MOOCs for in-service teachers: the case of Uganda and lessons for Africa - Oyo, B.; Kalema, B.M.; Byabazaire, J. (Revista Española de Pedagogía, 2017)
In recent times, computers and internet have penetrated secondary schools in Africa but with greater attention to students’ computer literacy than teachers. At the same time, previous studies on digital literacy of teachers are unsustainable and mainly skewed on pre-service teachers than in-service teachers. These realities point to the need to investigate and implement effective and sustainable initiatives for improving digital literacy and online life-long learning for in-service teachers in Africa. This paper therefore presents a specialised MOOC platform known as TEP (Teachers’ E-learning Portal) for digital literacy and online life-long learning for in-service teachers in Uganda. TEP is built for environments with inadequate access to computers, internet and technical assistance. As such, TEP is accessible online or offline, managed by accredited local universities in collaboration with beneficiary secondary schools, and runs on existing resources in schools (technical personnel, computers and internet). Results from initial implementation of a computer literacy MOOC through TEP indicate that irrespective of age, when teachers are adequately supported internally by their schools and externally by a university, can improve their digital literacy and subsequently engage in online life-long learning. In addition, the results both in terms of high percentage of teacher participants’ completions (89%) and high volume of educational e-content generated, confirm TEP as an effective, attractive, and self-sustainable MOOC platform for in-service teachers’ in resource constraint environments. The paper finishes with an analysis of the relevance of TEP to Africa.
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A comparative study of TVET in 5 African Countries with a specific focus on TVET Teacher Education - Papier, Joy (2017)
This article describes a five country (Cameroun, Egypt, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania) study of ‘TVET Teacher Education in Africa’ that was commissioned in terms of an EU-South African collaboration in 2013. While the focus was on vocational teacher education, the contextual realities of each country‘s vocational systems was studied as this would impact on every aspect of vocational teacher development, for instance, what teachers would have to teach, who the students might be, how students would be expected to learn, available funding for Vocational Education and so on. Comparisons were therefore made over a range of elements that included the systems in place for vocational training, systems of vocational teacher education, and the modalities for training of VET teachers.
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Fundamentals... Session 1 - Vocational Education and Training: basics for teaching and research in Vocational Education and Training at universities - Papier, Joy; Hartmann, Martin D.; Ogwo, Benjamin A.; Ezekoye, Benadeth N.; Gessler, Michael (W. Bertelsmann Verlag, 2017)
This session highlights the basics of Vocational Education and Training (VET). Each university has its own characteristics. The contributions seek to encourage various forms of VET. Challenges for universities and other institutions are emphasised. The contributions help draw conclusions for the Further structuring of VET in Sub-Saharan Africa. Other country-specific articles from the session concentrate on the characteristics and orientation of VET systems, thereby helping create an overall picture of the status of VET in all participating countries. The participants endeavored to analyze the current situation of VET in Sub-Saharan Africa by exploring the character and individual design of the current VET systems in the participating countries. Contributions by: Duncan Ken Downing Jillian D'Oliveira Singo Brígida Papier Joy Hartmann Martin D. Ogwo Benjamin A. Ezekoye Benadeth N. Gessler Michael
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Nutiseadmete kasutamise profiilid loodusainete ja matemaatika õppimise kontekstis - Pedaste, Margus; Must, Olev; Leijen, Äli; Mäeots, Mario; Siiman, Leo; Kori, Külli; Adov, Liina (Eesti Haridusteaduste Ajakiri, 2017)
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Creating Research Practice Partnerships in Education. - Penuel, William R.; Gallagher, Daniel J. (ERIC, 2017)
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Assistive technology interventions for adolescents and adults with learning disabilities: An evidence-based systematic review and meta-analysis - Perelmutter, Bogi; McGregor, Karla K.; Gordon, Katherine R. (Computers & education, 2017)
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Diferencias por Género y Contexto Socioeconómico del Impacto de la Plataforma Adaptativa de Matemática. - Perera, Marcelo; Aboal, Diego (CINVE., 2017)

