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

Technology-Enhanced Learning in Developing Nations: A review - Gulati, Shalni (The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2008)

Open Educational Resources for Blended Learning in High Schools: Overcoming Impediments in Developing Countries - Larson, Richard C.; Murray, M. Elizabeth (Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2008)
With today's computer and telecommunications technologies, every young person can have a quality education regardless of his or her place of birth. This is the dream that Open Educational Resources (OERs), when viewed as a right rather than a privilege, are directed to realize. For developing countries, we propose a type of OER initiative that leverages not only technology but also the skills of the in-class teacher, that utilizes not only the Internet but also lower-tech delivery platforms, and that is created not only by developed countries of the West but also by educators in many countries worldwide. We outline the design of a cross-border, collaborative learning and teaching system called the Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies Initiative (BLOSSOMS), with an associated partnership network established for its implementation in developing countries. BLOSSOMS is to develop a large, free repository of blended-learning video modules for high school math and science classes, created by gifted volunteer educators from around the world and designed to offer potentially transformative learning exercises that will enhance critical thinking skills and retain students' interest in math and science. The initiative has been designed and developed within a multinational network of partner organizations in the developing world, a characteristic that distinguishes it from many other OER projects.
Keywords: Asynchronous Communication; Barriers; Blended Learning; Cooperative Programs; Developing Nations; Educational Resources; Educational Technology; High Schools; Instructional Innovation; Learning Modules; Program Development; Shared Resources and Services; Social Networks; Video Technology; ⛔ No DOI found

Extracting or Empowering?: A Critique of Participatory Methods for Marginalized Populations - Juarez, J. A.; Brown, K. D. (Landscape Journal, 2008)

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.

Making Schools Inclusive: How change can happen (Save the Children UK, 2008)

Gender equity in the use of educational technology - Abbott, G.; Benvenue, L.; Damain, S.; Kramarae, C.; Jepkemboi, G.; Strawn, C. (Handbook for achieving gender equity through education, 2008)

Opening Access to Knowledge in Southern African Universities - Abraham, L.; Burke, M.; Gray, E.; Rens, A. (Study Series 2008, 2008)

An Investigation of Provision of Quality Basic Education in Ghana: A Case Study of Selected Schools in the Central Region - Ampiah, Joseph (Journal of International Cooperation in Education, 2008)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Pakistan - Learning and Educational Achievements in Punjab Schools (LEAPS): insights to inform the education policy debate - Andrabi, Tahir; Das, Jishnu; Khwaja, A. I.; Vishwanath, T.; Zajonc, Tristan (World Bank, 2008)
This report shares the findings of first round of the Learning and Educational Achievement in Punjab Schools (LEAPS) survey carried out in all the public and private schools offering primary level education in 112 villages of the province. This survey includes learning outcomes for 12,000 children in Class III in Urdu, English, and Mathematics together with detailed information on the beliefs and behavior of schools, teachers and parents. This large and independent exercise provides critical information on every aspect of the educational marketplace, including performance of all types of schools in select districts of the province. This report presents findings from the first round of the survey in 2003 along with trends for a few key outcomes between 2003 and 2007; a further report will incorporate all other information from the four rounds collected between 2003 and 2007.

Mostly harmless econometrics: An empiricist's companion - Angrist, Joshua D.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen (Princeton university press, 2008)

Putting a band-aid on a corpse: Incentives for nurses in the Indian public health care system - Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Glennerster, Rachel; Duflo, Esther (Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008)
The public Indian health care system is plagued by high staff absence, low effort by providers, and limited use by potential beneficiaries who prefer private alternatives. This artice reports the results of an experiment carried out with a district administration and a nongovernmental organization (NGO). The presence of government nurses in government public health facilities (subcenters and aid-posts) was recorded by the NGO, and the government took steps to punish the worst delinquents. Initially, the monitoring system was extremely effective. This shows that nurses are responsive to financial incentives. But after a few months, the local health administration appears to have undermined the scheme from the inside by letting the nurses claim an increasing number of “exempt days.” Eighteen months after its inception, the program had become completely ineffective.

Mother tongue matters: local language as a key to effective learning - Bühmann, Dörthe; Trudell, Barbara (2008)

Developing and evaluating complex interventions: new guidance - Craig, Peter; Dieppe, Paul; Macintyre, Sally; Michie, Susan; Nazareth, Irwin; Petticrew, Mark (Medical Research Council, 2008)

Mobile phone-based cash transfers: lessons from the Kenya emergency response - Datta, Dipankar; Ejakait, Anne; Odak, Monica (Humanitarian Practice Network, 2008)

Complexity as a theory of education - Davis, Brent; Sumara, Dennis (TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry), 2008)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

DFID Education Policy 2018: Get Children Learning - GOV.UK - DFID (2008)
DFID calls for action to tackle the learning crisis; prioritising effective teaching and education systems, and renewed focus on poor and marginalised children.
Keywords: IMPORT_FROM_DFID_RITE

Frameworks of educational technology* - Ely, Donald (2008)
This paper, written from a 20th-century perspective, traces the development of, and inﬂuences on, the ﬁeld of instructional technology and attempts to describe a framework within which we can better understand the ﬁeld.

Better Learning Through Structured Teaching: A Framework for the Gradual Release of Responsibility, 3rd Edition - Fisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy (ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development), 2008)
Now in its third edition, Better Learning Through Structured Teaching is the definitive guide to the gradual release of responsibility—an instructional framework any teacher can use to help students t

Teaching life sciences to blind and visually impaired learners - Fraser, William John; Maguvhe, Mbulaheni Obert (Journal of Biological Education, 2008)

Preparation for Life and Work. Comparative Study with a Focus on Basic (Primary and Lower Secondary) Education in Developing African Countries; 2008 - Georgescu, Dakmara; Stabback, Philip; Jahn, Klaus; Ag-Muphtah, Elmehdi; de Castro, Philippe (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ, 2008)

Technology acceptance in an academic context: Faculty acceptance of online education - Gibson, Shanan G.; Harris, Michael L.; Colaric, Susan M. (Journal of Education for Business, 2008)

Social Pillar | Kenya Vision 2030 - Government of Kenya (2008)

Assessing national achievement levels in education. National assessments of educational achievement. Volume 1. - Greaney, V.; Kellaghan, T. (The World Bank, 2008)

‘Knowledge Must Be Contextual’: Some possible implications of complexity and dynamic systems theories for educational research - Haggis, Tamsin (Educational philosophy and theory, 2008)

Visible Learning: A Synthesis of over 800 Meta-analyses relating to Achievement - Hattie, John (Abingdon, 2008)

How to teach English in India: testing the relative productivity of instruction methods within the Pratham English language education program - He, Fang; Linden, Leigh L; MacLeod, Margaret (2008)
Using a pair of randomized evaluations, we assess the relative productivity of several modes of implementing an Indian English education curriculum. Each consists of a specially designed machine or flash card based activities implemented either indirectly through a teacher training program or directly by externally supervised teaching assistants. The new methods are very effective and, on average, all implementation strategies yield gains of about 0.25-0.35 standard deviations in students’ knowledge of English. Weaker students benefit more from interventions that include teacher directed activities while stronger students benefit more from the more self-paced machine-based implementation. Compared to an externally implemented version of the curriculum, the treatments implemented through the teacher training program improved students’ math and English scores rather than just their English scores, a result that may be due to the fact that teachers implemented the interventions more efficiently.
Keywords: THEME: Curriculum and resources; ⛔ No DOI found

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

Encyclopedia of language and education, volume 8: Research methods in language and education - Hornberger, N.H.; Corson, D. (Kluwer Academic, 2008)

An evaluation of the effectiveness of computer assisted learning strategy and expository method of teaching biology: a case study of lumen Christi international high school, Uromi, Nigeria - Imhanlahimi, E. O.; Imhanlahimi, R. E. (Journal of Social Sciences, 2008)

Creating Laos: The Making of a Lao Space Between Indochina and Siam, 1860–1945 - Ivarsson, Søren (NIAS Press, 2008)
This book examines the process through which Laos came into existence under French colonial rule through to the end of World War II. Here, Laos's position at the intersection of two conflicting spatial layouts of "Thailand" and "Indochina" made its national form a particularly contested process. Rather than analyze this process in terms of administrative and political structures, the book discusses how a specific idea about a separate "Lao space" and its culture was formed.
Keywords: History / Asia / General; History / Asia / Southeast Asia; History / Modern / 19th Century; ⛔ No INSPIRE recid found

Ecological Systems, Complexity, and Student Achievement: Towards an Alternative Model of Accountability in Education - Johnson, Eileen S. (School Leadership Review, 2008)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Higher education and its communities: Interconnections, interdependencies and a research agenda - Jongbloed, Ben; Enders, Jürgen; Salerno, Carlo (Higher Education, 2008)
Universities everywhere are being forced to carefully reconsider their role in society and to evaluate the relationships with their various constituencies, stakeholders, and communities. In this article, stakeholder analysis is put forward as a tool to assist universities in classifying stakeholders and determining stakeholder salience. Increasingly universities are expected to assume a third mission and to engage in interactions with industrial and regional partners. While incentive schemes and government programmes try to encourage universities to reach out more to external communities, some important barriers to such linkages still remain. To fulﬁl their obligation towards being a socially accountable institution and to prevent mission overload, universities will have to carefully select their stakeholders and identify the ‘right’ degree of differentiation. For the university, thinking in terms of partnerships with key stakeholders has important implications for its governance and accountability arrangements. For the future of the universities we foresee a change towards networked governance and arrangements to ensure accountability along the lines of corporate social responsibility. In order to further explore some of these concepts and to empirically investigate the tendencies suggested here, this article proposes an ambitious research agenda for tackling the emerging issues of governance, stakeholder management and higher education’s interaction with society.

The Efficacy of Low Vision Devices for Students in Specialized Schools for Students who are Blind in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal - Joshi, Mahesh R.; Yamagata, Yoshitaka; Akura, Junsuke; Shakya, Suraj (Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2008)
In Nepal, children with low vision attend specialized schools for students who are totally blind and are treated as if they were totally blind. This study identified children with low vision and provided low vision devices to them. Of the 22% of the students in the school who had low vision, 78.5% benefited from the devices. Proper devices and counseling improved the quality of life of a significant number of these students.

