally, EMDs contributed to more than half of all years of life lost. There is a significant disparity between the EDMR and EDB between regions and socioeconomic groups at the global level.
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Scaling access and impact: Realizing the power of edtech (Omidyar Network, 2019)
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Exploring relationships between Kolb's learning styles and mobile learning readiness of pre-service teachers: a mixed study - Ata, Rıdvan; Cevik, Mustafa (Education and Information Technologies, 2019)
The aim of this research is to reveal relations between Kolb's learning styles and mobile learning readiness of pre-service teachers in depth in regard to different variables and identify their mobile learning perspectives. The study group consisted of 352 students enrolled in undergraduate programs in education faculties of different universities in Turkey. The convergent parallel design was used as a mixed method strategy. The survey model, as a quantitative component, was used to describe the present situation and embedded interviews, as a qualitative component, were carried out to deeply reveal pre-service teachers' perspectives on mobile learning depending on their learning styles. The "Learning Styles Inventory - Version III" as well as the "Mobile Learning Readiness Scale" were administered to participants. ANOVA, Tukey-HSD test and Structural Equation Modelling were used to analyze the quantitative data. The qualitative data were analyzed by the content analysis method. Results suggest that 126 (36%) of the pre-service participating in the study were with the assimilating learning style, 92 (26.29%) participants were with the diverging learning style, 73 (20.85%) were with the converging learning style and 59 (16.85%) were with the accommodating learning style. Furthermore, it was observed that there is a statistically significant relationship between the learning styles of the pre-service teachers and their m-learning readiness. In addition, it was observed that while optimism, self-directed learning and self-efficacy have a strong effect on m-learning; mother education, monthly income, gender, internet use frequency have a moderate effect on m-learning within different learning styles. Qualitative data were also in line with the results of quantitative data. Findings were discussed in light of relevant literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Beyond the Basics: Improving Post-Primary Content Delivery through Classroom Technology - Beg, Sabrin A; Lucas, Adrienne M; Halim, Waqas; Saif, Umar (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019)
Using an RCT in middle schools in Pakistan, we test the effect of a government- implemented in-class technology and brief teacher training intervention on student achievement in grade level mathematics and science. After only 4 months of exposure, student's combined math and science score increased by 0.3 standard deviations on both project and government tests, 59 percent more than the control group. Students were also more likely to pass the provincial high-stakes exams. Increased attendance by both students and teachers indicate technology can increase other inputs. At the 200 school scale, this program is extremely cost-effective.
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Keywords: EXCLUSION CRITERIA APPLIED; Quality: H; Relevance: M

Open Access Research: A Review of DFID’s Policy and Practice - Fosci, Mattia; Johnson, Rob; Chiarelli, Andrea (2019)
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The Impact of IRC’s Healing Classrooms Tutoring on Children’s Learning and Social-Emotional Outcomes in Niger - IRC (International Rescue Committee, 2019)
During school year 2016-2017, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) delivered Healing Classrooms remedial tutoring programming and additional low-cost, targeted social-emotional learning (SEL) interventions to children in Diffa, a region in Niger affected by recurrent Boko Haram attacks. We found that, after twenty-two weeks of program implementation, access to Healing Classrooms tutoring significantly improved students’ reading and math skills, and adding targeted SEL interventions to Healing Classrooms tutoring improved children’s overall school grades. However, we found little evidence of direct impacts of the additional targeted SEL strategies on children’s social-emotional outcomes.
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Data Collection Survey on Possibilities of Educational Support with ICT and Japanese Companies Promotion in Mongolia - JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency, 2019)
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Data Collection Survey on Possibilities of Educational Support with ICT and Japanese Companies Promotion in Mongolia - JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency, 2019)
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Scaling Access & Impact: Realizing the Power of EdTech - Pouezevara, Sarah; Valdivia, Ignacio Jara; Michalec, Mike; Amalia, Talitha; Fleischmann, Sybille (Omidyar Network, 2019)
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Capturing Cost Data - World Bank; International Rescue Committee (World Bank, 2019)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

3 examples of mother tongue education to improve learning | Blog | Global Partnership for Education - Global Partnership for Education (Education for All blog, 2019)
GPE supports mother tongue education as a key component of the foundation of learning. On International Mother Tongue Day we review how three partner countries—Eritrea, The Gambia and Uzbekistan—with help from GPE, are implementing mother tongue programs.
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Digital School Census in 10 Weeks? How it was done in Sierra Leone - Namit, Kariba; Mai, Thanh Thi (World Bank Blogs, 2019)
Note: This blog is specifically about Sierra Leone’s successful transition to a digital school census but has broader implications for other countries who plan to adopt digital tools at a wider scale to collect data and monitor education and healthcare facilities in their countries. In April of last year, the new Minister of Finance of Sierra Leone approached the World Bank with a strong commitment to prioritize education and an intriguing request.
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Digital School Census in 10 Weeks? How it was done in Sierra Leone - Namit, Kariba; Mai, Thanh Thi (World Bank Blogs, 2019)
Note: This blog is specifically about Sierra Leone’s successful transition to a digital school census but has broader implications for other countries who plan to adopt digital tools at a wider scale to collect data and monitor education and healthcare facilities in their countries. In April of last year, the new Minister of Finance of Sierra Leone approached the World Bank with a strong commitment to prioritize education and an intriguing request.
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The True Cost of Freemiums in Edtech - Levine, Elliott (EdTech Digest, 2019)
An industry veteran has some on-point advice about what you pay for and what you get. GUEST COLUMN | by Elliott Levine They say, “the best things in life are free,” but that is not always the case. With education technology (edtech), sometimes the cost of “free” ends up being unreasonably high in the long […]
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Design Principles for Systematic Search Systems: A Holistic Synthesis of a Rigorous Multi-cycle Design Science Research Journey - Sturm, Benjamin; Sunyaev, Ali (Business & Information Systems Engineering, 2019)
Rigorous systematic literature searches are often described as complex, error-prone and time-consuming because of a prevailing lack of adequate technological assistance. Nonetheless, one of the first steps when conducting a rigorous literature review is finding an appropriate literature sample. The quality of this literature sample is an important factor for the overall quality of the literature review. This article investigates how to design innovative IT systems that effectively facilitate systematic literature searches. Applying the design science research paradigm, the research method consists of multiple design cycles of artifact development, evaluation, and refinement. In doing so, six design principles are derived that intend to increase the comprehensiveness, precision, and reproducibility of systematic literature searches. The results could be helpful for research and practice. The derived design knowledge builds a foundation for future research on systematic search systems and enables new methodological contributions. The results could also guide the development of innovative search systems and features that, eventually, increase the quality and efficiency of information accumulation in different contexts.
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Keywords: Design principles; Design science research; Information retrieval; Literature review; Systematic literature searches; Systematic search systems; _Added-ailr-2024

Investigating The Benefits Of Incorporating Technology In Instructional Curriculum: Pre-Service Teachers' Perspectives From Ghana - Wiafe, Bernard; Akaadom, Bernard (International Journal of Advanced Research, 2019)
The use of technology has gained worldwide recognition in all professions. Teachers have resorted to several technology tools to enhance the work they do in the classroom and to facilitate the understanding of what they teach their students to enhance easy recall and for students to remember what they learn in class. The use of technology tools in the classroom in Ghana has not received much attention from teachers because of challenges with respect to technological infrastructural development. However, with the inclusion of technology in the teacher colleges of education curriculum, new teachers are being trained to incorporate technology into classroom instruction to change the face of teaching and make learners more eager to learn by bringing the understanding of concepts much more clearly to students. The study adopted a mixed method approach to bring to light, the perspectives of teacher trainees and tutors in colleges on the benefits both the teacher and the learner stand to gain in using technologies to deliver instruction in the classroom. It came to light that although there are challenges pre-service teachers tend to face in terms of access to such technologies, they still do their best to include technologies in their lessons whenever possible. This is because of the fact that learners tend to do well on instruction received on lessons delivered using technology as compared to lessons delivered without using technology based on their experience in using both approaches in the classroom. Keywords: Technology, instruction, benefits, curriculum.
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Equivalent Years of Schooling: A Metric to Communicate Learning Gains in Concrete Terms - Evans, David K; Yuan, Fei (World Bank, 2019)
In the past decade, hundreds of impact evaluation studies have measured the learning outcomes of education interventions in developing countries. The impact magnitudes are often reported in terms of "standard deviations," making them difficult to communicate to policy makers beyond education specialists. This paper proposes two approaches to demonstrate the effectiveness of learning interventions, one in "equivalent years of schooling" and another in the net present value of potential increased lifetime earnings. The results show that in a sample of low- and middle-income countries, one standard deviation gain in literacy skill is associated with between 4.7 and 6.8 additional years of schooling, depending on the estimation method. In other words, over the course of a business-as-usual school year, students learn between 0.15 and 0.21 standard deviation of literacy ability. Using that metric to translate the impact of interventions, a median structured pedagogy intervention increases learning by the equivalent of between 0.6 and 0.9 year of business-as-usual schooling. The results further show that even modest gains in standard deviations of learning – if sustained over time – may have sizeable impacts on individual earnings and poverty reduction, and that conversion into a non-education metric should help policy makers and non-specialists better understand the potential benefits of increased learning.
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Keywords: Education; Impact Evaluation; Learning Outcomes; Lifetime Earnings; Net Present Value; Poverty Reduction; Years of Schooling; ___working_potential_duplicate

