Leveraging community partnerships to engage digitally foreign learners in response to COVID-19 - Burgess, W Keith; Anderson, Jimmeka L (Middle Grades Review, 2020)
This practitioner perspective discusses how creating and leveraging community partnerships in response to COVID-19 enhanced remote learning with science curriculum in an urban middle school with digitally foreign learners. The term digitally foreign learners was coined by the authors to contextualize the experiences of students with limited digital learning both at home and in school as a result of the digital divide. By developing a partnership with the nonprofit organization, I AM not the MEdia, Inc., along with parents and an external educator, the authors describe how a classroom blog site was created that enhanced remote learning engagement with students and families in a high poverty community. Strategies for addressing technology inequities and engaging digitally foreign learners through digital curriculum is provided.
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How should we help the Covid19 cohorts make up the learning loss from lockdown? - Burgess, Simon (2020)
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2022 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor: Timor-Leste - Bureau of International Labor Affairs (2022)
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Keywords: ⛔ No INSPIRE recid found

iPad Scotland Evaluation - Burden, K., Hopkins, P., Male, T., Martin, S., & Trala, C. (University of Hull, 2012)
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Technocentrism and social fields in the Indian EdTech movement: formation, reproduction and resistance - Burch, Patricia; Miglani, Neha (Journal of Education Policy, 2018)
All over the globe, educational technology (EdTech) is being sold to schools as a central mechanism for improving access to quality learning for high poverty populations. There is a growing scholarship that interrogates the institutional drivers of the ‘EdTech craze’. Building on this work, this paper examines how technocentrism as a specific strain of neoliberalism is reflected at both the organizational and institutional levels, both by private and public sectors in the case of school education in India. We argue that using institutional theory to explain complex multi-layered reforms means looking in tandem at macro principles defined through interactions in the organizational field and the re-experiencing and transformation of those processes at the micro level.
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Technology and education: Computers, software, and the internet - Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. (Handbook of the Economics of Education, 2016)
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Releasing the potential of teachers in the COVID response in low-income countries - Bullard, Katy; Sonnenberg, Krystyna (Global Partnership for Education, 2020)
How can teachers in low income countries be involved to support learning and student well-being during the COVID-19 crisis? Drawing lessons from past disease outbreaks and from current examples of the COVID-19 education response, we look at tools and practices to help teachers continue doing their work during the crisis.
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Teachers’ attitudes towards the utility of computers in education in Kenya - Buliva, Newton (African Educational Research Journal, 2018)
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Critical Perspectives on Technology and Education - Bulfin, Scott; Johnson, Nicola F.; Rowan, Leonie (Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015)
This book offers critical readings of issues in education and technology and demonstrates how researchers can use critical perspectives from sociology, digital media, cultural studies, and other fields to broaden the "ed-tech" research imagination, open up new topics, ask new questions, develop theory, and articulate an agenda for informed action.
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Constraints to Senior Management’s Capacity to Implement the Performance Management System in Senior Secondary Schools in Botswana - Bulawa, Philip (International Education Studies, 2013)
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Evaluating the Use of Radios to Promote Learning in Liberia During COVID-19 - Bulat, Dr. Jennae (RTI International, 2020)
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Empowerment of Women through Distance Education in Pakistan - Bukhsh, Qadir (2007)
The present study was undertaken to highlight the gender disparities of Pakistan as well as at regional and international level. The study, measured the comparative outcome of formal and non-formal system of education in Pakistan. To achieve the desired goal, documentary analysis was considered appropriate. The number of schools and enrollment during the years 2001 to 2004 of the formal system for primary, middle and high level was considered and enrollment during the year 198-1999 and 2004 for Secondary School Certificate to Ph.D level of non-formal system was considered. Data was analyzed in term of percentage and average. It was found that enrollment of female is less than male in formal system while enrollment of female is higher than male in non-formal system of education in Pakistan. (Contains 16 tables.)
Issue: 4 Publication Title: Online Submission KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2339240:GH4W93KG 2405685:HC78WJKZ
Keywords: Access to Education; Computer Uses in Education; Distance Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Empowerment; Enrollment Trends; Females; Foreign Countries; Gender Differences; Nonformal Education; Postsecondary Education; Womens Education

Blended learning implementation in secondary education for girls: case study Tatweer project Saudi Arabia - Bukhari, Eman Gasim (International Journal of Academic Research and Reflection, 2016)
Blended learning (BL) has been the subject of much research recently, and the present research adds to this growing body of knowledge as the first substantial study on BL in secondary education for girls in Saudi Arabia. Based on field work comprising interviews and questionnaires this research reports the results of an exploratory, empirical case study of a large-scale programme (Tatweer project) for the introduction of blended learning into 25 traditional secondary girls' schools in Saudi Arabia. Adopting the interpretive research paradigm the objective of the study is to gain rich insight into blended learning guided by the effect of BL on female education. The study demonstrates a number of positive effects of BL on students' engagement and self-development, however, problems with the workloads of students and the failure of teachers to integrate face-to-face learning with e-learning are also observed. Throughout the research Sharpe et al.'s (2006) 8-dimensional framework of BL is applied in a new way to assess the implementation level of BL. This results in the recommendation to extend this framework with an ethical dimension. Further recommendations of the work are to actively seek feedback from key stakeholder groups during BL implementation, to use BL for teacher training in BL, and to measure performance indicators like students' workloads during the transition of traditional schools to BL.
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Assessing the Strength of Evidence in the Education Sector - Building Evidence in Education (2015)
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Assessing the Strength of Evidence in the Education Sector (DRAFT) - Building Evidence in Education (Building Evidence in Education, 2015)
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Mother tongue matters: local language as a key to effective learning - Bühmann, Dörthe; Trudell, Barbara (2008)
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The Impact of Teacher Effectiveness on Student Learning in Africa - Buhl-Wiggers, Julie; Kerwin, Jason; Smith, Jeffrey; Thornton, Rebecca (Rise Programme, 2017)
Teaching quality is known to be critical for students’ education and life prospects in developed countries. However, little is known about how teacher quality affects student learning in Africa. This paper presents the first estimates of teacher value-added from an African country, using data from a school-based RCT in northern Uganda. Exploiting the random assignment of students to classrooms within schools, we estimate a lower bound on teacher effects. A 1-SD increase in teacher quality leads to at least a 0.14 SD improvement in student performance on a reading test at the end of the year. Shifting teachers from the 10th to the 90th percentile of quality increases performance by 0.36 SDs –comparable to the most effective education interventions conducted in Africa. Our results also suggest that an increase in teacher quality can make other education interventions more efficient.
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Keywords: C:Uganda; NULP

Loss-of-Learning and the Post-Covid Recovery in Low-Income Countries - Buffie, Edward; Adam, Christopher; Kpodar, Kangni; Zanna, Luis-Felipe (IMF Working Papers, 2022)
We analyze the medium-term macroeconomic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lock-down measures on low-income countries. We focus on the impact over the medium-run of the degradation of health and human capital caused by the pandemic and its aftermath, exploring the tradeoffs between rebuilding human capital and the recovery of livelihoods and macroeconomic sustainability. A dynamic general equilibrium model is calibrated to reflect the structural characteristics of vulnerable lowincome countries and to replicate key dimensions of the Covid-19 shock. We show that absent significant and sustained external financing, the persistence of loss-of-learning effects on labor productivity is likely to make the post-Covid recovery more attenuated and more expensive than many contemporary analyses suggest.
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Instructional design enabled Agile Method using ADDIE Model and Feature Driven Development method - Budoya, Christian; Kissaka, Mussa; Mtebe, Joel (The International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology)
Software developers nowadays are adopting agile methods to overcome challenges faced by traditional methods in developing software. However, agile methods lack instructional design to take care of learning needs required in designing software for supporting teaching and learning. This study aimed at designing an integrated model using Feature Driven Development Process (FDDP) and Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (ADDIE) model to accommodate learning needs at design stage. Participatory action research method and four design strategies including decompositional, compositional, template based, and incremental and evolutionary strategies were used in designing the integrated ADDIE-FDDP Model. A case study of designing Interactive Multimedia Content for Life Skills Education (IMCLSE) was used to test the model, especially its analysis and design phases. A questionnaire was adapted to evaluate the IMCLSE design involving 10 software developers and 65 teachers who teach life skills subjects in 10 primary schools. The results show that software developers and teachers agreed that the integrated FDDP-ADDIE Model was effective in guiding the design process of software that support teaching and learning. Therefore, the integrated FDDP-ADDIE Model can be adopted and used for developing effective and quality learning software.
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Towards developing interactive content for enhancing life skills education in Tanzania: Possibilities and pitfalls - Budoya, Christian M.; Kissaka, Mussa M.; Mtebe, Joel S. (Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D)
Feasibility study is the first and important stage in any planning of introducing a new solution for overcoming existing challenges. It saves a lot of resources that could be lost if such solution fails to solve the intended problem. On the other hand, it gives a proper way to go ahead with the plan of introducing the solution. The purpose of this study is to establish necessary and basic requirements as possibilities and pitfalls for deploying cost effective interactive multimedia content for enhancing an ineffective provision life skills education at primary school level in Tanzania. Ten primary schools were randomly selected and surveyed from which 65 teachers and 407 pupils participated in the study. Questionnaires, interviews, and documentary reviews were used as data collection tools. It was found that the Internet penetration is 45% of the population with 82.6% of Internet users are smartphones users. Number of computers and tablets at schools are still limited to 1:1036 computer pupils ratio, 96% of pupils had access of computers and smartphones from parents. Moreover, 77% of teachers used conventional and lecturing style in teaching, 100% of life skills content was static found in inadequate textbooks. Based on these results, deployment of self-learning enabled interactive multimedia content is possible and will bring positive impact if it will be developed to operate in ICT devices available in both primary schools and pupils’ parents as well. This study informs the proper way of introducing cost-effective interactive multimedia content at primary school level in Tanzania.
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Keywords: Interactive multimedia content; Life skills education; Possibilities and pitfalls

Academics who tweet: “messy” identities in academia - Budge, Kylie; Lemon, Narelle; McPherson, Megan (Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2016)
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the growing use of Twitter in academic and artist practices. The authors explore commonalities, overlaps and differences within the reflections on the initial and ongoing motivations, usage and learnings the authors have encountered whilst immersed in this environment. Design/methodology/approach The authors locate the particular inquiry by drawing on the literature surrounding digital identities, academic literacies and digital scholarship. Departing from other studies, the focus is on a narrative inquiry of the lived experiences as academics and as artists using Twitter. Findings Academics use of Twitter plays a distinctly social role enabling communication that connects, and fostering accessible and approachable acts. It enables a space for challenging norms of academic ways of being and behaving. In addition, the authors draw conclusions about the “messiness” of the interconnected space that incorporates multiple identities, and highlight the risk taking the authors associate with using Twitter. Research limitations/implications Academic practice is ever changing in the contemporary university. This initial study of academic and artist practices and the use of Twitter suggests future developments including participants using similar questions to elicit notions of practice to engage in a deeper understanding of motivations and behaviours. Practical implications In using social media tools such as Twitter, individual academics and their practices are modified; the impact of this practice is visible. Originality/value The authors contribute to emerging discussions and understandings about academics, social media and identity. The authors argue that by participating in the use of Twitter, the authors are part of the collective process of challenging what it means to be an academic and artist.
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1108/JARHE-11-2014-0114 2405685:ZSTRNA6N
Keywords: Academics; Artists; Identity; Narrative inquiry; Social media; Twitter

Hyderbad police bust racket selling fake degree certificates, 10 held - Buddi, Mahesh (2022)
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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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The relative eﬀectiveness of teachers and learning software: Evidence from a field experiment in El Salvador - Buchel, Konstantin; Jakob, Martina; Kuhnhanss, Christoph; Steﬀen, Daniel; Brunetti, Aymo (University of Bern, 2020)
This study provides novel evidence on the relative eﬀectiveness of computer-assisted learning (CAL) software and traditional teaching. Based on a randomized controlled trial in Salvadoran primary schools, we evaluate three interventions that aim to improve learning outcomes in mathematics: (i) teacher-led classes, (ii) CAL classes monitored by a technical supervisor, and (iii) CAL classes instructed by a teacher. As all three interventions involve the same amount of additional mathematics lessons, we can directly compare the productivity of the three teaching methods. CAL lessons lead to larger improvements in students’ mathematics skills than traditional teacher-centered classes. In addition, teachers add little to the eﬀectiveness of learning software. Overall, our results highlight the value of CAL approaches in an environment with poorly qualiﬁed teachers.
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Keywords: Quality: H; Relevance: H; computer-assisted learning; primary education; productivity in education; teacher content knowledge; ⛔ No DOI found

