Design of a braille writing tutor to combat illiteracy - Kalra, N.; Lauwers, T.; Dewey, D.; Stepleton, T.; Dias, M. B. (Information Systems Frontiers, 2009)
Less than 3% of the 145 million blind people living in developing countries are literate (Helander, Prejudice and dignity: An introduction to community-based rehabilitation. New York: UNDP 1998). This low literacy rate is partly due to the lack of trained teachers and the challenges associated with learning to write braille on a traditional slate and stylus. These challenges include writing from right to left, writing mirrored images of letters, and receiving significantly delayed feedback. Extensive conversations with the Mathru Educational Trust for the Blind near Bangalore, India, revealed the need for a robust, low-power, low-cost braille writing tutor. We present an iterative and participatory process resulting in the creation and refinement of a prototype braille writing tutor system. This system uses a novel input device to capture a student’s activity on a slate using a stylus and uses a range of techniques to teach braille writing skills to both beginner and advanced students. We report on lessons learned from the implementation of this project and from a 6-week pilot study at Mathru, and outline future directions for improvement.

Globalization and the growth of international educational testing and national assessment - Kamens, D.H.; McNeely, C.L. (Comparative Education Review, 2009)

Research in Difficult Settings: Reflections on Pakistan and Afghanistan - Khattak, Saba Gul (International Development Research Center (IDRC), 2009)
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Systematic literature reviews in software engineering -- a systematic literature review - Kitchenham, Barbara; Pearl Brereton, O.; Budgen, David; Turner, Mark; Bailey, John; Linkman, Stephen (Information and Software Technology, 2009)
Background: In 2004 the concept of evidence-based software engineering (EBSE) was introduced at the ICSE04 conference. Aims: This study assesses the impact of systematic literature reviews (SLRs) which are the recommended EBSE method for aggregating evidence. Method: We used the standard systematic literature review method employing a manual search of 10 journals and 4 conference proceedings. Results: Of 20 relevant studies, eight addressed research trends rather than technique evaluation. Seven SLRs addressed cost estimation. The quality of SLRs was fair with only three scoring less than 2 out of 4. Conclusions: Currently, the topic areas covered by SLRs are limited. European researchers, particularly those at the Simula Laboratory appear to be the leading exponents of systematic literature reviews. The series of cost estimation SLRs demonstrate the potential value of EBSE for synthesising evidence and making it available to practitioners.

Mobile pastoralists and education: strategic options - Krätli, Saverio; Dyer, Caroline (International Institute for Environment and Development (UK), 2009)
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Mobile pastoralists and education: strategic options - Krätli, Saverio; Dyer, Caroline (International Institute for Environment and Development (UK), 2009)
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Mobile pastoralists and education: strategic options - Krätli, Saverio; Dyer, Caroline (International Institute for Environment and Development (UK), 2009)
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Mobile pastoralists and education: strategic options - Krätli, Saverio; Dyer, Caroline (International Institute for Environment and Development (UK), 2009)
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See me, hear me. A guide to using the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Lansdown, Gerison (Save the Children, 2009)
Keywords: CitedIn:eCubed; eCubed

Sisimpur’s reach and educational impact: Evidence from a national longitudinal survey of a Sesame Street project in Bangladesh. - Lee, H.J. (Sesame Workshop, 2009)