Equivalent Years of Schooling: A Metric to Communicate Learning Gains in Concrete Terms - Evans, David K.; Yuan, Fei (2019)
In the past decade, hundreds of impact evaluation studies have measured the learning outcomes of education interventions in developing countries. The impact magnitudes are often reported in terms of "standard deviations," making them difficult to communicate to policy makers beyond education specialists. This paper proposes two approaches to demonstrate the effectiveness of learning interventions, one in "equivalent years of schooling" and another in the net present value of potential increased lifetime earnings. The results show that in a sample of low- and middle-income countries, one standard deviation gain in literacy skill is associated with between 4.7 and 6.8 additional years of schooling, depending on the estimation method. In other words, over the course of a business-as-usual school year, students learn between 0.15 and 0.21 standard deviation of literacy ability. Using that metric to translate the impact of interventions, a median structured pedagogy intervention increases learning by the equivalent of between 0.6 and 0.9 year of business-as-usual schooling. The results further show that even modest gains in standard deviations of learning – if sustained over time – may have sizeable impacts on individual earnings and poverty reduction, and that conversion into a non-education metric should help policy makers and non-specialists better understand the potential benefits of increased learning.
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75 Digital Tools and Apps Teachers Can Use to Support Formative Assessment in the Classroom (Teach. Learn. Grow., 2019)
We’ve compiled an extensive list of 75 digital tools, apps, and platforms that can help teachers use formative assessment to elicit evidence of student learning. #education #teachers
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UNICEF and Telenor Group extend global partnership to reduce inequalities among children - Telenor (Telenor Group, 2019)
(FORNEBU, 31 January 2019) – UNICEF and Telenor Group today announced an agreement to extend their long-running global partnership for another three years – through 2021. Launched in 2014, the partnership delivers large-scale global projects which leverage Telenor’s digital platforms to reduce inequalities and enhance children and young people’s skills for the digital future.
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Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License - Wikipedia (Wikipedia, 2019)
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How solar mini-grids can bring cheap, green electricity to rural Africa - Zajicek, Charlie (odi.org, 2019)
Well-suited to small, remote communities, renewable energy mini-grids can be the most cost-effective option for rural electrification in Africa.
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The erasures of racism in education and international development: re-reading the ‘global learning crisis’ - Sriprakash, Arathi; Tikly, Leon; Walker, Sharon (Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2019)
(2019). The erasures of racism in education and international development: re-reading the ‘global learning crisis’. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. Ahead of Print.
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

The Impact of Information Provision on Human Capital Accumulation and Child Labor in Peru - Neilson, Christopher; Gallego, Francisco; Molina, Oswaldo (2019)
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The EdTech Hub’s approach to amplifying impact through engagement – The EdTech Hub - Jamieson Eberhardt, Molly (EdTech Hub, 2019)
If you have spent time working in the education sector, you’ll know that even marginal gains are worthy of celebration. Those of us involved in launching the EdTech Hub know this well — from our experience as teachers, researchers, advisers, programme implementers, and civil servants. Nevertheless, we have the ambition to help accelerate progress toward quality education at an unprecedented rate. We of course know that sustainable change often takes time, and we respect hard-earned marginal gains. But what we’re really after is improvement in education outcomes at a pace that matches the urgency of the problem — think millions of children receiving quality education within a decade, not in decades.
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Keywords: LP: English; _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _zenodoETH

Country list with HDI, iHDI, MPI and Gini (version 1) - Haßler, Björn; Adam, Taskeen; Brugha, Meaghan; Damani, Kalifa; Allier-Gagneur, Zoe; Hennessy, Sara; Hollow, David; Jordan, Katy; Martin, Kevin; Murphy, Mary; Walker, Hannah (EdTech Hub, 2019)
This is pdf of a country list with HDI, iHDI, MPI and Gini. This file is now superseeded by DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3908363, see https://docs.edtechhub.org/lib/55A44ZRB (which will also be available as a data file).
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Methodology for literature reviews undertaken by the EdTech Hub - Haßler, Björn; Adam, Taskeen; Brugha, Meaghan; Damani, Kalifa; Allier-Gagneur, Zoe; Sara Hennessy; David Hollow; Katy Jordan; Kevin Martin; Mary Murphy; Hannah Walker (EdTech Hub, 2019)
An output of the EdTEch Hub
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Keywords: LP: English; R:Literature review; systematic review; _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _cover:v3; _dont_post_PDF; _yl:h; _zenodoODE; dode_eth-src-eth; dode_eth-trf2-dode

Systemic Mixed-Methods Research — A conceptual framework for EdTech research along the IDIA scale - Haßler, Björn; Hennessy, Sara; Hollow, David; Simpson, Lea; Carter, Alice; Damani, Kalifa; Francis, Gill; Jordan, Katy; McIntyre, Nora; Mitchell, Joel (EdTech Hub, 2019)
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Investigating the barriers to change management in public sector educational institutions - Al-Alawi, Adel Ismail; Abdulmohsen, Muna; Al-Malki, Fatema Mohamed; Mehrotra, Arpita (International Journal of Educational Management, 2019)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore barriers to the change management in the public sector of educational institutions such as public schools of the Ministry of Education in the GCC countries. The exploration of the research is based on the ADKAR change management model that consists of five key elements, which are awareness, desire, knowledge, ability and reinforcement. The ADKAR model was used for many reasons, among these reasons is that it allows management to separate the change process into parts, pinpointing where change is failing and addressing that impact point.
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Electronic learning and its benefits in education - Abed, Enaam Karim (EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2019)
The concept of Electronical Learning was emerged which is a method of education in the delivery of information to the learner, depends on the latest technologies of the mathematics, the global network of information and multimedia, the fields of dialogue, discussion and virtual classes. But the field of electronic learning and its solutions will not be successful if there are lack of basic elements of the current traditional education. The latter accomplishes many tasks indirectly or invisible to the passers-by, where the students’ time and attendance of schools is an important thing inculcates educational values indirectly and promotes joint work as a team. A variety of services, such as obtaining a Master’s degree online directly, or awarding technical certificates to programmers, IT professionals and other great features, as they do the necessary procedures and provide the required standards for the introduction of recognized programs for distance study.
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Experimental Impacts of the “Quality Preschool for Ghana” Interventions on Teacher Professional Well-being, Classroom Quality, and Children’s School Readiness - Wolf, Sharon; Aber, J. Lawrence; Behrman, Jere R.; Tsinigo, Edward (Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2019)
We assessed the impacts of a teacher professional development program for public and private kindergartens in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. We examined impacts on teacher professional well-being, classroom quality, and children’s readiness during one school year. This cluster-randomized trial included 240 schools (teachers N ¼ 444; children N ¼ 3,345, Mage ¼ 5.2) randomly assigned to one of three conditions: teacher training (TT), teacher training plus parental-awareness meetings (TTPA), and controls. The programs incorporated workshops and in-classroom coaching for teachers and video-based discussion groups for parents. Moderate impacts were found on some dimensions of professional well-being (reduced burnout in the TT and TTPA conditions, reduced turnover in the TT condition), classroom quality (increased emotional support/behavior management in the TT and TTPA conditions, support for student expression in the TT condition), and small impacts on multiple domains of children’s school readiness (in the TT condition). The parental-awareness meetings had counteracting effects on child school readiness outcomes. Implications for policy and practice are discussed for Ghana and for early childhood education in low- and middle-income countries.
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Keywords: Ghana; ___working_potential_duplicate; classroom quality; early childhood education; kindergarten; school readiness; teacher training and coaching