The Relative Effectiveness of Teachers and Learning Software: Evidence from a Field Experiment in El Salvador - Büchel, Konstantin; Jakob, Martina; Kühnhanss, Christoph; Steffen, Daniel; Brunetti, Aymo (Journal of Labor Economics, 2022)
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Under the Hood of an EdTech Study in Kenya: Implementation challenges, successes, and lessons learnt - Büchel, Konstantin; Crossley, Colin; Cullen, Claire; Letsomo, Thato (EdTech Hub, 2023)
In the years following a global pandemic that left 1.6 billion learners out of school, the global learning crisis has grown more urgent. Governments worldwide have sought technology-enabled education platforms that can support higher quality, resilient education systems. One cheap and easy tool for delivering remote educational support is basic mobile phones, which represent a potentially cost-effective and remote platform for adapting a range of proven pedagogical methods. To do so successfully, programme delivery should consider three key factors that include (1) careful training on delivering pedagogical methods in a phone setting, (2) Appropriate monitoring systems to ensure weekly delivery fidelity and, (3) an appropriate data and/or delivery infrastructure to enable programme monitoring. If done successfully, mobile phone programmes can present education ministries with an efficient delivery option for quality education at a fraction of the cost of higher-tech solutions. An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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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

Mobile Phone Subscribers in Bangladesh February, 2020 | BTRC - BTRC
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Paradigm Peace and the Implications for Quality - Bryman, Alan (International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2006)
In this article it is shown that the paradigm wars that raged concerning the incompatibility of quantitative and qualitative research have largely subsided. In the process, discussions of epistemological and ontological issues have become less prominent. The peace that has broken out has proved to be more favourable to research combining quantitative and qualitative research than was the case during the paradigm wars. Drawing on interviews with social researchers who employ a mixed‐methods approach and on the literature, it is shown that a spirit of pragmatism with regard to combining quantitative and qualitative research prevails which encourages researchers to consider using mixed‐methods research when the research question is suited to it. However, the issue of which quality criteria should be employed in investigations combining quantitative and qualitative research has not been given a great deal of consideration. The author argues for a contingency approach, in which issues to do with quality are decided in relation to the nature of the study.
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Hierarchical linear models: Applications and data analysis methods - Bryk, Anthony S.; Raudenbush, Stephen W. (Sage Publications, Inc, 1992)
Much social and behavioral research involves hierarchical data structures. . . . Recent developments in the statistical theory of hierarchical linear models now afford an integrated set of methods for such applications. This introductory text explicates the theory and use of hierarchical linear models (HLM) through rich, illustrative examples and lucid explanations. The presentation remains reasonably nontechnical by focusing on three general research purposes—improved estimation of effects within an individual unit, estimating and testing hypotheses about cross-level effects, and partitioning of variance and covariance components among levels. This innovative volume describes use of both two and three level models in organizational research, studies of individual development and meta-analysis applications, and concludes with a formal derivation of the statistical methods used in the book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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Keywords: Mathematical Modeling; Statistical Analysis

Evaluating an adaptive multi-user educational tool for low-resource environments - Brunskill, Emma; Garg, Sunil; Tseng, Clint; Pal, Joyojeet; Findlater, Leah (Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2010)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Great teachers: How to raise student learning in Latin America and the Caribbean - Bruns, Barbara; Luque, Javier (World Bank Group, 2014)
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Keywords: C:Latin America and the Carribeans

Through the Looking Glass: Can Classroom Observation and Coaching Improve Teacher Performance in Brazil? - Bruns, Barbara; Costa, Leandro; Cunha, Nina (World Bank Group, 2017)
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Keywords: ___working_potential_duplicate

Through the looking glass: can classroom observation and coaching improve teacher performance in Brazil? - Bruns, Barbara; Costa, Leandro; Cunha, Nina (Economics of Education Review, 2018)
We conducted a randomized evaluation of a program in Brazil that provided secondary schools with classroom observation feedback and access to expert coaching. Coaching content was based on Teach Like A Champion, by Douglas Lemov, which imparts practical strategies to increase teachers’ effectiveness by maximizing time on instruction and student engagement. In treatment schools, the program raised the skills of pedagogical coordinators tasked with supporting teachers to improve instruction, increased teachers’ time on instruction, raised student engagement and produced statistically significant student learning gains. Program schools performed 0.05–0.09 SD higher in 10th grade math and Portuguese on a state test and 0.06 SD higher in Portuguese on a national high school leaving test (12th grade). High quality coaching delivered to the coordinators via Skype kept costs at $2.40 per student, making the program a cost-effective and promising strategy for school-based efforts to raise teachers’ classroom effectiveness. (I21, I25, I28, J18, O15)
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Keywords: Classroom observation; Economic development; Economic impact; Educational economics; Randomization; Teacher coaching; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2425900; ___working_potential_duplicate; __finaldtb

In Bringing a Literacy Project to Scale, has Kenya Found a Holy Grail? - Bruns, Barbara (Center For Global Development, 2018)
An article of faith among development economists is that “evidence-based policy” holds the promise of faster progress. Barbara Bruns set out to find a rigorously evaluated pilot whose evidence had led to a program at scale. It wasn’t easy.
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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)
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The Culture of Education - Bruner, Jerome (Harvard University Press, 1997)
In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it often fails to do so. Going well beyond his earlier acclaimed books on education, Bruner looks past the issue of achieving individual competence to the question of how education equips individuals to participate in the culture on which life and livelihood depend.
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Stakeholder analysis: a review - Brugha, Ruairi; Varvarovszky, Zsuzsa (Health Policy and Planning, 2000)
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An inclusive approach to searching for evidence on EdTech in low- and middle- income countries - Brugha, Meaghan (EdTech Hub, 2020)
A blog post by Meaghan Brugha and Katy Jordan. A searchable database The EdTech Hub has undertaken a large-scale search for publications on technology use in education in low- and middle- income countries. During this process, we created an internal research database. This is searchable through the use of a variety of filters, such as …
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Keywords: F:Blog post; LP: English; _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _zenodoODE

Safeguarding Girls and Boys: When Chatbots answer their private questions - Brown, Isabelle Amazon; Binder, Gerda (UNICEF)
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The creation of a nudging protocol to support online student engagement in higher education - Brown, Alice; Lawrence, Jill; Basson, Marita; Axelsen, Megan; Redmond, Petrea; Turner, Joanna; Maloney, Suzanne; Galligan, Linda (Active Learning in Higher Education, 2023)
Combining nudge theory with learning analytics, ‘nudge analytics’, is a relatively recent phenomenon in the educational context. Used, for example, to address such issues as concerns with student (dis)engagement, nudging students to take certain action or to change a behaviour towards active learning, can make a difference. However, knowing who to nudge, how to nudge or when to nudge can be a challenge. Providing students with strategic, sensitive nudges that help to move them forward is almost an art form. It requires not only technical skills to use appropriate software and interpret data, but careful consideration of what to say and how to say it. In this article a nudge protocol is presented that can be used in online courses to encourage student engagement with key course resources that are integral to supporting their learning.
Publisher: SAGE Publications KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1177/14697874211039077 2339240:UIHACPNQ 2405685:VQ794IWE

Toward a conceptual framework of culturally relevant pedagogy: An overview of the conceptual and theoretical literature - Brown-Jeffy, Shelly; Cooper, Jewell E. (Teacher Education Quarterly, 2011)
The United States is a diverse country with constantly changing demographics. The noticeable shift in demographics is even more phenomenal among the school-aged population. The increase of ethnic-minority student presence is largely credited to the national growth of the Hispanic population, which exceeded the growth of all other ethnic minority group students in public schools. Scholars have pondered over strategies to assist teachers in teaching about diversity (multiculturalism, racism, etc.) as well as interacting with the diversity found within their classrooms in order to ameliorate the effects of cultural discontinuity. One area that has developed in multicultural education literature is culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP). CRP maintains that teachers need to be non-judgmental and inclusive of the cultural backgrounds of their students in order to be effective facilitators of learning in the classroom. The plethora of literature on CRP, however, has not been presented as a testable theoretical model nor has it been systematically viewed through the lens of critical race theory (CRT). By examining the evolution of CRP among some of the leading scholars, the authors broaden this work through a CRT infusion which includes race and indeed racism as normal parts of American society that have been integrated into the educational system and the systematic aspects of school relationships. Their purpose is to infuse the tenets of CRT into an overview of the literature that supports a conceptual framework for understanding and studying culturally relevant pedagogy. They present a conceptual framework of culturally relevant pedagogy that is grounded in over a quarter of a century of research scholarship. By synthesizing the literature into the five areas and infusing it with the tenets of CRT, the authors have developed a collection of principles that represents culturally relevant pedagogy. (Contains 1 figure and 1 note.)
Publisher: Caddo Gap Press KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2339240:99DAXIRH 2405685:9V2M6ABC
Keywords: Cultural Pluralism; Culturally Relevant Education; Developmentally Appropriate Practices; Educational Quality; Ethnicity; Holistic Approach; Identification (Psychology); Inclusion; Literature Reviews; Minority Groups; Multicultural Education; Student Diversity; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Student Relationship; Teaching Methods; ⛔ No DOI found

DIGITAL LEARNING FOR EVERY CHILD: CLOSING THE GAPS FOR AN INCLUSIVE AND PROSPEROUS FUTURE - Brossard, Matt; Carnelli, Marta; Chaudron, Stephane; Di-Gioia, Rosanna; Dreesen, Thomas; Kardefelt-Winther, Daniel; Little, Céline; Yameogo, Jean Luc (UNICEF, 2021)
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Parental Engagement in Children’s Learning: Insights for remote learning response during COVID-19 - Brossard, Mathieu; Cardoso, Manuel; Kamei, Akito; Mishra, Sakshi; Mizunoya, Suguru; Reuge, Nicolas (2020)
This research brief is one of a series that explores the impact of COVID-19 on education. It focuses on the potential parental role in learning and its association with foundational reading and numeracy skills. Fifty-three per cent of children in low
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Toward data-driven education systems: Insights into using information to measure results and manage change - Brookings (Brookings Institution, 2018)
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Exploring formative assessment - Brookhart, Susan M. (ASCD, 2009)
About the PLC series: Welcome to an adventure! If you are a teacher who is interested in developing a professional learning community to develop your classroom repertoire and increase your students achievement and motivation, you are in for a treat. A professional learning community (PLC) is a small group of teachers or administrators that meets regularly and works between meetings to accomplish shared goals. PLCs are vehicles for connecting teacher practice and student outcomes, improving both. About this book: Exploring Formative Assessment is your guide to creating a PLC to help further your understanding of how to use formative assessment in your school or classroom. You ll find everything you need to organize and run your PLC, including agendas, handouts, worksheets, and the background reading for each of seven sessions. You ll get the chance to try out new techniques and to collaborate with your colleagues as you deepen your understanding of formative assessment.
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Keywords: Education / Professional Development; Education / Testing & Measurement

Ecological models of human development - Bronfenbrenner, Urie (Readings on the development of children, 1994)
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Ecological systems theory. - Bronfenbrenner, Urie (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1992)
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Recent advances in research on the ecology of human development - Bronfenbrenner, Urie (Development as action in context, 1986)
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The Ecology of Human Development - Bronfenbrenner, Urie (Harvard University Press, 1979)
To understand the way children develop, Bronfenbrenner believes that it is necessary to observe their behavior in natural settings, while they are interacting with familiar adults over prolonged periods of time. His book offers an important blueprint for constructing a new and ecologically valid psychology of development.
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Keywords: Psychology / General

The ecology of human development: experiments by nature and design - Bronfenbrenner, Urie (Harvard University Press, 1979)
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Keywords: Child psychology; Human development; Research