Computer aided instruction for out-of-school children in India: An impact study in Andhra Pradesh - Karnati, Romilla (University of Pennsylvania, 2008)
India has the largest number of out-of-school children, the majority of whom are girls. Against this backdrop, the Bridges to the Future Initiative (BFI), a computer-aided instruction (CAI) intervention was launched in Andhra Pradesh to bring children back to school. The BFI used multimedia software to teach basic literacy and numeracy skills through interactive stories and activities, in the local language Telugu. The methodology employed in the study was a quasi experimental design on a sample of around 140 children (age range 7-19 years). The research study included BFI sites which offered two hours of CAI a day and comparison sites which provided five hours of teacher-based instruction (TBI) a day. According to several socio-economic indicators on the survey, the sample came from poor families with low literacy levels. Findings from the survey indicated that these out-of-school children had a positive attitude toward education and a favorable perception of educated people. A majority of the sample dropped out of school to assist with domestic tasks or family run businesses and did not earn wages. The impact analysis indicated that learning took place in both contexts and learners achieved similar learning gains between pretest and posttest. However, learners in the BFI intervention were learning at a faster pace per hour than learners in the comparison sites. Learners in the CAI intervention achieved similar gains as learners in the TBI intervention in one-third of the instruction time. As such, there is a strong case to be made for the BFI program being more efficient in raising levels of literacy and numeracy scores. Within the BFI intervention group, there was evidence to suggest that the number of days attended resulted in an increase in posttest scores, particularly in reading. Furthermore, older students in the BFI intervention had consistently shown higher gains in learning across reading, writing, math and information and communication technology (ICT) literacy domains. Finally, girls in the BFI sample outperformed the boys and the biggest difference in test scores was seen in Math. The impact of the BFI intervention could also be documented by the fact that approximately 45% of the BFI sample returned to school in the next academic year. In sum, this research was one of the first to explore the context of out-of-school children in poor communities and the use of CAI in Telugu (local language) to bring these learners back to school. The results support the use of ICT with marginalized sections of society in developing countries in order to improve literacy skills. The findings of this study have the potential to inform policy makers on educational and gender equity issues.
Keywords: Bridges to the Future Initiative; Computer-aided instruction; Education; India; Information and communication technologies; Information and communication technology (ICT); Literacy; Out-of-school children; School dropouts

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

Digital Literacies: Concepts, Policies and Practices - Lankshear, Colin; Knobel, Michele (Peter Lang, 2008)
This book brings together a group of internationally-reputed authors in the field of digital literacy. Their essays explore a diverse range of the concepts, policies and practices of digital literacy, and discuss how digital literacy is related to similar ideas: information literacy, computer literacy, media literacy, functional literacy and digital competence. It is argued that in light of this diversity and complexity, it is useful to think of digital literacies - the plural as well the singular. The first part of the book presents a rich mix of conceptual and policy perspectives; in the second part contributors explore social practices of digital remixing, blogging, online trading and social networking, and consider some legal issues associated with digital media.
Keywords: Computers / Interactive & Multimedia; Computers / Social Aspects

Complement or Substitute? The Effect of Technology on Student Achievement in India - Linden, Leigh (Working Paper, 2008)
Abstract: Using a pair of randomized evaluations, I evaluate a computer assisted learning program designed to reinforce students understanding of material presented in class. The program was implemented in both an in-school and out-of-school model allowing me to assess different strategies for integrating the technology into the existing schools. The effect of the program critically depends on the method of implementation. The program was a poor substitute for the teacher delivered curriculum and as a result, the in-school model caused students to learn significantly less than they otherwise would have learned (-0.57 standard deviations). When implemented as a complement to the normal program in the out-of-school model, however, the program generated average gains of 0.28 standard deviations reflecting small positive (but statistically insignificant) gains by most students and large positive gains by the weakest and older students in the class (from 0.4 to 0.69 standard deviations). The results emphasize the importance of understanding how new technologies and teaching methods both interact with existing resources and differentially affect students with different needs and abilities.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Complexity theory and the philosophy of education - Mason, Mark (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)

Using eco-mapping to understand family strengths and resources - McCormick, K; Stricklin, S; Nowak, T; Rous, B (Young Exceptional Children, 2008)

Researching mobile learning-Interim report to Becta - McFarlane, A; Triggs, P; Yee, W (UK: Becta, 2008)

Thinking in systems: A primer - Meadows, Donella H. (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008)
Keywords: _C:Austria AUT; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Chile CHL; _C:China CHN; _C:Czech Republic CZE; _C:Denmark DNK; _C:Egypt EGY; _C:France FRA; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Guatemala GTM; _C:Hungary HUN; _C:India IND; _C:Iraq IRQ; _C:Israel ISR; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Kuwait KWT; _C:Mexico MEX; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Poland POL; _C:Romania ROU; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:State of Palestine PSE; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:scheme:1

Lesotho Science & Technology Policy, 2006-2011 - Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology (UNESDOC Digital Library, 2008)

National Education System Reform Strategy (NESRS) 2006–2015 - Ministry of Education and Sports (2008)

INSET Strategy and operational plan linked to the Teacher Development and Management Strategy (TDMS), 2008–2013 - Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT) (Dar es Salaam: Ministry of Education and Vocational Training., 2008)

Education Strategic Plan 2009–2018 - Ministry of Education Kano State (2008)

Non-Formal Education Action Plan - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Royal Government of Cambodia (2008)

Schools and continuing professional development (CPD) in England – State of the Nation research project: survey report - Opfer, D.; Pedder, D.; Lavicza, Z. (TDA, 2008)

A comparative study between tablet and laptop PCs: User satisfaction and preferences - Ozok, A Ant; Benson, Dana; Chakraborty, Joyram; Norcio, Anthony F (Intl. Journal of human–computer interaction, 2008)

Public Participation, Teacher Accountability, and School Outcomes: Findings from Baseline Surveys in Three Indian States - Pandey, Priyanka; Goyal, Sangeeta; Sundararaman, Venkatesh (2008)

Ghana Education Act, 2008 - Parliament of the Republic of Ghana (2008)

Schools and continuing professional development (CPD) in England - State of the Nation research project - Pedder, David; Storey, Anne; Opfer, V Darleen (Cambridge University and The Open University, 2008)

Making Schools Inclusive How change can happen - Pinnock, H; Lewis, I (Save the Children UK, 2008)

Using Digital Video in Rural Indian Schools: A Study of Teacher Development and Student Achievement - Sahni, Urvashi; Gupta, Rahul; Hull, Glynda; Javid, Paul; Setia, Tanuja; Toyama, Kentaro; Wang, Randy (2008)
This research explores the deployment of model lessons through digital video as part of an in-service effort to engage teachers in government and private rural Indian schools and non-formal educational settings. Our mixed method design combined tests of skills in English and math with participant observation and videotaping of English and math instruction for 100 children in 3 rural schools and 1 non-formal setting over eight months. In this paper we present analyses of test score data and interactional patterns, followed by a qualitative examination of how one teacher appropriated pedagogical and subject matter knowledge from the model video lessons. Specifically, the data show gains in test scores of subject matter knowledge; children in classes that were part of the intervention scored almost 400% higher in English and almost 300% higher in math than did children in a comparison school. There were changes as well in classroom interactional patterns, suggesting that teachers became more student-centered in their approaches. The qualitative data illustrate how one teacher used and learned from the model lessons over time—for example, acquiring pedagogical strategies for interacting with the children and learning to connect classroom topics to the children’s local social worlds. Most generally, the data demonstrate how a network of teachers, schools, computer professionals, and teacher educators can reconfigure flows of information, tools, people, and texts, creating a band of geospatial opportunity within which the educational and social spaces of inhabitants of remote villages can be improved, allowing them hopeful entry to some of the advantages of a digital information age.
Keywords: ___working_potential_duplicate; ⛔ No DOI found

Using Digital Video in Rural Indian Schools: A Study of Teacher Development and Student Achievement - Sahni, Urvashi; Gupta, Rahul; Hull, Glynda; Javid, Paul; Setia, Tanuja; Toyama, Kentaro; Wang, Randy (2008)
This research explores the deployment of model lessons through digital video as part of an in-service effort to engage teachers in government and private rural Indian schools and non-formal educational settings. Our mixed method design combined tests of skills in English and math with participant observation and videotaping of English and math instruction for 100 children in 3 rural schools and 1 non-formal setting over eight months. In this paper we present analyses of test score data and interactional patterns, followed by a qualitative examination of how one teacher appropriated pedagogical and subject matter knowledge from the model video lessons. Specifically, the data show gains in test scores of subject matter knowledge; children in classes that were part of the intervention scored almost 400% higher in English and almost 300% higher in math than did children in a comparison school. There were changes as well in classroom interactional patterns, suggesting that teachers became more student-centered in their approaches. The qualitative data illustrate how one teacher used and learned from the model lessons over time—for example, acquiring pedagogical strategies for interacting with the children and learning to connect classroom topics to the children’s local social worlds. Most generally, the data demonstrate how a network of teachers, schools, computer professionals, and teacher educators can reconfigure flows of information, tools, people, and texts, creating a band of geospatial opportunity within which the educational and social spaces of inhabitants of remote villages can be improved, allowing them hopeful entry to some of the advantages of a digital information age.
Keywords: ___working_potential_duplicate; ⛔ No DOI found

Home language and education in the developing world - Smits, Jeroen; Huisman, Janine; Kruijff, Karine (2008)
In this report the relationship between the language spoken at home and educational attendance and attainment is studied for 26 developing countries from all regions of the developing world. For these 26 countries, we have constructed country profiles that show the percentages of the population belonging to the major linguistic groups and the variation in adult educational attainment and children’s educational attendance among the these groups. The profiles reveal for most of the countries substantial variation in educational attendance and attainment according to home language. This variation is present both for men and women and in urban and rural areas. To gain insight into the causes of the variation in attendance of children, two multivariate analyses are performed. The first analysis focuses on the variation within the countries. It shows that in most countries a substantial part of the variation in attendance among linguistic groups is due to variation in household wealth, parental education, gender, and urbanization of place of living of the members of the groups. In the second analysis we use multilevel models to study for 153 linguistic groups whether the variation in attendance of children is related to variation in the availability of mothertongue based multilingual education, in concentration of the groups in rural areas, and in the country’s degree of linguistic fractionalization. Educational attendance is higher when there is mother-tongue instruction in the language spoken by the group and it is lower for groups concentrated in rural areas. The positive effects of mother-tongue instruction are stronger for groups concentrated in rural areas, thus highlighting its potential for improving the situation of groups in more difficult circumstances. Group size and linguistic fractionalization of the country have no effect on attendance and the effects of mother-tongue instruction are about equally strong for girls and boys.