Gender Equity and Fee-Free Basic Education in Tanzania - Al-Samarrai, Samer; Tamagnan, Marie Evane (2019)
Tanzania has registered improvements in education outcomes over the last ten years. The implementation of the Fee-Free Basic Education Program (FBEP) is a key element of the government’s overall strategy to improve education outcomes and accelerate growth. Tackling gender disparities in basic education will be critical to the success of FBEP. In recent years, Tanzania has eliminated many of the gender gaps associated with education access. However, large gender gaps in learning outcomes start in primary and get wider over the course of secondary school. The aim of this note is to identify the underlying causes of gender disparities in secondary education and identify promising policy options to tackle them. It shows that addressing gender disparities in education is crucial to the success of FBEP and more broadly to national development goals. This note is part of a series that looks at the implications of Tanzania’s Fee-Free Basic Education Program (FBEP). Its focus is primarily on secondary education because separate analytical work on early childhood is currently being undertaken and a separate note is analyzing the trends and determinants of learning outcomes in primary education. This note is arranged as follows: Section 2 briefly outlines the benefits of extending access to basic education; Section 3 describes the characteristics of gender disparities in secondary education; Section 4 identifies the factors that drive gender differences in outcomes, and Section 5 reviews the evidence on interventions capable of narrowing gender disparities. The final section concludes by arguing that narrowing gender differences in education outcomes needs a multidimensional approach.
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

A digital platform for supervised self-directed learning in emergencies: the case of the Syrian crisis - Almasri, Nada; Tahat, Luay; Skaf, Sawsan; Masri, Aman Al (Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2019)
The well-known Syrian crisis has made it very challenging for thousands of Syrian children to have access to education. In this article, the authors propose a framework for designing a digital education platform to allow children inside Syria as well as in the refugee camps in bordering countries to have access to education. The authors start by looking at the efforts performed in the field of education in conflict-affected regions, and they extract from them the lessons learned and recommendations. They provide four main characteristics of war impacting children’s education: (1) insecurity, (2) instability, (3) lack of resources, and (4) lack of adult supervision. They then use these four characteristics, along with the extracted recommendations, as the grounds for drafting three design considerations for the implementation of a digital education platform. The three design considerations are: supervised self-directed learning method, context-aware education and children-oriented design. Finally, the authors use these design considerations to provide design recommendations for the four main elements of a digital education platform: hardware, software, curriculum and supporting services. They conclude by discussing the validity of the digital platform, its implementation feasibility, and challenges facing the implementation.
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Keywords: Google Scholar/ "refugee education" ICT; RER theme_pedagogies and modalities

Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2017-18 - NIPS/Pakistan, National Institute of Population Studies-; ICF (2019)
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Behavioral Insights for Public Policy: Concepts and Cases - Ruggeri, Kai; Jarke, Hannes; Berkessel, Jana; Benzerga, Amel; Hlavova, Renata; Immonen, Johanna; Kunz, Marvin; Ojinaga Alfageme, Olatz; Paul, Alessandro; Plohl, Nejc; Prinz, Gerhard; Steinnes, Kamilla; et al. (2019)
https://www.routledge.com/Behavioral-Insights-for-Public-Policy-Concepts-and-Cases/Ruggeri/p/book/9781138484238 The first decades of the 21st century have offered a remarkable shift in how policies are made as well as who designs them. Until this period, advisory boards for local, regional, and national policy strategies largely comprised economists, lawyers, and financial experts. These panels made recommendations based on standing theory and, in some cases, subject-matter expertise, such as energy or healthcare. What has changed is how the behavioral sciences, largely psychology, have been embraced within these groups, thanks largely to extensive evidence from empirical research in how populations save, spend, eat, exercise, and work. While the application to policy may have contemporary versions, the behavioral side of economic theory itself is not new. Relevant insights on this go at least as far back as the 18th century with Daniel Bernoulli and Adam Smith, and continued steadily over the next two centuries with significant works from the likes of Wilhelm Wundt, Herbert Simon, and Roald Coase, among many others. However, how it came to be is perhaps more critical than merely who drove it. In each of these waves, a major shift in thinking was often preceded by empirical study that either attempted to explain how humans apply logic, or by surprising deviations from what appears to be rational. This textbook covers a range of topics from the origins of policy through to how recent advances in theory and practice have shifted our thinking on outcomes for society. Each section, including the fundamentals of behavioral sciences, policy development and evaluation, and all of the domains – economic, health, energy, education, workplace – cover examples of how behavioral insights are being used to address some of the most critical challenges we face. The cases and concepts presented in this book demonstrate the considerable value, both realized and potential, in studying as well as implementing behavioral insights into a variety of policy domains. We are still very much in the early days of this field, which means that these are merely fundamentals for educating and inspiring future generations of researchers, policymakers, and government leaders. As progress continues, how ultimate goals relevant to society are defined and targeted will become an increasingly important refrain amongst those involved in developing them. In these ways, we can consistently align our approaches with the most critical matters of local, national, and global communities: our safety, our stability, and our well-being.
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Bangladesh Education Sector Public Expenditure Review - Bhatta, Saurav Dev; Genoni, Maria Eugenia; Sharma, Uttam; Khaltarkhuu, Buyant Erdene; Maratou-Kolias, Laura; Asaduzzaman, T. M. (World Bank, 2019)
Adequate investment in human capital development is critical for enabling Bangladesh to reach its goal of becoming an upper middle-income country. Bangladesh, currently a lower-middle country with an annual per capita gross national income (GNI) of USD 1,470 (WDI 2019), aims to attain upper-middle income status by 2021 and eliminate poverty by 2030. Recognizing the importance of investing in education for building its human capital base, the government of Bangladesh (GoB) has been allocating a large portion of the national budget to the education sector each year during the past two decades. Effective utilization and equitable distribution of allocated public spending is important for ensuring adequate progress in education outcomes. This report analyzes major spending and outcomes trends in the overall education sector in recent years, with a focus on primary and secondary education. Responding to the recommendation of the 2015 Bangladesh Public Expenditure Review Update for more analytical work on public spending in different sectors, including education, the current study analyzes the trends in major education expenditures, access to education, quality of education, and disparities in education outcomes in the past two decades. It also looks at the composition of education expenditure, consistency between budget allocations and actual expenditures, equity in education spending, and potential links between spending and key educational outcomes. Because of data limitations, this report focuses mainly on primary and secondary education. It is expected that this analysis will add to the literature on investments in the Bangladesh education sector and inform discussions on identifying policy priorities and making resource allocation decisions in the sector.
Accepted: 2021-07-19T16:19:39Z KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2339240:W64P6523 2405685:HJVFISKT 4656463:CYJBRSJM
Keywords: Education Budget; Education Expenditure; Education Outcomes; Equity in Education; Public Expenditure Review