Toward an experimental ecology of human development. - Bronfenbrenner, Urie (American psychologist, 1977)
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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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Systems theory of systems thinking: General and particular within modern science and technology education - Broks, Andris (Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2016)
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Standing on the shoulders of giants: challenges and recommendations of literature search in information systems research - Brocke, J; Simons, A; Riemer, K (Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2015)
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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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In moments of crisis, Broadband Commissioners come together to offer immediate support to communities worldwide - Broadband Commission (2020)
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Using meta ethnography to synthesise qualitative research: A worked example - Britten, Nicky; Campbell, Rona; Pope, Catherine; Donovan, Jenny; Morgan, Myfanwy; Pill, Roisin (Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 2002)
Objectives: To demonstrate the benefits of applying meta ethnography to the synthesis of qualitative research, by means of a worked example. Methods:. Four papers about lay meanings of medicines were arbitrarily chosen. Noblit and Hare's seven-step process for conducting a meta ethnography was employed: getting started; deciding what is relevant to the initial interest; reading the studies; determining how the studies are related; translating the studies into one another; synthesising translations; and expressing the synthesis. Results: Six key concepts were identified: adherence/compliance; self-regulation; aversion; alternative coping strategies; sanctions; and selective disclosure. Four second-order interpretations (derived from the chosen papers) were identified, on the basis of which four third-order interpretations (based on the key concepts and second-order interpretations) were constructed. These were all linked together in a line of argument that accounts for patients' medicine-taking behaviour and communication with health professionals in different settings. Third-order interpretations were developed which were not only consistent with the original results but also extended beyond them. Conclusions: It is possible to use meta ethnography to synthesise the results of qualitative research. The worked example has produced middle-range theories in the form of hypotheses that could be tested by other researchers. © The Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd 2002.
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Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning - British Council (2020)
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Technology for professional development: access, interest and opportunity for teachers of English in South Asia - British Council (British Council, 2015)
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The University Research System in Pakistan - British Council (2018)
With the support of the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan and the British Council, Knowledge Platform conducted in 2018 a seminal research project titled The University Research System
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Cambodia Introduction and Quick Facts - Britannica (2023)
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East-Timor - Britannica (2024)
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Keeping the learning going: using mobile technology to enhance learning transfer - Brion, Corinne (Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2019)
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Opportunities for Adolescent Girls and the Role of Girls' Groups - Briggs, Hannah; Haberland, Nicole; Desai, Sapna; De Hoop, Thomas; Ngo, Thoai (Evidence Consortium on Women's Groups, 2020)
COVID-19 has disrupted lives, networks, and institutions across social, economic, and health dimensions around the globe. We examine how the pandemic has affected adolescent girls and young women in particular, and explore how group-based programs for girls in low-and middle-income countries have been affected by and are responding to the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected adolescent girls and young women across multiple outcomes, including education, livelihoods, sexual and reproductive health, sexual- and gender-based violence, the burden of unpaid care, and early and forced marriage. These heightened barriers to economic and social opportunities and the resulting loss of human capital have the potential to derail progress towards gender equality unless recognized and addressed. Girls’ groups may offer potential pathways of resilience for girls during system shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic, though more evidence is needed on their effects and how they function when social connectivity and mobility are heavily restricted, limiting program implementation.
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Safe Schools: getting children back into education after disaster strikes - Briggs, Billy (Theirworld, 2020)
To mark Theirworld's Safe Schools report, we look at how countries can rebuild their education system after an earthquake, tsunami or other catastrophic event.
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How (Not) to Fix Problems that Matter: Assessing and Responding to Malawi's History of Institutional Reform - Bridges, Kate; Woolcock, Michael (World Bank, 2017)
Malawi can be understood as a microcosm of institutional reform approaches in developing countries more broadly. A common feature of such approaches, whether implemented by government or donors, is reform initiatives that yield institutions that "look like" those found in higher-performing countries but rarely acquire the same underlying functionality. This paper presents a retrospective analysis of previous institutional reform projects in Malawi, as well as interviews with Malawi-based development practitioners. The paper finds a plethora of interventions that, merely by virtue of appearing to be in conformity with "best practices" elsewhere, are deemed to be successful yet fail to fix underlying problems, sometimes in contradiction to internal and public narratives of positive progress. This unhappy arrangement endures because a multitude of imperatives, incentives, and norms appear to keep governments and donors from more closely examining why such intense, earnest, and long-standing efforts at reform have, to date, yielded so few successes. This paper seeks to promote a shift in approach to institutional reform, offering some practical recommendations for reform-minded managers, project teams, and political leaders in which the focus is placed on crafting solutions to problems that Malawians themselves nominate, prioritize, and enact.
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Keywords: Capacity Building; Civil Service; Development Effectiveness; Governance; Institutions; Legitimacy; Public Administration; Public Sector; Reform

Bridge International Academies- Home Learning - Bridge International Academies (Bridge International Academies, 2020)
If your child is at one of our schools, then their lessons will have been interrupted because schools are temporarily closed. Please access the weekly class specific lesson plan for your child so they can continue learning at home.
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Bridge International | Liberian Education Advancement Program (LEAP) - Bridge International (Bridge International Academies, 2020)
Delivering transformation at scale is more effective if achieved through the local Ministry of Education. The Liberian Education Advancement Programme …
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Learning gains in Liberia - Bridge International (Bridge International Academies, 2017)
Bridge manages 68 of the 200 ‘Liberian Education Advancement Program’ (LEAP) schools in partnership with the Liberian government. Discover our impact.
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Killing 'Sesame Street' In Pakistan - Bricklin, Julia (Forbes, 2012)
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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

Best of both worlds: issues of structure and agency in computational creation, in and out of school - Brennan, Karen A. (Karen Ann) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
We live in a computational culture - a culture in which we are surrounded by computational systems and interfaces, from social networks to banking infrastructure, to entertainment platforms, to transportation systems. This culture introduces new expectations and new opportunities for learning, creating new demands for what to learn and offering new possibilities for how to learn. In this dissertation, I adopt a predominantly qualitative approach to exploring learning in computational culture, studying how the Scratch programming environment and online community are employed to support learning both in and out of school. To this end, I conducted interviews with 30 kids working with Scratch at home and 30 teachers working with Scratch in K-12 classrooms to develop descriptions of computational creation in these two settings. Using a theoretical framework of agency and structure, I analyze how the at-home and school-classroom contexts enable - or constrain - young people's agency in computational creation. Despite common assumptions that at-home learning is necessarily low-structure/high-agency and that at-school learning is necessarily high-structure/low-agency, I argue that structure and agency need not be in opposition. Designers of learning environments should explore intermediate possibilities, finding ways to employ structure in the service of learner agency.
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Safeguarding Her: A call to action to educating girls in vulnerable situations - Break Free Alliance (Education for All, 2021)
For millions of girls across Africa, the thought of joining school remains far-fetched. Here are 6 recommendations we consider vital to ensure girls’ better access to education and secure their futures.
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BRCK - Funding, Financials, Valuation & Investors - BRCK (Crunchbase)
BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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BRCK | KioKit - BRCK (2020)
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EDUCATION - BRCK (BRCK)
Hardware, software and connectivity tools to enable learning BRCK Education turn any classroom into a digital classroom. Reaching thousands of children in over 100 locations across 17 countries, our world-class education technology solutions give access to digital educational tools for better learning. INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) CONNECTIVITY EDUCATION Kio Kit THE DIGITAL CLASSROOM IN A ... read more
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Hardware, software and connectivity tools to enable learning - BRCK (BRCK)
Hardware, software and connectivity tools to enable learning BRCK Education turn any classroom into a digital classroom. Reaching thousands of children in over 100 locations across 17 countries, our world-class education technology solutions give access to digital educational tools for better learning. INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) CONNECTIVITY EDUCATION Kio Kit THE DIGITAL CLASSROOM IN A ... read more
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Using thematic analysis in psychology - Braun, Virginia; Clarke, Victoria (Qualitative Research in Psychology, 2006)
Thematic analysis is a poorly demarcated, rarely acknowledged, yet widely used qualitative analytic method within psychology. In this paper, we argue that it offers an accessible and theoretically flexible approach to analysing qualitative data. We outline what thematic analysis is, locating it in relation to other qualitative analytic methods that search for themes or patterns, and in relation to different epistemological and ontological positions. We then provide clear guidelines to those wanting to start thematic analysis, or conduct it in a more deliberate and rigorous way, and consider potential pitfalls in conducting thematic analysis. Finally, we outline the disadvantages and advantages of thematic analysis. We conclude by advocating thematic analysis as a useful and flexible method for qualitative research in and beyond psychology.
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Keywords: epistemology; flexibility; patterns; qualitative psychology; thematic analysis

Rethinking education in the digital age - Braun, Anette; März, Anna; Mertens, Fabian; Nisser, Annerose (European Parliamentary Research Service, 2020)
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Forum: A governmentality perspective on the Common Core - Brass, Jory (Research in the Teaching of English, 2016)
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have anchored an education policy apparatus that seeks to reconstruct much of the work of curriculum, teaching, and teacher education. However, teachers and teacher education faculty have often struggled to
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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.
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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.]
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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

A Rapid Assessment: Impact of COVID-19 on Education in Bangladesh - BRAC (Advocacy for Social Change (ASC), BRAC, 2020)
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BRAC Education Programme Bangladesh - BRAC (2019)
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Korail - BRAC
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An analysis of peer reviewed publications on openness in education in half a century: Trends and patterns in the open hemisphere - Bozkurt, Aras; Koseoglu, Suzan; Singh, Lenandlar (Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2018)
Openness in education is an evolving concept which is shaped by the changing needs of societies, cultures, geographies, and economies, thus, it does not have a precise definition. By focusing on four sets of generic keywords - open education, open learning, open educational resources (OERs), and open educational practices (OEPs) - this paper examines research in openness in education through a systematic review of peer reviewed literature. In doing so, the researchers sought to draw attention to existing trends and patterns and possible future trajectories of openness in education. Content analysis, social network analysis, and text-mining are the methods used for data collection and analysis. Findings show that there has been growing interest on openness in education, particularly on OERs, across different fields. Findings also point to OEPs as an emerging area of study, which offers a fertile ground for future research. However, on closer inspection, a divide can be observed between the global north and global south in terms of research output.
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Keywords: Open Education; Open Educational Practices (OEPs); Open Educational Resources (OERs); Open Learning; Openness; Reviewed

A global outlook to the interruption of education due to COVID-19 pandemic: Navigating in a time of uncertainty and crisis - Bozkurt, Aras; Jung, Insung; Xiao, Junhong; Vladimirschi, Viviane; Schuwer, Robert; Egorov, Gennady; Lambert, Sarah; Al-Freih, Maha; Pete, Judith; Don Olcott, Jr; Rodes, Virginia; Aranciaga, Ignacio; et al. (Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2020)
Uncertain times require prompt reflexes to survive and this study is a collaborative reflex to better understand uncertainty and navigate through it. The Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic hit hard and interrupted many dimensions of our lives, particularly education. As a response to interruption of education due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this study is a collaborative reaction that narrates the overall view, reflections from the K12 and higher educational landscape, lessons learned and suggestions from a total of 31 countries across the world with a representation of 62.7% of the whole world population. In addition to the value of each case by country, the synthesis of this research suggests that the current practices can be defined as emergency remote education and this practice is different from planned practices such as distance education, online learning or other derivations. Above all, this study points out how social injustice, inequity and the digital divide have been exacerbated during the pandemic and need unique and targeted measures if they are to be addressed. While there are support communities and mechanisms, parents are overburdened between regular daily/professional duties and emerging educational roles, and all parties are experiencing trauma, psychological pressure and anxiety to various degrees, which necessitates a pedagogy of care, affection and empathy. In terms of educational processes, the interruption of education signifies the importance of openness in education and highlights issues that should be taken into consideration such as using alternative assessment and evaluation methods as well as concerns about surveillance, ethics, and data privacy resulting from nearly exclusive dependency on online solutions.
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Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus Pandemic; Covid-19.; Emergency remote education; distance education; dode_eth-src-dode; dode_eth-trf2-dode; emergency remote education; online learning; ⛔ No DOI found

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.
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Emergency remote teaching in a time of global crisis due to CoronaVirus pandemic - Bozkurt, A; Sharma, R C (Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2020)
At the end of the day, the lesson learnt was so simple... With online and offline connections, the world is a global village (McLuhan, 1962) and a butterfly flapping its wings in Asia can cause a hurricane all around the world (Lorenz, 1972). Currently, it seems that the global education system is in the middle of this hurricane. These times, where we are all witnessing developments warily, are certainly interesting and strange, but the hope is that lessons will have been learned once things hopefully return to normal. Though there were early warnings to be prepared (White, Ramirez, Smith, & Plonowski, 2010) and already ongoing interruptions to education (Briggs, 2018; GCPEA, 2018), this is the first crisis to occur on the global scale in the digital knowledge age, and there will be socio-cultural, economic, and political consequences in the wake of this crisis. In other words, the educational landscape will feel the rush of air from the butterfly’s flapping wings to the full extent.
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Keywords: & Sharma; 15(1); A.; Bozkurt; R. C. (2020). Emergency remote teaching in a time; i-vi. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3778083

Legislating gender and sexuality in Africa: Human rights, society, and the state - Boyd, Lydia; Burrill, Emily (University of Wisconsin Pres, 2020)
In recent decades, a more formalized and forceful shift has emerged in the legislative realm when it comes to gender and sexual justice in Africa. This rigorous, timely volume brings together leading and rising scholars across disciplines to evaluate these ideological struggles and reconsider the modern history of human rights on the continent. Broad in geographic coverage and topical in scope, chapters investigate such subjects as marriage legislation in Mali, family violence experienced by West African refugees, sex education in Uganda, and statutes criminalizing homosexuality in Senegal. These case studies highlight the nuances and contradictions in the varied ways key actors make arguments for or against rights. They also explore how individual countries draft and implement laws that attempt to address the underlying problems. Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa details how legal efforts in the continent can often be moralizing enterprises, illuminating how these processes are closely tied to notions of ethics, personhood, and citizenship. The contributors provide new appraisals of recent events, with fresh arguments about the relationships between local and global fights for rights. This interdisciplinary approach will appeal to scholars in African studies, anthropology, history, and gender studies.
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Keywords: History / Africa / General; Political Science / Human Rights; Social Science / Gender Studies

