Building back better: Education systems for resilience, equity and quality in the age of Covid-19 - Vu, B.T.; Savonitto, I.S. (World Bank, 2020)

Building back better: post-earthquake responses and educational challenges in Pakistan - Kirk, Jackie (UNESCO, 2008)

Building back better to avert a learning catastrophe: Estimating learning loss from COVID-19 school shutdowns in Africa and facilitating short-term and long-term learning recovery - Angrist, Noam; de Barros, Andreas; Bhula, Radhika; Chakera, Shiraz; Cummiskey, Chris; DeStefano, Joseph; Floretta, John; Kaffenberger, Michelle; Piper, Benjamin; Stern, Jonathan (International Journal of Educational Development, 2021)
We model learning losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the potential for cost-effective strategies to build back better. Data from Early Grade Reading Assessments in Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Tanzania, and Uganda suggest half to over a year’s worth of learning loss. In modeling losses over time, we found that learning deficits for a child in grade 3 could lead to 2.8 years of lost learning by grade 10. While COVID-19 has stymied learning, bold, learning-focused reform consistent with the literature reviewed in this paper—specifically reform on targeted instruction and structured pedagogy—could improve learning even beyond pre-COVID-19 levels.
Keywords: COVID-19; Education; Foundational skills; Learning loss; Recovery

Building capability by delivering results: Putting Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) principles into practice - Andrews, Matt; Pritchett, Lant; Samji, Salimah; Woolcock, Michael (A governance practitioner's notebook: alternative ideas and approaches, 2015)

BUILDING E-TEACHING CAPACITY OF TVET LECTURERS TO CUSHION THE EFFECTS OF COVID-19 AND OTHER FUTURE PANDEMICS ON TERTIARY EDUCATION SYSTEM OF LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES - Bakare, Jimoh; Oviawe, Jane Itohan; Nwachukwu, Christiana; Anoure, Nonesta Chidiebere; Anayo, Madu Maureen; Maghalu, Favour Amarachi
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Building Education Foundations through Innovation & Technology: Malawi Scale-Up Program Overview - Malawi Ministry of Education (Government of Malawi, 2023)

Building Education Foundations through Innovation & Technology: Malawi Scale-up Program Overview - Malawi MoE (2023)

Building Education Foundations through Innovation & Technology: Malawi Scale-up Program Overview - Malawi MoE (2023)

Building Educational Foundations through Innovation & Technology (BEFIT): Malawi Scale-Up Program Overview - Government of Malawi (2023)

Building effective COVID-19 Education Response Plans: Insights from Africa and Asia - Kimenyi, Eric; Otieno, Jennifer; Kaye, Tom (EdTech Hub, 2020)
Keywords: COV:COVID and reopening of schools; F: Helpdesk response; LP: English; _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _cover:v1; _zenodoETH; dode_eth-src-eth; dode_eth-trf2-dode

Building effective COVID-19 education response plans: Insights from Africa and Asia - Otieno, Jenn Cotter; Kimenyi, Eric; Kaye, Tom (EdTech Hub, 2020)
by Jenn Cotter Otieno, Eric Kimenyi and Tom Kaye As countries around the world rapidly respond to the educational challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic many countries have begun to leverage technology to provide educational continuity. We at the EdTech Hub are working with many countries to help them design interventions to support learning during this crisis. The first question…
Keywords: _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _zenodoETH

Building Quality in Summer Learning Programs: Approaches and Recommendations - McLaughlin, Brenda; Pitcock, Sarah (The Wallace Foundation, 2009)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Building Resilient Education Systems: Evidence from Large-Scale Randomized Trials in Five Countries - Angrist, Noam; Ainomugisha, Micheal; Bathena, Sai Pramod; Bergman, Peter; Crossley, Colin; Cullen, Claire; Letsomo, Thato; Matsheng, Moitshepi; Panti, Rene Marlon; Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Sullivan, Tim (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023)

Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, Action - Andrews, Matt; Pritchett, Lant; Woolcock, Michael (Oxford University Press, 2017)
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited impact, however; schools get built but children don't learn, IT systems are introduced but not used, plans are written but not implemented. These achievement deficiencies reveal gaps in capabilities, and weaknesses in the process of building state capability. This book addresses these weaknesses and gaps. It starts by providing evidence of the capability shortfalls that currently exist in many countries, showing that many governments lack basic capacities even after decades of reforms and capacity building efforts. The book then analyses this evidence, identifying capability traps that hold many governments back - particularly related to isomorphic mimicry (where governments copy best practice solutions from other countries that make them look more capable even if they are not more capable) and premature load bearing (where governments adopt new mechanisms that they cannot actually make work, given weak extant capacities). The book then describes a process that governments can use to escape these capability traps. Called PDIA (problem driven iterative adaptation), this process empowers people working in governments to find and fit solutions to the problems they face. The discussion about this process is structured in a practical manner so that readers can actually apply tools and ideas to the capability challenges they face in their own contexts. These applications will help readers devise policies and reforms that have more impact than those of the past.

Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, Action - Pritchett, Lant; Andrews, Matt; Woolcock, Michael (2017)
"Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, Action" provides evidence of the capability shortfalls that currently exist in many countries, analyses this evidence and identifies capability traps that hold many governments back—particularly related to isomorphic mimicry and premature load-bearing.

Building State Capacity - Di Maro, Vincenzo; Evans, David K.; Khemani, Stuti; Scot, Thiago (2021)
Although research has established the importance of state capacity in economic development, less is known about how to build that capacity and the role of external partners in the process. This paper estimates the impact of a typical development project designed to build state capacity in a low-income country. Specifically, it evaluates a multilateral development bank project in Tanzania, which incentivized investments in local state capacity by offering grants conditional on institutional performance scores. The paper uses a difference-in-differences methodology to estimate the project impact, comparing outcomes between 18 project and 22 non-project local governments over 2016–18. Outcomes were measured through two rounds of primary surveys of nearly 500 local government officials and nearly 3,000 households. Over the course of the project, measured state capacity improved in project areas, but due to comparable gains in non-project areas, the project’s value-added to change in state capacity is estimated to be zero across all the dozens of relevant variables in the surveys. The data suggest that state capacity is evolving in Tanzania through endogenous changes in trust and legitimacy in the country rather than from financial incentives offered by external partners.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Building Stronger Education Systems: Stories of Change (Global Partnership for Education, 2019)
The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) supports close to 70 developing countries to ensure that every child receives a quality education. The featured stories in this report show the progress that developing country partners are making in getting more children, especially girls, in school and learning. The results are not only evidence of their commitment to improve education, but also of the sustained and targeted support provided by GPE. Feature stories are included from the following countries: (1) Afghanistan; (2) Benin; (3) Burkina Faso; (4) Djibouti; (5) Eritrea; (6) Ethiopia; (7) Guyana; (8) Kenya; (9) Pakistan; (10) Papua New Guinea; and (11) Sudan.
Keywords: Access to Education; Barriers; Developing Nations; Disadvantaged; Early Childhood Education; Economic Development; Educational Change; Educational Improvement; Educational Needs; Educational Practices; Educational Quality; Equal Education; Foreign Countries; Reading Instruction; Reading Skills; Refugees; Rural Education; Technology Uses in Education; Womens Education

Building the pipeline for entrepreneurs who are 'wired to progress' - Ilm Ideas 2, Cambridge Education (2020)

Bunga Rampai Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini - Hasbi, Muhammad; Merysa; Abidin, Zaenal; Oktavianingsih, Eka; Zatalini, Rinia; Mabrur, Hidayatul; Sobiatin, Eka; Rahayu, Dita; Adhitya, Yusuf; Somantri, Cecep; Nurhasanah, Nia (2020)
Publikasi ini merupakan bentuk kerja sama antara Direktorat Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini (PAUD),Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini, Pendidikan Dasar dan Pendidikan Menengah, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan (Kemendikbud) dan para alumni penerima beasiswa Lembaga Pengelola Dana Pendidikan (LPDP), baik dari dalam maupun luar negeri. Para kontributor yang terpilih dalam buku ini telah menyelesaikan studi di bidang pendidikan dengan fokus disiplin yang beragam (interdisipliner), dan lulus dengan predikat cumlaude atau distinction pada bidang masing-masing, baik pada jenjang sarjana maupun magister.