Sustaining learner participation and progression through networked schooling: a systemic approach for Mobile Out of School Children - Dyer, C.; Echessa, E. (International Journal of Educational Development, 2019)
Despite repeated calls for education systems to respond flexibly to enable all children to participate in formal education, limited progress has been made for those we term Mobile Out of School Children (MOOSCs). Livelihood-related mobility often precipitates a process of learner drop out during the year. Retention of such children, and reducing the risk of their relapsing into MOOSC status, requires a re-framing of ‘school’ as a spatially dispersed system, or network, to accommodate learner movement. Networked schooling for children in mobile pastoralist communities in Ethiopia embeds formal education within mobile pastoralists’ resource management practices and orientates service provision accordingly. Although it is resource-intensive, networked schooling enables the requisite flexibility to support retention of pastoralist and other mobile learners. It of significant interest to global effort towards leaving none behind, particularly in the global drylands and other contexts where climate change is making learner mobility increasingly complex, and the need for a systemic response ever more pressing.
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Employment Structure and the Rise of the Modern Tax System - Jensen, Anders (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019)
This paper studies how the transition from self-employment to employee-jobs over the long run of development explains growth in income tax capacity. I construct a new database which covers 100 household surveys across countries at different income levels and 140 years of historical data within the US (1870-2010). Using these data, I first establish four new stylized facts: 1) within country, the share of employees increases over the income distribution, and increases at all levels of income as a country develops; 2) the income tax exemption threshold moves down the income distribution as a country develops, tracking employee growth; 3) the employee share above the tax exemption threshold is maximized and remains constantly high; 4) movements in the tax exemption threshold account for the observed variation in tax collection across development. These findings are consistent with a model where a high employee share is a necessary condition for effective taxation and where the rise in income covered by information trails through increases in employee shares drives expansion of the income tax base. To provide a causal estimate of the impact of employee share on the exemption threshold, I study a state-led US development program implemented in the 1950s-60s which shifted up the level of employee share. The identification strategy exploits within-state changes in court-litigation status which generates quasi-experimental variation in the effective implementation date of the program. I find that the exogenous increase in employee share is associated with an expansion of the state income tax base and an increase in state income tax revenue.
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Accelerated Education Programme Youth Education Programme: NRC Education Scale-up and Quality Fund, EdTech for Rapid Response in Acute Emergencies Project - Kipruto, Amos; Denny, Kathleen (Norwegian Refugee Council, 2019)
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The Net Neutrality Situation in the EU Evaluation of the First Two Years of Enforcement - Lohninger, Thomas; Gollatz, Benedikt; Hoffmann, Cornelia; Steinhammer, Erwin; Deffaa, Ludger; Al-Awadi, Ali; Czák, Andreas (Epicenter Works, 2019)
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Uganda Impact Study Report - Pouezevara, Sarah; Brunette, Tracy; Jordan, Rachel; Nakyejwe, Deborah (RTI International, 2019)
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Elimika (Kenya Education Cloud) (2019)
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Elimu Tanzania (2019)
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Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (2019)
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Ghana Mulitple Indicator Cluster Survey 2017/2018 (The Government of Ghana, 2019)
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Kenya Publishers Association (2019)
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KitKit School (2019)
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Leveraging Community and Government Resources for Gender and Educational Equity in India: A Case Study of Educate Girls | Educate a Child (educate a child, 2019)
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Ministry of Information, Communications and Technology, Innovation and Youth Affairs (2019)
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Scaling Access & Impact: Realizing the Power of EdTech. Executive Summary (Omidyar Network, 2019)
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Telkom Kenya Limited (2019)
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Futures of Education in Bangladesh: Envisioning 2041 - a2i (Government of People's Republic of Bangladesh, 2019)
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Constructivist Assistive Technology in a Mathematics Classroom for the Deaf: Going Digital at a Rural Namibian Primary School - Abiatal, Loide K.S.; Howard, Grant R. (Proceedings of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists 2019, 2019)
Within the context of almost nine million children with hearing disabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa, their education is an important topic. The problem was the lack of conclusive research about the effects of digital assistive technologies for educating deaf learners in Sub-Saharan African countries, such as Namibia. The question was could a digital assistive technology improve the mathematics achievement of deaf children? The research objective was to gather scientific evidence by conducting a quantitative experiment with constructivist digital assistive technology and qualitative interviews with the teachers involved. The findings from the experiment suggest that the constructivist digital assistive technology may have had a positive effect on the mathematics achievement of the learners, which was supported by the findings from the interviews. This makes an original contribution to the domain and offers an intervention that was feasible, practical and potentially effective for improving the teaching and learning of mathematics for deaf learners.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1145/3351108.3351136 2339240:9RXUDFHE 2405685:QSKYPSUP
Keywords: Constructivism; Constructivist assistive technology; Deaf learners; Digital assistive technology; Experiment; Hearing disability; Interviews; Mathematics education; Namibia; Primary school education; Sub-Saharan Africa; Teaching and learning

Lean Data Initiative - Acumen (2019)
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Appraisal on perceived multimedia technologies as modern pedagogical tools for strategic improvement on teaching and learning - Adekunle, Salako E.; Adewale, Olumide S.; Boyinbode, Olutayo K. (International Journal of Modern Education and Computer Science, 2019)
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The Importance of Dynamic Geometry Computer Software on Learners’ Performance in Geometry - Adelabu, Folake Modupe; Makgato, Moses; Ramaligela, Manto Sylvia (The Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2019)
The use of dynamic geometry computer software (DGCS) is important in educational environment, and it is more advantageous for learning mathematics comprehensively. This study examined the importance of dynamic geometry computer software on learners’ performance in geometry. A quasi experimental, non-equivalent control group was used. The instrument used in this study was geometry achievement mathematics test (GMAT) that comprised 15 multiple choices items. The GMAT was administered to 87 grade nine learners in two secondary schools in Tshwane south district, Gauteng Province South Africa. One school was used as experimental group and the second school was used as the control group. Data analysis employed the use of the statistical t-test independent sample. The result of the study shows that using DGCS is important in geometry whereby it improves the performance of learners. In addition, the results show that the software affects the female learners’ mathematics performances more positively than the male learners. Hence, the results of this study showed that there is great potential in using the DGCS (GeoGebra) to teach secondary schools mathematics. The study recommends that the use of technology in teaching and learning of mathematics should be a priority in the schools.
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Magufuli asks Tanzania's teachers, parents to cane students - AfricaNews (Africanews, 2019)
Critics, including the local government minister, had said the official violated the students’ human rights because they had not been given a fair trial, and only teachers or headmasters are authori
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Teachers’ Perception on Using Kio-Kit to Enhance Teaching and Learning STEM Subjects in Zanzibar - Ahmada, Raya Idrissa; Abdulla, Ali Abdulla; Yunus, Said Ali Said; Ismail, Maryam Jaffar (Sustainable ICT, Education and Learning, 2019)
In the current situation, teachers are encouraged to use interactive, student-centered approaches than using traditional approaches that mainly focus on ‘chalk and talk’. Student-centered approaches, also learner-centered, involve methods of teaching that shift the focus of instruction from the teacher to the student. When these approaches are powered by technology, they can doubly enhance teaching and learning. The most current technology that gains popularity in Africa in teaching and learning process is the Kio-Kit technology which promised to improve the quality of teaching and learning. It is a digital education toolbox which contains different forms of digital contents to help students in their learning process. The box contains 40 Kio tablets in which students use them to access the contents available in the Kio-Kit box. This paper aims to discuss the perception of using this type of technology from school teachers who have been trained intensively to use them to enhance the teaching and learning of STEM subjects. During the exploration, we confirmed that Kio-Kit technology enhances teaching and learning and helps the students gain necessary skills for the 21st century digital era. The results also reveal STEM teachers’ readiness to use the Kio-Kit technology in the classroom. Further, the paper describes the challenges encountered during the exploration of Kio-Kit in classroom and some suggestions are proposed.
shortDOI: 10/ghgn5v KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10/ghgn5v 2339240:GGJVI64G 2405685:AUHLLX5M
Keywords: Digital classroom; ICT; Kio-Kits; STEM for Success; Student-centered learning; Zanzibar

Learning Equity Requires More than Equality: Learning Goals and Achievement Gaps between the Rich and the Poor in Five Developing Countries - Working Paper 504 - Akmal, Maryam; Pritchett, Lant (RISE Programme Working Paper, 2019)
Achieving some absolute standard of learning for all children is a key element of global equity in education. Using the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) data from India and Pakistan, and Uwezo data from Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda that test all children of given ages, whether in school or not, on simple measures of learning in math, reading (local language), and English, we quantify the role of achieving equality between the richest 20% and the poorest 40% in terms of grade attainment and learning achievement toward accomplishing the global equity goal of universal numeracy and literacy for all children.
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Gender equity and fee-free basic education in Tanzania - Al-Samarrai, Samer; Tamagnan, Marie Evane (Education Global Practice, Africa Region, World Ban, 2019)
Samer Al-Samarrai, Marie Evane Tamagnan1 Introduced in 2016, the Fee-Free Basic Education Program (FBEP) is the government’s flagship policy to expand equitable access to basic education. Evidence shows that policies of this kind increase educational access and lead to significant economic and social benefits. In Ghana, children that received fee-free education were much more likely to complete secondary school and had much higher earnings than children that were not part of the program. In Tanzania, similar benefits to FBEP are possible since the labor market returns to secondary schooling are high.
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Effectiveness of Gamification of Web-Based Learning in Improving Academic Achievement and Creative Thinking among Primary School Students - Aljraiwi, Seham (International Journal of Education and Practice, 2019)
Gamification is one of the most significant modern trends in educational technology. The present study aims to identify the effectiveness of gamification of web-based learning on academic achievement and creative thinking among primary school students. A learning environment was designed based on gamification of web-based learning. A quasi-experimental approach was utilized to identify the effect of the independent variable, gamification, on the dependent variables, academic achievement and creative thinking among participants. An academic achievement test and the Torrance test of creative thinking were applied to the participants. Results revealed that there was a statistically significant difference between the means of scores of the experimental and control groups in the post-test academic achievement test and the Torrance test of creative thinking in favor of the experimental group. This suggests a high level of academic achievement and creative thinking after using gamification. The study recommends training in-service teachers in the use of gamification for web-based teaching of English.
Publisher: Conscientia Beam KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.18488/journal.61.2019.73.242.257 2339240:D8I68N8K 2405685:ZF63RKCS
Keywords: Academic Achievement; Achievement Tests; Control Groups; Creative Thinking; Creativity Tests; Educational Games; Elementary School Students; English (Second Language); Experimental Groups; Inservice Teacher Education; Instructional Effectiveness; Scores; Second Language Instruction; Web Based Instruction