Education for All by 2015: will we make it? EFA global monitoring report, 2008 - UNESCO (2008)

ICT competency standards for teachers: policy framework - UNESCO (UNESCO, 2008)

The quality of teaching and learning in Tanzanian primary schools: A baseline study. - UNICEF (UNICEF, 2008)

International handbook of information technology in primary and secondary education - Voogt, Joke; Knezek, Gerald (Springer international handbooks of education, 2008)

Who is responsible for E-Learning Success in Higher Education? A Stakeholders' Analysis - Wagner, Nicole; Hassanein, Khaled; Head, Milena (2008)
Keywords: ⚠️ Invalid DOI

ICT in community-based lifelong learning center: model for northeast Thailand - Waring, Marilyn; Sacchanan, Chutima (Auckland University of Technology, 2008)
Keywords: ⛔ No INSPIRE recid found

Blending Learning: The Convergence of Online and Face-to-Face Education - Watson, John (North American Council for Online Learning, 2008)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Designing for development: Understanding One Laptop Per Child in its historical context - Ananny, Mike; Winters, Niall (2007 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2007)
We argue that the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) can be better understood by examining the general history of development communication and, specifically, through a historical debate between communication scholars Ithiel de Sola Pool and Herbert Schiller. Although originally conducted around broadcast media, the Pool-Schiller conversation identifies questions still relevant to contemporary information and communication for development (ICT4D) projects like the OLPC. Our analysis of their debate identifies five key questions we can apply to the OLPC or any given ICTD4D project: where does change happen? How does change happen? What obligations do designers and researchers have as change agents? What is the role of technology in change? What is the relationship between change, technology and international development? Equipped with this framework, we argue that one place to see OLPC's answers to these Pool-Schiller questions - and, thus, an understanding of OLPC development ideologies - can be found in a textual analysis of the OLPC software design guidelines. This preliminary analysis suggests that OLPC sees the child as the agent of change and the network as the mechanism of change.
Keywords: Broadcasting; Computer science education; Computer vision; Context; Educational technology; Guidelines; History; Information analysis; Materials science and technology; Pool-Schiller questions; Portable computers; one laptop per child; public domain software; software design; software development management; systems analysis; textual analysis

Coverage analysis of Scopus: A journal metric approach - de Moya-Anegón, Félix; Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Zaida; Vargas-Quesada, Benjamín; Corera-Álvarez, Elena; Muñoz-Fernández, Francisco José; González-Molina, Antonio; Herrero-Solana, Victor (Scientometrics, 2007)
Our aim is to compare the coverage of the Scopus database with that of Ulrich, to determine just how homogenous it is in the academic world. The variables taken into account were subject distribution, geographical distribution, distribution by publishers and the language of publication. The analysis of the coverage of a product of this nature should be done in relation to an accepted model, the optimal choice being Ulrich’s Directory, considered the international point of reference for the most comprehensive information on journals published throughout the world. The results described here allow us to draw a profile of Scopus in terms of its coverage by areas — geographic and thematic — and the significance of peer-review in its publications. Both these aspects are highly pragmatic considerations for information retrieval, the evaluation of research, and the design of policies for the use of scientific databases in scientific promotion.
Keywords: Coverage Analysis; Journal Citation Report; Percentage Distribution; Subject Coverage; Subject Ranking

Text-free user interfaces for illiterate and semiliterate users - Medhi, Indrani; Sagar, Aman; Toyama, Kentaro (Information Technologies and International Development, 2007)
We describe work toward the goal of a user interface (UI) designed such that even novice, illiterate users require absolutely no intervention from anyone at all to use. Our text-free UI is based on many hours of ethnographic design conducted in collaboration with a community of illiterate domestic laborers in three Bangalore slums. An ethnographic design process was used to understand what kind of application subjects would be interested in, how they respond to computing technology, and how they react to specific UI elements. We built two applications using these principles, one for job search for domestic laborers and another for a generic map that could be used for navigating a city. The resulting designs are based on key lessons that we gained through the design process. This article describes the design process, the design principles, which evolved out of the process, the final application designs, and results from initial user testing. Our results confirm previous work that emphasizes the need for semiabstracted graphics and voice feedback, but we additionally find that some aspects of design for illiterate users that have been previously overlooked (such as a consistent help feature). Results also show that the text-free designs are strongly preferred over standard text-based interfaces by the communities which we address and that they are potentially able to bring even complex computer functions within the reach of users who are unable to read.

Empowerment of Women through Distance Education in Pakistan - Bukhsh, Qadir (2007)
The present study was undertaken to highlight the gender disparities of Pakistan as well as at regional and international level. The study, measured the comparative outcome of formal and non-formal system of education in Pakistan. To achieve the desired goal, documentary analysis was considered appropriate. The number of schools and enrollment during the years 2001 to 2004 of the formal system for primary, middle and high level was considered and enrollment during the year 198-1999 and 2004 for Secondary School Certificate to Ph.D level of non-formal system was considered. Data was analyzed in term of percentage and average. It was found that enrollment of female is less than male in formal system while enrollment of female is higher than male in non-formal system of education in Pakistan. (Contains 16 tables.)
Keywords: Access to Education; Computer Uses in Education; Distance Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Empowerment; Enrollment Trends; Females; Foreign Countries; Gender Differences; Nonformal Education; Postsecondary Education; Womens Education

Kenya Vision 2030: A Globally Competitive and Prosperous Kenya - Government of Kenya (Republic of Kenya, 2007)

Investigating educational change: The Aga Khan University Institute for educational development teacher education for school improvement model - Khamis, Anil; Sammons, Pamela (International Journal of Educational Development, 2007)
This article continues the analyses of the impact of an innovative teacher education programme aimed at school improvement in a developing country context (A. Khamis, P. Sammons, 2004. The development of a cadre of teacher educators: some lessons from Pakistan. International Journal of Educational Development, 24(3), 255–268). Building on recent publications that have analysed outcomes of the teacher education programme and how the cadre of teacher educators has worked to initiate improvement in schools in Pakistan. The article considers the ‘teacher education for school improvement model’ based on findings from the case studies of nine co-operating school. Lessons are presented to further inform the development of teacher education programmes and the measurement of effectiveness of such programmes in developing country contexts. The article further considers relevant international research on educational change and reform to draw further lessons. These lessons include the need to pay greater attention to the cultural contexts and milieu in Pakistan, and the need to create models of school improvement and teacher education that originate within developing country contexts rather than the adaptation of European/North American models that are based on sources of data in those contexts. The article concludes by arguing for the need to develop better theoretical understandings from the current innovations underway and placing the onus on intervening agencies to better inform educational change strategies promoted in developing country contexts.
Keywords: Developing countries; Educational change; Innovation; Pakistan; School improvement; Teacher education

What do specialists do in CPD programmes for which there is evidence of positive outcomes for pupils and teachers? - Cordingley, Philippa; Bell, Miranda; Isham, Colin; Evans, Donald; Firth, Antonia (Research Evidence in Education Library, 2007)
What do we want to know? This review aims to explore and describe the role of the specialist in CPD programmes that provide evidence of positive outcomes for pupils as well as teachers within a broad range of indicators, including (for pupils) achievement, attainment, motivation and attitudes; and (for teachers) behaviours, knowledge, understanding and a range of affective outcomes, such as beliefs, attitudes and motivation. Who wants to know and why? The issue of how best to support teachers in their CPD is of interest to teachers, professional associations and agencies responsible for the quality and provision of teacher training. What did we find? • We only found studies where the ‘results’ indicated a positive impact of CPD. Most of the ‘evaluations’ were designed and conducted by the specialists themselves using research approaches with limited capacity to control for the potential biases arising from such a situation. • Pupil impact data was reported in the areas of learning and achievement, and affective development, including attitudes to learning and self-esteem. • Changes in teacher practice resulted from teachers learning more about teaching strategies, learning theories, the use of technology, educational policy and subject knowledge. • Specialists supported teachers through modelling, workshops, observation, feedback, coaching, and planned and informal meetings for discussion. Nearly all specialist support took place on school premises. More than half the CPD involved the specialists in observing teachers and providing feedback and debriefing. They discussed pupil needs, examined test results, reviewed the results of interviews conducted with and by pupils, and observed pupil interaction in the classroom. The quantity of formal ‘input’ was extensive and sustained. • Peer support was a consistent feature. • Specialists encouraged teachers to take on a degree of leadership in their CPD. What are the implications? The limitations of the evidence reviewed mean that we are cautious about putting forward any definitive interpretation of the implications of this review for the practices of specialist CPD. It is clear that we need more rigorous independent evaluation of CPD initiatives. The review evidence highlighted an intensive pattern of support in terms of the variety of skills specialists brought with them, and the amount of time they spent on input and support. This suggests we need to develop a more sophisticated approach to identifying, developing and drawing on the knowledge and skills both of professionals within school, and across networks, so that capacity can be built based on existing resources. More specifically, the review suggests the need for professional development for lead practitioners and CPD leaders to develop specific, specialist knowledge, understanding and skills related to adult professional learning. How did we get these results? The Review Group screened over 3,000 titles and abstracts, from which 239 studies reporting the impact and processes of CPD which involved specialists were identified. Scrutiny of the full reports led to a final sample of 22 studies for in-depth review. All these studies contained teacher and pupil data. Nineteen studies with overall medium or high weight of evidence were used to create a synthesis of findings.