Business Case: Support to Lebanon’s Reaching All Children with Education plan (RACE II): reaching Lebanese and refugee children aged 3-18 with formal education - DFID (DFID, 2016)

bwallace/abstrackr-web - wallace, byron (2023)
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C-DELTA: Preparing students as digital leaders in Bangladesh - Khan, S (2019)
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Calculating the Educational Impact of COVID-19 (Part II): Using Data from Successive Grades to Estimate Learning Loss - Cummiskey, Chris; Stern, Jonathan; DeStefano, Joe; Piper, Ben (The Education and Development Forum (UKFIET), 2020)
This article was co-authored by Christopher Cummiskey and Jonathan Stern. It benefitted from input from Joe DeStefano, Tim Slade, and Ben Piper. The article was originally published on the RTI SharEd website on 13 May 2020. Part I can be read here. A couple of weeks ago, we set the stage for developing evidence-based, data-driven […]

Calculating the Educational Impact of COVID-19 (Part II): Using Data from Successive Grades to Estimate Learning Loss | SharEd

Calculating the Educational Impact of COVID-19 (Part II): Using Data from Successive Grades to Estimate Learning Loss | SharEd - Cummiskey, Chris (2020)
Keywords: _COVID_DEAA-List

Calculating the Educational Impact of COVID-19 (Part III): Where will students be when schools reopen? | SharEd - Cummiskey, Chris (RTI, 2021)

Call for ideas for EdTech responses to coronavirus (COVID-19) - EdTech Hub (EdTech Hub, 2020)
UPDATE: The call is now closed  We’ve opened a sub-window in partnership with UNHCR for refugee related ideas that respond to COVID-19 school closures. Find full details here. Our call for ideas to respond to the learning emergency caused by COVID-19 school closures is now closed.  We have been delighted and overwhelmed by the huge number […]
Keywords: _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _zenodoETH

Call for Research Proposals: EdTech responses to Covid-19 (EdTech Hub, 2020)
EdTech Hub is excited to launch a call for proposals to fund a series of small research projects (3-6 months) related to Covid-19 response and recovery using educational technology (EdTech). The selected research projects will investigate the practical application of EdTech, generate primary research, and develop recommendations which aim to be useful during Covid-19 response, recovery, and beyond. We see…
Keywords: _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _zenodoETH

Call Me Educated: Evidence from a Mobile Monitoring Experiment in Niger - Aker, Jenny C; Ksoll, Christopher (2015)
Keywords: C:Niger

Call me educated: Evidence from a mobile phone experiment in Niger✰ - Aker, Jenny C; Ksoll, Christopher (Economics of Education Review, 2019)
Teacher absenteeism is an important obstacle to sustained learning gains in many developing countries. We report the results from a randomized evaluation of an adult education program in Niger, which included an additional intervention designed to improve teacher accountability and students’ learning. Villages were randomly assigned to one of three groups. The first was a two-year adult education program, with normal visits by non-governmental organization (NGO) and Ministry staff. The second included the same curriculum and visits as the first, but villages also received a mobile intervention: weekly phone calls to the teacher, village chief and two randomly selected students. The third was a pure control group, with no adult education program or calls. We find that both interventions improved students’ learning outcomes: across both years of the program, students in the standard adult education program increased their math and reading test scores by 0.19–0.22 s.d, respectively. The mobile phone intervention led to an additional increase in math and reading test scores of 0.12 and 0.15 s.d., with stronger effects amongst called students. We also address alternative threats to identification, namely, differential attrition and baseline imbalance, and find that the math results are robust across these different specifications. This suggests that using mobile phone technology as a means to communicate with teachers and students can improve learning outcomes, beyond its use as a pedagogical tool within the classroom.
Keywords: Adult education; Information technology; Monitoring; Niger; Teacher absenteeism

Calling the tech industry: Hear from your next generation of female digital talent - Beresford, L. (GSMA, 2021)

Cambridge University Press & Cambridge Assessment. (2020). The Learning Passport Research and Recommendations Report: Summary of Findings. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press & Cambridge Assessment. - Abdul, Zahara (2020)
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Cameras in the classroom: Facial recognition technology in schools - Galligan, Claire (University of Michigan, 2019)

Cameroon Reopens Schools After 7-month COVID Closure | Voice of America - English - Kindzeka, Moki Edwin (Voice of America, 2020)
More than seven million Cameroon children and their teachers have returned to schools for the first time since their institutions were closed to stop the spread of COVID-19, seven months ago. The government of the central African state says it has been able to considerably reduce the spread of the disease that has been officially confirmed in more than 20,000 people with 420 deaths. Respect of COVID-19 barrier measures is imperative in all schools. The oldest student reads rules and regulations to be respected at Government Bilingual High School Essos in Cameroon’s capital Yaoundé.

Can A/B Testing at Scale Accelerate Learning Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Environments? - Friedberg, Aidan (Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023)
On current trends the world will fail to reach the objectives set in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals for Education by 2030 or even within the 21st century. Changing this trend will require a significant acceleration in learning outcomes. Digital personalised learning (DPL) tools are a potentially cost-effective intervention that can contribute to this acceleration. In particular, the continuous experimentation afforded by these tools through software A/B testing, has considerable potential to create compounding improvements in learning outcomes. This paper provides an overview of EIDU, an educational platform combining student focused DPL content with digital structured pedagogy programmes in public pre-primary schools in Kenya. Collection of student’s longitudinal unsupervised assessment data at scale creates the possibility of learning outcome focused A/B testing. This is a novel contribution to the development and research field as up until now this type of capability has largely been confined to students in high-income environments.

Can broadcast media foster equitable learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic? - UNICEF (Evidence for Action, 2020)
This post is the second in a series of articles focused on helping children continue to learn at home during the COVID-19 global pandemic, emphasizing the need for multiple remote learning platforms to meet the needs of all students.   As discussed in the first post in this series on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, school closures around the globe mean that remote learning is now the only option for more than 1.3 billion children across 177 countries. MICS6 data reveal that many of the world’s children do not have internet access at home, particularly among poorer households. In response,…

Can cost-effectiveness analysis integrate concerns for equity? Systematic review - Johri, Mira; Norheim, Ole Frithjof (International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 2012)
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to promote approaches to health technology assessment (HTA) that are both evidence-based and values-based. We conducted a systematic review of published studies describing formal methods to consider equity in the context of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA). METHODS: Candidate studies were identified through an unrestricted search of the Pub Med and EMBASE databases. The search closed on January 20, 2011. We identified additional studies by consulting experts and checking article bibliographies. Two authors independently reviewed each candidate study to determine inclusion and extracted data from studies retained for review. In addition to documenting methods, data extraction identified implicit and explicit notions of fairness. Data were synthesized in narrative form. Study quality was not assessed. RESULTS: Of the 695 candidate articles, 51 were retained for review. We identified three broad methods to facilitate quantitative consideration of equity concerns in economic evaluation: integration of distributional concerns through equity weights and social welfare functions, exploration of the opportunity costs of alternative policy options through mathematical programming, and multi-criteria decision analysis. CONCLUSIONS: Several viable techniques to integrate equity concerns within CEA now exist, ranging from descriptive approaches to the quantitative methods studied in this review. Two obstacles at the normative level have impeded their use in decision making to date: the multiplicity of concepts and values discussed under the rubric of equity, and the lack of a widely accepted normative source on which to ground controversial value choices. Clarification of equity concepts and attention to procedural fairness may strengthen use of these techniques in HTA decision making.
Keywords: Canada; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Decision Support Techniques; Health Resources; Health Services Accessibility; Health Status Disparities; Humans; Quality-Adjusted Life Years; Social Justice; Social Welfare

Can Education be Standardized? Evidence from Kenya - Gray-Lobe, Guthrie; Keats, Anthony; Kremer, Michael; Mbiti, Isaac; Ozier, Owen (Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago, 2022)
We examine the impact of enrolling in schools that employ a highly-standardized approach to education, using random variation from a large nationwide scholarship program. Bridge International Academies not...

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.
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

Can free primary education meet the needs of the poor?: evidence from Malawi - Kadzamira, Esme; Rose, Pauline (International Journal of Educational Development, 2003)
Following elections in 1994, the Government of Malawi embarked on an ambitious programme of free primary education (FPE), resulting in a dramatic increase in enrolment. The paper argues that the policy did not sufficiently consider the ways in which direct and indirect costs of schooling continue to be prohibitive for some households, or the effects that the expansion would have on quality. The relevance of education for the majority of children who receive only a few years of primary schooling is also questioned. The paper suggests that FPE might not be contributing to the achievement of poverty alleviation goals, as intended.
Keywords: Development; Educational policy; Gender; International education; Malawi; Poverty

Can new modes of digital learning help resolve the teacher crisis in sub-Saharan Africa? - Moon, Bob; Villet, Charmaine (Journal of Learning for Development, 2017)
Sub-Saharan Africa, more than any other part of the world, is experiencing a crisis in finding sufficiently qualified teachers to meet the needs of expanding school systems. The professional development support provided to serving teachers is also inadequate in most countries. The most recent data on learner outcomes has revealed a worrying picture of significant under-achievement across the region. This paper argues that the teacher education and training structures of the last century will never be able to meet urgent contemporary needs. Given population growth, especially among the young, large-scale expansion of the teaching force and the associated teacher education systems will be the norm through to the middle years of the century and beyond. In this context the paper argues for a significant policy shift to expand quality teacher education and professional support at scale through a more school-based and digitally supported network model of provision. Examples of current digital programmes within the region are considered as well as the new technologies that are emerging with relevance to teacher education. The paper suggests a three-phase process through which national governments might move in making the necessary changes in policy and practice.
Keywords: Africa; Computer Uses in Education; ERIC, Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Educational Change; Educational Policy; Electronic Learning; Faculty Development; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Inservice Teacher Education; Online Courses; Postsecondary Education; Preservice Teacher Education; Resource Units; Teacher Shortage; ⛔ No DOI found

Can Nudge Messaging Positively Influence School Attendance? - Longley, Sophie (EdTech Hub)
In Northern Ghana, Wunni Sabo's decision to prioritise his daughter's education, inspired by nudge messaging, is helping to spark a movement for learning. Click to read this story of change.