Examination of factors influencing the use of mobile learning system: An empirical study - Almaiah, Mohammed Amin; Alismaiel, Omar Abdulwahab (Education and Information Technologies, 2019)
Past studies have placed little emphasis on quality factors as the detebile learning application provides me a promptrminants of mobile learning adoption. Thus, this study’s purpose is to integrate the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) with the updated DeLone and McLean’s model (DL&ML) to examine whether quality factors (including system quality, information quality, and service quality) and individual beliefs (including perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use) are the antecedents to students’ satisfaction and their intention to use, leading to enhancing their actual usage of mobile learning system. A total of 400 questionnaires were distributed. The results showed that quality factors (including system quality, information quality, and service quality) had significant effects on students’ satisfaction and their intention to use mobile learning; besides, perceived usefulness has significantly strong impacts on intention to use mobile learning, and satisfaction and intention to use both have significant effects on actual use of mobile learning. This study opens future work for using the identified quality factors as guidelines for researchers and designers to design and develop mobile learning applications.
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights - Alston, Philip (United Nations General Assembly, 2019)
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A Software Based on Eye Gaze to Evaluate Mathematics in Children with Cerebral Palsy in Inclusive Education - Alvarado-Cando, Omar; Belén Jara, G.; Barzallo, Paúl; Torres-Salamea, Hugo (Advances in Usability, User Experience and Assistive Technology, 2019)
The government of Ecuador has promoted inclusive education in public and private education centers, ensuring that all children can access education and not be discriminated by their disability. Teachers are responsible for planning, support and reorganized the curriculum according to the needs of each child included. The inclusion process for children with cerebral palsy (CP) and speech difficulties have been a little difficult because they cannot communicate properly with the teachers and the evaluation process is not clear and objective. In this paper, through the use of eye tracking technology provide by Irisbond, we present an educational software to evaluate mathematics in children with CP. The software performs the questions in written and audible way, and it allows the students to select and/or match the correct answer; children with CP from 5 to 7 years tested the program and they got a better rating than not using it.
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Keywords: Assistive technology; Cerebral palsy; Eye gazed; Inclusive education

The Charisma Machine - Ames, Morgan (MIT Press, 2019)
A fascinating examination of technological utopianism and its complicated consequences.In The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and legacy of...
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Personal Data Broker: A Solution to Assure Data Privacy in EdTech - Amo, Daniel; Fonseca, David; Alier, Marc; García-Peñalvo, Francisco José; Casañ, María José; Alsina, María (Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing Learning Experiences, 2019)
Educational technologies (Edtech) collect private and personal data from students. This is a growing trend in both new and already available Edtech. There are different stakeholders in the analysis of the collected students’ data. Teachers use educational analytics to enhance the learning environment, principals use academic analytics for decision making in the leadership of the educational institution and Edtech providers uses students’ data interactions to improve their services and tools. There are some issues in this new context. Edtech have been feeding their analytical algorithms from student’s data, both private and personal, even from minors. This draws a critical problem about data privacy fragility in Edtech. Moreover, this is a sensitive issue that generates fears and angst in the use of educational data analytics in Edtech, such as learning management systems (LMS). Current laws, regulations, policies, principles and good practices are not enough to prevent private data leakage, security breaches, misuses or trading. For instance, data privacy agreements in LMS are deterrent but not an ultimate solution due do not act in real time. There is a need for automated real-time law enforcement to avoid the fragility of data privacy. In this work, we take a step further in the automation of data privacy agreement in LMS. We expose which technology and architecture are suitable for data privacy agreement automation, a partial implementation of the design in Moodle and ongoing work.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1007/978-3-030-21814-0_1 2339240:7MD56SEP 2405685:9F2LYDQZ
Keywords: Academic analytics; Blockchain; Data privacy; Digital identity; Educational data mining; Learning Analytics; Moodle; Smart contracts

Delay in teachers’ salaries sparks unrest in Liberia - Andalou Agency (2019)
Students took to streets, demanding release of payments to their teachers and return to class work - Anadolu Agency
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Willingness and ability of LCPS to pay Ilm: A for products and services - AOE Research; Qazilbash, Zulfiqar (2019)
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Teachers resistance towards change in Punjab public schools: implications for school effectiveness - Arif, Seema; Riasat, Lubna (2019)
Teachers’ resistance to change has become a perennial phenomenon which educational sector had to deal with because without the active involvement and commitment of teachers, change and reform policies are prone to failure. The urge to explore the reasons behind teachers’ resistance towards any change and need to modify some policies to minimize this factor, motivated the researcher to conduct this research. The aim of present descriptive research is to identify reasons for teacher’s resistance towards reform agenda introduced by previous government of Punjab (2013-18). Using simple random sampling 28 public schools of tehsil Model Town district of Lahore were taken as sample of the study; each school was taken as cluster and all teachers were approached to fill the questionnaire, however, final data constituted only 295 questionnaires. Self-developed questionnaire, comprising 36 items further categorized into eight factors was used as tool. Both descriptive (means & Standard Deviation) and inferential (correlation & regression) were applied. The research has concluded that role of school principal and management’s implementation strategy have strong link with positive attitude of teacher towards adapting for change. Hence, it is important that principals must manage doubts and fears of teachers about change to counteract resistance and negative attitude towards change.
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Learner access to resources for eLearning and preference for eLearning delivery mode in distance education programs in Ghana - Arthur-Nyarko, Emmanuel; Kariuki, Moses Githua (International Journal of Educational Technology, 2019)
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Academy for Education Planning and Management and Annual Status of Education Report - ASER (2019)
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Annual Status of Education Report - ASER (ASER, 2019)
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Annual Status of Education Report - ASER Pakistan (2019)
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School Education in Pakistan: A Sector Assessment - Asian Development Bank (Asian Development Bank, 2019)
Edition: 0 ISBN: 9789292615291 9789292615284 shortDOI: 10/ghgnf7 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.22617/TCS190039 10/ghgnf7 2339240:MAX5I4DD 2339240:VDACLSSI 2405685:8VW9ZAMB 2405685:B4FE433S 2405685:MTCNL9CE

Improving School Performance through School Ranking: The Double-Edged Sword of Accountability - Atuhurra, Julius; Kaffenburger, Michelle (RISE Programme, 2019)
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How Can Schools Support Parents’ Engagement in their Children’s Learning? Evidence from Research and Practice - Axford, Nick; Berry, Vashti; Lloyd, Jenny; Moore, Darren; Rogers, Morwenna; Hurst, Alison; Blockley, Kelly; Durkin, Hannah; Minton, Jacqueline (EEF, 2019)
The EEF is an independent charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement.
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Teaching linear algebra supported by GeoGebra visualization environment - Aytekin, Cahit; Kiymaz, Yasemin (Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2019)
Linear algebra differs from other mathematics courses because of the special difficulties that students have in understanding the concepts. Teaching without concretizing the concepts of Linear Algebra encouraged students to memorize definitions of concepts and rules has been articulated. Many researches show that technology-supported teaching is effective in concretizing abstract concepts. In this study, it was examined how pre-service mathematics teachers relate the definitions of concepts (linear combination, linear dependency/independency and spanning) and their visual equivalents in R[superscript 2] and R[superscript 3]. The study was conducted with four students who attended the Linear Algebra-2 course in the Elementary Mathematics Teaching, Faculty of Education of a state university in Turkey. The study was conducted by the teaching experiment method. Interviews were conducted using activities prepared in the GeoGebra program. It was observed that the participants used these concepts in very flexible way and they established a relationship between visualization and definitions in a very short time compared to the time spent during an educational period.
Publisher: Babes-Bolyai University, Kogainiceanu 1, Cluj-Napoca, 400084 Romania Cam URL: https://ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/2396823562?accountid=9851 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.24193/adn.12.2.7 2339240:BJHHRSRN 2405685:SNEABJDN 2534378:G2ILAXW6 2534378:J8FUJBYM
Keywords: Algebra; Computer Software; Definitions; ERIC; Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Educational Technology; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Mathematics Instruction; Mathematics Teachers; Postsecondary Education; Preservice Teachers; Teaching Methods; Technology Uses in Education; Turkey; Visualization; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2099267; __finaldtb