Evaluación del Impacto de la Plataforma Adaptativa de Matemática en los Resultados de los Aprendizajes - Perera, Marcelo; Aboal, Diego (Centro de Investigaciones Económicas, 2017)
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Implementing large-scale instructional technology in Kenya: Changing instructional practice and developing accountability in a national education system - Piper, Benjamin; Oyanga, Arbogast; Mejia, Jessica; Pouezevara, Sarah (International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2017)
Previous large-scale education technology interventions have shown only modest impacts on student achievement. Building on results from an earlier randomized controlled trial of three different applications of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on primary education in Kenya, the Tusome Early Grade Reading Activity developed the National Tablets Program. The National Tablets Program is integrated into the Tusome activity by providing tablets to each of more than 1,200 instructional coaches in the country to use when they visit teachers. This enables a national database of classroom instructional quality, which is used by the education system to monitor overall education quality. The tools provided on the tablets are designed to help coaches increase the quality of their instructional support to teachers, and deepen the shallow accountability structures in Kenya’s education system. Using results of a national survey, we investigated the ability of the National Tablets Program to increase the number of classroom observations done by coaches and to improve student learning outcomes. Survey results showed high levels of tablet program utilization, increased accountability, and improvements in learning outcomes. We share recommendations regarding large-scale ICT interventions and literacy programs.
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A Quasi-Experimental Study of the Classroom Practices of English Language Teachers and the English Language Proficiency of Students, in Primary and Secondary Schools in Bangladesh - Power, Tom; McCormick, Robert; Asbeek-Brusse, Elsbeth (2017)
English in Action (EIA) is an English language teacher development project based in Bangladesh that was intended to run from 2008 to 2017, but which was extended at the request of the Government of Bangladesh, with additional funding from UKAID, for a further year to 2018. By the time of the design of this study (2014-2015) EIA was drawing to the end of upscaling (phase III, 2011-2014) and entering institutionalisation and sustainability (phase IV, 2014-17, extended 2018). Successive prior studies had indicated substantial success in improving both teachers’ classroom practices and student learning outcomes, over the pre-project baseline (e.g. EIA 2011, 2012). The 2014 Annual Review of EIA recommended that in the final phase, EIA should explore whether it would be possible to carry out a study that compared a ‘counterfactual’ or control-group of teachers and students, to the ‘EIA’ or treatment schools: i.e. a Randomised Control Trial or Quasi-Experimental study. A proposal for a Quasi-Experimental study was developed in collaboration with DFID’s South Asia Research Hub (SARH), which also provided the additional funding necessary to implement such a study. The teachers and students who were the subject of this study, were the fourth cohort to participate in English in Action (together with teachers from ‘control’ schools, in the same Upazilas). This fourth EIA cohort included Schools, Teachers and Students from approximately 200 Upazilas (of approximately 500 in total) across Bangladesh, including some of the most disadvantaged areas (with reference to UNICEF deprivation index), such as Char, Hoar and Monga districts. Teachers took part in a school-based teacher development Programme, learning communicative language teaching approaches through carrying out new classroom activities, guided by teacher development videos that showed teachers, students and schools similar to those across the country. Teachers also had classroom audio resources for use with students. All digital materials were available offline, on teachers own mobile phones, so there is no dilution of the Programmes core messages about teaching and learning, by some intermediary coming between the teacher and the materials. Teachers were supported through these activities, by other teachers in their schools, by their head teachers and by local education officers. Some teachers from each area were also given additional support and guidance from divisional EIA staff, to act as Teacher Facilitators, helping teachers work through activities and share their experiences at local cluster meetings. Whereas previous cohorts of teachers had attended eight local teacher development meetings over their participation in the project, for Cohort Four, this was reduced to four meetings, with a greater emphasis being placed on support in school by head teachers, as well as support from local education officers. This change was part of the move towards institutionalisation and sustainability of project activities within and through government systems and local officers. The purpose of this study was both to provide the evaluation evidence required for the final phase of the EIA project and to contribute to the international body of research evidence on effective practices in teacher development in low-to-middle income country contexts.
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Mobiles Lernen. Auch zu Hause? - Prasse, Doreen; Egger, Nives; Honegger, Beat Döbeli (Tablets in Schule und Unterricht, 2017)
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Girls’ Schooling and Women’s Literacy: Schooling targets alone won’t reach learning goals (CGD Policy Paper 104) - Pritchett, Lant; Sandefur, Justin (Washington, DC: Center for Global Development, 2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Terminology for dissemination and implementation research - Rabin, Borsika A.; Brownson, Ross C. (Dissemination and implementation research in health: Translating science to practice, 2017)
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Neural sequence learning models for word sense disambiguation - Raganato, A.; Bovi, CD; Navigli, R. (Proceedings of the conference on empirical methods in natural language processing, 2017)
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Empowering Students to Improve the World in Sixty Lessons. Version 1.0 - Reimers, Fernando (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017)
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P for Platform. Architectures of large-scale participatory design - Roland, Lars Kristian; Sanner, Terje Aksel (2017)
Participatory Design (PD) has traditionally been committed to extensive interaction between developers and situated users to mitigate the disempowering consequences of computerization, such as the deskilling of labour workers. However, the widespread adoption of off-the-shelf software and the emergence of complex information system architectures with interdependencies across user groups and organizations challenge the applicability of traditional custom PD. Pressure is put on PD to scale with initiatives that span an increasing number and distribution of heterogeneous settings, developers, users and uses over time. In this article, we follow a PD project that started out in post-apartheid South Africa more than two decades ago. The project, which centres on the development of a software product for decentralised public health care management, has since grown into a venture with a significant footprint in the Global South. In order to problematise the scaling of key aspects of PD, such as the politics of design, the nature of participation and participatory design techniques, we first review extant literature and develop a classification of four different types of PD with respect to scale. We then apply the typology to our empirical case to discuss PD in relation to architectural traits at different stages of project scale. We contribute to PD literature by addressing the exploratory research question: What role does architecture play in large scale PD? Specifically, the study highlights how an emergent platform architecture and its surrounding ecosystem co-constitute a platform for participation in design.

Un modèle dédié à la conception et l’analyse de ressources numériques visant leur appropriation par les élèves - Rosillo, Taïma del Carmen Pérez (Université de Lyon, 2017)
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WAYZ: a co-designed touch-ready game for children with special needs to assess and improve visual perception skills - Rougnant, Alexis; Gelsomini, Mirko; Garzotto, Franca (2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW), 2017)
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A conceptual framework to understand teachers’ Professional Dispositions and Orientation towards tablet technology in secondary schools - Sackstein, Suzanne; Slonimsky, Lynne (South African Computer Journal, 2017)
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Keywords: _C:Cuba CUB; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:United Kingdom GBR; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Co-creation of OER by teachers and teacher educators in Colombia - Sáenz Rodríguez, María del Pilar; Pino, Ulises Hernandez; Hernández, Yoli Marcela (Adoption and impact of OER in the Global South, 2017)
This chapter, based on research conducted by members of the Collaborative CoCreation of Open Educational Resources by Teachers and Teacher Educators in Colombia (coKREA) project, assesses whether and how a contextually based, bottomup approach to the promotion and advocacy of Open Educational Resources (OER) – in which teachers are encouraged to collaboratively co-create resources – supports the adoption of OER in Colombian schools. The study, conducted with public school teachers in southwestern Colombia, used a Participatory Action Research approach, in which the object of study is not external to the researchers, as the social practices under study are performed by the same subjects who are conducting the investigation. This allows teachers to identify possibilities of OER in their own educational practices, as well as the conditions required for their adoption, based on collective thinking processes immersed in their own sociocultural contexts. A call for research participation was issued to teachers who were experienced in using information and communication technologies (ICT) in their teaching. The data collection process was undertaken through administration of a series of online questionnaires (completed by 19 teachers), a survey (completed by 248 teachers), webinars (in which 28 teachers connected and 14 participated actively), unstructured telephone interviews (with 30 teachers) and a series of focus group discussions (with a cohort of 49 teacher educators, teachers and students). A face-to-face workshop was also conducted with teachers to provide an introduction to OER, after which they identified challenges to incorporating OER into their pedagogical practices and discussed their own OER-related activities.
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Understanding elementary teachers' experiences and views using interactive whiteboards for pedagogical practices - Samsonova, Olga (2017)
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Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Cyprus CYP; _C:Egypt EGY; _C:Iran IRN; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Lithuania LTU; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:North Cyprus XNCYP; _C:Spain ESP; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Digital media and youth: A primer for school psychologists - Savina, Elena; Mills, Jennifer L.; Atwood, Kelly; Cha, Jason (Contemporary School Psychology, 2017)
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Praxishandbuch Wirtschaft in Afrika - Schmidt, Thomas; Pfaffenberger, Kay; Liebing, Stefan (Springer Gabler, 2017)
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How to Construct a Mixed Methods Research Design - Schoonenboom, Judith; Johnson, R. Burke (Kolner Zeitschrift Fur Soziologie Und Sozialpsychologie, 2017)
This article provides researchers with knowledge of how to design a high quality mixed methods research study. To design a mixed study, researchers must understand and carefully consider each of the dimensions of mixed methods design, and always keep an eye on the issue of validity. We explain the seven major design dimensions: purpose, theoretical drive, timing (simultaneity and dependency), point of integration, typological versus interactive design approaches, planned versus emergent design, and design complexity. There also are multiple secondary dimensions that need to be considered during the design process. We explain ten secondary dimensions of design to be considered for each research study. We also provide two case studies showing how the mixed designs were constructed.
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Left to their own devices: the everyday realities of one-to-one classrooms - Selwyn, Neil; Nemorin, Selena; Bulfin, Scott; Johnson, Nicola F. (Oxford Review of Education, 2017)
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The Contribution of Digital Technologies to Service Delivery: An Evidence Review - Sharmin, Shumona; Faith, Becky; Prieto Martín, P.; Ramalingam, Ben (IDS, 2017)
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Keywords: _C:Afghanistan AFG; _C:Armenia ARM; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Azerbaijan AZE; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Bhutan BTN; _C:Bolivia BOL; _C:Botswana BWA; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:Burkina Faso BFA; _C:Cambodia KHM; _C:Cameroon CMR; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Cape Verde CPV; _C:Catalan Republic XCATA; _C:China CHN; _C:Colombia COL; _C:Comoros COM; _C:Congo XCO; _C:Costa Rica CRI; _C:Cuba CUB; _C:Dominican Republic DOM; _C:Ecuador ECU; _C:Egypt EGY; _C:El Salvador SLV; _C:Ethiopia ETH; _C:Gambia GMB; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Guatemala GTM; _C:Guinea GIN; _C:Guyana GUY; _C:Honduras HND; _C:India IND; _C:Indonesia IDN; _C:Iran IRN; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Kyrgyzstan KGZ; _C:Lesotho LSO; _C:Madagascar MDG; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Maldives MDV; _C:Mexico MEX; _C:Myanmar MMR; _C:Nepal NPL; _C:New Zealand NZL; _C:Niger NER; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Oman OMN; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Panama PAN; _C:Paraguay PRY; _C:Peru PER; _C:Philippines PHL; _C:Qatar QAT; _C:Romania ROU; _C:Rwanda RWA; _C:Samoa WSM; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:Solomon Islands SLB; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Sri Lanka LKA; _C:State of Palestine PSE; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Thailand THA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Uruguay URY; _C:Venezuela VEN; _C:Viet Nam VNM; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; literature / systematic review