Can One Laptop Per Child Save the World's Poor? - Warschauer, Mark; Ames, Morgan (Journal of International Affairs, 2010)
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program is one of the most ambitious educational reform initiatives the world has ever seen. The program has developed a radically new low-cost laptop computer and aggressively promoted its plans to put the computer in the hands of hundreds of millions of children around the world, including in the most impoverished nations. Though fewer than 2 million of OLPC's XO computers have been distributed as of this writing, the initiative has caught the attention of world leaders, influenced developments in the global computer industry and sparked controversy and debate about the best way to improve the lot of the world's poor. With six years having passed since Nicholas Negroponte first unveiled the idea, this paper appraises the program's progress and impact and, in so doing, takes a fresh look at OLPC's assumptions. The paper reviews the theoretical underpinnings of OLPC, analyzes the program's development and summarizes the current state of OLPC deployments around the world. The analysis reveals that provision of individual laptops is a utopian vision for the children in the poorest countries, whose educational and social futures could be more effectively improved if the same investments were instead made on more sustainable and proven interventions. Middle- and high-income countries may have a stronger rationale for providing individual laptops to children, but will still want to eschew OLPC's technocentric vision. In summary, OLPC represents the latest in a long line of technologically utopian development schemes that have unsuccessfully attempted to solve complex social problems with overly simplistic solutions.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Can One-to-One Computing Narrow the Digital Divide and the Educational Gap in China? The Case of Beijing Migrant Schools - Mo, Di; Swinnen, Johan; Zhang, Linxiu; Yi, Hongmei; Qu, Qinghe; Boswell, Matthew; Rozelle, Scott (World Development, 2013)
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is a high profile initiative to narrow the inequality of access to ICT and improve educational performance. However, there is little empirical evidence on its impacts. In order to assess the effectiveness of OLPC, we conducted a randomized experiment of OLPC with Chinese characteristics involving 300 third-grade students in Beijing migrant schools. Our results show that the program improved student computer skills by 0.33 standard deviations and math scores by 0.17 standard deviations. The program also increased student time spent using educational software and decreased student time spent watching TV. Student self-esteem also improved.
Keywords: Asia; Beijing migrant school; China; One Laptop Per Child; RCT; computer skills; math test scores

Can outsourcing improve Liberia's schools? Preliminary results from Year One of a three-year randomized evaluation of partnership schools for Liberia - Romero, Mauricio; Sandefur, Justin; Sandholtz, Wayne Aaron (Center for Global Development, 2017)

Can public rankings improve school performance? Evidence from a nationwide reform in Tanzania - Cilliers, Jacobus; Mbiti, Isaac; Zeitlin, Andrew (Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), 2019)

Can Public Rankings Improve School Performance? Evidence from a Nationwide Reform in Tanzania - Cilliers, Jacobus; Mbiti, Isaac; Zeitlin, Andrew (2019)

Can Public Rankings Improve School Performance? Evidence from a Nationwide Reform in Tanzania - Cilliers, Jacobus; Mbiti, Isaac; Zeitlin, Andrew (2019)

Can Public Rankings Improve School Performance? Evidence from a Nationwide Reform in Tanzania - Cilliers, Jacobus; Mbiti, Isaac; Zeitlin, Andrew (2019)

Can't Wait To Learn - War Child
War Child empowers children and young people in conflict areas by providing psychosocial support, stimulating education and protecting children from the effects of war.

Can't Wait To Learn - War Child Holland (Warchild English, 2020)
War Child empowers children and young people in conflict areas by providing psychosocial support, stimulating education and protecting children from the effects of war.

Can’t Wait to Learn Lebanon - War Child (2019)

Can technology enable effective teacher coaching at scale? - Evans, David (2008)
Teachers are important. And many teachers in low- and middle-income countries would benefit from support to improve their pedagogical skills. But how to do it? Again and again, evidence suggests that short teacher trainings – usually held in a central location – don’t do much of anything to improve teacher ...

Can technology enable effective teacher coaching at scale? - Evans, David (2018)
Teachers are important. And many teachers in low- and middle-income countries would benefit from support to improve their pedagogical skills. But how to do it? Again and again, evidence suggests that short teacher trainings – usually held in a central location – don’t do much of anything to improve teacher ...

Can Text Message Nudges Improve Academic Outcomes in College? Evidence from a West Virginia Initiative - Castleman, Benjamin; Meyer, Katharine (The Review of Higher Education, 2020)
Although socioeconomic disparities in college enrollment have declined, gaps in college completion persist by income and geography. We investigate a text messaging campaign in West Virginia, which addressed informational barriers and behavioral obstacles to college persistence by providing college students with simplified information, encouragement, and access to individualized advising. Using descriptive and matching methods, we find participating students were more likely to remain enrolled throughout their first year of college, and completed more course credits with suggestive evidence of improved academic performance. This evidence suggests colleges play an important role communicating information about academic expectations, support resources, and norms.

Can Virtual Replace In-person Coaching? Experimental Evidence on Teacher Professional Development and Student Learning in South Africa - Cilliers, J; Fleischz, B; Kotzex, J; Mohohlwanex, N; Taylor, S; Thulare, T (2020)
We experimentally compare on-site with virtual coaching of South African teachers. After three years, on-site coaching improved students’ English oral language and reading proﬁciency by 0.31 and 0.13 SD, respectively. Virtual coaching improved English oral language proﬁciency (0.12 SD), had no impact on English reading proﬁciency, and an unintended negative eﬀect on home language literacy. Classroom observations show that on-site coaching improved teaching practice and that virtual coaching led to larger crowding-out of home language teaching time. Implementation and survey data suggest that the use of technology did not preclude eﬀectiveness, but rather that in-person contact enabled more accountability and support.
Keywords: Important; Read; ⛔ No DOI found

Can you hear me?: the right of young children to participate in decisions affecting them - Lansdown, Gerison (2005)
Keywords: CitedIn:eCubed; eCubed

Capturing Cost Data - World Bank; International Rescue Committee (World Bank, 2019)
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Capturing cost data: a first-mile problem - Holla, Alaka (2019)
Before we bought our house, my husband and I knew the price. The real estate agent wasn’t allowed to give us a back-of-the-envelope estimate right at the end of the process. She wasn't allowed to just declare that the house was low cost, affordable, or sustainable for our budget. We ...

Careers in Motion: A Longitudinal Retention Study of Role Changing Among Early-Career Urban Educators - Quartz, Karen; Thomas, Andrew; Anderson, Lauren; Masyn, Katherine; Lyons, Kimberly; Olsen, Brad (Teachers College Record, 2008)
Background/Context Teacher retention, especially of qualified teachers within high-poverty schools, is an issue of local, national, and international concern. School staffing research has typically examined two groups: those who remain in full-time classroom teaching versus those who quit teaching altogether. This article complicates the teacher staffing picture and adds a third category of attrition: role changing, which is the phenomenon of teachers shifting into nonteaching professional roles in the field of education. Purpose We asked what proportion of teacher career movement within our sample was attributable to leaving teaching versus role changing. Further, we wanted to know the influence of race/ethnicity, gender, credential type, and age on role-changing patterns. Research Design To deepen our understanding of teacher career patterns, we conducted a 6-year longitudinal study that involved collecting survey data on teacher career movement, school experiences, and attitudes from 838 well-prepared urban educators in their first through eighth career year. These educators had all completed master's degrees in the teacher education program of a high-status urban public university and all began their careers as teachers. After collecting the data, we documented and diagrammed career patterns. In addition, we analyzed the influence of select time invariant covariates on the hazard probabilities of both role changing and leaving education. Findings/Results The study found that not only did teachers move into a variety of non-teaching roles within the field of education, but they also followed diverse career “pathways” along the way. Survival analysis substantiated prior research showing that Latino teachers have lower attrition rates from the field of education compared with White teachers, but this effect disappeared for role changing with the field. In terms of gender, the men in our population were less likely to leave education entirely than women but more likely to leave teaching for a role change in career years 3–8. Teachers with single-subject (secondary) credentials were more likely than their colleagues who held multiple-subject (elementary) credentials to leave teaching for a role change in education. Conclusions/Recommendations Set within the framework of teacher professionalism, we argue that role changing is a form of sanctioned attrition and that understanding movement among roles within the educational workforce is essential for crafting policies and incentives to keep well-prepared teachers rooted in careers that serve the nation's most under-served students.

Caring in the time of COVID-19: Gender, unpaid care work and social protection - Nesbitt-Ahmed, Zahrah; Subrahmanian, Ramya (UNICEF Evidence for Action, 2020)
The impact of COVID-19 on care workers and the role of social protection in ensuring they thrive while performing critical services in homes and communities

Case Study: Building Girls to Live, Learn, Laugh and ‘SCHIP’ in Strong, Creative, Holistic, Inclusive, Protective, Quality Education - CRANE and Viva (2021)

Case study: Building strong institutional capacity and expertise in data for decision-making through developing a unified data management system. - Ampofo, Rudolph; Simiyu, Genevieve; Ayinga, Ussif (EdTech Hub, 2024)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org/
Keywords: _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence; coming soon

Case Study: GEARR-ing Up for Success After School - PEAS (2021)

Case Study Report: RET International Kenya - Boisvert, Kayla (University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2017)

Case study: Sisters for Sisters' Education - GEC (VSO, 2021)

Case Study: Sisters for Sisters’ Education - VSO (2021)

Case study: Team Girl Malawi - Link Education International (2021)

Case Study: TEAM Girl Malawi - Link Education International (2021)

CASEL's framework for systemic social and emotional learning - Borowski, T. (Establishing Practical Social-Emotional Competence Assessment Work Group, 2019)

CAST methods in modelling: Computer aided systems theory for the design of intelligent machines - Pichler, Franz; Schwaertzel, Heinz (Springer Science & Business Media, 2012)

CASTOR: learning to create context-sensitive and emotionally engaging narrations in-situ - Pittarello, Fabio; Bertani, Luca (ACM, 2012)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

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.
Keywords: Child Labor; Cultural Influences; Dropout Research; Dropouts; Elementary School Students; Females; Foreign Countries; Individual Characteristics; Poverty; Student Attitudes

CBC Materials - Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development

CBM Digital Accessibility Toolkit - CBM (2018)

CBM Policy on Accessibility - CBM (2018)

CBM Position Paper Audiology - Santana, Diego; Castellanos, Patricia; Tesni, Siân (2015)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

CC Search - Creative Commons (CC Search)
Empowering the world to share through 6 simple licenses + a global community of advocates for open.