National ICT Policy 2007-11 - Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications (Government of the Republic of Mauritius, 2007)

Remedying education: Evidence from two randomized experiments in India - Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Cole, Shawn; Duflo, Esther; Linden, Leigh (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007)
Abstract. This paper presents the results of two randomized experiments conducted in schools in urban India. A remedial education program hired young women to
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A Study on The Implementation of English Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) in Selected Government Primary Schools in Addis Ababa - Alaro, Meseret (Addis Ababa University, 2007)
As its central objective, this study attempts to assess the implementation of English Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) in selected government primary schools in Addis Ababa. In line with that, the researcher has framed specific questions that address issues related to classroom management, training given to the teachers, links among different stakeholders and the suitability and clarity of the program. Students and teachers of Grade Three from Biherawi Betemengist, Edget Besira , Karalo , Lafto and Salayish Primary Schools are participants of this study .To undertake the study descriptive research design is used . Accordingly, data that is pertinent to the study is collected using different tools such as questionnaire, observation, focus group discussion, interview and document analysis. The findings of the study reveal that the implementation of the program seems to face grave challenges. These mainly emanate from loose link among stakeholders, failure of supplying basic facilities needed to promote the fruitfulness of the program and failure to arrange suitable conditions for the broadcast. Moreover, based on the opinion of the participants, results of the study highlight that in some cases contents of the program is not suitable compared to the students language proficiency .It is also noticed from the findings of the study that classroom practice is not effectively carried out as per the very goal of the program. Despite that, both students and teachers forward positive comments about the utilization of the program for the teaching of English. Based on the findings recommendations for better service and suggestions for further studies are given.

Integrating technology into mother-tongue education: Examples from Hebrew - Shalom, Tsila; Nir-Sagiv, Bracha (L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature, 2007)
This paper describes the current approach to the instruction of Hebrew as a mother-tongue (L1) language based on technological developments and on the relationship between technology and pedagogy. As such, we rely on well-known models of integrating computerized tools and distance learning in the educational system, while emphasizing the potential contribution of these environments to L1 education. At the core of this paper is the combination of linguistic and didactic approaches to L1 teaching that bring together both theoretical and functional aspects of learning and teaching language via a computer. The focus here is on technologically-based L1 learning environments that combine different types of computerized tools within a comprehensive language-learning/teaching system that is designed for facilitating and improving language skills. This system is cognitively motivated, and is modeled on a combination of elements, such as principles of constructivist, social, and active learning. The structural-conceptual framework of this environment complies with principles of both local and global connectivity and hierarchy. For example, at the local level, learning materials are connected through a hypertext structure; at the global level, the entire system is inter-connected, with assignments linked to dictionaries and relevant websites, and the learners themselves connected through email and forums. The teaching/learning processes that take place within this L1 environment are illustrated by examples of both online and offline computerized courses.
Keywords: technology

Transformative paradigm: Mixed methods and social justice - Mertens, Donna (Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2007)
The intersection of mixed methods and social justice has implications for the role of the researcher and choices of specific paradigmatic perspectives. The transformative paradigm with its associated philosophical assumptions provides a framework for addressing inequality and injustice in society using culturally competent, mixed methods strategies. The recognition that realities are constructed and shaped by social, political, cultural, economic, and racial/ethnic values indicates that power and privilege are important determinants of which reality will be privileged in a research context. Methodological inferences based on the underlying assumptions of the transformative paradigm reveal the potential strength of combining qualitative and quantitative methods. A qualitative dimension is needed to gather community perspectives at each stage of the research process, while a quantitative dimension provides the opportunity to demonstrate outcomes that have credibility for community members and scholars. Transformative mixed methodologies provide a mechanism for addressing the complexities of research in culturally complex settings that can provide a basis for social change. … Read more
Keywords: disability; feminist; marginalized groups; mixed methods; race based; transformative; ⛔ No INSPIRE recid found

Learning styles of design students and the relationship of academic performance and gender in design education - Demirbas, Ozgen; Demirkan, Halime (Learning and Instruction, 2007)
The study focuses on design education using Experiential Learning Theory (ELT) and explores the effects of learning styles and gender on the performance scores of freshman design students in three successive academic years. Findings indicate that the distribution of design students through learning style type preference was more concentrated in assimilating and converging groups. Further study indicates that the first and third groups were found to be more balancing while the second group being mostly a southerner. The learning style preferences did not significantly differ by gender in all three groups. Although there is no consistency in all three groups, results indicate that the performance scores of males were higher in technology-based courses, whereas scores of females were higher in artistic and fundamental courses and in the semester academic performance scores (GPA). Also, it was found that the performance scores of converging and diverging students differed significantly in favor of converging students only in design courses. In design education, instructors should provide a strategy that is relevant to the style of each learner in design studio process.

Integrating technology into K-12 teaching and learning: current knowledge gaps and recommendations for future research - Hew, Khe Foon; Brush, Thomas (Educational Technology Research and Development, 2007)
Although research studies in education show that use of technology can help student learning, its use is generally affected by certain barriers. In this paper, we first identify the general barriers typically faced by K-12 schools, both in the United States as well as other countries, when integrating technology into the curriculum for instructional purposes, namely: (a) resources, (b) institution, (c) subject culture, (d) attitudes and beliefs, (e) knowledge and skills, and (f) assessment. We then describe the strategies to overcome such barriers: (a) having a shared vision and technology integration plan, (b) overcoming the scarcity of resources, (c) changing attitudes and beliefs, (d) conducting professional development, and (e) reconsidering assessments. Finally, we identify several current knowledge gaps pertaining to the barriers and strategies of technology integration, and offer pertinent recommendations for future research.

Dhaka: improving living conditions for the urban poor - World Bank (Bangladesh Development Series, 2007)

E-Learning as Part of Disaster Recovery Planning - Hanssen, Graeme M.; Rana, Tohid Ahmed (International Educational Technology (IETC) Conference (7th, Nicosia, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, May 3-5, 2007, 2007)
The world has recently witnessed large natural disasters with the Asian tsunami, the Pakistan earthquake, etc, which has resulted in loss of life measured in hundreds of thousands. One or two years later surveys of reconstruction work have revealed less than 25% of schools have been re-established, implicating long term economic and social consequences. Disaster Recovery planning could include rapid deployment of E-learning systems adapted to disaster zones, even with an apparent lack of broadband telecommunications infrastructure. This paper proposes technically innovative solutions to the rapid re-starting of education in disaster-struck communities by introducing the concept of a mobile E-school. Planning for Disaster Recovery could include the solutions proposed herein, as it is also possible to imagine in this Globalization World that budgets of wealthier nations encompassing these concepts. (Contains 1 figure.)
Keywords: Computer Uses in Education; Distance Education; Educational Technology; Emergency Programs; Foreign Countries; Global Approach; Natural Disasters; Online Courses; Telecommunications; Virtual Classrooms

ICT in Education in Lesotho - Isaacs, Shafika (World Bank, 2007)

ICT in Education in Madagascar - Isaacs, Shafika (World Bank, 2007)

Teacher Turnover in Malawi's Ministry of Education: Realities and Challenges - Kayuni, Happy; Tambulasi, Richard (International Education Journal, 2007)
The teaching profession is no longer a concern of academicians but the public in general who yearn for positive results. Internationally, the profession is continuously beset by several serious problems. One of the most serious problems in the teaching profession is teacher turnover. Governments are finding it difficult to retain teachers in schools. In Malawi, this problem is profound and overwhelming, even by Sub-Saharan standards. The paper heavily relies on secondary data derived from general trends and observations of several research findings as well as government publications, newspapers and several academic papers. The paper argues that main cause of this problem in Malawi can be attributed to general poor working conditions. The paper further argues that retention measures derived by the Malawi government may take time to bear fruits and it is unlikely that they can seriously affect teachers positively because they do not address the basic immediate needs of the teachers. (Contains 1 footnote.)
Keywords: Developing Nations; Educational Development; Educational Policy; Faculty Mobility; Foreign Countries; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Persistence; Teaching (Occupation); Teaching Conditions; ⛔ No DOI found

Using Evidence: How Research Can Inform Public Services - Nutley, Sandra M.; Isabel, Walter; Davies, Huw T. O. (Policy Press, 2007)
This book provides a timely and novel contribution to understanding and enhancing evidence use. It builds on and complements the popular and best-selling What Works?: Evidence-based policy and practice in public services (Davies, Nutley and Smith, Policy Press, 2000), by drawing together current knowledge about how research gets used and how this can be encouraged and improved. In particular, the authors explore various multidiscipliary frameworks for understanding the research use agenda; consider how research use and the impact of research can be assessed; summarise the empirical evidence from the education, health care, social care and criminal justice fields about how research is used and how this can be improved and draw out practical issues that need to be addressed if research is to have greater impact on public services. Using evidence is important reading for university and government researchers, research funding bodies, public service managers and professionals, and students of public policy and management. It will also prove an invaluable guide for anyone involved in the implementation of evidence-based policy and practice.
Keywords: Political Science / Public Affairs & Administration; Political Science / Public Policy / General; Social Science / Sociology / General

Intraclass correlation values for planning group-randomized trials in education - Hedges, Larry V.; Hedberg, E. C. (Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2007)
Experiments that assign intact groups to treatment conditions are increasingly common in social research. In educational research, the groups assigned are often schools. The design of group-randomized experiments requires knowledge of the intraclass correlation structure to compute statistical power and sample sizes required to achieve adequate power. This article provides a compilation of intraclass correlation values of academic achievement and related covariate effects that could be used for planning group-randomized experiments in education. It also provides variance component information that is useful in planning experiments involving covariates. The use of these values to compute the statistical power of group-randomized experiments is illustrated.

ICTs, secondary education, and the knowledge economy: Exploring the roles of the private sector in post-apartheid South Africa - Evoh, Chijioke (Journal of Education for International Development, 2007)
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Education in Sierra Leone | Where We Work | Global Partnership for Education - Global Partnership for Education (2007)
Learn more about education in Sierra Leone, view grant information and education data, and explore the results and progress made by the country.