Explaining the Short Careers of High-Achieving Teachers in Schools with Low-Performing Students - Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; Wyckoff, James (American Economic Review, 2005)
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Keywords: Analysis of Education; Public Sector Labor Markets

The effect of school neighborhoods on teacher retention decisions - Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; Ronfeldt, Matthew; Wyckoff, James (Whither Opportunity? Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances, 2011)
A substantial body of research demonstrates that schools with large populations of poor, non-white and low-achieving students, on average have more difficulty attracting and retaining teachers (Boyd et. al., 2005; Boyd et al, 2009; Hanushek et. al., 2004; Ingersoll, 2001; Scafidi et. al., 2007). However, little work assesses the extent to which differences in the neighborhoods
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Preparation and support for teachers in public schools: Reflections on the first year of teaching - Bowsher, A.; Sparks, D.; Hoyer, K.M. (2018)
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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

Using Educational Games for Sign Language Learning - A SignWriting Learning Game: Case Study - Bouzid, Yosra; Khenissi, Mohamed Ali; Essalmi, Fathi; Jemni, Mohamed (Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 2016)
ABSTRACT Apart from being used as a means of entertainment, computer games have been adopted for a long time as a valuable tool for learning. Computer games can offer many learning benefits to students since they can consume their attention and increase their motivation and engagement which can then lead to stimulate learning. However, most of the research to date on educational computer games, in particular learning versions of existing computer games, focused only on learner with typical development. Rather less is known about designing educational games for learners with special needs. The current research presents the results of a pilot study. The principal aim of this pilot study is to examine the interest of learners with hearing impairments in using an educational game for learning the sign language notation system SignWriting. The results found indicated that, overall, the application is useful, enjoyable and easy to use: the game can stimulate the students' interest in learning such notations.
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Women's access to cash transfers in light of COVID-19: The case of Pakistan - Bourgault, Shelby; O'Donnell, Megan (Center for Global Development, 2020)
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General systems theory—the skeleton of science - Boulding, Kenneth E. (Management science, 1956)
Publisher: INFORMS KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1287/mnsc.2.3.197 2339240:6KX4XJB6 2405685:HTRMKGQH

WhatsApp-Assisted Learning for Refugees. End of Sandbox Sprint 3 - Boujikian, Michèle; Carter, Alice; Khalayleh, Abdullah (EdTech Hub, 2021)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Keywords: _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _r:AddedByZotZen; _zenodo:submitted

The Sandbox Model: A Novel Approach to Iterating while Implementing an Emergency Education Program in Lebanon during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Boujikian, Michèle; Carter, Alice; Jordan, Katy (2022)
Jusoor’s Refugee Education Program helps Syrian refugee children living in Lebanon integrate back into formal schooling. When schools closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the refugee program adapted to distance learning by developing Azima, a novel program that used WhatsApp to enable children to keep learning. Azima had to respond immediately to the emergency context while maintaining high education standards, and it also needed to find an effective way to test and refine its content quickly. To do this, the Azima program adopted an innovative experimental approach called a sandbox. A sandbox model operates in rapid iterative cycles and uses multiple methods to quickly test a program’s assumptions about how it will meet its goals. In this field note, we use Azima as a case study to report on our experience of applying the sandbox model. We reflect on the benefits and limitations of this novel approach in supporting the use of education technology in a crisis situation.
Accepted: 2022-11-07T13:27:21Z Publisher: Inter-agency for Education in Emergencies (INEE) KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.33682/rj45-k7z7 2405685:LDWAQKHF

Lack of Means or Lack of Awareness? Survey findings: barriers to learning with WhatsApp in refugee camps in Lebanon - Boujikian, Michèle; Carter, Alice (EdTech Hub, 2021)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.5281/zenodo.4780972 2405685:4UQT8WRN 2405685:WWUQ7VRT
Keywords: _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _r:AddedByZotZen; _zenodo:submitted

Achieving gender and youth inclusivity in Malawi through Productive Alliances - Botha, Blessings (2022)
When I was young, there was a common adage “youth are the leaders of tomorrow,” and I was always looking forward, with optimism that this tomorrow will indeed come one day.
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Wander Lowie - Bot, Kees De; Verspoor, Marjolijn
approach to second language acquisition∗
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Using Technology to Provide Higher Education for Refugees - Boškić, Natasha; Sork, Thomas J.; Irwin, Rita; Nashon, Samson; Nicol, Cynthia; Meyer, Karen; Hu, Sharon (Transnational Perspectives on Innovation in Teaching and Learning Technologies, 2018)
"Using Technology to Provide Higher Education for Refugees" published on 24 Mar 2018 by Brill | Sense.
Publisher: Brill Sense Section: Transnational Perspectives on Innovation in Teaching and Learning Technologies shortDOI: 10/ggtwpr KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1163/9789004366077_014 10/ggtwpr 2339240:LAN4C6SI 2405685:RK8N5ERM

Interactive Radio Instruction: An Update from the Field - Bosch, Andrea; Rhodes, Rebecca; Kariuki, Sera (Education Development Center, 2002)
Interactive radio instruction (IRI), a methodology developed to turn a typically one-way technology into a tool for active learning in and outside the classroom, continues to be an attractive educational strategy in developing countries after almost 30 years. The original model for IRI math, created in Nicaragua by a team from Stanford University in the early 1970s, sought to combine the low cost and high reach of the radio medium and a clear understanding of how people learn. Since that time, 20 countries around the world have developed IRI programs for a variety of subjects, audiences, and learning environments, many of which have been sustained for up to 10 years and counting. The methodology has been expanded and adapted to include different levels of math, science, health, English, Spanish and Portuguese, environmental education, early childhood development, and adult basic education for learners of all ages. In each case, the series has been designed specifically by local specialists to be engaging and to meet learning objectives in that country. After three decades, interest in IRI does not seem to be waning. (See the Annex at the end of this chapter for a list of IRI projects and their current status.) This chapter updates earlier information about interactive radio instruction over the past five years, and introduces two cases where IRI has had an impact in Africa in two ways not captured in the past.1 In Guinea, IRI has gone to scale on an unprecedented level in West Africa to reach students and teachers on a national level. The Guinean IRI series is integrated with teacher development initiatives and is used in almost all primary schools across the nation, with 880,000 students. In Zambia, a new IRI series is being developed that reaches out to students who otherwise would be without schools, and have become increasingly vulnerable due to poverty and the HIV/AIDs. This example shows how IRI can be used effectively to overcome obstacles of access in Africa and to increase the chances that students can receive an education. These examples show how IRI retains its core elements, yet continues to evolve to meet new educational and social challenges.
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Interactive Radio Instruction: Twenty-Three Years of Improving Educational Quality - Bosch, Andrea (World Bank Group, 1997)
Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) is the use of interactive lessons delivered through either radio broadcast or audiocassette. An "audio" teacher directs the lessons while classroom teachers serve as facilitators. IRI has been used in developing countries worldwide to improve the quality of education across a range of school subjects and to serve as a form of teacher development. Multiple studies of IRI consistently have shown high learning gains, decreased equity gaps, and cost-effectiveness. Twenty-three years after their initial launch, several major IRI projects continue to operate successfully. While over the years IRI has been updated in various ways, its basic structure and methodology remain largely unaltered. IRI continues to be used in projects around the world.
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Sustainability and interactive radio instruction: why some projects last - Bosch, Andrea (Adapting Technology for School Improvement A Global Perspective, 2004)
This book presents a compilation of articles based on the premise that the move to advanced technology use in primary and secondary schools offers great hope for improving the access, quality, and efficiency of basic education. The aim of the book is to identify and examine how information technologies can be, and are being, used to strengthen the quality of primary and secondary education. The articles take a global focus, drawing on examples from a wide range of countries. The book analyzes the challenges that teachers and educational planners face as they make this move, and shares how those challenges are being met in some of the countries now engaged in this effort. Several major themes are explored: the role of technology in school improvement, top-down versus bottom-up approaches, interactive radio instruction in schools, computers in the classroom, technology in teacher education, and adopting and implementing technology. The conclusions of the book examine strategies such as the cross-national sharing of curriculum development and instructional materials, and the training and support of teachers and administrators. The need for new partnerships, such as public-private and central-local, to make continued developments in technology sustainable, are also examined. The book divides into 14 chapters: (1) The Role of Technology in School Improvement (David W. Chapman, Amy Garrett, and Lars O. Mahlck); (2) Are New Technologies Better Technologies? For Whom? (Claudio de Moura Castro); (3) International Uses of Education Technology Threats and Opportunities (Stephen P. Heyneman and Katherine Taylor Haynes); (4) Using Instructional Technology as a Bridge to the Future: Palau's Story (Gregory C. Sales and Masa-Aki N. Emesiochl); (5) The Introduction of Computers in Secondary Schools in Jamaica: A Case of Bottom-Up Reform (Errol Miller); (6) Distance Education in Ethiopia (Teshome Nekatibeb and Thomas Tilson); (7) Sustainability and Interactive Radio Instruction: Why Some Projects Last (Andrea Bosch); (8) Is Constructivism Universal? In Search of Meaningful Technology in Morocco and Namibia (Jeffrey Coupe, Jeffrey Goveia, Houcine El Haichour, and Alfred Ilukena); (9) Technology and Educational Change at the Local Level: The Case of the Campana Schools Network in Argentina (Cecilia Braslavsky and Laura Fumagalli); (10) The Pedagogical Uses of Web-Based Chat: The Brazilian Experience (Vera Atsuko Suguri, Maria de Lourdes Matos, Noara M. de Resende e Castro, Rosal va Ieda V. Guimaraes de Castro, Lurdes Marilene da Silva Jung, and Eric Rusten); (11) Utilizing Technology in a Rural Teacher Certification Programme in Iceland (Ingolfur Asgeir Johannesson and Anna Thora Baldursdottir); (12) Integrating Technology into Education: The Czech Approach (Bozena Mannova); (13) The School Online Initiative in German Schools: Empirical Results and Recommendations to Improve School Development (Renate Schulz-Zander); and (14) Effective Use of Technology to Improve Education: Lessons for Planners (Lars O. Mahlck and David W. Chapman). This book is intended for educational policymakers, administrators, planners, and curriculum development specialists concerned with how technology can be used to extend access and raise the quality of education in their countries. It is also intended for international organizations, development assistance agencies and NGOs that are often most responsible for advocating the use of technology as a solution to education problems in low and middle-income countries. (Individual chapters contain references.).
OCLC: 1064923325 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2339240:83PCK5YZ 2405685:KKI68BXJ
Keywords: Commitment; Cost; content

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.
shortDOI: 10/gf84g7 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1007/s13158-019-00237-4 10/gf84g7 2339240:4M44CELZ 2339240:S9UUM2LQ 2339240:U3CZV6QS 2405685:CFDKXVTN 2405685:D2RCFMG5 2405685:LXHQCK2G 2405685:S9R2V6GT 4803016:Z6Y5C2HY
Keywords: Literacy; Media receptivity; Numeracy; Rwanda; School readiness skills; Television; ___working_potential_duplicate

The impact of Galli Galli Sim Sim on Indian preschoolers - Borzekowski, Dina L. G.; Singpurwalla, Darius; Mehrotra, Deepti; Howard, Donna (Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2019)
While educational media can affect young children's development, rigorous studies rarely occur in low and middle income countries. Using an experimental design, researchers investigated the effect of an educational television series (Galli Galli Sim Sim (GGSS), the Indian version of Sesame Street) with 1340 children in 99 preschools in Lucknow, India. Boys and girls, ages three to seven and mostly from low income households, saw 30 min of television five days a week for twelve weeks, varying how much Galli Galli Sim Sim versus other programming children watched. Assessments occurred at baseline, endline, and six weeks later. Hierarchical models showed that Galli Galli Sim Sim receptivity, an independent variable that combines exposure and recall, significantly improved literacy, numeracy, socio-emotional strategies, and nutritional knowledge. Locally-produced educational media should be encouraged as it can positively affect potential school success and child development.
shortDOI: 10/gf84g5 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.appdev.2019.101054 10/gf84g5 2339240:MHHA268R 2405685:ER687Z8I 4803016:WC8Z9BF8

The role of Kilimani Sesame in the healthy development of Tanzanian preschool children - Borzekowski, Dina L. G.; Macha, Jacob E. (Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2010)
Kilimani Sesame, a media intervention that employs print, radio, and television, was developed to entertain and educate preschool children in Tanzania. This study examined the effects of a six-week intervention delivering Kilimani Sesame material to 223 children in the rural district of Kisarawe and the city of Dar es Salaam. Results offer evidence that literacy and numeracy, social and emotional development, and health and hygiene significantly improved from baseline to post-intervention; those with the greatest receptivity to Kilimani Sesame performed the best after the intervention, controlling for baseline scores, sex, age, location, and general media receptivity. This study shows that an educational media intervention directed towards very young children can have an impact on their healthy development, even in locales where populations have minimal resources and face extreme hardships.
shortDOI: 10/dfhqrx KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.appdev.2010.05.002 10/dfhqrx 2339240:DVE3B5Y9 2405685:FD5BZ3BI 2405685:I5UGE5MK
Keywords: African children; Educational television; Literacy; Media receptivity; Preschool children; Sesame Street