CC search, initial accessibility improvements - Choudhary, Ayan (CC Open Source Blog, 2020)
These are the seventh and eighth weeks of my internship with CC. I am working on improving the accessibility of cc-search and internationalizing it as well. This post contains details of my work done to make initial accessibility improvements to homepage and the other static pages.

Ceiling Effect - Garin, Olatz (Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, 2014)

Center For Global Development
The Center for Global Development works to reduce global poverty and inequality through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community to make the world a more prosperous, just, and safe place for us all.

Central Square Foundation website - Central Square Foundation (2020)

Centre for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education in Africa (2020)

Centre for National Distance Learning and Open Schooling (CENDLOS) - Editor (COMOSAConnect, 2017)
Centre for National Distance Learning and Open Schooling (CENDLOS) Contact: Joshua C. Mallet, Director Address: C27 Onyasia Crescent, Roman Ridge, PO Box 1627, Castle Osu, Accra, Ghana Phone: 233 3…

Centre of Education, Research, Innovation and Development - Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (Zimbabwe) (2020)

Centroamérica: Tendencias de las ecnologías de la Información y Comunicación 2010-2019 - Figueroa, Héctor (2021)

CEPAL - SECRETARIA TECNICA DEL ELAC (*) - Núñez, Georgina; Jordán, Valeria; Rojas, Fernando (2020)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Certificate of Secondary Education Examination (CSEE) Results - NECTA

Certificates in the blockchain - Det Norske Veritas (2017)

CGD - COVID education policy tracking - Hares, Susannah; Crawfurd, Lee (Google Docs, 2020)
School closure tracker- Global Country,Code,Region,Income Group,School Closures,As of,Date,Number of confirmed cases at time of closure,Planned Reopening,Planned Length of Closure (Weeks),Closure extended?,Planned re-opening 2,Details of closure,Reopening process started (Y/N/School year ended)...

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

Challenges and Developments in the Higher Education System of Bangladesh: Keys to Way Forward - Chowdhury, Mahfuzul Hoque; Absar, Mir Mohammed Nurul; Quader, Syed Manzur (Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia, 2020)

Challenges and Opportunities as Students Return to School: Evidence from Caregiver and Staff Surveys across Rising Academy Network School - Caballero, Erika Montoya; McManus, Jeff; Njogu-Ndongwe, Frida; Fall, Sokhna Mously (IDinsight, 2021)
This report shares survey findings on the barriers that children face as they transition back to school after prolonged closures with evidence from caregiver and staff surveys across Rising Academy Network Schools.

Challenges and opportunities for e-learning in education: A case study - Kafyulilo, Ayoub C. (Handbook of Research on Educational Technology Integration and Active Learning, 2015)
This chapter presents a review of literature on the existing opportunities and challenges of adopting e-learning in education in Tanzania and the possible measures to overcome some challenges. The study also assessed the primary factors contributing to the slow and limited use and integration of tec...

Challenges and opportunities for Pakistan education systems in the COVID-19 response - Malik, Rabea (2020)

Challenges and opportunities for secondary education in Latin America and the Caribbean during and after the pandemic - ECLAC (2021)
The pandemic has had a critical impact on the educational trajectories of children and adolescents in Latin America. Video-call interviews with more than 150 students, teachers, and parents in eight countries in the region (namely, Argentina, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Chile, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, and Uruguay) in 2020 and 2021 reveal the challenges and

Challenges and opportunities for teacher professional development in interactive use of technology in African schools - Hennessy, Sara; Haßler, Bjoern; Hofmann, Riikka (Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2015)
This article examines the supporting and constraining factors influencing professional learning about interactive teaching and mobile digital technology use in low-resourced basic schools in sub-Saharan Africa. It draws on a case study of iterative development and refinement of a school-based, peer-facilitated professional learning programme (‘OER4Schools’) that integrated use of mobile technologies, digital open educational resources and interactive pedagogy. The research and development involved teachers in three Zambian primary schools and culminated in an extensive multimedia resource. Using an ecological framework, factors emerging were characterised at three levels: teacher, school, and the wider community and policy context. They include school organisation and leadership, teacher motivation and perceptions of opportunities for professional learning and change, teacher views of pupil capabilities, availability of resources, teacher collaboration, and viewpoints of parents and policymakers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Keywords: ADULTS; AFRICA; Article; CAREER development; Digital Technology; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL technology research; Interactive Pedagogy; Open Educational Resources; PRIMARY school teachers; Sub-Saharan Africa; Zambia; _THEME: Teacher Professional Development; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2099892; __finaldtb; digital technology; interactive pedagogy; open educational resources; sub-Saharan Africa; teacher professional development

Challenges and strategies of working with learners with low vision: Implications for teacher training - Yalo, J. A.; Indoshi, F. C.; Agak, J. O. (Educational Research and Reviews, 2012)
Learners with low vision can be trained to increase their visual functioning through a planned programme of visual experiences. Such a low vision training programme was introduced in Kenya in 1994. However, despite its implementation over the last 15 years, challenges still persist among teachers who work with such learners. The purpose of this study was to document challenges that learners with low vision have on teachers’ performance when teaching learners with low vision in special primary schools for the visually impaired in Kenya. The study was carried out in 6 schools for the visually impaired respondents in the study including 78 teachers survey through questionnaire and observation. The study established challenges faced by teachers as lack of appropriate devices for learners, lack of adequate training of teachers and lack of regular teacher auditing. Strategies suggested to address the challenges were supply of low vision devices, low vision teams based at each school reconstituted to provide co-ordinated learning support and regular case conferencing be mounted to provide teacher support.

Challenges Facing Adoption of Information Communication Technology (ICT) In Educational Management in Schools in Kenya - Kipsoi, Emmy; Chang'ach, Dr; Sang C, Hellen (Journal of Sociological Research, 2012)
ICT has contributed greatly to educational management in schools globally (Zhao and Frank, 2003). However, in Kenya schools hardly use ICTs to manage the quality of output, or to raise teacher productivity, or to reduce costs through analyzing spending. This is attributed to a myriad of challenges facing most schools in Kenya with regard to adoption of ICTs in educational management. This has resulted to a slow rate of adoption of technology despite its promise and potential for use in educational management in schools. As such, this paper analyses the lethargy that has surrounded education management in schools with respect to acquisition of Information Communication Technology. Education and training sector has a major role to play in the implementation of the proposed ICT policy. First, the sector itself is a major user of ICT, not only in education, training and research but also in the management of the sector. The paper argues that ICT policies must be dynamic, cost-effective, adaptable, and differentiated between sectors and between the various segments of educational management in order to contribute effectively to education management. The recommendations of this paper provide a basis for the urgent need for the integration of ICTs in educational management in schools in Kenya.

Challenges facing principals in Integrating Information Communication Technology (ICT) for efficient management in secondary schools In Nyamira County, Kenya - Ombui, Silas Chester (2013)
This study examines the challenges faced by Kenyan secondary school principals in the use of ICT in enhancing school management. The study investigated computer literacy levels of secondary school principals, challenges faced by principals in integrating ICT for management and acquiring computer hardware and software, extent in which ICT is being used in management and the recommendations which can enhance the principals use ICT for management. The target groups of schools under the study were schools situated in a rural district where we have weak infrastructure and limited facilities in terms of transportation and other means of communication. The study was conducted in 30 secondary schools in Nyamira District in Kenya selected purposefully using availability of electricity as the criteria for selection. Data collection methods included closed and open ended questionnaires for the principals and observation. The data collected was analyzed by tabulating the responses from the 30 respondents and processed manually using frequency counts and percentages. The study findings showed that ICT as a management tool was not used effectively to address management issues. The study also revealed that ICT was being used for clerical issues and to a limited extent on little management issues particularly the processing of examinations. The major challenges facing the principals was lack of funds to acquire computer hardware and software, lack of exposure on the capabilities of ICT to ease management work, and lack of adequate training in ICT for the principals. The findings of the study suggest that for successful implementation of ICT for management in Kenyan secondary schools, strategies that include the financing of ICT infrastructure by the government and other stakeholders, capacity building and the formulation of an ICT policy is required to address the issue of management in secondary schools. Equally adaptation of strategies used elsewhere in the world could be employed.

Challenges in the online component of blended learning: A systematic review - Rasheed, Abubakar Rasheed; Kamsin, Amirrudin; Abdullah, Nor Aniza (Computers & Education, 2020)
Blended learning is widely regarded as an approach that combines the benefits afforded by face-to-face and online learning components. However, this approach of combining online with face-to-face instructional components have raised concerns over the years. Several studies have highlighted the overall challenges of blended learning mode of instruction as a whole, but there has been no clear understanding of the challenges that exist in the online component of blended learning. Thus, a systematic review of literature was conducted with the aim of identifying the challenges in the online component of blended learning from students, teachers and educational institutions perspectives. Self-regulation challenges and challenges in using learning technology are the key challenges that students face. Teachers challenges are mainly on the use of technology for teaching. Challenges in the provision of suitable instructional technology; and effective training support to teachers are the main challenges faced by educational institutions. This review highlights the need for further investigations to address students, teachers and educational institutions challenges in blended learning. In addition, we proposed some recommendations for future research.
Keywords: Adult learning; Improving classroom teaching; Pedagogical issues; Teaching/Learning strategies

Challenging taken-for-granted ideas in early childhood education: A critique of Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory in the age of post-humanism - Elliott, Sue; Davis, Julie M. (Research handbook on childhoodnature: Assemblages of childhood and nature research, 2020)

Changes in student motivation during online learning - Kim, Kyong-Jee; Frick, Theodore W (Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2011)
Keywords: ❓ Multiple DOI