Using Technology to Train Teachers: Appropriate Uses of ICT for Teacher Professional Development in Developing Countries - Gaible, Edmond; Burns, Mary (World Bank, 2007)

Global perspectives on teacher learning: improving policy and practice - Schwille, Jack; Dembelé, Martial (UNESCO-IIEP, 2007)
This booklet looks at all forms of teacher learning, formal and informal, from teachers. own early schooling, through their... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Global perspectives on teacher learning: improving policy and practice - Schwille, Jack; Dembelé, Martial (UNESCO-IIEP, 2007)
This booklet looks at all forms of teacher learning, formal and informal, from teachers. own early schooling, through their... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Global Perspectives on Teacher Learning: improving policy and practice | Request PDF - Schwille, Jack; Dembelé, Martial (UNESCO-IIEP, 2007)
Request PDF | Global Perspectives on Teacher Learning: improving policy and practice | Incl. bibl. This booklet looks at all forms of teacher learning, formal and informal, from teachers. own early schooling, through their... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Access to Basic Education in Ghana: The Evidence and the Issues. Country Analytic Report. - Akyeampong, Kwame; Djangmah, Jerome; Oduro, Abena; Seidu, Alhassan; Hunt, Frances (ERIC, 2007)

Open and distance learning (ODL) teacher education to support teacher development in Ghana: an evaluation report - Akyeampong, Kwame; Mensa, D; Abu-Yeboah (Ghana Education Service, 2007)

Project overseas: Teachers helping teachers - Anonymous (Alberta Teachers Association, 2007)
Ghana: Celebrating 50 years of independence

Beyond the polarization of pedagogy: models of classroom practice in Tanzanian primary schools - Barrett, Angeline M. (Comparative Education, 2007)

A systematic comparison of software dedicated to meta-analysis of causal studies - Bax, L.; Yu, L.-M.; Ikeda, N. (BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2007)

The growth of national learning assessments in the world, 1995–2006 - Benavot, A.; Tanner, E. (In: Education for All by 2015: will we make it? EFA global monitoring report 2008.Paris: UNESCO, pp. 1–17., 2007)

Teacher Motivation in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia - Bennell, Paul; Akyeampong, Kwame (Department for International Development: Educational Papers, 2007)
This is one of a series of Education Papers issued by the Central Research Department of the Department For International Development. Each paper represents a study or piece of commissioned research on some aspect of education and training in developing countries. Most of the studies were undertaken in order to provide informed judgements from which policy decisions could be drawn, but in each case it has become apparent that the material produced would be of interest to a wider audience, particularly those whose work focuses on developing countries.This report synthesises the main findings and recommendations of an international research project on teacher motivation and incentives in sub-Sahara Africa and South Asia. The study has addressed the following four main questions: • To what extent is there a problem of poor motivation among teachers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia? Does this amount to a ‘crisis’, as has been suggested by some observers? • If so, what are the main reasons for poor teacher motivation? • How do poor motivation and incentives affect teacher performance and the overall effectiveness of national education systems? • What should be done to ensure that teachers are adequately motivated?
Keywords: C:sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia; ⛔ No DOI found

Are Teacher Absences Worth Worrying About in the U.S.? - Clotfelter, Charles; Ladd, Helen; Vigdor, Jacob (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007)
Using detailed data from North Carolina, we examine the frequency, incidence, and consequences of teacher absences in public schools, as well as the impact of an absence disincentive policy. The incidence of teacher absences is regressive: schools in the poorest quartile averaged almost one extra sick day per teacher than schools in the highest income quartile, and schools with persistently high rates of teacher absence were much more likely to serve low-income than high-income students. In regression models incorporating teacher fixed effects, absences are associated with lower student achievement in elementary grades. Finally, we present evidence that the demand for discretionary absences is price-elastic. Our estimates suggest that a policy intervention that simultaneously raised teacher base salaries and broadened financial penalties for absences could both raise teachers' expected income and lower districts' expected costs.

Refuerzo escolar para niños pobres: ¿funciona? - Contreras, Dante; Herrera, Rodrigo (El trimestre económico, 2007)

A Dynamic Systems Theory approach to second language acquisition - De Bot, Kees; Lowie, Wander; Verspoor, Marjolijn (Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2007)

Effectiveness of Reading and Mathematics Software Products: Findings from the First Student Cohort Report to Congress March 2007 - Dynarski, Mark (2007)
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Enquete sur les TICS et l'éducation en Afrique - Farrell, Glen; Isaacs, Shafika (ICT and education, 2007)
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Mixing methods is wrong: An everyday approach to educational justice - Gorard, Stephen (British Educational Research Association. London, 2007)
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Weight of evidence: a framework for the appraisal of the quality and relevance of evidence - Gough, David (Research papers in education, 2007)

National Economic Development Plan Horizon 2020 - Government of Equatorial Guinea (2007)

Vision 2030 Collaboration with Central Planning and Projects Monitoring Units | Kenya Vision 2030 - Government of Kenya (2007)

Comparison of Fixed-Item and Response-Sensitive Versions of an Online Tutorial - Grant, Lyle K.; Courtoreille, Marni (The Psychological Record, 2007)

Survey of ICT in education in Tanzania. In G. Farrell & I. Shafika (Eds.), - Hare, H (InfoDev / World Bank, 2007)

Making a difference: M & E of policy research - Hovland, Ingie (Overseas Development Institute, 2007)

Putting the Power of Transparency in Context: Information's Role in Reducing Corruption in Uganda's Education Sector - Working Paper 136 - Hubbard, Paul (Center for Global Development | Ideas to Action, 2007)
One story popular in development circles tells how Uganda slashed corruption simply by publicly disclosing the amount of monthly grants to schools--thus making it harder for officials to siphon off money for their own enrichment. This working paper finds that while the percentage of funds being diverted did indeed drop, the real value of funds diverted only fell by a modest 12 percent over six years. And the information campaign was no panacea; other policies and reforms also contributed to the improvement. Learn More
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Emerging Technologies: An Overview of Practices in Distance Education - Hussain, Irshad (Journal on School Educational Technology, 2007)
In contemporary society, information technologies and communication technologies (ICTs) are playing crucial role in dissemination of knowledge and information the world over. Universities/ higher education institutions, particularly distance education universities in developed countries are making best use of these technologies for effective and interactive teaching learning process. Developing countries are also trying to adopt the model of developed countries according to their resources and circumstances. Distance education universities in developed countries like United States of America and United Kingdom are using advanced (emerging) technologies such as computers, Internet (World Wide Web) satellite communication, teleconferencing (videoconferencing and audio conferencing) and virtual reality in education and training. In developing countries like India, Pakistan and Thailand, distance education universities are using Radio, Television and Internet for teaching learning purpose and students support services. They are using computers mostly for office work. They are trying to adopt advanced technologies like developed countries but they have some limitations of resources (human & material resources). In future it is hoped that developing countries will also be using emerging technologies for teaching learning purpose.
Keywords: Case Studies; Computer Mediated Communication; Distance Education; Educational Development; Educational Practices; Educational Technology; Educational Television; Foreign Countries; Influence of Technology; Information Networks; Online Systems; Open Universities; Technological Advancement; Technology Integration; Technology Uses in Education; Telecommunications; Virtual Universities

Les TIC au service de l'éducation : Impact et enseignements retenus des activités appuyées par IICD - IICD (2007)

Republic of Madagascar: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper - International Monetary Fund (IMF Staff Country Reports, 2007)

Toward a definition of mixed methods research - Johnson, R. Burke; Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J.; Turner, Lisa A. (Journal of mixed methods research, 2007)

Guidelines for performing systematic literature reviews in software engineering - Kitchenham, B; Charters, S (Technical report, EBSE Technical Report EBSE-2007-01, 2007)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; -missingHU; P:Methods; Reviewed; publicImportV1

Guidelines for performing systematic literature reviews in software engineering - Kitchenham, BA; Charters, S (EBSE Technical Report, 2007)

Affordances of mobile technologies for experiential learning: the interplay of technology and pedagogical practices - Lai, C-H; Yang, J-C; Chen, F-C; Ho, C-W; Chan, T-W (Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2007)

The effect of extra funding for disadvantaged pupils on achievement - Leuven, Edwin; Lindahl, Mikael; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Webbink, Dinand (The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007)

Globalization, corporatism, and critical language education - Luke, Allan; Luke, Carmen; Graham, Phil (International Multilingual Research Journal, 2007)

ICT in Education in Liberia - Mangesi, Kofi (Information for Development, 2007)
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Small-group problem-based learning as a complex adaptive system - Mennin, Stewart (Teaching and Teacher Education, 2007)
Small-group problem-based learning (PBL) is widely embraced as a method of study in health professions schools and at many different levels of education. Complexity science provides a different lens with which to view and understand the application of this method. It presents new concepts and vocabulary that may be unfamiliar to practitioners of small-group PBL and other educational methods. This article looks at small-group PBL from the perspective of complex adaptive systems (CAS). It begins with a brief review of the current understanding and practice of PBL. Next some of the characteristics of CAS are reviewed using examples from small-group PBL to illustrate how these characteristics are expressed in that context. The principles and the educational theory in which small-group PBL are embedded are related to CAS. Implications for health professions education are discussed.

Namibia: ICT Policy for Education | ICT in education policy toolkit - Ministry of Basic Education, Sport and Culture; Ministry of Higher Education, Training and Employment Creation (2007)

Information and communication technology (ICT) policy for basic education - Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (2007)

Information & Communication Technology (ICT) policy for Basic Education - Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (United Republic of Tanzania, 2007)

School‐based teacher development in Sub‐Saharan Africa: building a new research agenda - Moon, Bob (The Curriculum Journal, 2007)

The new millennium learners: Emerging issues from the first expert meeting - OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 2007)

Maximising the performance of education systems: The case of teacher absenteeism - Patrinos, Harry; Kagia, Ruth (The Many Faces of Corruption: Tracking Vulnerabilities at the Sector Level, 2007)

Using a ubiquitous technology for m-learning in Asia: Project MIND in the Philippines - Ramos, Angelo Juan; Librero, Felix; Trinona, Jerome; Ranga, Adelina (2nd International Conference on e-Learning (ICEL), 2007)
More than a billion and a half people around the world now own a mobile phone. This gives educators the opportunity to explore the possibility of making the mobile phone an important educational tool in developed and developing countries. Specifically, the ubiquity of Short Messaging or SMS technologies has already been proven popular as a form of communication, particularly in Asia and Europe – more so than in North America. This paper describes the experience of a major project being underway, studying SMS mobile applications for non-formal educational purposes in the Philippines. The initiative, called Project MIND (Mobile Technology Initiatives for Non-Formal Education), studies the viability of using SMS as part of a blended learning package for distance non-formal education. We have so far produced learning modules on English and Math students in the Philippines and preliminary results of the pilot will be highlighted in this paper.
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Epistemic mediation: Video data as filters for the objectification of teaching by teachers - Roth, Wolff-Michael (Video Research in the Learning Sciences, 2007)
Learning science researchers attempting to understand situated human practices traditionally have relied on ethnographic observation and field notes recorded after the events have occurred. However, as Jordan and Henderson articulated in the opening quote, they are faced with the gap between accounts of action and (situated) ac-tions themselves. The problem is heightened when learning science researchers become themselves participants in the setting under study. Thus, a number of learning science researchers-including Magdalene Lampert, Jim Minstrell, David Hammer, and myself-conducted research on cognition and instruction all the while teaching the lessons that are the focus of their studies. Furthermore, an increasing number of teachers continue their formal education and become learning science researchers and teach at elementary and secondary schools. Teacher-researchers are confronted with particular challenges arising from the fact that they are participants in rather than onlookers to the situation to be analyzed and theorized. They are interested rather than disinterested participants, and therefore have something at stake, which harbors particular dangers for the quality of the analyses of learning and instruction in their classrooms that accompany the analytic advantages that derive from their insider role (Roth & Tobin, 2002). Video, as the second quote shows, provides opportunities to teacher-researchers to see themselves and their experiences differently, even pertaining to their own actions. In the second quote, Christina described how watching herself on videotape allowed her notice that she was standing a lot next to the chalkboard even when it was not used during interactions with students. That is, by means of the video, she became aware of her own actions in a different way.