BAG - BAG Innovation Ltd (2019)
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Preparing teacher education students to integrate mobile learning into elementary education - Bai, Hua (TechTrends, 2019)
The wide adoption of mobile technology has greatly influenced K-12 education. In teacher education programs, it is necessary for educators to train teacher education students to use mobile technology for educational purpose. This paper reports an exploratory effort in preparing elementary education students for mobile learning. The participants’ perceptions of mobile learning and intended use of mobile technology were examined through the analyses of their online discussion posts, responses to survey items and their projects. Their perceived benefits of mobile learning, limitations of mobile technology, their intended implementation of mobile learning and the challenges they anticipated were reported. Implications and recommendations were discussed regarding the knowledge of mobile apps, pedagogical practices and some non-instructional issues.
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Reimagining digital literacies from a feminist perspective in a postcolonial context - Bali, Maha (Media and Communication, 2019)
Publisher: PRT shortDOI: 10/ghd7tr KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.17645/mac.v7i2.1935 10/ghd7tr 2129771:YNKMTYRY 2405685:WRQ65HUV 2486141:KHXAW3EG

Using Information Communication Technologies (ICT) to Implement Universal Design for Learning (UDL) - Banes, David; Hayes, Anne; Kurz, Christopher; Kulshalnagar, Raja (University Research Co., LLC, 2019)
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Using information communications technologies (ICT) to implement universal design for learning - Banes, David; Hayes, Anne; Kurz, Christopher; Kushalnagar, Raja (USAID, 2019)
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Progotir Pathey, Bangladesh Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2019, Survey Findings Report - Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS); UNICEF Bangladesh (Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), 2019)
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Un potencial con barreras: La participación de las mujeres en el área de Ciencia y Tecnología en Argentina | Publications - Basco, Ana Inés; Lavena, Cecilia (2019)
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Engaging Teachers with Technology Increased Achievement, Bypassing Teachers Did Not - Beg, Sabrin A.; Lucas, Adrienne M.; Halim, Waqas; Saif, Umar (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019)
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Beyond the Basics: Improving Post-Primary Content Delivery through Classroom Technology - Beg, Sabrin; Lucas, Adrienne M; Halim, Waqas; Saif, Umer (2019)
Using an RCT in middle schools in Pakistan, we test the eﬀect of a governmentimplemented in-class technology and brief teacher training intervention on student achievement in grade level mathematics and science. After only 4 months of exposure, student achievement increased by 0.2-0.3 standard deviations on math and science tests, 52 to 120 percent more than the control group, and students were more likely to pass the provincially standardized high stakes exams. Increased eﬀorts by both students and teachers indicate a complementarity between technology and other inputs in education production. At a scale of 100 schools, this program is extremely cost-eﬀective.
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Government Policy for the Internet Must Be Rights-Based and User-Centred | United Nations - Ben-Hassine, Wafa (2019)
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Research commentarydata-driven computationally intensive theory development - Berente, N.; Seidel, S; Safadi, H. (Information Systems Research, 2019)
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Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024

How behavioral science can empower parents to improve children's educational outcomes - Bergman, Peter (Behavioral Science & Policy, 2019)
Parents powerfully influence their children’s educational outcomes. Yet psychological and informational barriers impede parents’ ability to engage with their children in ways that improve outcomes: parents tend to have inflated perceptions of their children’s performance, which can deter them from taking helpful steps to effectively support their learning, and parenting is complex. Limited cognitive bandwidth for coping with complexities can steer parents’ attention away from actions that have long-term benefits for their children and toward actions yielding immediate returns. Poor school-to-parent communication and poverty exacerbate all of these problems. In this article, the author demonstrates how providing timely, actionable information to parents can lower these barriers and help parents engage with their children more productively from kindergarten through high school. Moreover, providing this information can improve educational outcomes at low cost.
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Teachers' Preferences for Proximity and the Implications for Staffing Schools: Evidence from Peru - Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; Hincapie, Diana; Méndez, Carolina; Paredes, Diana (Inter-American Development Bank, 2019)
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Keywords: C:Peru; _C:Peru PER

Causes of Girls Drop out from Primary Schools in Tehsil Bahrain District Swat, KPK Pakistan - Bibi, Aqsa; Ahmad, Waqar (Asian Journal of Contemporary Education, 2019)
Getting education is very important for both boys and girls. However, there are female children who do not complete school cycle and leave school before its completion which is one of the concerning issues for the Ministry of Education in Pakistan. To know why these girls drop out of school, the study provides some brief information on it. To get information on the above issue, structured interviews were used. The study was conducted in 4 Girls primary schools of Tehsil Bahrain district SWAT. Data was collected from sample of 80 respondents, in which (11 dropout girls from Govt Girls Primary School Madyan Swat, 16 from Govt Girls Primary School Ayeen Swat, 22 dropout girls from Girls Primary School Darolai Swat, 3 dropout girls from Girls Primary School Jail Bahrain Swat. 20 mothers of the dropout students and 8 teachers. After collecting information, some of the main causes for the dropout were found as work to earn some money for support of family (poverty), moving from one place to another, culture of the village, punishment, teachers' behavior, long distance from house to school and lack of text books and facilities. By looking to the findings of the study, there is a need of other researches in the area.
Publisher: AESS Publications KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.18488/journal.137.2019.31.44.58 2339240:2CGD2B4A 2405685:8LQ6V9XE
Keywords: Child Labor; Cultural Influences; Dropout Research; Dropouts; Elementary School Students; Females; Foreign Countries; Individual Characteristics; Poverty; Student Attitudes

Theorising Effective Uses of Digital Technology with Activity Theory - Blayone, Todd J. B. (Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2019)
Effective uses of digital technologies are vital to full inclusion in a network society. Digital-abilities researchers have produced several major frameworks, but these have generally not incorporated socio-contextual perspectives. To explore this lacuna, and engage in a reflective act of theorisation, activity theory is used to conceptualise four sub-systems of digitally mediated action. Eschewing technological determinism, humans are positioned as active agents capable of identifying, taking up, modifying and even subverting established technology uses in pursuit of meaningful objectives. At the same time, attention is given to contextual conditions shaping diverse activity systems supported by assemblages of humans and machines. Having theorised effective digital-technology uses through the lens of activity theory, the author reflects on this conceptual apparatus itself. In so doing, activity theory is characterised as a fertile, if complex and contested, future-oriented tradition that challenges individual-social dichotomies and addresses both humans and machines as mediators of activity, development and learning.
Publisher: Routledge KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/1475939X.2019.1645728 2339240:5T4VKUGM 2405685:KTIRVW7U
Keywords: Automation; Computer Use; Cultural Influences; Educational Technology; Group Activities; Information Technology; Man Machine Systems; Social Theories; Technology Uses in Education

Why is School-based Management (SBM) in Cambodia? - Bo, Chankoulika (2019)
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What works now? : evidence-informed policy and practice - Boaz, Annette; Davies, Huw; Fraser, Alec; Nutley, Sandra (Policy Press, 2019)
Building substantially on the earlier, landmark text, What Works? (Policy Press, 2000), this book brings together key thinkers and researchers to provide a contemporary review of the aspirations and realities of evidence-informed policy and practice. The text is clearly structured and provides sector-by-sector analysis of evidence use in policy-making and service delivery. It considers some cross-cutting themes, including a section of international commentaries, and concludes by looking at lessons from the past and prospects for the future.
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wwwlitbaskets.io, an IT artifact supporting exploratory literature searches for Information Systems research - Boell, SK; Wang, B (Proceedings of the Pacific Asia conference on information systems (eds KK Wei, 2019)
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Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024; ⛔ No DOI found