The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate healthcare interventions: explanation and elaboration. - Liberati, Alessandro; Altman, Douglas G.; Tetzlaff, Jennifer; Mulrow, Cynthia; Gøtzsche, Peter C.; Ioannidis, John P.A.; Clarke, Mike; Devereaux, P. J.; Kleijnen, Jos; Moher, David (BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2009)
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are essential to summarise evidence relating to efficacy and safety of healthcare interventions accurately and reliably. The clarity and transparency of these reports, however, are not optimal. Poor reporting of systematic reviews diminishes their value to clinicians, policy makers, and other users. Since the development of the QUOROM (quality of reporting of meta-analysis) statement-a reporting guideline published in 1999-there have been several conceptual, methodological, and practical advances regarding the conduct and reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Also, reviews of published systematic reviews have found that key information about these studies is often poorly reported. Realising these issues, an international group that included experienced authors and methodologists developed PRISMA (preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses) as an evolution of the original QUOROM guideline for systematic reviews and meta-analyses of evaluations of health care interventions. The PRISMA statement consists of a 27-item checklist and a four-phase flow diagram. The checklist includes items deemed essential for transparent reporting of a systematic review. In this explanation and elaboration document, we explain the meaning and rationale for each checklist item. For each item, we include an example of good reporting and, where possible, references to relevant empirical studies and methodological literature. The PRISMA statement, this document, and the associated website (www.prisma-statement.org/) should be helpful resources to improve reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
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The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate healthcare interventions: explanation and elaboration. - Liberati, Alessandro; Altman, Douglas G.; Tetzlaff, Jennifer; Mulrow, Cynthia; Gøtzsche, Peter C.; Ioannidis, John P.A.; Clarke, Mike; Devereaux, P. J.; Kleijnen, Jos; Moher, David (BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2009)
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are essential to summarise evidence relating to efficacy and safety of healthcare interventions accurately and reliably. The clarity and transparency of these reports, however, are not optimal. Poor reporting of systematic reviews diminishes their value to clinicians, policy makers, and other users. Since the development of the QUOROM (quality of reporting of meta-analysis) statement-a reporting guideline published in 1999-there have been several conceptual, methodological, and practical advances regarding the conduct and reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Also, reviews of published systematic reviews have found that key information about these studies is often poorly reported. Realising these issues, an international group that included experienced authors and methodologists developed PRISMA (preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses) as an evolution of the original QUOROM guideline for systematic reviews and meta-analyses of evaluations of health care interventions. The PRISMA statement consists of a 27-item checklist and a four-phase flow diagram. The checklist includes items deemed essential for transparent reporting of a systematic review. In this explanation and elaboration document, we explain the meaning and rationale for each checklist item. For each item, we include an example of good reporting and, where possible, references to relevant empirical studies and methodological literature. The PRISMA statement, this document, and the associated website (www.prisma-statement.org/) should be helpful resources to improve reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
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Designing for complex ICT-based learning: understanding teacher thinking to help improve educational design - Markauskaite, Lina; Goodyear, Peter (2009)
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Qualitative Research: A Guide to Design and Implementation - Merriam, Sharan B. (John Wiley & Sons, 2009)
Praise for the Third Edition of Qualitative Research: "Sharan B. Merriam synthesizes twenty years of developments in qualitative research with clarity and acumen." ?Michael Quinn Patton, author, Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods "Here is a qualitative research methods book that reinforces the connection between professional experience and qualitative inquiry." ?Robert Stake, author, The Art of Case Study Research and Multiple Case Study Analysis "In this new edition, Sharan Merriam once again presents the world of qualitative research in language engaging and accessible?for new and experienced readers alike. If you can have only one book about qualitative research, this is it!" ?Patricia M. Reeves, associate professor, School of Social Work, University of Georgia "Mystified by qualitative research? You couldn't ask for a better guide than Sharan Merriam, who introduces you to the fundamental concepts of this research method, explains its complex forms, and then shows you exactly how to do a high-quality qualitative study." ?M. Carolyn Clark, coeditor, The International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
Keywords: Education / General

National Education Policy 2009 - Ministry of Education (Government of Pakistan, 2009)

National Education Policy - Ministry of Education and Federal Training (Pakistan) (2009)

Education and Training Policy - Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (2009)

Education and Training Policy 2009 -Translated Draft - Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (United Republic of Tanzania, 2009)

Literacy Promotion through Mobile Phones - Miyazawa, Ichiro (UNESCO, 2009)

PRISMA: Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses - Moher, D; Liberati, A; Altman, DG (PLoS Med, 2009)
PRISMA is an evidence-based minimum set of items for reporting in systematic reviews and meta-analyses. PRISMA focuses on the reporting of reviews evaluating randomized trials, but can also be used as a basis for reporting systematic reviews of other types of research, particularly evaluations of interventions.
Keywords: THEME: Education management; ⚠️ Invalid DOI

Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement - Moher, David; Liberati, Alessandro; Tetzlaff, Jennifer; Altman, Douglas G. (BMJ, 2009)
David Moher and colleagues introduce PRISMA, an update of the QUOROM guidelines for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses
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Open and distance learning for basic education in South Asia: its potential for hard-to-reach children and children in conflict and disaster areas. - Morpeth, R; Creed, C; Cullen, J; Page, E; Raynor, J (United Nations Children's Fund, 2009)
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Open and distance learning for basic education in South Asia: its potential for hard-to-reach children and children in conflict and disaster areas. - Morpeth, Ros; Creed, Charlotte; Cullen, Jane; Page, Elspeth; Raynor, Janet (UNICEF, 2009)
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Radio Instruction to Strengthen Education (RISE) in Zanzibar. Learning gains assessment: more than child's play. - Morris, Emily; Philip, Miriam; Othman, Abrahman Faki; Mitchell, James; Quiones, Esteban J.; Leatxe, Denisse (Education Development Center, Inc. and Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, 2009)
Students at a RISE learning center, who now have access to an early childhood education. RADIO INSTRUCTION TO STRENGTHEN EDUCATION (RISE) IN ZANZIBAR LEARNING GAINS ASSESSMENT:…

Teacher learning and policy intention: selected findings from an evaluation of a large‐scale programme of professional development in the Republic of Ireland - Murchan, Damian; Loxley, Andrew; Johnston, Keith (European Journal of Teacher Education, 2009)

Creating effective teaching and learning environments: first results from TALIS - OECD (OECD, 2009)
Keywords: C:OECD countries

Blogging as a Critical Praxis: Becoming a Critical Teacher Educator in the Ague of Participatory Culture - Pascarella, John (2009)
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Blogging as critical praxis: becoming a critical teacher educator in the age of participatory culture - Pascarella, John (McGill University, 2009)
This self-study of becoming a critical teacher educator extends the research on blogs as a vehicle of critical self-reflection in teaching and teacher education. While the primary focus of this thesis is a self-study of the process of becoming a teacher educator, the author presents findings based on discursive data collected from blogs produced by teacher candidates in two case studies, which inform this process of becoming. The case studies are represented as two “strands”: one carried out in Montréal, Quebec, Canada, at McGill University, and the other carried out near Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Like prior studies involving the use of blogs in teacher preparation, this study examines pre-service teachers’ critical engagement with topics and issues endemic to their current field experiences and future careers in K-12 classrooms. The instructional techniques deployed in the case studies adhered to principles of modeling technology integration in order to transform teaching and learning activities by facilitating a learning environment for pre-service teacher candidates informed by the tenets of critical pedagogy. In this vein, this study examines the implementation of a particular instructional strategy, problem-posing pedagogy, as a practice that integrates the use of blogs to aid the achievement of pre-service teacher candidates’ “critical self-engagement” as well as contribute to the author’s development as a critical teacher educator.
Keywords: 0530:Teacher education; 0710:Educational technology; Blogging; Critical praxis; Culture; Education; Educational technology; Participatory culture; Teacher education; Teacher educator; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2097704; __finaldtb

TVET and community reintegration: exploring the connections in Sierra Leone's DDR process - Paulson, J. (International handbook of education for the changing world of work: bridging academic and vocational learning, 2009)

The Waterfall Model in Large-Scale Development | SpringerLink - Petersen, Kai; Wohlin, Claes; Baca, Dejan (2009)

Mother-tongue education in Africa for emancipation and development: Towards the intellectualisation of African languages - Prah, Kwesi Kwaa (Languages and education in Africa: A comparative and transdisciplinary analysis, 2009)
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Langues et école en Guyane - Renault-Lescure, Odile; Migge, Bettina (L'Harmattan, 2009)

A summary of 'Diffusion of innovations' - Robinson, Les (2009)

The futility of attempting to codify academic achievement standards | SpringerLink - Sadler, Royce (2009)