A three-tier citizenship: can the state in Tanzania guarantee linguistic human rights? - Rubagumya, Casmir M (EdQual Research Programme Consortium, 2007)

The Views of Educational Practitioners in Ghana on ICT Use and Instructional Design Practice for Promoting Quality Education - Sarfo, Frederick Kwaku (Seventh IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2007), 2007)
Many ICT boosters are of the view that ICT on its own can promote quality teaching and learning. In line with this metaphor, the need to provide computers in the classrooms often takes precedence over training teachers to acquire skills in instructional design. However, it is evident in the instructional technology literature that good design of the learning task by the teacher is the fundamental requirement for quality teaching. This study was intended to explore the views of 90 educational practitioners (students, teachers and policy makers) in Ghana on the use of ICT and good design of instruction by the teacher for quality teaching and learning. Five Point Likert-type scales were used for the data collection. The results of the study indicate that in Ghana students are not very certain as to whether ICT or teachers can facilitate the implementation of the first five principles of instruction for quality teaching and learning. Moreover, a great number of teachers and policy makers are of the view that teachers can facilitate the implementation of the first five principles of instruction better than an ICT. However, it was recommended by the students, teachers and policy makers that both teachers and students should be trained to use ICT to facilitate teaching and learning.

Global perspectives on teacher learning: improving policy and practice - Schwille, J.; Dembélé, M. (Fundamentals of Educational Planning Series, 2007)
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Global perspectives on teacher learning: improving policy and practice - Schwille, J.; Dembélé, M. (Fundamentals of Educational Planning Series, 2007)
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Global perspectives on teacher learning: improving policy and practice - Schwille, John; Dembélé, Martial (UNESCO: International Institute for Educational Planning, 2007)
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Teaching Well? Educational reconstruction efforts and support to teachers in postwar Liberia - Shriberg, Janet (International Rescue Committee, 2007)

Maine’s middle school laptop program: Creating better writers - Silvernail, David L; Gritter, Aaron K (Gorham, ME: Maine Education Policy Research Institute, 2007)

A leader's framework for decision making - Snowden, David J.; Boone, Mary E. (Harvard business review, 2007)
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A study on NGO services for children in Mumbai, India - Sonawat, Reeta; Sikh, Shanna (Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi, 2007)
The present research was conducted to study NGOs services for children in Mumbai through a child rights perspective. The study was exploratory in nature and aimed to assess the implementation of child rights by the NGOs. 35 NGOs working for children in the city of Mumbai comprised the sample and were studied using a questionnaire and rating scale as tools. Findings revealed that education (74 percent) and health (54 percent) were the most common concerns of the organizations. Only 17 percent of the NGOs considered child rights to be a concern. The NGOs implemented the right to participation better than any other right. The right to survival was, however, grossly neglected. It was concluded that there are several gaps and areas of lack in the services offered to children. There is also an urgent need to spread awareness amongst the NGO workers themselves to make child rights a part of organizational mandates.

Teacher Learning Circles: Reading Theory in Practice Through Dialogue - Suda, Liz (2007)

Story Guide: Building bridges using narrative techniques – Story-telling aid - Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation [SDC] (SDC, 2007)

ICT in education in Tanzania: Lessons and experiences from IICD-supported projects - Tilya, Frank (International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD), 2007)

Teacher professional learning and development: best evidence synthesis iteration (BES) - Timperley, Helen (Ministry of Education, 2007)
Keywords: C:New Zealand

The potential of e-Learning to address the needs of out-of-school youth in the Philippines - Unwin, Tim; Tan, Mel; Pauso, kat (Children's Geographies, 2007)
This paper reports on the findings of focus group discussions designed to explore the learning and skills-based needs of out-of-school youth in the Philippines, particularly addressing their reasons for leaving school, their current activities and employment, how they acquire skills and knowledge, what they want to learn about, their use of Information and Communication Technologies, and their future employment plans. It was undertaken in the context of the development of a programme of e-learning through ICT Centres to be delivered in support of the country's 5 million out-of-school youth.
Keywords: ⛔ No INSPIRE recid found

Dialogic education and technology: Expanding the space of learning - Wegerif, Rupert (Springer Science & Business Media, 2007)

Investing in ICTs in educational institutions in developing countries: An evaluation of their impact in Kenya - Wims, Pádraig; Lawler, M. (undefined, 2007)
ABSTRACT The incorporation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) into the educational curriculum has been promoted as a key step in bridging the digital divide. Despite considerable growth in the numbers of computers acquired by schools in Kenya in recent years and the sacrifices made to finance these, there has been little evaluation of their effectiveness. Consequently, this research seeks to redress this by examining the impact of ICT projects in educational institutions in Kenya. Teaching staff, current students and former students together with parents of current students were surveyed. Key informants were also interviewed to establish the current policies concerning ICT in education in Kenya. An absence of educational software was found, as was the lack of Internet access and use of e-mail. Some 35-40% of secondary school teachers had never used a computer. The research revealed tangible benefits to students from exposure to ICT. It was also found that exposure to computers in schools influenced the career choices of former students. It was concluded that reform of the telecommunications sector is necessary to hasten the rollout of computer technology in educational institutions in Kenya. At school level, the key issues which arose included staff training, mainstreaming of ICT across the curriculum and provision of adequate ICT equipment. Keywords: ICTs; Developing Countries; Education INTRODUCTION This paper investigates the use of computers in educational institutions in the Rift Valley province in Kenya. The adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has been promoted as a key step in bridging the digital divide. Despite considerable growth in the numbers of computers acquired by schools in Kenya in recent years and the sacrifices made to finance these, there has been little evaluation of their effectiveness. Consequently, this study examines ICT projects in educational institutions in Kenya, in order to establish normal practice and to determine the effects of adopting ICTs at school level. BACKGROUND TO THE RESEARCH The country of Kenya experiences many of the problems typical of sub Sahara Africa enumerated by Langmia (2006) in that it is lagging behind in information superhighway technology. In terms of telecommunications infrastructural developments, the growth of the fixed telephone network throughout Kenya has been below expectations; according to the Central Bureau of Statistics (2006), the fixed line tele-density was 1.02% (number of fixed lines per one hundred population) during the year 2003 but this has actually deteriorated since then due to the steady population increase in the absence of infrastructural developments. Most of these fixed line subscribers are concentrated in urban areas which account for 94% of the fixed lines while 6% are in rural areas (ibid). In contrast, cellular services have expanded rapidly from under 15,000 customers in 1999 to over 2.8 million in 2004 (Export Processing Zones Authority, 2005). By April 2004, there were an estimated one million internet users and over one thousand cyber cafes throughout the country (ibid.). Keiyo District is one of 18 districts of the Rift Valley Province and lies just north of the equator, at its centre approximately 350km north west of Nairobi. The western and southern areas of the district are fertile and support the highest population. Livestock rearing and tillage farming are the main occupations of the community. To the north of Iten, the administrative centre, the land gradually rises through forests of indigenous trees and bleak high merino-sheep country. Lumbering is also carried on in this area. The total population of Keiyo District was estimated at 144,000 in 2004, and the population density was estimated to be 100 persons per square km (CKRC, 2004). Keiyo District is the eighth most densely populated district in the Rift Valley Province and has an average life expectancy of 61 years. …
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

New Look at Habits and the Habit-Goal Interface - Wood, Wendy; Neil, David (Psychological Review, 2007)

Reviewing the evidence on how teacher professional development affects student achievement - Yoon, Kwang Suk; Duncan, Teresa; Wen-yu Lee, Sylvia; Scarloss, Beth; Shapley, Kathy (Issues & Answers, 2007)
Keywords: C:United States

Policy Entrepreneurship for Poverty Reduction - Maxwell, Simon; Court, Julius (PRACTICAL ACTION PUBLISHING, 2006)

DigEuLit: Concepts and Tools for Digital Literacy Development - Martin, Allan; Grudziecki, Jan (Innovation in Teaching and Learning in Information and Computer Sciences, 2006)
In the e-permeated society, a society also increasingly unpredictable and uncertain, “digital literacy” becomes not only a key factor in enabling participation in education, as well as employment and other aspects of social life, but also a means of gaining some understanding of the world. The DigEuLit project, funded by the EC eLearning Initiative, has a task of defining digital literacy and developing a framework and tools for digital literacy development in European educational settings. We have observed converging literacies which have gained new relevance in digital environments, and proposed a definition of digital literacy which focuses on the processes of using digital tools to support the achievement of goals in the individual’s life-situation. A suite of online tools is being developed to enable digital literacy progress to be tracked by teachers and learners, and evolution of these tools will continue beyond the life of the project.