CASEL's framework for systemic social and emotional learning - Borowski, T. (Establishing Practical Social-Emotional Competence Assessment Work Group, 2019)
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From Distance Education to Open and Distance Learning: A Holistic Evaluation of History, Definitions, and Theories - Bozkurt, Aras; Bozkurt, Aras (Handbook of Research on Learning in the Age of Transhumanism, 2019)
As pragmatist, interdisciplinary fields, distance education (DE) and open and distance learning (ODL) transform and adapt themselves according to changing paradigms. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to examine DE and ODL from different perspectives to discern their future directions. The study concludes that DE and ODL are constantly developing interdisciplinary fields where technology has become a significant catalyst and these fields become part of the mainstream education. However, mainstreaming should be evaluated with caution, and there is a need to revisit core values and fundamentals where critical pedagogy would have a pivotal role. Besides, there is no single theory that best explains these interdisciplinary fields, and therefore, there is a need to benefit from different theoretical approaches. Finally, as a result of constant changes, we should keep the definition of both DE and ODL up-to-date to better explain the needs of the global teaching and learning ecosystem.
ISBN: 9781522584315 Publisher: IGI Global shortDOI: 10/ghgn5b KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8431-5.ch016 10/ghgn5b 2405685:HUJRQ23F

BRAC Education Programme Bangladesh - BRAC (2019)
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Mobile literacy among Syrian refugee women teachers - Bradley, Linda; Bahous, Rima; Albasa, Ali (CALL and complexity – short papers from EUROCALL 2019, 2019)
This research project investigates mobile literacy of Syrian refugee women teachers settled in Lebanon and Sweden. Our research provides input into Syrian refugee women teachers' professional aspirations and their connection to informal mobile learning. In both countries, training programs are used for these newly arrived teachers, enabling them to move forward in their careers, where digital and mobile learning play an important part. The purpose is to investigate how Syrian refugee women teachers are blending their teaching profession and vocational training with mobile literacy and digital technology. A qualitative method approach was applied, interviewing 20 refugee women in Lebanon and Sweden, all teachers from Syria. The outcomes show that the teachers are developing their vocational abilities in getting more career-oriented training in their areas of education by means of enhancing their language skills through mobile technology. [For the complete proceedings, see ED600837.]
Publisher: Research-publishing.net, La Grange des Noyes, 25110 Voillans, France KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.14705/rpnet.2019.38.986 2339240:ZAUCKJ67 2405685:45VMGDEX 2405685:8RNRFPG7 2405685:HUEZG3W8 2534378:93K5R9FV 2534378:NR6VFNNC
Keywords: Career Development; Cross Cultural Studies; ERIC; Resources in Education (RIE); Faculty Development; Females; Foreign Countries; Handheld Devices; Informal Education; Information Technology; Land Settlement; Lebanon; Literacy; Occupational Aspiration; Refugees; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Sweden; Syria; Teacher Attitudes; Telecommunications; Videoconferencing; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2095768; ___working_potential_duplicate; __finaldtb

Academic staff perspectives on technology for assessment (TfA) in higher education: A systematic literature review - Brady, Mairead; Devitt, Ann; Kiersey, Rachel A. (British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019)
This paper presents a systematic literature review of academic staff experiences and perceptions of adopting Technology for Assessment OF/FOR/AS Learning in Higher Education. This paper is a qualitative synthesis of 65 peer-reviewed journal articles published between 2012 and 2017 reporting on the use of technology for assessment (TfA). The results suggest that there are some efficiencies for staff in implementing TfA but this can come with a cost at the set-up and maintenance phases. Furthermore, results indicated that assessment design is not of foremost concern to academic staff when introducing TfA, but that a wide variety of pressures and both educational and operational drivers are present. There were inconclusive findings in relation to understandings of appropriate institutional environments and supports for TfA to flourish in higher education. There is a need for empirical research, particularly longitudinal investigations, of academic experiences of implementations of TfA to investigate sustainability of adoption. The imperative of exploring the academic staff perspective as the instigator and manager of both the technology and the student learning experience requires deep consideration as TfA adoption progresses.
shortDOI: 10/gf5f7m KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1111/bjet.12742 10/gf5f7m 2339240:BGFA2SDN 2405685:DBQ25LCM

Keeping the learning going: using mobile technology to enhance learning transfer - Brion, Corinne (Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2019)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1007/s10671-018-09243-0 2405685:VFBUV8DG

Child Online Safety Universal Declaration - Broadband Commission (Broadband Commission, 2019)
There are more than 2 billion children under the age of 18, with the majority living in the developing countries in Sub Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean. Many children have access to and are being impacted by the Internet. They may also be exploited by its use in unthinkable ways, and … Child Online Safety Declaration Read More »
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Research to Investigate low Learning Achievement in Early Grade Numeracy (Standards 1–4) in Malawi: The victory of form over substance - Brombacher, Arnout (HEART, 2019)
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The impact of mother tongue reading instruction in twelve Ugandan languages and the role of language complexity, socioeconomic factors, and program implementation - Brunette, Tracy; Piper, Benjamin; Jordan, Rachel; King, Simon; Nabacwa, Rehemah (Comparative Education Review, 2019)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1086/705426 2405685:N6LYI2SD 4042040:KKJT92BH

Factors That Influence Teachers' Pedagogical Use of ICT in Secondary Schools: A Case of Ghana - Buabeng-Andoh, Charles (Contemporary Educational Technology, 2019)
Technology is perceived as a vital driving force for contemporary education. The Government of Ghana acknowledges the relevance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education, and it is financing ICT in secondary schools. However, most instructors are unwilling to integrate ICT into their teaching. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that influence secondary school teachers' ICT usage in schools. The participants were 376 teachers randomly selected from 24 public and private schools. The data collected from the participants were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and analysis of variance. The results showed that teachers' use of ICT was still confined to basic and traditional activities such as search for information, class presentation etc. Internal and external factors were found to influence teachers' ICT usage. Also, female teachers reported that they use ICT more than male teachers. In general, this study has contributed to the literature regarding teachers' pedagogical use of ICT in secondary schools and also their gender differences in the use of ICT.
Publisher: Contemporary Educational Technology KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2339240:BKXQRZLF 2405685:CJMLD46D
Keywords: Access to Computers; Competence; Computer Uses in Education; Foreign Countries; Gender Differences; Influence of Technology; Information Technology; Instructional Leadership; Pedagogical Content Knowledge; Private Schools; Public Schools; Rural Schools; Secondary School Teachers; Secondary Schools; Self Efficacy; Teacher Attitudes; Technological Literacy; Technology Integration; Training; Urban Schools; ⛔ No DOI found

Expanding School Time and the Value of Computer-Assisted Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in El Salvador - Buchel, Konstantin; Jakob, Martina; Kuhnhanss, Christoph; Steﬀen, Daniel; Brunetti, Aymo (2019)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Information and communications technologies in secondary education in sub-Saharan Africa: Policies, practices, trends, and recommendations - Burns, Mary; Santally, Mohammad Issack (Mastercard Foundation, 2019)
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Educating 21st Century Children: Emotional Well-Being in the Digital Age - Burns, Tracey; Gottschalk, Francesca (OECD Publishing, 2019)
What is the nature of childhood today? On a number of measures, modern children’s lives have clearly improved thanks to better public safety and support for their physical and mental health. New technologies help children to learn, socialise and unwind, and older, better-educated parents are increasingly playing an active role in their children's education. At the same time, we are more connected than ever before, and many children have access to tablets and smartphones before they learn to walk and talk. Twenty-first century children are more likely to be only children, increasingly pushed to do more by “helicopter parents” who hover over their children to protect them from potential harm. In addition to limitless online opportunities, the omnipresent nature of the digital world brings new risks, like cyber-bullying, that follow children from the schoolyard into their homes. This report examines modern childhood, looking specifically at the intersection between emotional well-being and new technologies. It explores how parenting and friendships have changed in the digital age. It examines children as digital citizens, and how best to take advantage of online opportunities while minimising the risks. The volume ends with a look at how to foster digital literacy and resilience, highlighting the role of partnerships, policy and protection.
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Broadening borders to build better schools: virtual professional learning communities - Carpenter, Daniel; Munshower, Paul (The International Journal of Educational Management, 2019)
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore how rural teachers provided a PLC by leveraging virtual technologies to connect educators of like subject disciplines from several schools, foreign and domestic.Design/methodology/approachA phenomenological case study-based approach was leveraged to investigate established vPLCs at schools (Creswell, 2013; Stake, 2010). Qualitative data were collected from multiple sources to obtain rural teacher perceptions on the impact vPLCs had on their practice (Creswell, 2013).FindingsTeacher collaborative teams build relationships comparable to teams that met face to face as part of a similar PLC and PD experience. Participant reflections in this investigation showed that rural educators favored face-to-face meetings; however, vPLCs provided similar teacher experiences to that of the face-to-face PBL model. Results indicated that educators recognized virtual collaboration just as valuable a tool for enabling PLCs than face-to-face collaborations while still offering similarities to improved teacher practice.Research limitations/implicationsThe research was limited to teachers in rural settings in the USA (Texas) and in the Dominican Republic. The research was limited to teacher perceptions of change, and observed changes as part of their participation in a research-based virtual PLC model. The research was limited to the school setting over an academic year.Practical implicationsThe findings from this study have practical implications for rural teachers and school implementation of a professional learning community model.Originality/valueThe promise provided by this study is that vPLCs may provide opportunity for rural schools to provide a job-embedded professional development model (Croft et al., 2010) for otherwise isolated teachers (Barrett et al., 2015).
Place: Bradford Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited Cam URL: https://ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/2338030077?accountid=9851 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1108/IJEM-09-2018-0296 2339240:ITBNKNJS 2405685:493XEK9T 2405685:BXCJZXC3 2534378:9DM4HQE9 2534378:BDJAHBNX 2534378:EEJ2GZ6E
Keywords: Collaboration; Communities of Practice; Computer Mediated Communication; ERIC; Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Education; Educational technology; Faculty Development; Learning; Meetings; Preferences; Professional development; Professional learning communities; Rural Schools; Rural schools; School districts; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Collaboration; Teacher collaboration; Teachers; Teaching; Virtual professional learning communities; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2095794; __finaldtb