Establishment of a VET-system with focus on Further Education: presentation of ideas on the motivation and establishment of a Further Education system, especially in universities in sub-Saharan Africa - Shindi, Alpheas (2017)
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EDUCATION IN POST-FEDERATION MONTSERRAT: REFLECTIONS, INTROSPECTIONS AND PROPOSITIONS - SHOTTE, GERTRUDE (The Caribbean in a Changing World: Surveying the Past, Mapping the Future, Volume 2, 2017)
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:PE635T9Q
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Curriculum re-engineering and development in Zambia: the sociology of education in the face of globalisation. - Simamuna, Mubita Likando; Mulenga, Innocent Mutale (The University of Zambia Press, 2017)

The Relationship Between School Distance And Academic Achievement Of Primary School Pupils In Ovia North-East Lga, Edo State, Nigeria. - Stanley, Udoka; Emmanuel, Nelly; Igboh, Benedict (2017)
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between school distance and academic achievement of primary school pupils in Ovia North-East LGA. As a guide to this study, four research questions as well as three hypotheses were tested the correlational research design was adopted for this study. The population of the study comprised all primary schools in Ovia North-East LGA. There are one hundred and one primary schools out of which twenty schools (20%) were sampled using the random sampling technique and one hundred teachers were used as sample for the study. The research instrument was a structured questionnaire on relationship between school distance and academic achievement of primary school pupils (S.D.A.A.Q). The reliability of the instrument was established through the use of test re-test method. The collected data were analyzed using simple percentage and Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) statistic was used in testing the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The instrument was trial tested in Uselu primary school, Egor Local Government Area in Edo State using 20 teachers. The reliability coefficient was 0.86. The findings of the study revealed that: pupils in Ovia North-East LGA covered long distance to school; there is significant relationship between school distance and academic achievement of primary school pupils; there is a relationship between school distance and academic achievement of male primary school pupils While for the female, there is no significant relationship between school distance and academic achievement. It was thus recommended that primary schools should be located in different strategic locations in the Local Government Area to reduce the distance covered by the pupils. Alternatively, school buses should be made available to convey the pupils to and from schools to overcome the problem of late coming and tiredness on the part of the pupils thereby by enhancing their academic achievement. Parents and guardians should locate schools closer to their place of residence so as to prevent the pupils from walking long distance to schools which may reduce the level of their academic achievement. Furthermore, the Government should ensure that the available primary schools are made conducive for effective learning so as to improve the academic achievement of the pupils. Again, pupils should be motivated as well as reinforced on regular basis to encourage them to attend school regularly.

Integrating deep linguistic features in factuality prediction over unified datasets - Stanovsky, G.; Eckle-Kohler, J.; Puzikov, Y. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Sierra Leone 2015 population and housing census: Thematic report on poverty and durables - Statistics Sierra Leone (Statistics Sierra Leone, 2017)
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Sierra Leone Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2017, survey findings report - Statistics Sierra Leone (Statistics Sierra Leone, 2017)
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Midline survey: Transforming teacher education and learning - T-TEL (2017)
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Keywords: _C:Ghana GHA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

The Digital Divide in Language and Literacy Education - Tate, Tamara; Warschauer, Mark (Language, Education and Technology, 2017)
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How to do your research project: a guide for students in education and applied social sciences - Thomas, Gary (SAGE Publications, 2017)

Living systematic reviews: 2 - Thomas, J.; Noel-Storr, A.; Marshall, I. (Combining human and machine effort. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2017)
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Teacher education in the 21st century digitalization: Open access, digital health and wellness: Colloquium presentation at the Aga Khan-IED Conference Oct 23-25, 2017, Hotel Africana, Kampala, Uganda - Tibenderana, Prisca Dr; Sumil, Novembrieta Dr; Busingye, Janice Dr; Mayende, Kiwelu Jackline; Osamai, Moses Odeke; Bounty, Kirabo Joseph Dr (2017)
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Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Understanding the relationship between teachers’ pedagogical beliefs and technology use in education: a systematic review of qualitative evidence - Tondeur, Jo; Van Braak, Johan; Ertmer, Peggy A.; Ottenbreit-Leftwich, Anne (Educational Technology Research and Development, 2017)
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Keywords: Final_citation