A quasi-experiment examining the impact of educational cartoons on Tanzanian children - Borzekowski, Dina L. G. (Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2018)
Educational media can positively impact young children; however, few studies have been conducted in developing countries. Researchers investigated the impact of an animated educational series, where participants were randomized to see Akili and Me versus other popular programs. In interviews with children, researchers assessed measures before and after four weeks of exposure. From Morogoro, Tanzania, 568 children (mean age - 4.8years) participated. Controlling for the child's sex, age, and baseline skills in the assessed follow up outcome, exposure to Akili and Me significantly improved drawing skills, shape knowledge, number recognition, counting, and English skills. Young and vulnerable children can benefit from a locally-produced educational program. Media interventions should be encouraged as they effectively and efficiently alter school readiness.
shortDOI: 10/gczvxt KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.appdev.2017.11.007 10/gczvxt 2339240:7VNNEECK 2339240:ITCSRTPS 2339240:TV3YF5VR 2405685:9KZC8YTW 2405685:G2F33XBN 2405685:I27K89G7 2405685:XVBCRWSR
Keywords: Educational media; Literacy; Numeracy; School readiness; Television

Sesame street in the tea estates: A multi-media intervention to improve sanitation and hygiene among Bangladesh's most vulnerable youth - Borzekowski, Dina (Annals of Global Health, 2015)
shortDOI: 10/gg26fp KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.aogh.2015.02.748 10/gg26fp 2339240:8Q2HKU7I 2405685:8RY3PYAF 4803016:Y5CF7KER

The adolescent community of engagement framework: A lens for research on K-12 online learning - Borup, Jered; West, Richard E.; Graham, Charles R.; Davies, Randall S. (Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2014)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Education Reform through a Systems Approach for Sustainable Development - Borsari, Bruno; Mora, Cristhian (Quality Education, 2020)
Change/s in education; Study program; Systemic approach Educational reform The process of changing public education in order to empower all learners, and to adapt it to the changes occurring in...
Publisher: Springer, Cham KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1007/978-3-319-69902-8_4-1 2339240:3HYUJCHY 2405685:86EMS57I

CASEL's framework for systemic social and emotional learning - Borowski, T. (Establishing Practical Social-Emotional Competence Assessment Work Group, 2019)
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An extended systematic review of Canadian policy documents on e-learning: what we’re doing and not doing - Borokhovski, Eugene; Bernard, Robert; Mills, Erin; Abrami, Philip C.; Wade, C. Anne; Tamim, Rana; Bethel, Edward; Lowerison, Gretchen; Pickup, David; Surkes, Michael A. (Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2011)
Number: 3 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.21432/t22p41 10/gmfk2v 2339240:CHEZSB5X 2405685:6HB7ZEXG

Cognitive and socioemotional caregiving in developing countries - Bornstein, Marc H.; Putnick, Diane L. (Child Development, 2012)
Enriching caregiving practices foster the course and outcome of child development. We studied two developmentally significant domains of positive caregiving – cognitive and socioemotional – in more than 127,000 families with under-5 year children from 28 developing countries. Mothers varied widely in cognitive and socioemotional caregiving and engaged in more socioemotional than cognitive activities. More than half of mothers played with their children and took them outside, but only a third or fewer read books and told stories to their children. The GDP of countries related to caregiving after controlling for life expectancy and education. The majority of mothers report that they do not leave their under-5s alone. Policy and intervention recommendations are elaborated.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01673.x 2339240:B9VFFTA2 2405685:3GF9TM87

Video as a tool for fostering productive discussions in mathematics professional development - Borko, Hilda; Jacobs, Jennifer; Eiteljorg, Eric; Pittman, Mary Ellen (Teaching and Teacher Education, 2008)
This article explores the use of classroom video as a tool for fostering productive discussions about teaching and learning. The setting for our research is a 2-year mathematics professional development program, based on the Problem-Solving Cycle model. This model relies on video from the teachers’ own classrooms and emphasizes creating a community in which members feel comfortable learning from video. We describe our experiences carrying out the Problem-Solving Cycle model, focusing on our use of video, our efforts to promote a supportive and analytical environment, and the ways in which teachers’ conversations around video developed over a 2-year period.
shortDOI: 10/d9k7g8 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.tate.2006.11.012 10/d9k7g8 2339240:HJGRG585 2405685:BWHR8RIX 2405685:TJYWA229 2534378:E4Z5FI4E
Keywords: C:United States; Mathematics education; Mathematics teachers; Professional development; Teacher learning; Video

Expanding Early Childhood Enrollment: Mobile Schools in Mongolia - Borgen Project (The Borgen Project, 2016)
Mobile Schools in Mongolia: Mongolia has experienced an increase in kindergarten enrollment due to the emergence of mobile schools.
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Network Analysis in the Social Sciences - Borgatti, Stephen; Mehra, Ajay; Brass, Daniel; Labianca, Giuseppe (Science (New York, N.Y.), 2009)
Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in network research across the physical and social sciences. For social scientists, the theory of networks has been a gold mine, yielding explanations for social phenomena in a wide variety of disciplines from psychology to economics. Here, we review the kinds of things that social scientists have tried to explain using social network analysis and provide a nutshell description of the basic assumptions, goals, and explanatory mechanisms prevalent in the field. We hope to contribute to a dialogue among researchers from across the physical and social sciences who share a common interest in understanding the antecedents and consequences of network phenomena.
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On Network Theory - Borgatti, Stephen; Halgin, Daniel (SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011)
Research on social networks has grown considerably in the last decade. However, there is a certain amount of confusion about network theory — for example, what it is, what is distinctive about it, and how to generate new theory. This paper attempts to remedy the situation by clarifying the fundamental concepts of the field (such as the network) and characterizing how network reasoning works. We start by considering the definition of network, noting some confusion caused by two different perspectives, which we refer to as realist and nominalist. We then analyze two well-known network theories, Granovetter’s strength of weak ties, to identify characteristic elements of network theorizing. We argue that both theories share an underlying theoretical model, which we label the network flow model, from which we derive additional implications. We also discuss network phenomena that do not appear to fit the flow model and discuss the possibility of a second fundamental model, which we call the bond model. We close with a discussion of the merits of model-based network theorizing for facilitating the generation of new theory, as well as a discussion of endogeneity in network theorizing.
zotzenLib.CopiedFrom: 2339240:SWTXTUQH KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.2139/ssrn.2260993 2339240:SWTXTUQH 2405685:SZ42AN3H

Assistive technology in developing countries: national and international responsibilities to implement the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Borg, Johan; Lindström, Anna; Larsson, Stig (The Lancet, 2009)
In developing countries, disability is often associated with poverty caused by reduced participation in education, work, and community life.1–4 Education and employment contributes to reduction of poverty, improvement of health, and increased participation in society.2,5,6 According to findings from studies in high-income countries, assistive technology can have a positive socioeconomic effect on the lives of people with disabilities by improving access to education and increasing achievement.7,8 The use of assistive technology is a successful strategy to help participation in work,9,10 and maintenance of health.
Publisher: Elsevier shortDOI: 10/cfn5gp KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61872-9 10/cfn5gp 2339240:W45H7KRY 2405685:YQJM4J5B

The rise and fall of the PC in one chart - Booton, Jennifer (MarketWatch, 2016)
Section: Industries KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2339240:USFBBPHB 2405685:D94GQ9W9

Thinking and Working Politically - Booth, David (University of Birmingham, 2015)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2339240:GD66V3AN 2405685:2Q6Q9SGI

Working with the Grain and Swimming against the Tide - Booth, David (Public Management Review, 2012)
Research into the governance of public goods provision in Africa suggests that, on their own, bottom–up pressures from voters and service users are only a weak factor in improving performance. It confirms the importance of working with politicians and service providers as well as clients. However, getting ‘uptake’ of these findings into the practice of development agencies is difficult. In the dissemination of previous studies, certain propositions about the power of information and community monitoring have been heavily over-sold because they satisfy practitioners' hunger for simple, upbeat messages. Incentives, ideologies and vested interests inhibit the adoption of more complex findings.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2012.657959 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/14719037.2012.657959 2339240:U2LWYWNF 2339240:ZXRHL45K 2405685:XB92ZXCD 2405685:YTRBP623
Keywords: Africa; community monitoring; governance; public services; research uptake

US pulls funding from Pakistan's Sesame Street - Boone, Jon (The Guardian, 2012)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2339240:RVN4BHMY 2405685:2YC6M7TZ 4803016:NPYGTLE6
Keywords: Children's TV; Pakistan; Sesame Street; Television; US news; World news

Voices From Urban Classrooms: Teachers’ Perceptions on Instructing Diverse Students and Using Culturally Responsive Teaching - Bonner, Patricia J.; Warren, Susan R.; Jiang, Ying H. (Education and Urban Society, 2018)
This study explored the perceptions of 430 P-12 urban teachers regarding the instruction of diverse students and their own ability to effectively implement culturally responsive teaching (CRT). Employing qualitative methodology, four open-ended sentence stems were used to capture teachers’ thoughts, beliefs, and experiences. Results reveal teachers’ strong commitment to CRT, an understanding of behaviors which constitute CRT, a strong sense of efficacy in teaching diverse students, and anticipation of positive outcomes through proactively addressing diverse students’ needs. This research provides valuable information for school districts and schools of education as they develop culturally responsive teachers for today’s diverse classrooms.
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1177/0013124517713820 2339240:FNKUDWZC 2405685:JUZUBP8C
Keywords: multicultural education; social justice; students; teachers; urban education

School Characteristics and Teacher Turnover: Assessing the Role of Preferences and Opportunities - Bonhomme, Stéphane; Jolivet, Grégory; Leuven, Edwin (The Economic Journal, 2016)
Job characteristics can affect worker turnover through their effect on utility and through their effect on outside job opportunities. The aim of this study is to identify and estimate the roles of these two channels separately. Our method exploits information on job changes, and relies on an augmented sample selection correction. To illustrate our approach, we use an exhaustive register of Dutch primary school teachers and show a detailed picture of preferences for school characteristics. We also find that the dependence between current and outside job attributes can affect turnover and thus the allocation of teachers across schools.
_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ecoj.12279 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1111/ecoj.12279 2339240:N9X56GT8 2405685:4SI4U49A

Experimental evidence on scaling up education reforms in Kenya - Bold, Tessa; Kimenyi, Mwangi; Mwabu, Germano; Ng’ang’a, Alice; Sandefur, Justin (Journal of Public Economics, 2018)
What constraints arise when translating successful NGO programs to improve public services in developing countries into government policy? We report on a randomized trial embedded within a nationwide reform of teacher hiring in Kenyan government primary schools. New teachers offered a fixed-term contract by an international NGO significantly raised student test scores, while teachers offered identical contracts by the Kenyan government produced zero impact. Observable differences in teacher characteristics explain little of this gap. Instead, data suggests that bureaucratic and political opposition to the contract reform led to implementation delays and a differential interpretation of identical contract terms. Additionally, contract features that produced larger learning gains in both the NGO and government treatment arms were not adopted by the government outside of the experimental sample.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.08.007 2339240:58EIIZ3H 2405685:XRHDAKJR 4656463:B7GSKCJK
Keywords: Contract teachers; Education; External validity; Kenya; Randomized evaluation; State capacity

What Do Teachers Know and Do? Does It Matter? Evidence from Primary Schools in Africa - Bold, Tessa; Filmer, Deon; Martin, Gayle; Molina, Ezequiel; Rockmore, Christophe; Stacy, Brian; Svensson, Jakob; Wane, Waly (World Bank, 2017)
School enrollment has universally increased over the past 25 years in low-income countries. However, enrolling in school does not guarantee that children learn. A large share of children in low-income countries learn little, and they complete their primary education lacking even basic reading, writing, and arithmetic skills—the so-called "learning crisis." This paper uses data from nationally representative surveys from seven Sub-Saharan African countries, representing close to 40 percent of the region's total population, to investigate possible answers to this policy failure by quantifying teacher effort, knowledge, and skills. Averaging across countries, the paper finds that students receive two hours and fifty minutes of teaching per day—or just over half the scheduled time. In addition, large shares of teachers do not master the curricula of the students they are teaching; basic pedagogical knowledge is low; and the use of good teaching practices is rare. Exploiting within-student, within-teacher variation, the analysis finds significant and large positive effects of teacher content and pedagogical knowledge on student achievement. These findings point to an urgent need for improvements in education service delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa. They also provide a lens through which the growing experimental and quasi-experimental literature on education in low-income countries can be interpreted and understood, and point to important gaps in knowledge, with implications for future research and policy design.
shortDOI: 10/gftst3 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1596/1813-9450-7956 10/gftst3 2339240:BTMNBWLP 2405685:I898ERZQ 2405685:NZXPNUED 4656463:N34TLK8Y
Keywords: Education; Education Policy; Learning Crisis; Public Service Delivery; Teacher Absenteeism; Teacher Effectiveness; Teacher Performance