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

The logical chain: continuing professional development in effective schools - Ofsted (2006)

National Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Strategy for Education and Training - Ministry of Education (Government of Kenya, 2006)
This Strategy undertaking was prepared by the Ministry of Education (MoE) in collaboration with stakeholders from the public, private, civil society and development partner sectors. It outlines how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) will be adopted and utilized to improve access, quality and equity in the delivery of education services in Kenya. The Strategy is based on the vision that: “ICTs is a universal tool in education and training”. The mission statement that inspires it is: “to integrate ICTs in education and training to improve access, learning and administration.” The overall objective of the plan is to ensure that systematic efforts are made towards strengthening adoption and use of ICT in the education sector with appropriate attention given to education development priorities as outlined in the Economic Recovery Strategy for Wealth and Employment Creation (ERSWEC, 2003-2007); Sessional Paper No. 1 of 2005 entitled “A Policy Framework For Education”, Training and Research and the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The challenges that are outlined in these policy documents include; the need to achieve Education For All (EFA) by 2015 in tandem with the national and international commitment, Universal Primary Education (UPE) by 2010, and to increase transition rate from primary to secondary schools from 47% to 70%. Policy documents in the education sector have given considerable attention to priorities related to access, quality, equity and relevance at all levels. This strategic plan considers and proposes that ICT can contribute substantially towards realization of these objectives. In addition, ICT has considerable potential to support implementation of Free Primary Education (FPE) and to address emerging challenges such as; overcrowded classrooms, high Pupil Teacher Ratios (PTRs) particularly in densely populated and semi-arid areas, shortage of teachers on certain subjects or areas, and relatively high cost of learning and teaching materials

Young children's use of video as a source of socially relevant information - Troseth, G. L.; Saylor, M. M.; Archer, A. H. (Child Development, 2006)
Although prior research clearly shows that toddlers have difficulty learning from video, the basis for their difficulty is unknown. In the 2 current experiments, the effect of social feedback on 2-year-olds' use of information from video was assessed. Children who were told "face to face" where to find a hidden toy typically found it, but children who were given the same information by a person on video did not. Children who engaged in a 5-min contingent interaction with a person (including social cues and personal references) through closed-circuit video before the hiding task used information provided to find the toy. These findings have important implications for educational television and use of video stimuli in laboratory-based research with young children.
Keywords: behavior; blues-clues; comprehension; find; guide; imitation; infants; learn; perception; television

The Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS): a method of assessing executive function in children - Zelazo, Philip David (Nature Protocols, 2006)
The dimensional change card sort (DCCS) is an easily administered and widely used measure of executive function that is suitable for use with participants across a wide range of ages. In the standard version, children are required to sort a series of bivalent test cards, first according to one dimension (e.g., color), and then according to the other (e.g., shape). Most 3-year-olds perseverate during the post-switch phase, exhibiting a pattern of inflexibility similar to that seen in patients with prefrontal cortical damage. By 5 years of age, most children switch when instructed to do so. Performance on the DCCS provides an index of the development of executive function, and it is impaired in children with disorders such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism. We describe the protocol for the standard version (duration = 5 min) and the more challenging border version (duration = 5 min), which may be used with children as old as 7 years. *Note: In the version of the article originally published, the boat in the upper right of the figure was blue. It should be red. The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

Think Scenarios, Rethink Education - OECD (OECD, 2006)

Paradigm Peace and the Implications for Quality - Bryman, Alan (International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2006)
In this article it is shown that the paradigm wars that raged concerning the incompatibility of quantitative and qualitative research have largely subsided. In the process, discussions of epistemological and ontological issues have become less prominent. The peace that has broken out has proved to be more favourable to research combining quantitative and qualitative research than was the case during the paradigm wars. Drawing on interviews with social researchers who employ a mixed‐methods approach and on the literature, it is shown that a spirit of pragmatism with regard to combining quantitative and qualitative research prevails which encourages researchers to consider using mixed‐methods research when the research question is suited to it. However, the issue of which quality criteria should be employed in investigations combining quantitative and qualitative research has not been given a great deal of consideration. The author argues for a contingency approach, in which issues to do with quality are decided in relation to the nature of the study.

Optimising worked example instruction: Different ways to increase germane cognitive load - Paas, Fred; van Gog, Tamara (Learning and Instruction, 2006)
Worked examples are an effective instructional means to teach complex problem-solving skills. It has been argued that worked examples decrease extraneous load, enabling more Working Memory (WM) resources to be directed to activities that facilitate learning and transfer performance. Hence, cognitive load research has started to shift its focus towards finding instructional techniques that impose a germane cognitive load by stimulating the allocation of WM resources to such activities. This special issue provides an overview of recent experimental research on ways to further optimise the design and delivery of worked examples in order to foster learning and transfer.

National Information and Communication Technology Policy - Zambia - Ministry of Communications and Transport (Government of Zambia, 2006)

Demonstrating rigor using thematic analysis: A hybrid approach of inductive and deductive coding and theme development - Fereday, Jennifer; Muir-Cochrane, Eimear (International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2006)
In this article, the authors describe how they used a hybrid process of inductive and deductive thematic analysis to interpret raw data in a doctoral study on the role of performance feedback in the self-assessment of nursing practice. The methodological approach integrated data-driven codes with theory-driven ones based on the tenets of social phenomenology. The authors present a detailed exemplar of the staged process of data coding and identification of themes. This process demonstrates how analysis of the raw data from interview transcripts and organizational documents progressed toward the identification of overarching themes that captured the phenomenon of performance feedback as described by participants in the study.

Working memory in children with reading disabilities - Gathercole, Susan Elizabeth; Alloway, Tracy Packiam; Willis, Catherine; Adams, Anne-Marie (Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006)
This study investigated associations between working memory (measured by complex memory tasks) and both reading and mathematics abilities, as well as the possible mediating factors of fluid intelligence, verbal abilities, short-term memory (STM), and phonological awareness, in a sample of 46 6- to 11-year-olds with reading disabilities. As a whole, the sample was characterized by deficits in complex memory and visuospatial STM and by low IQ scores; language, phonological STM, and phonological awareness abilities fell in the low average range. Severity of reading difficulties within the sample was significantly associated with complex memory, language, and phonological awareness abilities, whereas poor mathematics abilities were linked with complex memory, phonological STM, and phonological awareness scores. These findings suggest that working memory skills indexed by complex memory tasks represent an important constraint on the acquisition of skill and knowledge in reading and mathematics. Possible mechanisms for the contribution of working memory to learning, and the implications for educational practice, are considered.
Keywords: IQ; Mathematics; NOTdocs.opendeved.net; Reading disabilities; Short-term memory; Working memory

Scopus database: A review - Burnham, Judy F. (National Library of Medicine, 2006)
The Scopus database provides access to STM journal articles and the references included in those articles, allowing the searcher to search both forward and backward in time. The database can be used for collection development as well as for research. This review provides information on the key points of the database and compares it to Web of Science. Neither database is inclusive, but complements each other. If a library can only afford one, choice must be based in institutional needs.

Does changing behavioral intentions engender behavior change? A meta-analysis of the experimental evidence - Webb, Thomas L.; Sheeran, Paschal (Psychological Bulletin, 2006)
Numerous theories in social and health psychology assume that intentions cause behaviors. However, most tests of the intention- behavior relation involve correlational studies that preclude causal inferences. In order to determine whether changes in behavioral intention engender behavior change, participants should be assigned randomly to a treatment that significantly increases the strength of respective intentions relative to a control condition, and differences in subsequent behavior should be compared. The present research obtained 47 experimental tests of intention-behavior relations that satisfied these criteria. Meta-analysis showed that a medium-to-large change in intention (d = 0.66) leads to a small-to-medium change in behavior (d = 0.36). The review also identified several conceptual factors, methodological features, and intervention characteristics that moderate intention-behavior consistency.
Keywords: Attitude; Cooperative Behavior; Female; Humans; Intention; Male; Social Behavior

Improving teaching quality in Guinea with interactive radio instruction - Burns, Mary (2006)
Guinea's Sous le Fromager project is an excellent example of radio as an effective delivery system for enhancing teachers’ basic content skills and for helping teachers with little or no instructional skills acquire those skills.

The Effectiveness of Volunteer Tutoring Programs: A Systematic Review - Ritter, Gary; Denny, George; Albin, Ginger; Barnett, Joshua; Blankenship, Virginia (2006)

Using thematic analysis in psychology - Braun, Virginia; Clarke, Victoria (Qualitative Research in Psychology, 2006)
Thematic analysis is a poorly demarcated, rarely acknowledged, yet widely used qualitative analytic method within psychology. In this paper, we argue that it offers an accessible and theoretically flexible approach to analysing qualitative data. We outline what thematic analysis is, locating it in relation to other qualitative analytic methods that search for themes or patterns, and in relation to different epistemological and ontological positions. We then provide clear guidelines to those wanting to start thematic analysis, or conduct it in a more deliberate and rigorous way, and consider potential pitfalls in conducting thematic analysis. Finally, we outline the disadvantages and advantages of thematic analysis. We conclude by advocating thematic analysis as a useful and flexible method for qualitative research in and beyond psychology.
Keywords: epistemology; flexibility; patterns; qualitative psychology; thematic analysis

"A new beginning" Children, primary schools and social change in post-conflict Preah Vihear Province Cambodia - Geeves, Richard; Eng, Kim Ly; Lorn, Sa; Borrmei, Lon; Saran, Sok (Save the Children, 2006)

Zanzibar Education Policy (Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, 2006)

Optimising learning and education in Africa: The language factor - Alidou, H.; Boly, A.; Brock-Utne, B.; Diallo, Y.S.; Heugh, K.; Wolff, H.E. (ADEA, UIE, GTZ, 2006)

Teaching (with) disability: Pedagogies of lived experience - Anderson, Robert C. (Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 2006)

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

The BSCS 5E Instructional Model: Origins and Effectiveness - Bybee, R; Taylor, J. A; Gardner, A; Van Scotter, P (BSCS (Biological Sciences Curriculum Study), 2006)

Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) in Latin America and the Caribbean: lessons and challenges - Cassidy, T (Inter-American Development Bank, 2006)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Application of a Systems Approach to Distance Education - Daniel, Teresa A. (2006)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Meeting EFA: Reaching the underserved through complementary models of effective schooling - DeStefano, Joseph; Hartwell, A.; Schuh-Moore, A.; Balwanz, D. (Academy for Educational Development (AED), 2006)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Malawi National ICT for Development (ICT4D) Policy - Government of Malawi (2006)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Using mixed-methods sequential explanatory design: From theory to practice - Ivankova, Nataliya V.; Creswell, John W.; Stick, Sheldon L. (Field Methods, 2006)
This article discusses some procedural issues related to the mixed-methods sequential explanatory design, which implies collecting and analyzing quantitative and then qualitative data in two consecutive phases within one study. Such issues include deciding on the priority or weight given to the quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis in the study, the sequence of the data collection and analysis, and the stage/stages in the research process at which the quantitative and qualitative data are connected and the results are integrated. The article provides a methodological overview of priority, implementation, and mixing in the sequential explanatory design and offers some practical guidance in addressing those issues. It also outlines the steps for graphically representing the procedures in a mixed-methods study. A mixed-methods sequential explanatory study of doctoral students’ persistence in a distance-learning program in educational leadership is used to illustrate the methodological discussion.