Changes to aspects of ongoing randomised controlled trials with fixed designs - Coskinas, Xanthi; Simes, John; Schou, Manjula; Martin, Andrew James (Trials, 2020)
Despite careful planning, changes to some aspects of an ongoing randomised clinical trial (RCT), with a fixed design, may be warranted. We sought to elucidate the distinction between legitimate versus illegitimate changes to serve as a guide for less experienced clinical trialists and other stakeholders.
Keywords: Bias; Design changes; Randomised control trials; Type 1 error

Changing pedagogical practice in Kenyan primary schools: the impact of school‐based training - Hardman, Frank; Abd‐Kadir, Jan; Agg, Catherine; Migwi, James; Ndambuku, Jacinta; Smith, Fay (Comparative Education, 2009)
Keywords: C:Kenya

Changing perceptions is one thing…: barriers to transforming leadership and learning in Ghanaian basic schools - Jull, Stephen; Swaffield, Sue; MacBeath, John (School Leadership & Management, 2014)

Channeling Fisher: Randomization Tests and the Statistical Insignificance of Seemingly Significant Experimental Results* - Young, Alwyn (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019)
I follow R. A. Fisher'sThe Design of Experiments (1935), using randomization statistical inference to test the null hypothesis of no treatment effects in a comprehensive sample of 53 experimental papers drawn from the journals of the American Economic Association. In the average paper, randomization tests of the significance of individual treatment effects find 13% to 22% fewer significant results than are found using authors’ methods. In joint tests of multiple treatment effects appearing together in tables, randomization tests yield 33% to 49% fewer statistically significant results than conventional tests. Bootstrap and jackknife methods support and confirm the randomization results.

Chapter 02. Research Design - Haßler, Björn; Haseloff, Gesine; Adam, Taskeen; Akoojee, S.; Allier-Gagneur, Zoé; Ayika, S.; Bahloul, K.; Kigwilu, P. Changilwa; Costa, D. Da; Damani, Kalifa; Gordon, Rebecca; Idris, A.; et al. (Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Research Landscape, 2020)
This chapter forms part of the full report: Haßler et al. (2020). Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Research Landscape (1st ed.). VET Repository, Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung, Bonn, Germany. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4264612. The document is available under Creative Commons Attribution, and both a PDF and a Word document are avaialable.
Keywords: Author:Haßler; AuthorFirst:Haßler; Björn-CV-OECS; _yl:a2

Chapter Twelve - Graph Databases: When Relationships are the Data - McKnight, William (Information Management: Strategies for Gaining a Competitive Advantage with Data, 2014)
Over in a corner of the NoSQL world, hidden among the key-value stores, the document stores Couchbase, MongoDB, and the column stores like Cassandra, lies the Graph Databases. Before relational databases, there were network databases, which are actually quite similar in concept to graph databases. SQL and the relational world came along and was clearly a better fit for the modern workload, which was largely oriented to working with numbers. Now, what matters has expanded and graph databases make a strong value proposition for their intended workload. That workload is highly connected data and includes navigating social networks, configurations, and recommendations. With the high interest in those applications, it’s workload that is poised to expand tremendously. The structure does not accept SQL. For example, Cypher is the language used with Neo4j. It contains the commands necessary to get nodes, traverse nodes, and return values. It’s simpler than SQL for traversing relationships to find values or the existence of values. Gremlin is another project for accessing graph databases. One very cool feature is to limit the “degrees” that are searched in a query. Neo Technology, a Swedish company, is the commercial sponsor of Neo4j, a leading graph database. ACID-compatible Neo4j can hold up to tens of billions of nodes, tens of billions of relationships and tens of billions of properties. Andreas Kollegger, Product Experience Designer at Neo4j, noted there were 1000 people participating in the community with thousands of databases deployed at customers of all sizes. Other graph databases include STIG from Tagged and AllegroGraph from Franz. Objectivity’s Infinite Graph is an object-oriented graph database.
Keywords: AllegroGraph; Franz; Infinite Graph; Neo Technology; Neo4J; Objectivity; STIG; Tagged; analytic databases; analytics; database management; graph databases

Characteristics of effective teacher education in low- and middle-income countries: an annotated bibliography (HDR10C) - McBurnie, Chris; Allier-Gagneur, Zoe; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2020)
Keywords: E:Pedagogy; E:Teacher education (pre-service and in-service); F: Helpdesk response; LP: English; _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _cover:v1; _zenodoODE; dode_eth-src-eth; dode_eth-trf2-dode

Characteristics of effective teacher education in low- and middle-income countries: an overview (HDR10A) - Haßler, Björn; McBurnie, Chris; Allier-Gagneur, Zoe; Damani, Kalifa (EdTech Hub, 2020)
Keywords: C:Bangladesh; COV:COVID and reopening of schools; E:Pedagogy; E:Teacher education (pre-service and in-service); F: Helpdesk response; LP: English; _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _cover:v1; _yl:g; _zenodoETH; _zenodoODE; dode_eth-src-eth; dode_eth-trf2-dode

Characteristics of effective teacher education in low- and middle-income countries: What are they and what role can EdTech play? - Allier-Gagneur, Zoe; McBurnie, Chris; Chuang, Rachel; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This paper analyses a range of literature reviews to identify characteristics of effective teacher education, including focusing on practical subject pedagogy; incorporating peer support and; creating a coherent policy environment.
Keywords: E:Pedagogy; E:Teacher education (pre-service and in-service); F: Helpdesk response; LP: English; _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _forthcoming; _zenodoETH:submitted; _zenodoODE; docs.opendeved.net; dode_eth-src-eth; dode_eth-trf2-dode

Characteristics of effective teacher professional development: what we know, what we don’t, how we can find out - Sims, Sam; Fletcher-Wood, Harry (2018)
Several influential reviews and one meta-review have converged on the position that teacher professional development (PD) is more effective when it is: sustained, collaborative, subject-specific, draws on external expertise, has buy-in from teachers and is practice-based. This consensus view has now been incorporated in government policy and official guidance in several countries. Despite this, several recent PD programmes incorporating these characteristics have failed to have any detectable impact on pupil attainment. This article reviews the evidence underpinning the consensus, arguing that the reviews on which it based are methodologically flawed because they employ inappropriate exclusion criteria and depend on an invalid inference method. The consensus view is therefore likely to be inaccurate. Researchers would make more progress on identifying characteristics of effective professional development by looking for alignment between evidence from basic research on human skill acquisition and features of rigorously-evaluated PD interventions.
Keywords: C:International; CitedIn:OER4Schools-HHH3-A; ⛔ No DOI found

Characteristics of Effective Technology-Enabled Teacher Learning Circles — Rapid Review of the Literature - Khalayleh, Abdullah; El-Serafy, Yomna; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2021)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; _yl:a

ChatGPT Pricing, Explained: Plus & Tokens (2024) - Ch, David (Guides.ai, 2023)
ChatGPT Plus costs $20 per month ($23.80/month for EU + UK). The ChatGPT API costs $0.002 for every 1000 tokens.

ChatGPT Pricing: How Much Does ChatGPT Cost? - Drapkin, Aaron (Tech.co, 2023)
ChatGPT has lots of different plans, models and services. But how much do they actually cost? We take a closer look.

Check GES Ghana Learning TV (GLTV) Timetable For JHS, Primary, KG: How To Scan For GLTV - Avenuegh Online Portal (2020)
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has officially released the Ghana Learning TV (GLTV) timetable for

Check my school: A case study on citizen's monitoring of the education sector in the Philippines - Shkabatur, Jennifer (World Bank Group, 2012)

Checklists for external validity: a systematic review - Dyrvig, Anne-Kirstine; Kidholm, Kristian; Gerke, Oke; Vondeling, Hindrik (Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 2014)
Rationale, aims and objectives The quality of the current literature on external validity varies considerably. An improved checklist with validated items on external validity would aid decision-makers in judging similarities among circumstances when transferring evidence from a study setting to an implementation setting. In this paper, currently available checklists on external validity are identified, assessed and used as a basis for proposing a new improved instrument. Method A systematic literature review was carried out in Pubmed, Embase and Cinahl on English-language papers without time restrictions. The retrieved checklist items were assessed for (i) the methodology used in primary literature, justifying inclusion of each item; and (ii) the number of times each item appeared in checklists. Results Fifteen papers were identified, presenting a total of 21 checklists for external validity, yielding a total of 38 checklist items. Empirical support was considered the most valid methodology for item inclusion. Assessment of methodological justification showed that none of the items were supported empirically. Other kinds of literature justified the inclusion of 22 of the items, and 17 items were included on the basis of consensus. On 36 occasions, the items were presented without methodological justification for inclusion. Assessment of frequency/occurrence showed that items were mentioned in one to at most 17 checklists. Conclusion This paper provides building blocks for the development of a new checklist for external validity. The next step is provision of empirical evidence for the checklist items to be selected, and finally, development and validation of a checklist on external validity.
Keywords: checklist; evidence-based practice; external validity; methodology; quality assessment; transferability

Chesterton Tablet Learning Scheme - Evaluation Report - Chesterton Community College (2014)

Child-centred Educational Radio Project in Kailahun District, Sierra Leone - Walker, David; Tristram, Bella; Pereznieto, Paola; Young, Tricia (United Nations Girls' Education Initiative; Overseas Development Institute)

Child-directed Tablet-based Learning: Project Launch, Monitoring, and Improvement Toolkit - Imagine Worldwide (2020)

Child-directed Tablet-based Learning: Project Preparation Toolkit - Imagine Worldwide (2020)

Child-directed Tablet-based Learning: Toolkits for project design, preparation, and implementation - Imagine Worldwide (2020)

Child disciplinary practices at home: evidence from a range of low- and middle-income countries - UNICEF (2010)
The UNICEF report on Child Disciplinary Practices at Home addresses the development of a national research agenda on violence against children across settings where violence occurs.