Influencing appraisals of emotional valence with spatial touchscreen interactions: An embodied approach to Positive Technology - Torres, Sergio Cervera (2017)
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Keywords: _C:Canada CAN; _C:China CHN; _C:France FRA; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Italy ITA; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Switzerland CHE; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Indoor environmental quality, pupils' health and academic performance - Toyinbo, Oluyemi Olagoke (Itä-Suomen yliopisto, 2017)
Basic elementary school is compulsory for students in most countries of the world. Therefore, children spend a considerable amount of their time in school studying. Subsequently, exposure to substances in their school indoor environment can affect their studies and health. In addition , children are more susceptible to indoor pollutants because their organ systems are immature. In general, there has been more research on the impact of offices and industrial environments on adult occupants than research on school environments involving pupils. The aim of this thesis is to assess elementary schools’ indoor environmental quality, and its associations with pupils’ health and learning outcomes. Data were collected from three countries (samples including all elementary schools in Finland, seventy elementary schools in United States of America and five elementary schools in Nigeria). This included measuring classroom indoor and outdoor temperature, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and relative humidity. Ventilation rates were also assessed as well as cleaning effectiveness. A walkthrough was done to evaluate school building characteristics while students and school principals were asked questions about health and school environmental conditions respectively. Data were also recovered from registries. The results from Finland showed that noise and poor air quality in classrooms were the most prevalent indoor environmental (IEQ) factors causing discomfort, while headache, fatigue and stuffy nose were the most prevalent health problems reported by students. Where students reported poor air quality in classrooms, it was associated with high measured mean temperature and low ventilation rates in those classrooms. Respiratory symptoms increased with thermal discomfort, inadequate ventilation and moisture damage. Missed school days as a result of respiratory symptoms was more common in schools with inadequate ventilation. Inadequate ventilation was associated with learning outcomes. Ventilation rate was dependent on the type of the ventilation system. Upgraded systems were found to provide more adequate ventilation and thermal comfort in schools. A negative significant correlation was also found between the number of students in the classroom and ventilation rate per student. In the US study, academic performance such as passing mathematical and reading tests was related to ventilation rates and indoor temperature in classrooms. Inadequate ventilation was associated with increased visits to school nurses due to respiratory symptoms while biological contamination of high contact surfaces was related to increased visits due to gastro-intestinal symptoms. In the Nigerian study, thermal discomfort was observed in classrooms especially in the afternoon even though most classrooms were adequately ventilated judging by indoor carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration. There was lack of functioning bathrooms in most schools studied and biological contamination of student desk was moderately high based on adenosine triphosphate (ATP) testing. It was considered important that activities that emit or produce hazardous materials are not present or near school buildings, as this will ultimately affect the IEQ of classrooms. There is a need to constantly and continuously evaluate school buildings, so that the best possible indoo r environment can be provided for students at all times.
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Keywords: BE:LMIC; BE:RELEVANT

Building and Sustaining National Educational Technology Agencies : Lessons, Models and Case Studies from Around the World - Trucano, Michael; Dykes, Gavin (World Bank Education, 2017)
National ICT/education agencies (and their functional equivalents) play important roles in the implementation and oversight of large scale initiatives related to the use of information and communication technologies in education in many countries. That said, little is known at a global level about the way these organizations operate, how they are structured, and how they typically evolve over time. Through an examination of lessons from the development and history of a set of representative ICT/education agencies in East Asia, and, to better understand East Asian experience, other countries around the work, this paper seeks to identify common challenges and issues and potential relevance to leaders of such institutions.
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A GIS Based Biophysical Analysis of the Karfi Sector in Kano River Irrigation Project, Kano State, Nigeria - Tudunwada, I.Y.; Khalifa, S.S. (Annual Conference (41st, 2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Lineament Mapping for Groundwater Exploration in Kano State, Nigeria - Tudunwada, I.Y.; Maina, M.M. (International Conference on Civil, Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Sciences (CABES, 2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

The Influences of Emotion on Learning and Memory - Tyng, Chai M; Amin, Hafeez U; Saad, Mohamad N; Malik, Aamir S (Frontiers in Psychology, 2017)
Emotion has a substantial influence on the cognitive processes in humans, including perception, attention, learning, memory, reasoning, and problem solving. Emotion has a particularly strong influence on attention, especially modulating the selectivity of attention as well as motivating action and behavior. This attentional and executive control is intimately linked to learning processes, as intrinsically limited attentional capacities are better focused on relevant information. Emotion also facilitates encoding and helps retrieval of information efficiently. However, the effects of emotion on learning and memory are not always univalent, as studies have reported that emotion either enhances or impairs learning and long-term memory (LTM) retention, depending on a range of factors. Recent neuroimaging findings have indicated that the amygdala and prefrontal cortex cooperate with the medial temporal lobe in an integrated manner that affords (i) the amygdala modulating memory consolidation; (ii) the prefrontal cortex mediating memory encoding and formation; and (iii) the hippocampus for successful learning and LTM retention. We also review the nested hierarchies of circular emotional control and cognitive regulation (bottom-up and top-down influences) within the brain to achieve optimal integration of emotional and cognitive processing. This review highlights a basic evolutionary approach to emotion to understand the effects of emotion on learning and memory and the functional roles played by various brain regions and their mutual interactions in relation to emotional processing. We also summarize the current state of knowledge on the impact of emotion on memory and map implications for educational settings. In addition to elucidating the memory-enhancing effects of emotion, neuroimaging findings extend our understanding of emotional influences on learning and memory processes; this knowledge may be useful for the design of effective educational curricula to provide a conducive learning environment for both traditional “live” learning in classrooms and “virtual” learning through online-based educational technologies.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01454 2129771:B8TFKTRZ 2486141:GTCU37PE

6 out of 10 children and adolescents are not learning a minimum in reading and math - UIS (News, Sustainable Development Goals, 2017)
New data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics show that 617 million children and adolescents worldwide are not achieving minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics. The figure signals “a learning crisis” according to the UIS, which could threaten progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....
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The world is off track in achieving the global education goal, SDG 4 - UNESCO Digital Library - UNESCO (2017)
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Unpacking Sustainable Development Goal 4: Education 2030 - UNESCO (UNESCO, 2017)
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Greening Technical and Vocational Education and Training: A Practical Guide for Institutions - UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (Germany) (UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training. UN Campus, Hermann-Ehlers-Strasse 10, 53113 Bonn, Germany. Tel: +49-228-8150-100; Fax: +49-228-8150-199; e-mail: info@unevoc.unesco.org; Web site: https://unevoc.unesco.org/go.php?q=UNEVOC%20Publications, 2017)
This "Guide" describes the macro need for [technical and vocational education and training] (TVET) reform in conformity with the Sustainable Development Goals, the Global Action Programme (GAP) on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and other United Nations, UNESCO and national initiatives. The "Guide" also provides specific practical help for institutional greening transition teams to plan and carry out the changes that are deemed necessary. It is essential that all such greening undertakings have a clear vision, are known to all those concerned, follow a strategic plan, set targets and milestones, and include a monitoring/assessment tool. The concept of shared vision and team reformation combined with the support of senior leaders is evident throughout this "Guide." A major goal is that greening will grow into an ongoing process which is eventually infused into the culture of each institution. Specifically included in this "Guide" is a rubric or framework designed for most TVET institutions. The rubric/framework is designed as both an assessment tool and a learning instrument, as it contains clear descriptions of possible goals and destinations. Since TVET institutions and programmes are so varied, these suggested assessment goals are also designed for discussion and adaptation to the specific situation on each site, while modifications are encouraged. The central theme is Greening the Institution, while also embracing the broader concept of education for sustainable development (ESD). In particular the focus is on the role of TVET in delivering a crucial element of the GAP. By having local teams of leaders, faculty, students and community experts working in concert and infusing the concepts of related educational initiatives, the institution will transition itself into an even more effective and meaningful greening agent for its graduates, its communities and all who are associated with the institution.
OCLC: 8061967730