Using system dynamics to model student interest in science technology, engineering, and mathematics - Sanchez, H. Alex; Wells, Brian; Attridge, Joanne M. (2009)
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Understanding technology adoption: theory and future directions for informal learning - Straub, Evan T. (Review of Educational Research, 2009)
How and why individuals adopt innovations has motivated a great deal of research. This article examines individuals’ computing adoption processes through the lenses of three adoption theories: Rogers’s innovation diffusion theory, the Concerns-Based Adoption Model, the Technology Acceptance Model, and the United Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology. Incorporating all three models, this article suggests technology adoption is a complex, inherently social, developmental process; individuals construct unique yet malleable perceptions of technology that influence their adoption decisions. Thus, successfully facilitating technology adoption must address cognitive, emotional, and contextual concerns. This article also focuses specific attention on adoption theory outside of a formal organization and the implications of adoption theory on informal environments.

Information Literacy in Kenya - Tilvawala, Khushbu; Myers, Michael D.; Andrade, Antonio Díaz (The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 2009)
There are a growing number of information and communications technologies (ICT) initiatives in developing countries. These initiatives are usually undertaken on the basis that they are important for social and economic development. However, one barrier to the efficient utilisation of ICT in developing countries is the relatively low level of information literacy. Without the ability to manipulate and use information effectively, investments in ICT-for-development projects may be unsuccessful. In this research project, three ICT initiatives in Kenya are analysed in the light of the dimensions of information literacy. Implications for other developing countries are discussed.
Keywords: Information and communications technology; Kenya; developing countries; information literacy

On-line safety for students in developing countries - Trucano, Mike (2009)
When participating in discussions with officials planning for the use of computers and the Internet in schools in many developing countries, I am struck by how child Internet safety issues are often only considered as an afterthought -- if indeed they are considered at all. Yet these issues almost *always* present themselves during implementation, and ...

Human Development Report 2009: Overcoming barriers—Human mobility and development - UNDP (United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2009)

Overcoming inequality: why governance matters - UNESCO (EFA Global Monitoring Report, 2009)
Keywords: EfA; GMR

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

Vers une école plurilingue: Dans les collectivités françaises d'Océanie et de Guyane - Vernaudon, Jacques; Fillol, Véronique (Vers une école plurilingue, 2009)
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Planning for educational change: putting people and their contexts first - Wedell, Martin (Bloomsbury publishing, 2009)
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Educational reform, enquiry‐based learning and the re‐professionalisation of teachers - Williamson, Ben; Morgan, John (The Curriculum Journal, 2009)

Briefing note on e-learning - World Bank (2009)

The Political Economy of Data Protection - Yu, Peter K (2009)

Experimenting With Teacher Professional Development: Motives and Methods - Wayne, Andrew J.; Yoon, Kwang Suk; Zhu, Pei; Cronen, Stephanie; Garet, Michael S. (Educational Researcher, 2008)
A strong base of research is needed to guide investments in teacher professional development (PD). This article considers the status of research on PD and articulates a particular direction for future work. Little is known about whether PD can have a positive impact on achievement when a program is delivered across a range of typical settings and when its delivery depends on multiple trainers. Despite a consensus in the literature on the features of effective PD, there is limited evidence on the specific features that make a difference for achievement. This article explains the benefits offered by experiments in addressing current research needs and?for those conducting and interpreting such studies?discusses the unique methodological issues encountered when experimental methods are applied to the study of PD.
Keywords: C:United States / International

EGRA Liberia: Baseline assessment of reading levels and associated factors - Poole, Medina Korda; Crouch, Luis (2008)
This document reports on the results of an Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) study done in Liberia in June of 2008 as part of process of collaboration between the Ministry of Education, the World Bank, and USAID, with technical assistance provided under contract by RTI and its consultants and collaborators.This executive summary reproduced the logic of the entire report and is thus also a guide to the contents and layout of the report.This document first lays out the nature and content of the assessment instrument.
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Can technology enable effective teacher coaching at scale? - Evans, David (2008)
Teachers are important. And many teachers in low- and middle-income countries would benefit from support to improve their pedagogical skills. But how to do it? Again and again, evidence suggests that short teacher trainings – usually held in a central location – don’t do much of anything to improve teacher ...