Child education in the time of pandemic: Learning loss and dropout - Khan, Muhammad Jehangir; Ahmed, Junaid (Children and Youth Services Review, 2021)
The disruptive effects of the COVID-19 pandemic had affected the education sector at an unprecedented scale. In order to contain the spread of the virus, a large number of countries across the globe have shut their schools to handle the pandemic. However, it has adversely affected students' learning and school attendance. In this regard, we assess the impact of COVID-19 on the learning loss, school dropout, and the economic costs in term of foregone earnings for children in Pakistan. The study finds a substantial decrease in Learning Adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS) with worsening consequences for girls than boys. Likewise, the aggregate economic cost amounts to 107 billion dollars when adjusted for human capital utilisation. Besides, our simulation results suggest that about 7.2 million children dropout due to a reduction in household expenditure by 50 percent. In comparison, the dropout is more pronounced at the primary level of schooling. The results recommend that the government design robust social protection and remote education strategies to mitigate school closure’s adverse effect on children's learning. The emphasis should be rather on the long run strategies to cope with a resilient education system of futuristic orientation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Adjustment; COVID-19; Education; Learning Strategies; Learning loss; Pakistan; Pandemics; School Dropout; School Dropouts; School Learning

Child labour and education: a survey of slum settlements in Dhaka - Quattri, Maria; Watkins, Kevin (Overseas Development Institute (ODI), 2016)

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 »

Child Safety Online: Global challenges and strategies - UNICEF (Innocenti Publications, 2011)
The Internet, mobile phones and other electronic media provide children and young people with levels of access to information, culture, communication and entertainment impossible to imagine just 20 years ago. With many of their extraordinary benefits

Childhood Cost Calculator (C3): User Guide. A costing tool for education and early childhood development - The Brookings Institution (Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2023)

Children and parents: media use and attitudes report 2019 - Ofcom (2019)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Children in the digital environment: Revised typology of risks - OECD (OECD, 2021)
The digital environment has become an integral part of children’s everyday lives and interactions. The benefits can be tremendous, but there also risks. In 2011, the OECD adopted a Typology of Risks in an effort to broadly categorise those risks. Since then the digital environment has changed significantly, as risks have evolved in nature and new ones have emerged. This report informs the OECD’s broader work on children in the digital environment by examining these trends and presenting an updated Typology of Risks. The Typology provides a high-level overview of the risk landscape, and outlines four risk categories and their manifestations. The Typology also identifies and analyses risks that cut across these four risk categories, and that can therefore have wide-ranging effects on children’s lives.

Children out of school, primary - Latin America & Caribbean | Data - World Bank (2020)

Children’s and adolescents’ digital access in Chile: the role of digital access modalities in digital uses and skills - Cabello, Patricio; Claro, Magdalena; Rojas, Rodrigo; Trucco, Daniela (Journal of Children and Media, 2021)
This article analyses the modes of physical access that facilitate participation in digital opportunities and the development of digital skills in children and adolescents (9 to 17 years old). We analysed the data obtained from the Kids Online survey in Chile. A latent class analysis (LCA) was conducted to identify groups based on access points and devices of use; access modalities were then composed crossing these variables. Four access modalities were found: cellphone-home; cellphone-ubiquitous; multi-device-home; multi-device-ubiquitous. Multiple logistic regression analysis showed that ubiquitous modalities (multi-device and cellphone varieties) predicted digital use and skills among young Chileans, while the more static modalities (cellphone and home and multi-device and home) did not. These results are critical to addressing what can be deﬁned as “enabling access” among young Internet users in the context of digital inclusion policies.

Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule ("COPPA") - COPPA (Federal Trade Commission, 1998)
COPPA imposes certain requirements on operators of websites or online services directed to children under 13 years of age, and on operators of other websites or online services that have actual knowledge that they are collecting personal information online from a child under 13 years of age.

Children’s remote learning experiences in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic - Mascheroni, Giovanna; Saeed, Marium; Valenza, Marco; Cino, Davide; Dreesen, Thomas; Zaffaroni, Lorenzo Giuseppe; Kardefelt-Winther, Daniel (2021)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Children's rights: a second chance. - Lansdown, Gerison (International Save the Children Alliance, 2001)

Chile - UNESCO (2016)
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China bans for-profit school tutoring in sweeping overhaul - Bloomberg news (Bloomberg News, 2021)

China: testing a decade of online education preparation - Liangdi, Xu; Groenewegen-Lau, Jeroen (EdTech Hub, 2020)
Keywords: _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _cover:v2; _zenodo:submitted; _zenodoETH

Chinese education authorities to broadcast lessons on television - CGTN (2020)

Christensen updates disruption theory - Denning, Stephen (Strategy & Leadership, 2016)

CIA World Factbook - CIA

CIES_CostGuidance_finalslides.pdf

CIRCL Primer: Design-Based Implementation Research. In CIRCL Primer Series. - Martin, W; Fishman, Barry; Cheng, Britte; Penuel, William (2019)

Citizens In 34 Countries Show Implicit Bias Linking Males More Than Females With Science - Univeristy of Virginia (ScienceDaily, 2009)
Implicit stereotypes -- thoughts that people may be unwilling to express or may not even know that they have -- may have a powerful effect on gender equity in science and mathematics engagement and performance, according to a new study.

Civil society and right to information: a perspective on India’s experience - Sharma, P (Eldis, 2004)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Classification of Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations - World Bank (2020)

Classification of HEC Recognized Journals - Ahmad, Aftab (2018)

Classroom Cybernetics: an Approach for Effective and Efficient Classroom Teaching - Grover, Vijay (International Journal of Research in Advent Technology, 2016)
Cybernetics is not a new invention but its potential for application has not exhausted even after nearly seventy years of its origin. It started with idea of automation and control in the electrical and mechanical systems, but later on extended to biological, social systems and learning systems. Present paper is about application of cybernetics in education systems and discussion has been limited to only classroom situation. Cybernetics means ‘to steer’, ‘to navigate’ or ‘to govern’ for taking the system to desired goal. Here in classroom teaching-learning process is a system and the goal is success of the learner and learning process. Classroom cybernetics is constituted by Constructivism, Conversation theory and a feedback system. Constructivism resulted in five E’s namely- Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate and Evaluate. Conversation theory necessitatesinteraction between teacher and learner which passes through three levels of language namely-natural language, subject language and meat language. Feedback is another essential element of cybernetics which is an instrument for controlling the system to maintain equilibrium, move forward or even reverse it. Problem with the conversation theory is that it is applicable only for one to one correspondence between teacher and learner, thus can’t directly help in classroom situation. To make it applicable for classroom situation Ashby’s Law of requisite Variety has been applied which necessitates that teacher need to be hugely better equipped than the learners and should be skilled enough to visualize the learners’ state of mind. Thus effective use of constructivism, conversation theory, feedback loop and Ashby’s law of requisite varieties makes comprehensive Classroom Cybernetics.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Classroom dialogue and digital technologies: A scoping review - Major, L.; Warwick, P.; Rasmussen, I.; Ludvigsen, S.; Cook, V. (Education and Information Technologies, 2018)
This article presents a systematic scoping review of the literature focusing on interactions between classroom dialogue and digital technology. The first review of its type in this area, it both maps extant research and, through a process of thematic synthesis, investigates the role of technology in supporting classroom dialogue. In total, 72 studies (published 2000–2016) are analysed to establish the characteristics of existing evidence and to identify themes. The central intention is to enable researchers and others to access an extensive base of studies, thematically analysed, when developing insights and interpretations in a rapidly changing field of study. The discussion illustrates the interconnectedness of key themes, placing the studies in a methodological and theoretical context and examining challenges for the future.
Keywords: Classroom dialogue; Collaboration; Digital technology; Edtech; Talk; _THEME: Teacher Professional Development

Classroom ICT integration in Tanzania: Opportunities and challenges from the perspectives of TPACK and SAMR models - Kihoza, Patrick; Zlotnikova, Irina; Bada, Joseph; Kalegele, Khamisi (International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT), 2016)
With the education systems demand of contemporary technologies, teacher trainees should be imparted with competencies and skills to integrate information and communication technology (ICT) into their future teaching and learning practices. This study assessed classroom ICTs integration opportunities and the challenges in relation to Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) and SAMR (Substitute, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition) models. The case study involved tutors and teacher trainees (N=206) from teacher training colleges. Results indicated that, majority of respondents have low pedagogical ICT competencies. However, tutors exhibited good knowledge level in all TPACK and SAMR constructs that we assessed, teacher trainees’ revealed poor skills and inefficient support on the use of basic ICTs (hardware, software, and associated peripherals). The impacts of TPACK and SAMR models characteristics related to the technology use planning and redesign of learning tasks was evident. Most of the challenges identified were associated to the lack of infrastructures, readiness to change and lack of competencies on pedagogical ICTs applications. Among others, we recommend the government to work on a harmonized ICT in education integration framework; that consider the existing opportunities and challenges facing Tanzania teacher training systems. Further work should focus on carrying out an experimental research design to unlock the existing ICT use realities.
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Classroom social climate, self-determined motivation, willingness to communicate, and achievement: A study of structural relationships in instructed second language settings - Joe, Hye-Kyoung; Hiver, Phil; Al-Hoorie, Ali H. (Learning and Individual Differences, 2017)