Sierra Leone Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey - UNICEF (2017)
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

SiTan St. Lucia - UNICEF (UNICEF Office for the Eastern Caribbean Area, 2017)
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Situation Analysis of Children: Commonwealth of Dominica - UNICEF (2017)
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Situation Analysis of Children in Grenada - UNICEF (UNICEF Office for the Eastern Caribbean Area, 2017)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:WQG5N9MX 2486141:W8ECANFW

Situation Analysis of Children in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - UNICEF (UNICEF Office for the Eastern Caribbean Area, 2017)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:JREVNCGT 2486141:PAJPMM92
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

The Future of Learning and Technology in Deprived Contexts - Unwin, Tim; Weber, Mark; Brugha, Meaghan; Hollow, David (2017)

Competence and TVET Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Rwanda - van Halsema, Wybe (Competence-based Vocational and Professional Education: Bridging the Worlds of Work and Education, 2017)
In many African countries, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is considered a means to stimulate strategic economic growth. In order to render TVET more in line with market demands, governments increasingly promote the competence-based education (CBE) approach. In this chapter, the Central African country Rwanda is studied as an exemplary case for sub-Saharan Africa in how they apply CBE. Through competence-based curriculum development and teacher training, a centralised form of workforce planning is envisaged that would shape the TVET reform in the Central African country.In Rwanda, the Belgian Technical Cooperation (BTC) follows a systems approach to implement CBE in TVET. Having done so over the past 4 years, it becomes apparent that in the transitional phases of the systems, there is much ‘transitional noise’ that hampers implementation. This fact challenges the centralist view on CBE and its scope for national workforce planning. However, some positive features emerge from CBE implementation in that it stimulates practical learning and creativity in TVET.It is argued that by adapting the concept of competence to a more decentralised, intrinsic and generic form of TVET, a more capable, innovative and employable workforce can be formed. Government should thereby not just focus on formal employment but follow a diversified and inclusive approach of TVET for youth employment in all segments of the economy.
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Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:Rwanda; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:T; Competence Development; Competency Statement; Informal Sector; Master Trainer; Pilot School; T:TVET; publicImportV1

Partnering with the private sector in the post-2015 era? The main political and social implications in the educational arena - VERGER, ANTONI; MOSCHETTI, MAURO (Progressive Lab for Sustainable Development, 2017)
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Keywords: Final_citation; ⛔ No DOI found

Indoor environmental quality of classrooms and occupants' comfort in a special education school in Slovak Republic - Vilcekova, Silvia; Meciarova, Ludmila; Burdova, Eva Kridlova; Katunska, Jana; Kosicanova, Danica; Doroudiani, Saeed (Building and Environment, 2017)
Publisher: Elsevier KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2017.05.001 2129771:5ICCD2MR 4682641:FGCI6Q7C
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT

The different ways that teachers can influence the socio-emotional development of their students: A literature review - Villaseñor, Paula (2017)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Tablet-based cross-curricular maths vs. traditional maths classroom practice for higher-order learning outcomes - Volk, Marina; Cotič, Mara; Zajc, Matej; Starcic, Andreja Istenic (Computers & Education, 2017)
00006 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.compedu.2017.06.004 10/gbxdct 2129771:57LJISEK 2129771:YS7T74E8
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Putting SDG4 into practice: professional learning communities in education | Unesco IIEP Learning Portal - VVOB (VVOB, 2017)
Inclusive and equitable education provides all learners with the capabilities to become economically productive, develop sustainable livelihoods, contribute to peaceful and democratic societies, and enhance individual wellbeing. This technical brief describes how professional learning communities (PLCs) matter for quality education, as they play an important role in the professional development and motivation of teachers and school leaders. The experiences of VVOB demonstrate how reinforcing the capacities of national and local education authorities to establish and support PLCs is of crucial importance to the success of these communities.

Refugee Education: is technology the solution? - Wagner, E. (Save the Children, 2017)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Violence against children perpetrated by peers: A cross-sectional school-based survey in Uganda - Wandera, Stephen Ojiambo; Clarke, Kelly; Knight, Louise; Allen, Elizabeth; Walakira, Eddy; Namy, Sophie; Naker, Dipak; Devries, Karen (Child Abuse & Neglect, 2017)
Publisher: Elsevier

Examining the perceived impact of technology on teacher-student math discussions in early elementary classrooms - Weisel, Derek (University of California, Los Angeles, 2017)
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Keywords: _C:Canada CAN; _C:Cuba CUB; _C:Dominican Republic DOM; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Education and the electrification of rural schools - Welland, Alicia (2017)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:MVG89YRI
Keywords: Final_citation; ⛔ No DOI found

The Theoretical and Empirical Basis of Teacher Leadership: A Review of the Literature - Wenner, Julianne A.; Campbell, Todd (Review of Educational Research, 2017)
In the current review, we examined teacher leadership research completed since York-Barr and Duke published the seminal review on teacher leadership in 2004. The review was undertaken to examine how teacher leadership is defined, how teacher leaders are prepared, their impact, and those factors that facilitate or inhibit teacher leaders’ work. Beyond this, the review considered theories informing teacher leadership, teacher leadership within disciplinary contexts, and the roles of teacher leaders in social justice and equity issues. The most salient findings were (a) teacher leadership, although rarely defined, focused on roles beyond the classroom, supporting the professional learning of peers, influencing policy/decision making, and ultimately targeting student learning; (b) the research is not always theoretically grounded; (c) principals, school structures, and norms are important in empowering or marginalizing teacher leaders; and (d) very little teacher leadership research examines issues of social justice and equity.
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Israel ISR; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

The_Beginner_s_Guide_to_PEA.pdf - Whaites, A. (UKAID, 2017)
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Physical, psychological, sexual, and systemic abuse of children with disabilities in East Africa: Mapping the evidence - Winters, Niall; Langer, Laurenz; Geniets, Anne (PloS one, 2017)
Publisher: Public Library of Science San Francisco, CA USA

Mobile learning in schools: Key issues, opportunities and ideas for practice - Wishart, Jocelyn (Routledge, 2017)
EdTechHub.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:LXIQ529R
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Austria AUT; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Brunei Darussalam BRN; _C:Canada CAN; _C:China CHN; _C:Denmark DNK; _C:Finland FIN; _C:France FRA; _C:India IND; _C:Italy ITA; _C:Jamaica JAM; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Lebanon LBN; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Nepal NPL; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:New Zealand NZL; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Portugal PRT; _C:Qatar QAT; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:Slovenia SVN; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Sri Lanka LKA; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Switzerland CHE; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Thailand THA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Zambia ZMB; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Moving towards more participatory practice with Open Educational Resources (OER): TESS-India Academic Review - Wolfenden, Freda; Adinolfi, Lina; Cross, Simon; Lee, Clare; Paranjpe, Sandhya; Safford, Kimberly (The Open University, 2017)
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Keywords: C: India; _C:India IND; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