Multilingual literacy transfer in rural South Africa: A technology-based impact study - Castillo, N.; Wagner, D.A. (International Review of Education, 2019)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1007/s11159-019-09779-0 2339240:KIHKDCTG 2405685:SIG5VBIC

Government Design Principles - Central Digital and Data Office (GOV.UK, 2019)
The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2339240:HEJIHY8U 2405685:R8NQTVRI

Meeting them where they are: The use of Twitter in youth civic education - Chapman, A L (2019)
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Teacher education for realities of 21st century learners in rural South Africa - Chigona, A.; Chigona, W. (Human learning in the digital era, 2019)
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Educate! RCT 4-Year Follow-On (Interpretation Memo) - Chioda, L; Gertler, L; Gertler, P (2019)
Follow-up to a Randomized Controlled Trial which measured impact on students 4 years after completing the Educate! programme
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Can public rankings improve school performance? Evidence from a nationwide reform in Tanzania - Cilliers, Jacobus; Mbiti, Isaac; Zeitlin, Andrew (Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), 2019)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.35489/BSG-RISE-WP_2019/027 2339240:8NZV7LWT 2405685:PDZ4MDGU

Can Public Rankings Improve School Performance? Evidence from a Nationwide Reform in Tanzania - Cilliers, Jacobus; Mbiti, Isaac; Zeitlin, Andrew (2019)
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Language data for Nigeria - CLEAR Global (2019)
Find information about languages in Nigeria, thanks to our language data, including interactive and static language maps for Nigeria.
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Payment by results in international development: Evidence from the first decade - Clist, Paul (Development Policy Review, 2019)
Donors would be sensible to limit themselves to either ‘small PbR’ (where the costs of PbR are minimised) or genuine ‘big PbR’ (where projects seek to maximise PBR’s benefits). The current evidence shows that projects outside these two categories are worse than traditional forms of aid. Evidence for ‘small PbR’ is mixed, while there is no evidence for ‘big PbR’ as it has yet to be tried.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1111/dpr.12405 2339240:7FJCYSTU 2405685:XNFE2NTT 4656463:IMJ7GRVC

FRAMEWORK FOR STAKEHOLDER INCLUSION IN THE TECHNOLOGY PLANNING PROCESS - CoAction Learning Lab (Penn State COACTION LEARNING LAB, 2019)
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Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review - Coe, Rob; Rauch, C.J.; Kime, Stuart; Singleton, Dan (Evidence Based Education, 2019)
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Keywords: C:England/International

Transforming Teacher Education and Learning in Ghana: The Impact of a Continuous Professional Development on Physics Teaching at the Colleges of Education - Coffie, Isaac Sonful (International journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, 2019)
The colleges of education in Ghana have been involved in a continuous professional development for over four years with support of Transforming Teacher Education and Learning (T-TEL). The main purpose of this research was to assess the perceived impact of the continuous professional programme on physics teaching at the colleges of education. Descriptive cross sectional survey was used for the study. An online survey was conducted which was completed by 85 physics tutors. The survey data were analysed using means and standard deviations and ANOVA. It was found that the professional development is perceived by the physics tutors to have great impact on their teaching practice. It was also found out that there was no statistical significant difference in the perceived impact of the professional development based on tutors’ experience. It was concluded that if the student teachers who are being trained by these tutors will learn these ideas from their tutors and practice them, teaching at the basic schools will be more interactive, students-centered and gender responsive.
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Blockchain Goes to School - Cognizant (2019)
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Second Quarter Statistics Report for the Financial Year 2019/2020 - Communications Authority of Kenya (2019)
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Human development report 2019: beyond income, beyond averages, beyond today: inequalities in human development in the 21st century - Conceição, Pedro; United Nations Development Programme (2019)
OCLC: 1130905759 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2339240:EFRSRANV 2405685:SNQDEQWB 2405685:VXDMBKGS

Innovative Delivery of Education in Bangladesh Using Mobile Technology - Cristol, Dean; Abdulbaki, Anwar; Tuhin, Salah Uddin; Al-Sabbagh, Samah; Majareh, Maryam; Gimbert, Belinda (2019)
Given the increasing use and accessibility of mobile technology, a pilot study, “Innovative Delivery of Education in Bangladesh Using Mobile Technology” was carried out using mobile learning devices to both increase and enrich the delivery of educational services in a remote Bangladesh district. The APTUS system was used to allow learners’ connection to digital learning platforms and content without electricity or internet access. The researchers maintained that mobile learning associated with Project Based Learning can effect student learning in five ways: (1) contingent learning, changing experience students have by responding to the environment; (2) situated learning, in which learning occurs in the conditions applicable to the learning; (3) authentic learning connected to immediate learning goals; (4) context-aware learning, in which the environment and history affect learning; and (5) personalized learning. The results from this pilot research study provides evidence of the students achievement growth overtime and motivated to learn higher-order thinking technology enhanced skills when practical applications are supplemented with technology tools such as tablets. Students reported a heightened interest in science as a result of the project. Teachers maintained that their teaching skills were enhanced by the project and able to apply practical applications to teach science rather than lecturing and rote learning. Parents attributed the project for their children being more motivated to learn science inside and outside of the classroom. The study appears to have a positive impact on the three groups of the participants and should be scaled up to benefit more learning communities, especially in remote areas of Bangladesh.
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Mobile learning and student cognition: A systematic review of PK-12 research using Bloom’s Taxonomy - Crompton, Helen; Burke, Diane; Lin, Yi-Ching (British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019)
The rise of mobile learning in schools during the past decade has led to promises about the power of mobile learning to extend and enhance student cognitive engagement. The purpose of this study was to examine trends to determine the cognitive level students are involved in within mobile learning activities. This systematic review involved an aggregated and configurative synthesis of PK-12 mobile learning studies from 2010 to 16 and used Bloom’s Taxonomy as a theoretical framework for categorizing the cognitive level of student activities. Major new findings include that students are involved in activities at all six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. This study shows that over 60% of researchers are developing activities that require high levels of cognitive processing, a large increase from past studies. Nonetheless, 40% are integrating mobile devices in ways that keep students working with minimal cognitive processing. In both elementary and secondary studies, there was a 40/60% split in the use of lower versus high level thinking opportunities. New findings show that mobile devices were integrated into science, mathematics, social studies, literacy, art and special education. Studies in science settings were the majority of the studies (40%), followed by literacy (24%).
shortDOI: 10/gf5f7g KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1111/bjet.12674 10/gf5f7g 2339240:ITSJB3B5 2339240:KIEJIK2D 2405685:J23Q8BH4
Keywords: Reviewed