ClassRoute: An English to Punjabi Educational Video Translation Pipeline for Supporting Punjabi Mother-Tongue Education - Shaghaghi, Navid; Ghosh, Smita; Kapoor, Raghav (2021 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), 2021)
Information Communication Technology (ICT) permeates almost every aspect of our daily lives and has become one of the most important priorities for formal and informal education. However, many people particularly those in least developed countries, are unable to reap the benefits due to lack of access to ICT but also due to lack of access to quality educational material. Additionally, in Punjab India, due to a shortage of resources and lack of infrastructure, the education system suffers from massive gaps including high student to teacher ratios, shortage of qualified teachers, and poor teacher training programs. This all has also been further exacerbated due to the COVID19 Pandemic as schools shut down globally and all teaching/learning activities moved online where possible or were canceled otherwise. In an effort to help relieve some of the burden on the Punjabi education system, and motivated by the proven efficiency of mother-tongue based education as well as the importance of visual-based learning, this paper introduces a pipeline for translating English educational videos into Punjabi equivalents which seeks to go beyond simple translation and in future iterations take into consideration the cultural needs of the learners in order to better connect them with the topics being taught. This pipeline is among a series of under construction pipelines aimed at translating English educational videos into other languages, dubbed as ClassRoute.
Keywords: Bridging the Digital Divide; Education; Education Technology (EdTech); Humanitarian Information Communications Technology (ICT); Language Translation; Natural Language Processing (NLP); Pandemics; Pipelines; Quality Education; Semantics; Tongue; Tools; Training

Close to Home: Evidence on the Impact of Community-Based Girl Groups - Temin, Miriam; Heck, Craig J. (Global Health: Science and Practice, 2020)
Purpose:Community-based programming to promote gender equity, often delivered through community-based girl groups (CBGGs, sometimes called “safe spaces”), is increasing. However, evidence is weak on how CBGGs are implemented and their effect on adolescent girls’ health and well-being. We conducted a comprehensive literature review to identify relevant CBGG programs. Methods:The review included programs with impact evaluations that used experimental or quasi-experimental design, data from 2 time points, control/comparison groups, and quantitative program effects and P values. Results:We analyzed evaluations of 30 programs (14 randomized controlled trials, 16 quasi-experimental). Although program designs varied, most programs targeted unmarried girls aged 13 to 18 years who were both in school and not in school, and who met weekly in groups of 15 to 25 girls. Nearly all programs used multisectoral approaches focusing on life skills and often economic and financial content, such as financial literacy and microsavings. Complementary activities with community members, boys, and health services were common. Across programs, evaluations reported statistically significant effects (P<.05) the majority (>50%) of times they measured outcomes related to gender and health attitudes and knowledge, education, psychosocial well-being, and economic and financial outcomes. Measures of outcomes related to girls’ health behaviors and health status had majority null findings. Conclusions:CBGG program evaluations found positive effects on girl-level outcomes that are independent of external factors, like gender norm attitudes, and suboptimal performance on health behavior and health status, which rely on other people and systems. This delivery model has promise for building girls’ assets. Complementary actions to engage girls’ social environments and structures are needed to change behaviors and health status.

Closing the Digital Divide: Update From the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Judge, Sharon; Puckett, Kathleen; Bell, Sherry Mee (The Journal of Educational Research, 2006)
The authors examined the progress made toward equitable technology access and use over children's first 4 years of school. The sample consisted of 8,283 public school children who attended kindergarten, 1st, and 3rd grades. In 3rd grade, high-poverty schools had significantly more computers for instruction and a smaller ratio of children to computers than did low-poverty schools. Over the first 4 years of school, however, children attending low-poverty schools had significantly more access to home computers than did those attending high-poverty schools. Children's use of computers during 3rd grade differed by school-poverty status. Results indicate that access to, and use of, a home computer, the presence of a computer area in classrooms, frequent use of the Internet, proficiency in computer use, and low-poverty school status were correlated positively with academic achievement. In contrast, frequent use of software for reading was correlated negatively with reading achievement.
Keywords: Early Childhood Longitudinal Study; computer access in high- and low-poverty schools; first- and third-grade children; kindergarten

Closing the gap: Ensuring there are enough qualified and supported teachers in sub-Saharan Africa - International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030 (2021)

Cloud computing architecture for eLearning in secondary schools - Mwakisole, Kennedy; Kissaka, Mussa; Mtebe, Joel (The African Journal of Information Systems, 2019)
In recent years, schools have been investing heavily on information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure to implement eLearning systems to enhance the quality of education in secondary schools in Tanzania. The majority of these systems are implemented using a traditional web-based eLearning approach on school premises which is costly and limits usage due to lack of scalability and flexibility. Consequently, many schools have started adopting cloud computing as a solution. However, this adaption depends on well-defined cloud eLearning architecture. This study proposed cloud architecture for implementing an eLearning system in secondary schools in Tanzania by adopting various layers proposed in previous studies. The effectiveness of this proposal was evaluated by comparing its performance with a similar traditional web-based eLearning system using the Moodle benchmark tool and Apache Jmeter. The study found that eLearning systems implemented in the cloud-based infrastructure had better performance metrics than web-based eLearning systems on school premises.
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Cluster Randomized Trial of a Large-Scale Education Initiative in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Pilot Year Impacts on Teacher Development. - Wolf, Sharon; Aber, John Lawrence; Torrente, Catalina; Rasheed, Damira; McCoy, Marissa (SREE Spring 2014 Conference, 2014)
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Co-creation of OER by teachers and teacher educators in Colombia - Sáenz Rodríguez, María del Pilar; Pino, Ulises Hernandez; Hernández, Yoli Marcela (Adoption and impact of OER in the Global South, 2017)
This chapter, based on research conducted by members of the Collaborative CoCreation of Open Educational Resources by Teachers and Teacher Educators in Colombia (coKREA) project, assesses whether and how a contextually based, bottomup approach to the promotion and advocacy of Open Educational Resources (OER) – in which teachers are encouraged to collaboratively co-create resources – supports the adoption of OER in Colombian schools. The study, conducted with public school teachers in southwestern Colombia, used a Participatory Action Research approach, in which the object of study is not external to the researchers, as the social practices under study are performed by the same subjects who are conducting the investigation. This allows teachers to identify possibilities of OER in their own educational practices, as well as the conditions required for their adoption, based on collective thinking processes immersed in their own sociocultural contexts. A call for research participation was issued to teachers who were experienced in using information and communication technologies (ICT) in their teaching. The data collection process was undertaken through administration of a series of online questionnaires (completed by 19 teachers), a survey (completed by 248 teachers), webinars (in which 28 teachers connected and 14 participated actively), unstructured telephone interviews (with 30 teachers) and a series of focus group discussions (with a cohort of 49 teacher educators, teachers and students). A face-to-face workshop was also conducted with teachers to provide an introduction to OER, after which they identified challenges to incorporating OER into their pedagogical practices and discussed their own OER-related activities.
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Co-creation of OER by teachers and teacher educators in Colombia - Sáenz Rodríguez, María del Pilar; Pino, Ulises Hernandez; Hernández, Yoli Marcela (Adoption and impact of OER in the Global South, 2017)
This chapter, based on research conducted by members of the Collaborative CoCreation of Open Educational Resources by Teachers and Teacher Educators in Colombia (coKREA) project, assesses whether and how a contextually based, bottomup approach to the promotion and advocacy of Open Educational Resources (OER) – in which teachers are encouraged to collaboratively co-create resources – supports the adoption of OER in Colombian schools. The study, conducted with public school teachers in southwestern Colombia, used a Participatory Action Research approach, in which the object of study is not external to the researchers, as the social practices under study are performed by the same subjects who are conducting the investigation. This allows teachers to identify possibilities of OER in their own educational practices, as well as the conditions required for their adoption, based on collective thinking processes immersed in their own sociocultural contexts. A call for research participation was issued to teachers who were experienced in using information and communication technologies (ICT) in their teaching. The data collection process was undertaken through administration of a series of online questionnaires (completed by 19 teachers), a survey (completed by 248 teachers), webinars (in which 28 teachers connected and 14 participated actively), unstructured telephone interviews (with 30 teachers) and a series of focus group discussions (with a cohort of 49 teacher educators, teachers and students). A face-to-face workshop was also conducted with teachers to provide an introduction to OER, after which they identified challenges to incorporating OER into their pedagogical practices and discussed their own OER-related activities.
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Co-Develop: Digital Public Infrastructure for an Equitable Recovery - Rockefeller Foundation (The Rockefeller Foundation, 2021)
As we build back better from the Covid-19 pandemic, we have an unprecedented opportunity to build digital public infrastructure that promotes inclusion, human rights, and progress toward global goals. This report outlines an agenda for international cooperation on digital public infrastructure to guide future investments and expansion of this critical tool.

Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions - Higgins, JPT; Green, S (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2008)

Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions - Higgins, JPT; Thomas, J; Chandler, J; Cumpston, M; Li, T; Paige, M. J; Welch, V. A (Cochrane, 2020)

Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions - Higgins, Julian P. T.; Green, Sally (John Wiley & Sons, 2011)
Healthcare providers, consumers, researchers and policy makers are inundated with unmanageable amounts of information, including evidence from healthcare research. It has become impossible for all to have the time and resources to find, appraise and interpret this evidence and incorporate it into healthcare decisions. Cochrane Reviews respond to this challenge by identifying, appraising and synthesizing research-based evidence and presenting it in a standardized format, published in The Cochrane Library (www.thecochranelibrary.com). The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions contains methodological guidance for the preparation and maintenance of Cochrane intervention reviews. Written in a clear and accessible format, it is the essential manual for all those preparing, maintaining and reading Cochrane reviews. Many of the principles and methods described here are appropriate for systematic reviews applied to other types of research and to systematic reviews of interventions undertaken by others. It is hoped therefore that this book will be invaluable to all those who want to understand the role of systematic reviews, critically appraise published reviews or perform reviews themselves. This title is also available as a mobile App from MedHand Mobile Libraries. Buy it now from Google Play or the MedHand Store.
Keywords: Medical / General

Cochrane Reviews | Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library is a collection of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Six databases are available including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and a register of controlled trials.

COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations

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.

Cognitive psychology - Colman, Andrew M. (A Dictionary of Psychology, 2009)
The branch of psychology concerned with all forms of cognition, including attention, perception, learning (1,

Coherence and the positioning of teachers in professional development programs. A systematic review - Lindvall, Jannika; Ryve, Andreas (Educational Research Review, 2019)
Keywords: Important; Read

Coherence and the positioning of teachers in professional development programs. A systematic review - Lindvall, Jannika; Ryve, Andreas (Educational Research Review, 2019)
Keywords: Important; Read

Coherence and the positioning of teachers in professional development programs. A systematic review - Lindvall, Jannika; Ryve, Andreas (Educational Research Review, 2019)
Keywords: Important; Read

Cohort 3 Digital Skills Training Completion | Digital Malawi - Ntha Foundation (Ntha Foundation, 2022)
The evaluation and assessment process of the first phase of the Digital skills training is taking place at the Kwathu Innovation and Creative Centre hub this week.

Cohort profile: the Young Lives study - Barnett, Inka; Ariana, Proochista; Petrou, Stavros; Penny, Mary E; Duc, Le Thuc; Galab, S; Woldehanna, Tassew; Escobal, Javier A; Plugge, Emma; Boyden, Jo (International Journal of Epidemiology, 2013)

COL in the Commonwealth: Sierra Leone - Commonwealth of Learning (2020)

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Colandr Community - Colandr (Colandr Community, 2021)
Colandr is powered by machine learning and natural language processing approaches that drive smart-sorting of citations and predictive document classification

Collaboration and self-regulation in teachers’ professional development - Butler, Deborah L; Lauscher, Helen Novak; Jarvis-Selinger, Sandra; Beckingham, Beverly (Teaching and Teacher Education, 2004)

Collaboration to Realise Kenya’s National Learning Goals through EdTech - Otieno, Jennifer; Omuthe, Ronald; Ampofo, Rudolph (EdTech Hub, 2023)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Collaborative design as a form of professional development - Voogt, Joke; Laferriere, Therese; Breuleux, Alain; Itow, Rebecca C.; Hickey, Daniel T.; McKenney, Susan (Instructional science, 2015)

Collaborative inquiry as a professional learning structure for educators: a scoping review - DeLuca, Christopher; Shulha, Jason; Luhanga, Ulemu; Shulha, Lyn M.; Christou, Theodore M.; Klinger, Don A. (Professional Development in Education, 2015)

Collaborative learning - Education Endowment Foundation (2018)
Toolkit Strand: Collaborative learning, Moderate impact for very low cost, based on extensive evidence.

Collboard: Fostering new media literacies in the classroom through collaborative problem solving supported by digital pens and interactive whiteboards - Alvarez, Claudio; Salavati, Sadaf; Nussbaum, Miguel; Milrad, Marcelo (Computers & Education, 2013)
Education systems worldwide must strive to support the teaching of a set of New Media Literacies (NMLs). These literacies respond to the need for educating human capital within participatory cultures in a highly technologized world. In this paper, we present Collboard, a constructivist problem solving activity for fostering the development of speciﬁc NMLs in classrooms: collective intelligence, distributed cognition and transmedia navigation. Collboard encompasses successive individual and collaborative work phases that prompt active student participation and engagement. It integrates digitally augmented appliances, namely, digital pens as a means to support individual work, and interactive whiteboards as a collaborative knowledge construction space. We report on the conceptual design of Collboard, its different technological and software components, as well as our ﬁndings from experiences we conducted in a Swedish school with 12 students from a 7th grade maths class. Findings from the experience provide an indication that Collboard can be well integrated in classroom teaching, and that it can foster the development of collective intelligence, distributed cognition and transmedia navigation in different knowledge domains.

Collective action and the deployment of teachers in Niger - Cummings, Clare; Noura, Idi Mahamadou Mamane (2016)

Collective action and the deployment of teachers in Niger: a political economy analysis - Cummings, Clare (2016)
This briefing paper explores causes of inequitable teacher deployment in Niger and asks whether collective action might be the solution.
Keywords: C:Niger

Combatting the impact of COVID-19 school closures in Bangladesh - Rahman, Tashmina; Ahmed, Ramim (2021)

Combining school-catchment area models with geostatistical models for analysing school survey data from low-resource settings: Inferential benefits and limitations - Macharia, Peter M.; Ray, Nicolas; Gitonga, Caroline W.; Snow, Robert W.; Giorgi, Emanuele (Spatial Statistics, 2022)
School-based sampling has been used to inform targeted responses for malaria and neglected tropical diseases. Standard geostatistical methods for mapping disease prevalence use the school location to model spatial correlation, which is questionable since exposure to the disease is more likely to occur in the residential location. In this paper, we propose to overcome the limitations of standard geostatistical methods by introducing a modelling framework that accounts for the uncertainty in the location of the residence of the students. By using cost distance and cost allocation models to define spatial accessibility and in absence of any information on the travel mode of students to school, we consider three school catchment area models that assume walking only, walking and bicycling and, walking and motorized transport. We illustrate the use of this approach using two case studies of malaria in Kenya and compare it with the standard approach that uses the school locations to build geostatistical models. We argue that the proposed modelling framework presents several inferential benefits, such as the ability to combine data from multiple surveys some of which may also record the residence location, and to deal with ecological bias when estimating the effects of malaria risk factors. However, our results show that invalid assumptions on the modes of travel to school can worsen the predictive performance of geostatistical models. Future research in this area should focus on collecting information on the modes of transportation to school which can then be used to better parametrize the catchment area models.
Keywords: Catchment area models; Disease mapping; Missing locations; Model-based geostatistics; Prevalence; School survey

Coming to terms: A discussion of John Ogbu’s cultural-ecological theory of minority academic achievement - Michael Foster, Kevin (Intercultural education, 2004)

Comments on Greenhow, Robelia, and Hughes: expanding the New Literacies conversation - Leu, Donald J.; O’Byrne, W. Ian; Zawilinski, Lisa; McVerry, J. Greg; Everett-Cacopardo, Heidi (Educational Researcher, 2009)
Using a popularized notion such as Web 2.0 limits research efforts by employing a binary construct, one initially prompted by commercial concerns. Instead, the authors of this article, commenting on Greenhow, Robelia, and Hughes (2009), suggest that continuous, not dichotomous, change in the technologies of literacy and learning defines the Internet. They argue that a dual-level theory of New Literacies is a productive way to conceptualize this continuous change, especially for education. They describe uppercase (New Literacies) and lowercase (new literacies) theories, using the new literacies of online reading comprehension to illustrate the process. They suggest this approach is likely to lead to greater equity, understanding, and acceptance of continuously new technologies within educational systems.
Keywords: literacy; new literacies; online reading comprehension; technology

Commission Chair Gordon Brown’s keynote at the Education Disrupted, Education Reimagined WISE Summit - Education Commission (Education Commission, 2020)
It’s a real pleasure to speak to the WISE conference – to thank the Salzburg Global Seminar and WISE, particularly Sheikha Moza for organizing this, and to say that I thought that the initial remarks that we had from Asmaa and from Stavros were inspirational...

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Common characteristics of open systems - Katz, Daniel; Kahn, Robert L. (Systems thinking, 1969)
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Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects - CCSSO; NGA (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010)

Commonalities and specificities of authentic leadership in Ghana and New Zealand - Owusu-Bempah, Justice; Addison, Ramzi; Fairweather, John (Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2014)

Communicating with children: principles and practices to nurture, inspire, excite, educate and heal - Kolucki, Barbara; Lemish, Dafna (UNICEF, 2011)

Communications for Development - Fink, Günther; Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher; Osei, Robert (Harvard Dataverse, 2019)
In 2012, Ghana Health Services (GHS), with funding from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), launched a Communication for Development (C4D)...
Keywords: Health and Life Sciences; Medicine; Social Sciences

Community-Based Teacher Training: Transformation of Sustainable Teacher Empowerment Strategy in Indonesia - Mardapi, Djemari; Herawan, Tutut (Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2019)
Teacher empowerment is a central issue in relation to the efforts to improve the quality of education. However, teacher empowerment will remain an abstract idea if its implementation is not supported by an appropriate strategy. The demands for a quality education will be unreciprocated if teachers do not have the opportunity to empower themselves. This research aims to investigate the teacher empowerment strategy in Indonesia, which has been conducted by employing a community-based teacher training program. This study has highlighted several research questions: What is meant by community-based training program? Why is the training program needed? Who is the target of the training program? What model has been used to implement the training? What are the results of the training that has been executed? This research was conducted from November 2018 to January 2019. The research data were collected by means of documentation studies and interviews. The data analysis was carried out quantitatively and qualitatively, where the quantitative analysis was processed based on the document study data, meanwhile the qualitative analysis was performed based on the interview data. The research results showed that community-based teacher training was transformation of teacher development strategy as a follow-up on teachers’ competency test in Indonesia. The community-based teacher training succeeded in increasing the professionalism of teachers in Indonesia, particularly in terms of implementing their pedagogical and professional competencies. The training is also successful in motivating the teachers to engage themselves in continuous learning efforts through building strong teachers’ network and working collaboratively with colleagues. Quantitatively, training was proven to increase the average of teacher competency by 23.97 (on a scale of 100). The research results are expected to provide information about the best practice in teacher coaching that is conducted massively in a national scope based on the local community so that a lifelong learning culture for teachers is established to support the development of sustainable education.