MOOC adaptation and translation to improve equity in participation - Wolfenden, Freda; Cross, Simon; Henry, Fiona (Journal of Learning for Development, 2017)
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

MOOC adaptation and translation to improve equity in participation - Wolfenden, Freda; Cross, Simon; Henry, Fiona (Journal of Learning for Development, 2017)
There is an urgent need to improve elementary and secondary school classroom practices across India and the scale of this challenge is argued to demand new approaches to teacher professional learning. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) represent one such approach and one that, in the context of this study, is considered to provide a means by which to transcend traditional training processes and disrupt conventional pedagogic practices. This paper offers a critical review of a large-scale MOOC deployed in English, and then in Hindi, to support targeted sustainable capacity building within an education development initiative (TESS-India) across seven states in India. The study draws on multiple sources of participant data to identify and examine features, which stimulated a buzz around the MOOCs, leading to over 40,000 registrations and a completion rate of approximately 50% for each of the two MOOCs.
Publisher: Commonwealth of Learning, 4710 Kingsway Suite 2500, Burnaby, BC V5H 4M2 Canada KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2534378:M4U3QCYL 2534378:SPVQ8ST8 2534378:VD62UHJM 2534378:WXPHBJ7Y
Keywords: Access to Computers; Access to Education; Attitude Measures; ERIC; Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Educational Technology; Equal Education; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; India; International Programs; Large Group Instruction; Online Courses; Partnerships in Education; Postsecondary Education; Pretests Posttests; Program Implementation; Questionnaires; Surveys; Teacher Education Programs; Teacher Educators; Technology Uses in Education; United Kingdom; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2096064; ___working_potential_duplicate; __finaldtb; ⛔ No DOI found

The Informal Apprenticeship Miracle: A Case for Mbare-Magaba Informal Industry, Zimbabwe - Wonder, M; Tenson, M (Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review, 2017)
The economic turbulences faced by Zimbabwe in the first decade of the 21st century culminated in almost total demise of the formal industry. Concomitantly, this resulted in the emergence and proliferation of the informal industry as an alternative solution. This study explored the training strategies and approaches employed in the informal manufacturing industry. The study adopted the qualitative research paradigm to collect, present and analyse data. Findings from the study point to the efficacy of the informal apprenticeship in terms of human capital development and hence this skills training approach becomes the main trajectory to economic recovery for Zimbabwe.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1353/eas.2017.0008 10/gf62z9 2129771:B2Z82EGH 2317526:6MAWR5BQ
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:Zimbabwe; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:P; CT:T; P:artist; P:manufacture; P:social; T:Lehrlingsausbildung; T:apprenticeship training; publicImportV1

Sierra Leone - Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2017 - World Bank (2017)
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Indoor temperatures in patient waiting rooms in eight rural primary health care centers in northern South Africa and the related potential risks to human health and wellbeing - Wright, Caradee Y.; Street, Renée A.; Cele, Nokulunga; Kunene, Zamantimande; Balakrishna, Yusentha; Albers, Patricia N.; Mathee, Angela (International journal of environmental research and public health, 2017)
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3390/ijerph14010043 2129771:JV24I2ME 4682641:PD7CA6SY
Keywords: BE:LMIC; BE:RELEVANT

Accelerated learning method using edmodo to increase students' mathematical connection and self-regulated learning - Yaniawati, R. Poppy; Kartasasmita, Bana G.; Kariadinata, Rahayu; Sari, Evi (Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Education and Multimedia Technology - ICEMT '17, 2017)
This study aims to analyze implementation of accelerated elearning method using edmodo media to increase mathematical connection ability and self-regulated learning of students. The research method employed was mixed method research with embedded design. Subjects of the study were eleventh grade students of a vocational secondary school in Tasikmalaya, Indonesia. Research instruments used were test for mathematical connection ability, questionnaire of students’ self-regulated learning, observation and interview guidelines. Statistical analysis were t-test, mann-whitney test, and two-way anova. results of this study showed that (1) mathematical connection abillity of high and low clasification students who studied used accelerated learning with edmodo was better than that of students who studied with conventional learning; (2) no differences were found in selfregulated learning of high and low classification students who studied used accelerated learning with edmodo was better than that of students who studied with conventional learning; (3) a positive correlation was found between mathematical connection ability and self-regulated learning students.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1145/3124116.3124128 2339240:P9KE8ZRT 4804264:BCKPGTPH
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Accelerated learning method using edmodo to increase students' mathematical connection and self-regulated learning - Yaniawati, R. Poppy; Kartasasmita, Bana G.; Kariadinata, Rahayu; Sari, Evi (Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Education and Multimedia Technology - ICEMT '17, 2017)
This study aims to analyze implementation of accelerated elearning method using edmodo media to increase mathematical connection ability and self-regulated learning of students. The research method employed was mixed method research with embedded design. Subjects of the study were eleventh grade students of a vocational secondary school in Tasikmalaya, Indonesia. Research instruments used were test for mathematical connection ability, questionnaire of students’ self-regulated learning, observation and interview guidelines. Statistical analysis were t-test, mann-whitney test, and two-way anova. results of this study showed that (1) mathematical connection abillity of high and low clasification students who studied used accelerated learning with edmodo was better than that of students who studied with conventional learning; (2) no differences were found in selfregulated learning of high and low classification students who studied used accelerated learning with edmodo was better than that of students who studied with conventional learning; (3) a positive correlation was found between mathematical connection ability and self-regulated learning students.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1145/3124116.3124128 2129771:XDURBWJH 2486141:H5R6ZU56
Keywords: _AcademicRecoveryOECS

Using Web 2.0 technologies to enhance learning and teaching - Younie, Sarah; Williams, Lawrence; Cych, Leon (Debates in Computing and ICT Education, 2017)
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Keywords: __C:filed:1

LDA*: a robust and large-scale topic modeling system - Yut, Lele; Zhang, Ce; Shao, Yingxia; Cui, Bin (Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2017)
We present LDA*, a system that has been deployed in one of the largest Internet companies to fulfil their requirements of "topic modeling as an internal service" —relying on thousands of machines, engineers in different sectors submit their data, some are as large as 1.8TB, to LDA* and get results back in hours. LDA* is motivated by the observation that none of the existing topic modeling systems is robust enough —Each of these existing systems is designed for a specific point in the tradeoff space that can be sub-optimal, sometimes by up to 10×, across workloads. Our first contribution is a systematic study of all recently proposed samplers: AliasLDA, F+LDA, LightLDA, and WarpLDA. We discovered a novel system tradeoff among these samplers. Each sampler has different sampling complexity and performs differently, sometimes by 5×, on documents with different lengths. Based on this tradeoff, we further developed a hybrid sampler that uses different samplers for different types of documents. This hybrid approach works across a wide range of workloads and outperforms the fastest sampler by up to 2x. We then focused on distributed environments in which thousands of workers, each with different performance (due to virtualization and resource sharing), coordinate to train a topic model. Our second contribution is an asymmetric parameter server architecture that pushes some computation to the parameter server side. This architecture is motivated by the skew of the word frequency distribution and a novel tradeoff we discovered between communication and computation. With this architecture, we outperform the traditional, symmetric architecture by up to 2×. With these two contributions, together with a carefully engineered implementation, our system is able to outperform existing systems by up to 10× and has already been running to provide topic modeling services for more than six months.