Exploring Blended Learning for Science Teacher Professional Development in an African Context - Boitshwarelo, Bopelo (The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2009)
This paper explores a case of teacher professional development in Botswana, where a blended learning solution was attempted. The analysis of the implementation environment reveals deficiencies in policy, schools (workplaces), and training providers. The paper concludes with three recommendations: 1) Schools should support on-going teacher learning in the workplace and should manage ICT resources for use by both teachers and students; 2) Government should support participatory and localised learning and institutionalise ICT access and use; and 3) Training providers should use blended methods and should model good ICT practices. The author also notes that change is needed in the culture of teaching and learning so that ongoing, situated, participatory, and collaborative approaches are accepted. Finally, collaboration between the training providers and the schools is necessary as is a change in beliefs about the use of ICTs in education.
shortDOI: 10/gfv5xv KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.19173/irrodl.v10i4.687 10/gfv5xv 2339240:7YYFFQ4U 2405685:DBG2GKJP 2405685:RP3KMTVU 2405685:THJLBADH 2534378:5C3ILQ5H 2534378:LSG5BCAP 2534378:PTQCJYNQ
Keywords: C:Botswana; ICTs; Pedagogy; Professional Development; Teacher Training; ___working_potential_duplicate

Case Study Report: RET International Kenya - Boisvert, Kayla (University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2017)
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Distance Learning for Teacher Training in Brazil - Bof, Alvana (International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2004)
shortDOI: 10/ggx3rc KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.19173/irrodl.v5i1.172 10/ggx3rc 2405685:7N6P78H9
Keywords: C:Brazil

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

A spiral model of software development and enhancement - Boehm, B. W. (Computer, 1988)
A short description is given of software process models and the issues they address. An outline is given of the process steps involved in the spiral model, an evolving risk-driven approach that provides a framework for guiding the software process, and its application to a software project is shown. A summary is given of the primary advantages and implications involved in using the spiral model and the primary difficulties in using it at its current incomplete level of elaboration.<>
Conference Name: Computer KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1109/2.59 2339240:965GRXPK 2405685:A29EGW7U
Keywords: Application software; Military computing; Navigation; Productivity; Programming; Prototypes; Software prototyping; Spirals; Testing

Displaced and dismayed: how ICTs are helping refugees and migrants, and how we can do better - Bock, Joseph G.; Haque, Ziaul; McMahon, Kevin A. (Information Technology for Development, 2020)
shortDOI: 10/ggsp4w KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/02681102.2020.1727827 10/ggsp4w 2339240:JE8AC55J 2405685:QQ5VHJDF
Keywords: Google Scholar/ "education technology" refugees; RER theme_pedagogies and modalities

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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An examination of the use of technology in the teaching of history. A study of selected senior high schools in the cape coast metropolis, Ghana. - Boadu, Gideon (International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, 2014)
This study examined the use of technology in the teaching of History in three (3) selected Senior High Schools in the Cape Coast metropolis. The study was modelled on the descriptive survey design with a sample size of 159 respondents, made up of 153 History students and 6 History teachers from three selected schools. The instruments used to collect data were the questionnaire and the interview guide. The study found that technologies such as computers, projectors, internet, and audio-visuals, could be used to teach History. Again, it was found that teachers have positive perceptions of the use of technology in teaching History, and students were also found to portray positive attitudes in class when technology is used to teach. Finally, the study revealed that teachers face the challenge of unavailability of technology resources, lack of enough time, and lack of motivation, in their attempt to use technology in class. It is recommended that seminars should be organized for teachers to expose them to the types of technologies and how to use them. Again, Ministry of Education should make technology resources available in schools, and also teachers should innovative and creative by using a variety of technologies in their lessons.
Number: 1 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2339240:I44YNVA2 2405685:BTZJESKM
Keywords: Attitude; History; Perception; Teaching; Technology; ⛔ No DOI found

Why is School-based Management (SBM) in Cambodia? - Bo, Chankoulika (2019)
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Using Dual Systems theory to conceptualise challenges to routine when transforming pedagogy with digital technologies - Blundell, Christopher; Lee, Kar-Tin; Nykvist, Shaun (Teachers and Teaching, 2019)
(2019). Using Dual Systems theory to conceptualise challenges to routine when transforming pedagogy with digital technologies. Teachers and Teaching: Vol. 25, No. 8, pp. 937-954.
Publisher: Routledge KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2339240:9MZUUQP9 2339240:MJVTRQD2 2405685:IESPF387
Keywords: Barriers; Case Studies; Classroom Techniques; Correlation; Educational Change; Information Technology; Learning Theories; Student Behavior; Systems Approach; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Role; Teacher Student Relationship; Teaching Methods; Technology Integration; ⛔ No DOI found

Creating usable innovations in systemic reform: Scaling up technology-embedded project-based science in urban schools - Blumenfeld, Phyllis; Fishman, Barry J.; Krajcik, Joseph; Marx, Ronald W.; Soloway, Elliot (Educational psychologist, 2000)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1207/S15326985EP3503_2 2339240:JKGUWPCD 2405685:568GDAGW

China bans for-profit school tutoring in sweeping overhaul - Bloomberg news (Bloomberg News, 2021)
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5 things MENA countries can do to design better digital skills development programs - Blom, Andreas; Nusrat, Mariam; Goldin, Nicole (2020)
The COVID-19 pandemic has fueled the need for digital skills, therefore education and training need to become more affordable, relevant, context-vigilant and inclusive. There are five elements to consider when designing digital learning interventions.
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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

Digital collaborative learning in elementary and middle schools as a function of individualistic and collectivistic culture: The role of ICT coordinators’ leadership experience, students’ collaboration skills, and sustainability - Blau, I.; Shamir-Inbal, T.; Hadad, S. (Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2020)
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Educational inequalities in Europe and physical school closures during Covid-19 - Blaskó, Zsuzsa; Schnepf, Sylke V (2020)
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Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything - Blank, Steve (2013)
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Template for costing remote learning encouragement - Blagrave, Holly Jean (2020)
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Adoption and use of technology in early education - Blackwell, Courtney K.; Lauricella, Alexis R.; Wartella, Ellen; Robb, Michael; Schomburg, Roberta (Computers & Education, 2013)
The increased access to, but continued under-use of, technology in education makes it imperative to understand the barriers teachers face when integrating technology into their classrooms. While prior research suggests teachers encounter both ﬁrst-order extrinsic barriers and second-order personal barriers, much of this research has focused on K-12 teachers, not early childhood educators. Applying the Uniﬁed Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology to early childhood education, the current study examines predictors of early childhood educators’ access to and use of traditional technologies and newer mobile devices. Findings from 1329 teachers of 0–4-year-olds reveal that while extrinsic barriers inﬂuence access to a range of technologies, positive beliefs in children’s learning from technology signiﬁcantly predicted actual use of technology. Overall, the study provides new insight into factors inﬂuencing technology integration speciﬁcally for early childhood educators, a subgroup that has not been represented in much of the literature on technology integration in formal education.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.compedu.2013.07.024 2339240:I4HQZHFT 2405685:J5PT4C67

Assessment and classroom learning - Black, Paul; Wiliam, Dylan (Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 1998)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/0969595980050102 2339240:KDJFBW3D 2405685:9BJLEV64

Income shocks and gender gaps in education: Evidence from Uganda - Björkman-Nyqvist, Martina (Journal of Development Economics, 2013)
This paper uses exogenous variation in rainfall across districts in Uganda to estimate the causal effects of household income shocks on children's enrollment and academic performance conditional on gender. I find negative deviations in rainfall from the long-term mean to have negative and highly significant effects on female enrollment in primary schools and the effect grows stronger for older girls. I find no effect of rainfall variation on the enrollment of boys and young girls. Moreover, I find that when schooling is free of charge and both marginal boys and girls are enrolled, a negative income shock has an adverse effect on the test scores of female students while boys are not affected. The results imply that households respond to income shocks by varying the amount of schooling and resources provided to girls while boys are to a large extent sheltered — a finding consistent with a model where parents' values of child labor differ across sexes.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2013.07.013 2339240:3MWRAZHD 2405685:PTXH2C5H
Keywords: Education; Gender; Rainfall; Test scores

Meet the Rwandan innovation for One-Laptop-Per-Child - Bizimungu, Julius (The New Times, 2018)
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TV-Based Learning in Bangladesh: Is it Reaching Students? - Biswas, Kumar; Asaduzzaman, T.M.; Evans, David; Fehrler, Sebastian; Ramachandran, Deepika; Sabarwal, Shwetlana (World Bank, 2020)
Is TV-based learning during COVID-19 school closures in Bangladesh reaching students? Most students (86 percent) within our sample of more than 2,000 Grade 9 stipend recipients are aware of government provided TV-based learning programs; yet only half of the students with access to these programs choose to access them. Also, very few students (21 percent) have access to government provided online learning programs, and among those that do, only about 2 percent choose to access them. There is a perceptible decline in the time students spend studying at home after school closures. This may be linked to the fact that 1 in 2 parents claim they are unable to help their children with new topics. Despite lower education, mothers are significantly more likely to be involved in the child’s education compared to fathers. Most students (90 percent) claim they have a supportive environment at home for studying. This is true for both boys and girls. Finally, nearly 65 percent of households in our sample report declines in income and 28 percent had to decrease the amount of food consumed within the household in the previous week.
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Keywords: Access to Education; Distance Learning; Education; Online Learning; School Closure; Secondary Education; ___working_potential_duplicate

Students perception of mobile learning during COVID-19 in Bangladesh: university student perspective - Biswas, Bikram; Roy, Sajib Kumar; Roy, Falguni (Aquademia, 2020)
The aim of this study is to measures the student’s perception of using mobile for learning during COVID-19 in Bangladesh especially at the university student’s perspective. During the COVID-19 pandemic period, mobile learning may help the students to fulfill the study gap. Due to COVID-19 pandemic 213 countries, higher education has affected all over the world of June 2020. Although all of the developed countries considered mobile learning as an effective tool for education, it is not used properly in Bangladesh. This survey method conducted on 416 students from different university students in Bangladesh to understand the student’s perception of using mobile phones as a learning system. The findings of this study show that most of the students at the university level have a positive perception of m-learning. This study revealed that m-learning is very helpful to recover the study gap during this COVID-19 pandemic time and the findings of this study will help the education policymaker as well as the educational institutions to incorporate mobile learning technology for the whole system where social media may enhance the process of teaching and learning.
Publisher: Veritas Publications LTD KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.29333/aquademia/8443 2339240:KHZM9M89 2405685:RBZUY224

Acceptable Usage Policy - Bishops Diosecan College (Bishops Diosecan College)
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Individual Differences in Cognitive Planning on the Tower of Hanoi Task: Neuropsychological Maturity or Measurement Error? - Bishop, D. V. M.; Aamodt-Leeper, G.; Creswell, C.; McGurk, R.; Skuse, D. H. (The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 2001)
The Tower of Hanoi (ToH) task was given to 238 children aged from 7 to 15 years, and 20 adults. Individual variation within an age band was substantial. ToH score did not correlate significantly with Verbal IQ, nor with ability to inhibit a prepotent response. We readministered the ToH to 45 children after 30 to 40 days. The test-retest correlation of ·5 is low in relation to accepted psychometric standards, though at least as high as reliability of the related Tower of London (ToL) in adults. The reasons for low reliability remain unclear; task novelty did not seem to be involved, as children did not improve on retest. We conclude that it is not safe to use this test to index integrity or maturation of underlying neurological systems in children. We compared our results with three published studies using the ToL with children, and found similar levels of performance on problems involving the same number of moves. Another study using automated ToL obtained much poorer scores, suggesting that computerised presentation may impair children's performance.
shortDOI: 10/dz5fcg KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1017/s0021963001007247 10/dz5fcg 2339240:3GLJZX6N 2405685:NMH536YD
Keywords: Assessment; executive function; psychometrics

Abolishing School Fees in Africa: Lessons Learned in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Mozambique - Birger, Fredriksen; Craissati, Di (The World Bank, 2009)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1596/978-0-8213-7540-2 2405685:I7PGXI5E