Teacher motivation and incentives in Malawi - Kadzamira, Esme Chipo (Centre for Educational Research and Training, University of Malawi, 2006)
Keywords: C:Malawi; _C:Malawi MWI; ⛔ No DOI found

Teacher motivation and incentives in Malawi - Kadzamira, Esme Chipo (Centre for Educational Research and Training, University of Malawi, 2006)
Keywords: C:Malawi; _C:Malawi MWI; ⛔ No DOI found

Teacher motivation and incentives in Malawi - Kadzamira, Esme Chipo (2006)

Teacher motivation and incentives in Malawi - Kadzamira, Esme Chipo (Centre for Educational Research and Training, University of Malawi, 2006)
Keywords: C:Malawi; _C:Malawi MWI; ⛔ No DOI found

DEEP IMPACT: an investigation of the use of information and communication technologies for teacher education in the global south - Leach, Jenny (DFID, 2006)
Keywords: ___working_potential_duplicate

DEEP IMPACT: an investigation of the use of information and communication technologies for teacher education in the Global South - Leach, Jenny; Ahmed, Atef; Makalima, Shumi; Power, Tom (DFID, 2006)
Keywords: ___working_potential_duplicate; auto_merged

Quality of education and teacher learning: a review of the literature - Leu, Elizabeth; Price-Rom, Alison (American Institutes for Research under the EQUIP1 LWA; U.S. Agency for International Development, 2006)

Quality of Education and Teacher Learning: A Review of the Literature - Leu, Elizabeth; Price-Rom, Alison (American Institutes for Research under the EQUIP1 LWA Academy for Educational Development, 2006)

Quality of education and teacher learning: a review of the literature - Leu, Elizabeth; Price-Rom, Alison (American Institutes for Research under the EQUIP1 LWA; U.S. Agency for International Development, 2006)

English Language Teaching in Mauritius: A Need for clarity of vision regarding English Language Policy - Mahadeo, Satish Kumar (The International Journal of Language, Society and Culture, 2006)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Field-Based Models of Primary Teacher Training: Case Studies of Student Support Systems from Sub-Saharan Africa - Mattson, Elizabeth (Department for International Development, 2006)
Keywords: C:sub-Saharan Africa; ⛔ No DOI found

National Information and Communication Technology Strategy for Education and Training - Ministry of Education, Kenya (2006)

The Athens of West Africa: A History of International Education at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone - Paracka, Daniel J. (2006)
This book is about Fourah Bay College (FBC) and its role as an institution of higher learning in both its African and international context. The study traces the College's development through periods of missionary education (1816-1876), colonial education (1876-1938), and development education (1938-2001).

Systematic reviews in the social sciences: A practical guide - Petticrew, Mark; Roberts, Helen (Systematic reviews in the social sciences: A practical guide, 2006)
This book is a guide to planning and conducting a particular type of literature review, one that is increasingly used as a scientific tool: the systematic literature review. The book is aimed at social science researchers, but it provides a more general discussion of systematic reviews for those who want to use and understand them, but don't necessarily want to do one themselves. Most of the recent interest in systematic reviews focuses on reviews of the effectiveness of interventions, reflected in the growth of initiatives like the Campbell and Cochrane Collaborations. This book therefore focuses on reviews of effectiveness, but not exclusively. Systematic reviews are also widely used to synthesize other sorts of evidence, for example in order to answer questions about etiology (causes of problems), or about people's experiences, and we discuss and present examples of such reviews. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Literature Review; Social Sciences

Rethinking Education Management Information Systems: Lessons from and Options for Less Developed Countries - Powell, Marcus (2006)
Donors and planners often have unrealistic expectations about what can be achieved in a short time period and underestimate the challenges facing EMIS.

Rethinking Education Management Information Systems: lessons from and options for less developed countries - Powell, Marcus (InfoDev Working Papers, 2006)

Rethinking Education Management Information Systems: Lessons from and Options for Less Developed Countries - Powell, Marcus (2006)
Donors and planners often have unrealistic expectations about what can be achieved in a short time period and underestimate the challenges facing EMIS.

Tools for knowledge and learning: a guide for development and humanitarian organizations - Ramalingam, Ben (Overseas Development Institute, 2006)

Aspirations, poverty, and economic change - Ray, Debraj (Understanding Poverty, 2006)
This essay discusses a particular aspect of poverty: its close and brutal association with a failure of aspirations. This is not an assertion about individuals who are poor; it is a statement about the condition of poverty itself. Poverty stifles dreams, or at least the process of attaining dreams. Thus, poverty and the failure of aspirations may be reciprocally linked in a self-sustaining trap. This essay seeks to draw out various aspects of this theme and, in the process, to introduce and discuss an aspirations-based view of individual behavior.
Keywords: aspirations failure; aspirations window; collective action; individual behavior; poor; social polarization

Universal Design for Learning: Is It for Everyone? - Rose, D; Meyer, A (2006)
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) stands at the forefront of contemporary efforts to create universal access to educational curricula for all students, including those with disabilities. The "universal" in UDL does not mean there is a single optimal solution for everyone. Instead, it underscores the need for flexible approaches to teaching and learning that meet the needs of different kinds of learners. In this first UDL Reader, Anne Meyer and David H. Rose, cofounders of CAST, the educational nonprofit that developed the UDL framework, bring together a collection of articles on the practical, classroom dimensions of the UDL revolution in education. The authors offer insights on learner differences, the capacities of new media in the classroom, and effective teaching and assessment practices. The volume also includes lessons from teacher professional development workshops, classroom-based research, and UDL practitioners themselves. A highly readable volume aimed particularly at school teachers and administrators, this book is also an uncommonly accessible introduction to UDL for all readers committed to creating improved and universal access to educational materials for all students. Following a preface (Anne Meyer and David H. Rose), this book contains the following chapters: (1) Applying Universal Design for Learning in the Classroom (Peggy Coyne, Patricia Ganley, Tracey Hall, Grace Meo, Elizabeth Murray, and David Gordon); (2) A UDL Case Story and Model Lesson: Reading Challenges in Geography and Social Studies (The Staff at CAST); (3) Frequent Questions about Universal Design for Learning (Grace Meo); (4) A Level Playing Field: UDL in the Classroom (Lani Harac); (5) Teacher Perspectives: UDL in the Elementary Classroom (Kirsten Lee Howard); (6) Teacher Perspectives: Strategy Instruction Goes Digital (Nicole Strangman); (7) Implications of Universal Design for Learning for Classroom Assessment (David H. Rose and Robert P. Dolan); (8) The Promise of New Learning Environments for Students with Disabilities (Bart Pisha and Skip Stahl); (9) Transforming the Textbook to Improve Learning (Skip Stahl); (10) Engaging the Text: Brain Research and the Universal Design of Reading Strategy Supports (David H. Rose and Bridget Dalton); and (11) Teaching Internet Literacy Strategies: The Hero Inquiry Project (Maya B. Eagleton, Kathleen Guinee, and Karen Langlais). An index is also included.

The Effect of Family Literacy Interventions on Children's Acquisition of Reading: From Kindergarten to Grade 3 - Senechal, Monique (American Psychological Association, 2006)
Goal. Educators believe that parents can help their children learn to read. But what evidence supports this belief? And if parent involvement does matter, what kinds of parent involvement are most efficient? The goal of this report was to review the scientific literature on parent involvement in the acquisition of reading from kindergarten to grade 3. Method. In the present review, parent involvement in literacy acquisition was narrowly defined to include parent-child activities that focus on reading. Moreover, the 14 studies that were analyzed were those that included an intervention where researchers tested whether parent involvement enhanced children’s literacy. Standard meta-analytic procedures were used to analyze the study outcomes.
Keywords: ⛔ No INSPIRE recid found

Beyond Instructional Design: Making Learning Design a Reality - Sims, Rod (Journal of Learning Design, 2006)
When we reflect on the emergence of online education and e-learning as the leading contender to confront the traditions of face-to-face teaching and learning, it is not only a case of better understanding the characteristics of online environments, but also timely to assess the relevance of theories and frameworks informing the design and implementation of those environments. Over the past twenty five years, the value of technology to education has been a significant focus of teachers, learners and institutional administration; it is also a period that has been characterised by lighthouse success stories, rigorous research, technological determinism and unfulfilled promises. As each new generation of technology appeared in the classroom (microcomputers, colour monitors, hypermedia, multimedia, internet), a new generation of early adopters appeared, each seemingly unaware of the research and knowledge gained by the previous generation. In this paper the argument is proposed that even with the strong foundation of knowledge that informs the appropriate ways to use technology for teaching and learning, too often that knowledge has been misunderstood or misused or ignored. The paper is based on the keynote presentation to the Online Learning and Teaching Conference held in Brisbane on September 23rd, 2005. The theme of the conference, "Beyond Delivery," was extremely timely as it marked the assertion that it was time to put the simple digitisation of materials behind us and focus on the active, engaging learning opportunities that effectively put the learning back into e-learning to take advantage of collaborative tools, learning communities and mediated conversation for new millennial learners. More importantly the statement that we are "beyond delivery" also suggests that it is time to embrace change and reflect on new ways to conceptualise the design of online learning environments. Through this paper an argument is presented for a proactive approach to the conceptualisation, formation and maintenance of online environments that cater specifically for the individual learner. Through an analysis of design strategies, proactive modelling and interactive metrics, a new framework is presented to address the pedagogy of online environments and present an alternative to common instructional design practices. For those committed to online teaching and learning environments populated with collaborating and reflective participants, this framework goes well beyond delivery to a pedagogy centred on emancipation and empowerment for the engaged learner.
Keywords: Active Learning; Audio Equipment; Cognitive Style; Communities of Practice; Computer Mediated Communication; Conferences (Gatherings); Cooperative Learning; Educational Technology; Electronic Learning; Empowerment; Epistemology; Feedback (Response); Guidelines; Instructional Design; Models; Online Courses; Student Role; Teacher Role; Teaching Methods; Video Technology; ⛔ No DOI found

A guide to developing the ICT curriculum for early childhood education. - Siraj-Blatchford, I; Siraj-Blatchford, J (Stylus Publishing, LLC., 2006)

Learning from evidence in a complex world - Sterman, John D. (American journal of public health, 2006)