Dark matter in galaxies - Zasov, Anatolii Vladimirovich; Saburova, Ann S.; Khoperskov, Alexander Valentinovich; Khoperskov, Sergey A. (Physics-Uspekhi, 2017)
Publisher: IOP Publishing KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3367/UFNe.2016.03.037751 2129771:NGRHGSFA
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Bright and Early: How financing pre-primary education gives every child a fair start in life - Zubairi, Asma; Rose, Pauline (University of Cambridge, 2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Instructional coaching in Kenya: Supporting teachers to improve literacy outcomes - Zuilkowski, S.S.; Piper, B. (The Routledge international handbook on teacher quality and policy, 2017)

Тёмная материя в галактиках - Засов, Анатолий Владимирович; Сабурова, Анна Станиславовна; Хоперсков, Александр Валентинович; Хоперсков, Сергей Александрович (Успехи физических наук, 2017)
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Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

The cascade model of teachers’ continuing professional development in Kenya: A time for change? - Bett, Harry Kipkemoi (Cogent Education, 2016)
Kenya is one of the countries whose teachers the UNESCO (2015) report cited as lacking curriculum support in the classroom. As is the case in many African countries, a large portion of teachers in Kenya enter the teaching profession when inadequately prepared, while those already in the field receive insufficient support in their professional lives. The cascade model has often been utilized in the country whenever need for teachers’ continuing professional development (TCPD) has arisen, especially on a large scale. The preference for the model is due to, among others, its cost effectiveness and ability to reach out to many teachers within a short period of time. Many researchers have however cast aspersions with this model for its glaring shortcomings. On the contrary, TCPD programmes that are collaborative in nature and based on teachers’ contexts have been found to be more effective than those that are not. This paper briefly examines cases of the cascade model in Kenya, the challenges associated with this model and proposes the adoption of collaborative and institution-based models to mitigate these challenges. The education sectors in many nations in Africa, and those in the developing world will find the discussions here relevant.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/2331186x.2016.1139439 10/gfw2mk 2129771:FCRTRLM8 261495:HKLWHCSJ

Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches - Creswell, John W.; Poth, Cheryl N. (SAGE Publications, 2016)
In the revised Fourth Edition of the best-selling text, John W. Creswell and new co-author Cheryl N. Poth explore the philosophical underpinnings, history, and key elements of five qualitative inquiry approaches: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study. Preserving Creswell's signature writing style, the authors compare the approaches and relate research designs to each of the traditions of inquiry in a highly accessible manner. Featuring new content, articles, pedagogy, references, and expanded coverage of ethics throughout, the Fourth Edition is an ideal introduction to the theories, strategies, and practices of qualitative inquiry.
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Keywords: Reference / Research; Social Science / Methodology

A computational literature review of the technology acceptance model - Mortenson, Michael J.; Vidgen, Richard (International Journal of Information Management, 2016)
A literature review is a central part of any research project, allowing the existing research to be mapped and new research questions to be posited. However, due to the limitations of human data processing, the literature review can suffer from an inability to handle large volumes of research articles. The computational literature review (CLR) is proposed here as a complementary part of a wider literature review process. The CLR automates some of the analysis of research articles with analyses of impact (citations), structure (co-authorship networks) and content (topic modeling of abstracts). A contribution of the paper is to demonstrate how the content of abstracts can be analyzed automatically to provide a set of research topics within a literature corpus. The CLR software can be used to support three use cases: (1) analysis of the literature for a research area, (2) analysis and ranking of journals, and (3) analysis and ranking of individual scholars and research teams. The working of the CLR software is illustrated through application to the technology acceptance model (TAM) using a set of 3,386 articles. The CLR is an open source offering, developed in the statistical programming language R, and made freely available to researchers to use and develop further.
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Keywords: Citation analysis; Co-authorship analysis; Computational literature review; Journal ranking; Lda; Literature review; Social network analysis; Technology acceptance model; Topic models

Learning in One-to-One Laptop Environments: A Meta-Analysis and Research Synthesis - Zheng, Binbin; Warschauer, Mark; Lin, Chin-Hsi; Chang, Chi (Review of Educational Research, 2016)
Over the past decade, the number of one-to-one laptop programs in schools has steadily increased. Despite the growth of such programs, there is little consensus about whether they contribute to improved educational outcomes. This article reviews 65 journal articles and 31 doctoral dissertations published from January 2001 to May 2015 to examine the effect of one-to-one laptop programs on teaching and learning in K–12 schools. A meta-analysis of 10 studies examines the impact of laptop programs on students’ academic achievement, finding significantly positive average effect sizes in English, writing, mathematics, and science. In addition, the article summarizes the impact of laptop programs on more general teaching and learning processes and perceptions as reported in these studies, again noting generally positive findings.
Publisher: American Educational Research Association KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3102/0034654316628645 2129771:FXFNHFXU 2486141:XVLIUWZ3