Inclusive Education Where there are Few Resources - Stubbs, Sue (The Atlas Alliance, 2008)

Mongolia: Education Sector - ADB (Asian Development Bank, 2008)

Sierra Leone : Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper-Progress Report (2005-2007) - International Monetary Fund (2008)
This report describes the progress made in implementing the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for Sierra Leone covering the period 2005–07. Efforts to reform the public sector were not successful. Management and Functional Reviews were conducted for several ministries, departments, and agencies but the recommendations were not implemented. A Senior Executive Service program was also developed but government and development partners could not agree on an implementation strategy and therefore the funds required for implementation were not provided.

JIME - The Open Learning Initiative: Measuring the Effectiveness of the OLI Statistics Course in Accelerating Student Learning - Lovett, Marsha; Meyer, Oded; Thille, Candace (Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2008)
The Open Learning Initiative (OLI) is an open educational resources project at Carnegie Mellon University that began in 2002 with a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. OLI creates web-based courses that are designed so that students can learn effectively without an instructor. In addition, the courses are often used by instructors to support and complement face-to-face classroom instruction. Our evaluation efforts have investigated OLI courses’ effectiveness in both of these instructional modes – stand-alone and hybrid. This report documents several learning effectiveness studies that were focused on the OLI-Statistics course and conducted during Fall 2005, Spring 2006, and Spring 2007. During the Fall 2005 and Spring 2006 studies, we collected empirical data about the instructional effectiveness of the OLI-Statistics course in stand-alone mode, as compared to traditional instruction. In both of these studies, in-class exam scores showed no significant difference between students in the stand-alone OLI-Statistics course and students in the traditional instructor-led course. In contrast, during the Spring 2007 study, we explored an accelerated learning hypothesis, namely, that learners using the OLI course in hybrid mode will learn the same amount of material in a significantly shorter period of time with equal learning gains, as compared to students in traditional instruction. In this study, results showed that OLI-Statistics students learned a full semester’s worth of material in half as much time and performed as well or better than students learning from traditional instruction over a full semester. Editor: Stephen Godwin (Open University, UK). Reviewers: Tim de Jong (Open University, NL), Elia Tomadaki (Open University, UK), and Stephen Godwin (Open University, UK). Interactive elements: A demonstration of the StatTutor statistics tutorial is available for playback from http://jime.open.ac.uk/2008/14/stattutor_tour/ . The demonstration is in Flash format. http://jime.open.ac.uk/2008/14/stattutor_tour/
Keywords: IDR; Mathematics Learning; case studies; design patterns; games; methodology; open learning; pattern languages

Using learning design as a framework for supporting the design and reuse of OER - Conole, Gráinne; Weller, Martin (Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2008)
The paper will argue that adopting a learning design methodology may provide a vehicle for enabling better design and reuse of Open Educational Resources (OERs). It will describe a learning design methodology, which is being developed and implemented at the Open University in the UK. The aim is to develop a 'pick and mix' learning design toolbox of different resources and tools to help designers/teachers make informed decisions about creating new or adapting existing learning activities. The methodology is applicable for designers/teachers designing in a traditional context – such as creation of materials as part of a formal curriculum, but also has value for those wanting to create OERs or adapt and repurpose existing OERs. With the increasing range of OERs now available through initiatives as part of the Open Courseware movement, we believe that methodologies, such as the one we describe in this paper, which can help guide reuse and adaptation will become increasingly important and arguably are an important aspect of ensuring longer term sustainability and uptake of OERs. Our approach adopts an empirically based approach to understanding and representing the design process. This includes a range of evaluation studies (capturing of case studies, interviews with designers/teachers, in-depth course evaluation and focus groups/workshops), which are helping to develop our understanding of how designers/teachers go about creating new learning activities. Alongside this we are collating an extensive set of tools and resources to support the design process, as well as developing a new Learning Design tool that helps teachers articulate and represent their design ideas. The paper will describe how we have adapted a mind mapping and argumentation tool, Compendium, for this purpose and how it is being used to help designers and teachers create and share learning activities. It will consider how initial evaluation of the use of the tool for learning design has been positive; users report that the tool is easy to use and helps them organise and articulate their learning designs. Importantly the tool also enables them to share and discuss their thinking about the design process. However it is also clear that visualising the design process is only one aspect of design, which is complex and multi-faceted. Editors: Alexandra Okada (Open University, UK). Reviewers: Teresa Conolly (Open University, UK), Rose Luckin (Institute of Education, UK), and Alexandra Okada (Open University, UK)
Keywords: IMS learning design; Learning Design; e-learning; mind mapping