Promoting resilience: developing capacity within education systems affected by conflict - Bird, Lyndsay (UNESCO, 2009)
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Nudging at Scale: Experimental Evidence from FAFSA Completion Campaigns - Bird, A., Kelli; Castleman, Benjamin; Denning, Jeffrey; Goodman, Joshua; Lamberton, Cait; Rosinger, Kelly Ochs (2019)
Do nudge interventions that have generated positive impacts at a local level maintain efficacy when scaled state or nationwide? What specific mechanisms explain the positive impacts of promising smaller-scale nudges? We investigate, through two randomized controlled trials, the impact of a national and state-level campaign to encourage students to apply for financial aid for college. The campaigns collectively reached over 800,000 students, with multiple treatment arms to investigate different potential mechanisms. We find no impacts on financial aid receipt or college enrollment overall or for any student subgroups. We find no evidence that different approaches to message framing, delivery, or timing, or access to one-on-one advising affected campaign efficacy. We discuss why nudge strategies that work locally may be hard to scale effectively.
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Keywords: ___working_potential_duplicate

Nudging at Scale: Experimental Evidence from FAFSA Completion Campaigns - Bird, A., Kelli; Castleman, Benjamin; Denning, Jeffrey; Goodman, Joshua; Lamberton, Cait; Rosinger, Kelly Ochs (Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization, 2021)
Do nudge interventions that have generated positive impacts at a local level maintain efficacy when scaled state or nationwide? What specific mechanisms explain the positive impacts of promising smaller-scale nudges? We investigate, through two randomized controlled trials, the impact of a national and state-level campaign to encourage students to apply for financial aid for college. The campaigns collectively reached over 800,000 students, with multiple treatment arms to investigate different potential mechanisms. We find no impacts on financial aid receipt or college enrollment overall or for any student subgroups. We find no evidence that different approaches to message framing, delivery, or timing, or access to one-on-one advising affected campaign efficacy. We discuss why nudge strategies that work locally may be hard to scale effectively.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.jebo.2020.12.022 2339240:2RVLDCU8 2405685:D63Y92LP

Teacher Education at a Distance: Impact on Development in the Community - Binns, Felicity; Wrightson, Tony (DFID, 2006)
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Keywords: C:Low- and middle-income countries; ⛔ No DOI found

Access and equity in Open Education Resources: E-learning for girl and women in Bangladesh Open University. - Billah, Masum (2013)
Open Educational Resources are freely accessible, usually openly licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, educational, assessment and research purposes. E-learning is (website, e-book, cd, DVD etc) latest addition to OER which is accessible through internet and computing systems. Though these resources are ‘open’ to all for learning, but the socio economic situation of women and girls in Bangladesh is a challenge to take the advantage of e-learning systems. This research has been carried out to comprehend the situation of women and girls in Bangladesh in terms of E-learning, identify the challenges and opportunities of access to E-learning among women and girls and recommend about further improvement of those systems. The research had been consisted of several stages of analysis. Primarily different e-learning systems have been identified and later the contents have been analyzed to explore whether the topics and knowledge are relevant to women and girls. In the next stage, two groups of girls have been selected as respondent groups among which one group has been selected as user group who are currently using e-learning systems, and other group has non-users group. Comparison between these two groups has helped to identify the challenges that some girls face to use e-learning system and to recognize the factors that facilitated some girls to use the elearning system. In further stage of analysis, information from user’s group has helped to explore about the contents that should be included in the e-learning systems especially for women education, which will ensure a gender balance to use the system. At the end, it is expected that the research can recommend two factors; firstly, how these e-learning system could be more accessible among girls/women through increasing knowledge about the systems, and; secondly, what is required to include in these system to ensure equity to use the system and to gain knowledge from it.
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

When cost-effective interventions are unaffordable: Integrating cost-effectiveness and budget impact in priority setting for global health programs - Bilinski, Alyssa; Neumann, Peter; Cohen, Joshua; Thorat, Teja; McDaniel, Katherine; Salomon, Joshua A. (PLOS Medicine, 2017)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002397 2339240:DPDBP8UV 2405685:G3W2NWX3

The potential of Accelerated Learning Programmes (ALPs) for conflict-ridden countries and regions: Lessons learned from an experience in Iraq - Bilagher, Moritz; Kaushik, Amit (International Review of Education, 2020)
Accelerated learning programmes (ALPs) provide a fast-track second-chance opportunity to complete formal education, enabling disadvantaged children and youth to catch up with their peers. In 2005, after a preliminary pilot phase, the Government of Iraq, in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) implemented an ALP initially in 10 of Iraq’s 18 governorates with the intention of providing an estimated 50,000 out-of-school, often traumatised and disenfranchised children aged 12–18 years with an opportunity to complete the six-year primary cycle in three years. This experience generated some insights which may still be of practical use today in other conflict-ridden countries and regions. In order to highlight how the lessons learned just over 10 years ago are relevant to similar situations elsewhere today, this article discusses the findings of an independent evaluation of the programme in 2008. The available evaluation data imply that this ALP addressed a significant need and was appreciated by the target group, with 75 % of learners stating that they liked the ALP very much. Around 90 % of ALP graduates continued either in secondary education, or studying in other programmes, joined an apprenticeship scheme or found employment. Both survey and interview data suggest that this ALP did more than create educational opportunities for young persons; it also helped young people obtain a confident perspective for their own future. Consequently, this made them less vulnerable to participation in subversive activities (such as, for example, being recruited into militias). This is a lesson not just relevant to Iraq at the time, but to a wide range of unstable contexts across the world.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1007/s11159-020-09826-1 2339240:LHN26KRG 2405685:KZYFLI7F
Keywords: Accelerated Learning Programmes (ALPs); Iraq; Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4; access to education; education in (post-)conflict environments; education in emergencies

'Paradox' of Korail slum during COVID-19: ethnography of governance from below - BIGD (2021)
Urban slums are one of the most vulnerable communities during the COVID-19 pandemic; overcrowding and resource constraints make physical distancing and self-quarantine nearly impossible, creating a risk of a rapid spread of the infection. The conversations in the media and among other stakeholders were focused on these risk factors as well as the economic distress of the people in slums created by the pandemic. However, these discussions were primarily based on the perspectives of 'outsiders', with limited understanding of what was happening in the slums. With this gap in mind, we conducted an anthropological exploration of Korail, the largest slum in Dhaka city from September to December 2020, to uncover the emic views of slum dwellers' everyday life during the pandemic and understand the outbreak from their perspective. Findings from the study were presented in our webinar "'Paradox' of Korail slum during COVID-19: Ethnography of Governance from Below" on Thursday, 21 January 2021 from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm (GMT+6), by Dr Shahaduz Zaman, Reader in Medical Anthropology and Global Health, Brighton and Sussex Medical School. This study is a part of the Covid Collective initiative. Supported by the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the Covid Collective is based at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). The Collective brings together the expertise of, UK and Southern-based research partner organisations and offers a rapid social science research response to inform decision-making on some of the most pressing Covid-19 related development challenges.
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Big Launcher, Big Phone, Big SMS for seniors - Big Launcher
A fast and simple Android home screen for seniors and people with vision problems.
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Talking about education: exploring the significance of teachers’ talk for teacher agency - Biesta, Gert; Priestley, Mark; Robinson, Sarah (Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2017)
The interest in teachers’ discourses and vocabularies has for a long time been studied under the rubric of knowledge, most notably teachers’ professional knowledge. This interest can be traced back to Shulman’s distinction between different kinds of teacher knowledge and Schwab’s interest in the role of practical reasoning and judgement in teaching. Within the research, a distinction can be found between a more narrow approach that focuses on teachers’ propositional or theoretical knowledge and a more encompassing approach in which teachers’knowledge is not only the knowledge for teachers generated elsewhere, but also the knowledge of teachers. This is the ‘stock of knowledge’gained from a range of sources and experiences, including teachers’ ongoing engagement with the practice of teaching itself. In this paper, we focus on the role of teachers’ talk in their achievement of agency. We explore how, in what way and to what extent such talk helps or hinders teachers in exerting control over and giving direction to their everyday practices, bearing in mind that such practices are not just the outcome of teachers’ judgements and actions, but are also shaped by the structures and cultures within which teachers work.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/00220272.2016.1205143 10/ghwmhm 2339240:6GITREFE 2339240:9UFQQ4H3 2405685:69R7MRX9 2405685:P2VLRWBR

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

Using Wiki in teacher education: Impact on knowledge management processes and student satisfaction - ScienceDirect - Biasutti, Michele; El-Deghaidy, Heba (Computers & Education, 2012)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.compedu.2012.04.009 2339240:BB2ATG9A 2405685:BF358BBB

The Effect of Computer-Assisted Learning on Students’ Long-Term Development - Bianchi, Nicola; Lu, Yi; Song, Hong (Social Science Research Network, 2020)
In this paper, we examine the effect of computer-assisted learning on students’ long-term development. We explore the implementation of the “largest ed-tech intervention in the world to date,” which connected China’s best teachers to more than 100 million rural students through satellite internet. We find evidence that exposure to the program improved students’ academic achievement, labor performance, and computer usage. We observe these effects up to ten years after program implementation. These findings indicate that education technology can have long-lasting positive effects on a variety of outcomes and can be effective in reducing the rural–urban education gap.
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Keywords: China; computer-assisted education; education policy; education quality; education technology

Personalized education and artificial intelligence in United States, China, and India: A systematic review using a Human-In-The-Loop model - Bhutoria, Aditi (Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 2022)
The traditional “one size fits all” education system has been largely criticized in recent years on the ground of its lacking the capacity to meet individual student needs. Global education systems are leaning towards a more personalized, student-centered approach. Innovations like Big Data, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have given the modern-day technology to accommodate the distinctive features of human beings - smart machines and computers have been built to understand individual-specific needs. This opens an avenue for “personalization” in the education sector. From, mushrooming of Education Technology (EdTech) start-ups to government funding in AI research, it is evident that the next generation educational reforms would take a quantum leap forward piloted by Big Data analysis and AI. The objective of this paper is to organize the vast literature on the use of AI for personalization of education and to shed light on the key themes by which an AI-driven approach makes structural modifications to the existing education system. To this effect, the paper employed a systematic review using a Human-In-The-Loop natural language processing model of past two years' literature (2019–2021) in English language from IEEE Xplore on countries China, India and the USA. This process yielded more than 2000 search results at first and these were eventually shortlisted to 353 relevant papers for in-depth analysis. Being the pioneers in EdTech innovations, insights from research done in these three countries provides valuable input for the development of global education systems and research. The findings bring forward AI's success in catering to specific learning requirements, learning habits, and learning abilities of students and guiding them into optimized learning paths across all three countries. Not just that, it is also evident from the literature that AI augments educational content, customizes it for any individual according to their needs, and raises the flag of caution for anticipated learning difficulties. This recalibrates the role of instructors as well as optimizes the teaching-learning environment for a better learning experience. The upward trajectory of educational development with AI opens a new horizon of personalized education for the future generation, but also comes with its challenges. Data privacy issues, availability of digital resources, and affordability constraints have been reported in the recent literature as impediments in the way of promoting such technologies for day-to-day practice.
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Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Big data; China; India; Personalized education; USA; _genre:LR-literature_review

Transforming Traditional Teaching Laboratories for Effective Remote Delivery–A Review - Bhute, Vijesh J.; Inguva, Pavan; Shah, Umang; Brechtelsbauer, Clemens (Education for Chemical Engineers, 2021)
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Remote learning in the times of COVID-19 - Bhushan, Mayank; Joshi, Pratibha; Sharma, Sudhanshu (Central Square Foundation, 2021)
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Critical success factors for e-learning in developing countries: A comparative analysis between ICT experts and faculty - Bhuasiri, Wannasiri; Xaymoungkhoun, Oudone; Zo, Hangjung; Rho, Jae Jeung; Ciganek, Andrew P. (Computers & Education, 2012)
This study identifies the critical success factors that influence the acceptance of e-learning systems in developing countries. E-learning is a popular mode of delivering educational materials in higher education by universities throughout the world. This study identifies multiple factors that influence the success of e-learning systems from the literature and compares the relative importance among two stakeholder groups in developing countries, ICT experts and faculty. This study collected 76 usable responses using the Delphi method and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach. The results reveal 6 dimensions and 20 critical success factors for e-learning systems in developing countries. Findings illustrate the importance of curriculum design for learning performance. Technology awareness, motivation, and changing learners behavior are prerequisites for successful e-learning implementations. Several recommendations are provided to aid the implementation of e-learning systems for developing countries which have relevance for researchers and practitioners. Limitations as well as possible research directions are also discussed.
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Keywords: AHP; Critical success factors; Delphi method; Developing countries; E-learning