Open Source Software in Education - Lakhan, Shaheen E.; Jhunjhunwala, Kavita (EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2008)
Educational institutions have rushed to put their academic resources and services online, bringing the global community onto a common platform and awa
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Empowering Parents to Improve Education: Evidence from Rural Mexico - Gertler, Paul; Patrinos, Harry; Rubio-Codina, Marta (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3935, 2008)
Keywords: ❓ Multiple DOI

Learning about System Renewal - Levin, Ben; Fullan, Michael (http://lst-iiep.iiep-unesco.org/cgi-bin/wwwi32.exe/[in=epidoc1.in]/?t2000=027046/(100), 2008)
Incl. bibl., abstract Our focus in this article is on the lessons learned about effective change from international experience with large-scale reform over the last 20 years. The central lesson now evident is that sustained improvement in student outcomes requires a sustained effort to change teaching and learning practices in thousands and thousands of classrooms, and this requires focused and sustained effort by all parts of the education system and its partners. Key components of this work include a small number of ambitious yet achievable goals, publicly stated; a positive stance with a focus on motivation; multi-level engagement with strong leadership and a "guiding coalition"; emphasis on capacity building with a focus on results; keeping a focus on key strategies while also managing other interests and issues; effective use of resources; and constant and growing transparency including public and stakeholder communication and feedback. Although we believe the use of change knowledge is increasing internationally, future prospects remain mixed because the work is hard to do.

"Let's not leave this problem": exploring inclusive education in rural South Africa - Mitchell, Claudia; De Lange, Naydene; Thuy, Nguyen-Thi Xuan (Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2008)
Inclusive education represents a new agenda for educational reform that spans a wide range of socio-political, cultural, ethical, personal and interpersonal dimensions. Working towards educational inclusion demands commitments, responsibilities and initiatives on the part of all parties to take into consideration the meanings and purpose of education and social justice, to engage and take collective actions in their struggle to combat the diverse forms of educational and social exclusion. This paper presents an educational initiative to implement inclusive education in rural KwaZulu-Natal, an area of South Africa that is most seriously affected by the pandemic of HIV and AIDS. Through the implementation of participatory video-making projects in two schools, the authors seek to empower the voices and actions of teachers in an effort to cope with the problems of poverty and marginalization facing many children. The outcomes of this type of participatory work with teachers have implications for the policy-making process, which in turn, could change the ways educational policy research is structured and implemented.
Keywords: Access to Education; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS); Developing Nations; Disabilities; ERIC, Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Education; Education reform; Educational Change; Educational Policy; Foreign Countries; Human immunodeficiency virus--HIV; Inclusive Schools; Mainstreaming; Multicultural education; Policymakers; Poverty; Researchers; Rural Areas; Rural areas; Social Attitudes; Social Bias; Social Isolation; Social Justice; Social activism; South Africa; Special Needs Students; Teacher Attitudes; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2098725; __finaldtb

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 (Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, 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.
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Educational reform in Ghana: the leadership challenge - Zame, Martin Y.; Hope, Warren C.; Respress, Trinetia (International Journal of Educational Management, 2008)

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.

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

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)

Ecological Systems, Complexity, and Student Achievement: Towards an Alternative Model of Accountability in Education - Johnson, Eileen S. (School Leadership Review, 2008)
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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)
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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)

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

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.

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.
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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

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

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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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)

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

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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. …
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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)

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.

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.

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)