Bolo Bhi’s Analysis of the Personal Data Protection Bill 2020 - Bhi, Bolo (Bolo Bhi, 2020)
On April 10, 2020, the Ministry of Information and Technology and Telecommunications (MOITT) invited input from stakeholders on a draft Personal Data Protection Bill 2020 via email by May 15, 2020. Putting up a draft seeking stakeholder input is certainly a good step towards transparency and a collaborative, consultative process, unlike the approach adopted with …
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E-readiness of senior secondary school learners to online learning transition amid COVID-19 lockdown - Bhaumik, Rikisha; Priyadarshini, Anita (Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2020)
In the backdrop of recent COVID-19 lockdown, the school learners across the country have had the opportunity to experience online mode of learning. This study attempts to find out e-readiness of senior secondary school learners for transition to online learning along with their views on this mode of learning transaction. Quantitative descriptive survey method was used for the purpose of this study. A questionnaire comprising 20 Likert-type items covering four dimensions, viz. access, digital literacy and e-readiness, delivery of online learning, and online load, was administered on a 100-student sample from different schools of Delhi using non-probability sampling. Access to online learning and online load on learners were found to be high. The study also revealed that only 35.2% learners found online classes as effective as face-to-face classes. The delivery of online learning by teachers and digital skills of learners were found lacking. The geographical scope of the study is limited to National Capital Region of Delhi which has better smartphone penetration and internet access as compared to other states in India. The study concludes that online pedagogy and digital skills of teachers and learners need to be strengthened for a possible roadmap ahead. The study may provide useful insights into the challenges of online learning and areas for further improvement. Keywords:
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Keywords: covid-19; digital access; e-readiness; online delivery; online learning

Behind Bangladesh’s Protests: Rising Frustration - Bhattacherjee, Aparupa (The Diplomat)
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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

EdTech in Indonesia: Ready for Take-off? - Bhardwaj, Riaz; Yarrow, Noah; Calì, Massimiliano (World Bank Group, 2020)
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One Laptop per Child at home: Short-term impacts from a randomized experiment in Peru - Beuermann, Diether W.; Cristia, Julian; Cueto, Santiago; Malamud, Ofer; Cruz-Aguayo, Yyannu (American Economic Journal. Applied Economics, 2015)
This paper presents results from a randomized controlled trial whereby approximately 1,000 OLPC XO laptops were provided for home use to children attending primary schools in Lima, Peru. The intervention increased access and use of home computers, with some substitution away from computer use outside the home. Children randomized to receive laptops scored about 0.8 standard deviations higher in a test of XO proficiency but showed lower academic effort as reported by teachers. There were no impacts on academic achievement or cognitive skills as measured by the Raven's Progressive Matrices test. Finally, there was little evidence for spillovers within schools. (JEL I21, I28, J13, O15)
Num Pages: 28 Place: Nashville, United States Publisher: American Economic Association Section: Articles KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1257/APP.20130267 10.1257/app.20130267 10/gd853r 2339240:27SMHV3H 2339240:CPRGCBM2 2339240:TELXF9WP 2405685:9EXLABVP 2405685:9FMQU6XN 2405685:XXVAITEK
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How systems thinking applies to education. - Betts, Frank (Educational Leadership, 1992)
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How Systems Thinking Applies to Education - Educational Leadership - Betts, Frank (1992)
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Does EdTech Substitute for Traditional Learning? Experimental Estimates of the Educational Production Function - Bettinger, Eric; Fairlie, Robert; Kapuza, Anastasia; Kardanova, Elena; Loyalka, Prashant; Zakharov, Andrey (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020)
Experimental studies rarely consider the shape and nature of the education production function, which is useful for deriving optimal levels of input substitution in increasingly resource constrained environments. Because of the rapid expansion of EdTech as a substitute for traditional learning around the world and against the backdrop of full-scale temporary substitution due to the coronavirus pandemic, we explore the educational production function by using a large randomized controlled trial that varies dosage of computer-assisted learning (CAL) as a substitute for traditional learning. Results show production is concave in CAL. Moving from zero to a low level of CAL, the marginal rate of technical substitution (MRTS) of CAL for traditional learning is greater than one. Moving from a lower to a higher level of CAL, production remains on the same or a lower isoquant and the MRTS is equal to or less than one. The estimates are consistent with the general form of a Cobb-Douglas production function and imply that a blended approach of CAL and traditional learning is optimal. The findings have direct implications for the rapidly expanding use of educational technology worldwide and its continued substitution for traditional learning.
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Are the eﬀects of informational interventions driven by salience? - Bettinger, Eric; Cunha, Nina; Lichand, Guilherme; Madeira, Ricardo (University of Zurich Department of Economics, 2021)
Informational interventions have been shown to signiﬁcantly change behavior across a variety of settings. Is that because they lead subjects to merely update beliefs in the right direction? Or, alternatively, is it to a large extent because they increase the salience of the decision they target, aﬀecting behavior even in the absence of inputs for belief updating? We study this question in the context of an informational intervention with school parents in Brazil. We randomly assign parents to either an information group, who receives text messages with weekly data on their child’s attendance and school eﬀort, or a salience group, who receives messages that try to redirect their attention without child-speciﬁc information. We ﬁnd that information makes parents more accurate about student attendance, and has large impacts on their test scores and grade promotion relative to the control group. Even though salience messages, in contrast, do not make parents more accurate about attendance levels, learning outcomes in the salience group improve by at least as much. Why? We show that treated parents across both conditions become more accurate about changes in their children’s grades over time, although not about grade levels. Such coarse belief updating is consistent with independent information acquisition in response to salience eﬀects from both interventions. Our results have implications for the design and interpretation of informational interventions across a range of domains.
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Applying Systems Design Principles to the Design of Web-Based Training Systems - Bettin, Antje; Dillinger, Lisa; Ferraro, Sal; St-Pierre, Armand (WebNet Journal: Internet Technologies, Applications & Issues, 1999)
The Web is a popular platform for training educators and learners in educational systems. We find several Web-based training systems that are developed by enterprises that try to train teachers and students to use Web technologies in educational settings. The purpose of this article is to apply systems design principles to the design of Web-based training systems for teachers and learners. Several issues will be addressed in this paper such as the development of an Integrated Learning Community System (ILCS) for a better learning environment, the Quality Assurance / Audience Analysis /...
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Virtual Roundtable on Structured Pedagogy - better purpose (2020)
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Can Facebook groups enhance continuing professional development of teachers? Lessons from Kenya - Bett, Harry; Makewa, Lazarus (Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2020)
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for teachers in Kenya suffers from challenges such as inadequate resources, poor planning, competing interests, among others. Besides being traditional in approach, most CPD sessions are far between to be meaningfully helpful. With increasing uptake of technology and number of social media users in Kenya, Facebook can be a potential platform to enhance teachers’ professional development. This exploratory cross-sectional survey focussed on discussions teachers had in the month of February 2015 on one Facebook Group named ‘Teachers of English’. A directed content analysis of the 647 posts following Shulman’s category of teacher knowledge base revealed that interactions on the group centred on the teaching of English and Literature, as well as on other education-related matters. This study concludes that that Facebook Groups can be fertile avenues for teachers’ ongoing professional development, especially in developing countries where such opportunities are scarce.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2018.1542662 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/1359866X.2018.1542662 10.1080/1359866x.2018.1542662 10/gg3988 2339240:FPKG4LA8 2339240:RNEM52U7 2405685:9BBCI3GD 2405685:9EFWDEUR 2405685:EQBTMC7A 2534378:BJ75PKH4 2534378:F8XIDPG4 2534378:FNUR2CDH 2534378:N4ZG4GTY
Keywords: Content analysis; Education–Teaching Methods And Curriculum; English teachers; Facebook Groups; Kenya; Professional development; Social networks; Teacher education; Teachers; __:import:02; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2425933; __finaldtb; professional development

The cascade model of teachers’ continuing professional development in Kenya: A time for change? - Bett, Harry Kipkemoi (Cogent Education, 2016)
Kenya is one of the countries whose teachers the UNESCO (2015) report cited as lacking curriculum support in the classroom. As is the case in many African countries, a large portion of teachers in Kenya enter the teaching profession when inadequately prepared, while those already in the field receive insufficient support in their professional lives. The cascade model has often been utilized in the country whenever need for teachers’ continuing professional development (TCPD) has arisen, especially on a large scale. The preference for the model is due to, among others, its cost effectiveness and ability to reach out to many teachers within a short period of time. Many researchers have however cast aspersions with this model for its glaring shortcomings. On the contrary, TCPD programmes that are collaborative in nature and based on teachers’ contexts have been found to be more effective than those that are not. This paper briefly examines cases of the cascade model in Kenya, the challenges associated with this model and proposes the adoption of collaborative and institutionbased models to mitigate these challenges. The education sectors in many nations in Africa, and those in the developing world will find the discussions here relevant.
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Alternative education: filling the gap in emergency and post-conflict situations - Bethke, Lynne (2009)
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Mathematics Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Status, Challenges, and Opportunities - Bethell, George (World Bank, 2016)
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Ready to Learn: Before School, in School, and beyond School in South Asia - Béteille, Tara; Tognatta, Namrata; Riboud, Michelle; Nomura, Shinsaku; Ghorpade, Yashodhan (World Bank Publications, 2020)
Countries that have sustained rapid growth over decades have typically had a strong public commitment to expanding education as well as to improving learning outcomes. South Asian countries have made considerable progress in expanding access to primary and secondary schooling, with countries having achieved near-universal enrollment of the primary-school-age cohort (ages 6-11), except for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Secondary enrollment shows an upward trend as well. Beyond school, many more people have access to skill-improving opportunities and higher education today. Although governments have consistently pursued policies to expand access, a prominent feature of the region has been the role played by non-state actors, private nonprofit and for-profit entities, in expanding access at every level of education. Though learning levels remain low, countries in the region have shown a strong commitment to improving learning. All countries in South Asia have taken the first step, which is to assess learning outcomes regularly. Since 2010, there has been a rapid increase in the number of large-scale student learning assessments conducted in the region. But to use the findings of these assessments to improve schooling, countries must build their capacity to design assessments and analyze and use findings to inform policy.
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Keywords: 21st Century Skills; Access to Education; Administrator Role; Barriers; Child Development; Child Health; Early Childhood Education; Educational Attainment; Educational Equity (Finance); Educational Finance; Educational Policy; Educational Quality; Elementary Secondary Education; Equal Education; Faculty Development; Foreign Countries; Gender Bias; Global Approach; Governance; Government Role; Higher Education; Inservice Teacher Education; Job Skills; Nutrition; Parenting Skills; Preschool Education; Preservice Teacher Education; Principals; Private Schools; Public Education; Public Policy; Readiness; Skill Development; Teacher Competencies; Teacher Qualifications; Teacher Salaries; Technology Integration; Technology Uses in Education

Three Principles to Support Teacher Effectiveness During COVID-19 - Beteille, Tara; Ding, Elaine; Molina, Ezequiel; Pushparatnam, Adelle; Wilichowski, Tracy (World Bank, 2020)
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Absenteeism, transfers and patronage: the political economy of labor markets in India - Béteille, Tara (School of Education, University of Stanford, 2009)
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Supporting teachers during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic - Beteille, Tara (2020)
Supporting teachers during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic
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The impact of national and international assessment programmes on education policy, particularly policies regarding resource allocation and teaching and learning practices in developing countries - Best, Maura; Knight, Pat; Lietz, Petra; Lockwood, Craig; Nugroho, Dita; Tobin, Mollie (Assessment and Reporting, 2013)
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Is School Funding Unequal in Latin America?: A Cross-country Analysis - Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; Marotta, Luana; Martínez, Matias; Santos, Humberto; Soares, Sammara (2020)
Public spending on education has increased significantly in Latin America over the last decades. However, less is known whether increased spending has been translated into a more equitable distribution of resources within countries in the region. This study addresses this gap by measuring the inequality in per-pupil spending between regions with different levels of socioeconomic status (SES) within five Latin American countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Results show that Brazil, a federal country, has the widest socioeconomic funding gap due to large inequalities in local revenues between high and low SES regions. However, the country's funding gap has narrowed over time. School funding in Colombia has become more regressive over time, but its gap is half the size of the one in Brazil. The distribution of school funding in Peru has changed over time from being regressive-benefiting the richest regions-to being progressive-benefiting the poorest regions. Education spending in Chile and in Ecuador are, on the other hand, consistently progressive. However, while the progressiveness of funding in Ecuador is driven by transfers targeted at disadvantaged rural areas, the funding formulas in Chile addresses socioeconomic inequalities beyond the rural-urban gap.
Publisher: Inter-American Development Bank KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.18235/0002854 2339240:9JLTQPEY 2405685:IBBYHF76 4656463:V76SUDGT

Escasez de docentes en Latinoamérica: ¿Cómo se puede medir y que políticas están implementando los países para resolverlo? - Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; Marotta, Luana; Martínez, Matias; Méndez, Carolina; Montalva, Veronica; Olsen, Anne Sofie; Santos, Humberto; Soares, Sammara (Inter-American Development Bank, 2020)
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Teacher Policies, Incentives, and Labor Markets in Chile, Colombia, and Perú: Implications for Equality - Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; Jaimovich, Analía; Rodríguez, Julio; Santos, Humberto (Inter-American Development Bank, 2018)
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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