From Proof of Concept to Scalable Policies: Challenges and Solutions, with an Application - Banerjee, Abhijit; Banerji, Rukmini; Berry, James; Duflo, Esther; Kannan, Harini; Mukherji, Shobhini; Shotland, Marc; Walton, Michael (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2016)
The promise of randomized controlled trials is that evidence gathered through the evaluation of a specific program helps us—possibly after several rounds of fine-tuning and multiple replications in different contexts—to inform policy. However, critics have pointed out that a potential constraint in this agenda is that results from small “proof-of-concept” studies run by nongovernment organizations may not apply to policies that can be implemented by governments on a large scale. After discussing the potential issues, this paper describes the journey from the original concept to the design and evaluation of scalable policy. We do so by evaluating a series of strategies that aim to integrate the nongovernment organization Pratham’s “Teaching at the Right Level” methodology into elementary schools in India. The methodology consists of re-organizing instruction based on children’s actual learning levels, rather than on a prescribed syllabus, and has previously been shown to be very effective when properly implemented. We present evidence from randomized controlled trials on the designs that failed to produce impacts within the regular schooling system but helped shape subsequent versions of the program. As a result of this process, two versions of the programs were developed that successfully raised children’s learning levels using scalable models in government schools. We use this example to draw general lessons about using randomized control trials to design scalable policies.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3386/w22931 4804264:827JQQX3
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Open Educational Resources Guide for Colleges of Education - Haßler, Björn (Transforming Teacher Education and Learning, Ministry of Education (Ghana), 2016)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Theme 6: Leadership for Learning (Coordinators) - Swaffield, Sue; MacBeath, J. (Transforming Teacher Education and Learning, Ministry of Education (Ghana), 2016)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Theme 6: Leadership for Learning (Tutors) - Swaffield, Sue; MacBeath, J. (Transforming Teacher Education and Learning, Ministry of Education (Ghana), 2016)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _C:Chad TCD; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Greece GRC; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:Uruguay URY; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Basic Education and Employment - Grant, Catherine (2016)
This review provides a summary of existing research on: What are the different employment outcomes and cost effectiveness differences between public vs. private basic education (primary and lower secondary) in low and middle income countries and what accounts for any difference (disaggregated by gender as appropriate)? Do either private or public education systems focus more greatly on providing students with foundation skills (literacy and numeracy skills) and does this have an impact on employment outcomes? What is the relative value for money of basic child education (primary and lower secondary) vs. programmes focusing on providing foundation skills e.g. to out of school youth, if the main benefit measure is higher skilled/waged employment? This report is not a systematic review, but aims to capture a substantial portion of the literature offering evidence on this topic, including the most important and useful papers to guide policy-making. It provides an annotated bibliography of the literature, followed by an evidence summary table assessing the literature according to DFID’s ‘strength of evidence’ guidelines
Accepted: 2017-07-06T10:47:22Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:8RCVTK3K 4869029:B9LC52CU
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Why do entrepreneurial mHealth ventures in the developing world fail to scale? - Sundin, Phillip; Callan, Jonathan; Mehta, Khanjan (Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology, 2016)
Telemedicine is an increasingly common approach to improve healthcare access in developing countries with fledgling healthcare systems. Despite the strong financial, logistical and clinical support from non-governmental organisations (NGOs), government ministries and private actors alike, the majority of telemedicine projects do not survive beyond the initial pilot phase and achieve their full potential. Based on a review of 35 entrepreneurial telemedicine and mHealth ventures, and 17 reports that analyse their operations and challenges, this article provides a narrative review of recurring failure modes, i.e. factors that lead to failure of such venture pilots. Real-world examples of successful and failed ventures are examined for key take-away messages and practical strategies for creating commercial viable telemedicine operations. A better understanding of these failure modes can inform the design of sustainable and scalable telemedicine systems that effectively address the growing healthcare disparities in developing countries.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/03091902.2016.1213901 10/gf62hx 2129771:EH22JY9T
Keywords: Telemedicine; business models; community health workers; failure modes; global health; mHealth

Teacher professional development outside the lecture room: Voices of professionally unqualified practicing teachers in rural Zimbabwe secondary schools - Mukeredzi, Tabitha Grace (Global Education Review, 2016)
Attempts to address global pressure to achieve Education for All have been hampered by two fundamental challenges in developing countries, namely an acute shortage of teachers and large rural populations in these countries. In addition there is a trend for qualified competent teachers to shun working in rural settings. While recruitment of professionally unqualified graduate teachers into the teaching profession has become internationally acclaimed to address in particular rural school postings and Education for All commitments, there remain outstanding questions regarding how such teachers professionally learn and grow in these rural contexts outside the Teacher Education Institution lecture room. An understanding of how they develop professionally is crucial. The study explored professional development experiences of professionally unqualified practicing teachers in rural secondary schools. A qualitative design was adopted and three-interview series complimented by photo elicitations were employed to explore the teachers’ professional development experiences. Data were transcribed and manually analysed inductively utilizing open coding. Findings suggest that professional development experiences for these teachers occurred in four sites: school structures, wider professional sites, planned and unplanned gatherings, and the classroom. Drawing on concepts around professional development to describe, analyse and understand data, I illustrate that professionally unqualified practicing teachers in rural secondary schools experience professional development outside Teacher Education Institutions in interaction, through domains of formality and experience: non formal, informal and experiential.
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Improving literacy and math instruction at scale in India’s primary schools: The case of Pratham’s Read India program - Banerji, Rukmini; Chavan, Madhav (Journal of Educational Change, 2016)
Pratham’s “Read India” initiative is a large-scale intervention to improve basic learning and arithmetic among children in primary school. It was started almost 10 years ago and has evolved considerably over time. Currently, this initiative uses two strategies. The first strategy is to work directly with village communities and local schools to improve children’s learning. “Learning camps” are organized in the local school or community for a period of 6–10 days at a time. Local village volunteers help to teach children who are organized in groups by their level of learning. These camps—intensive bursts of focused instruction—are repeated several times during the year. This model which has been rigourously evaluated shows that children’s learning levels improve significantly. The second strategy is to work with the government. This approach is used when school systems want to partner or collaborate with Pratham for improving basic learning. The key element here too is grouping children and teaching them from their level rather than by their grade. This approach also shows promising results. Independent evaluations and randomized control trials conducted on both models have indicated significant impact. Moving between the present set of conditions in India and past lessons, this case describes a decade-long journey of efforts to change teaching and learning at the ground level as well the efforts to bring about significant shifts in priority at the system level. The “Read India” case presented here contributes knowledge on strategies under which effective pedagogy can be brought to scale. It also discusses challenges of transforming instructional change in a context of low initial capacity at the school and system levels, where attention to rapid expansion of access to school had kept aside for a long time critical questions about teaching quality and learning outcomes. A second contribution of “Read India” to current knowledge on large-scale educational change relates to the role non-government actors such as Pratham can play in bringing effective pedagogy to scale to improve student learning.
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“Together we are better”: Professional learning networks for teachers - Trust, Torrey; Krutka, Daniel G.; Carpenter, Jeffrey Paul (Computers & Education, 2016)
In recent years, many educators have turned to professional learning networks (PLNs) to grow in their craft with peers who are more accessible online because of reduced temporal and spatial constraints. While educators have cultivated PLNs, there is a dearth of research about the effects of PLNs. This manuscript reports the findings of a qualitative study that investigated PLN experiences through the analysis of survey data from 732 P-12 teachers. Data analysis suggests that the anytime, anywhere availability of expansive PLNs, and their capacity to respond to educators’ diverse interests and needs, appear to offer possibilities for supporting the professional growth of whole teachers. These findings have implications for defining the present and future of teacher learning in a digital age.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.compedu.2016.06.007 4804264:CUPLKNAP
Keywords: Computer-mediated communication; Final_citation; Learning communities; Lifelong learning; PLN; Professional development; existing

Evidence on formative classroom assessment for learning - Browne, Evie (2016)
This light-touch review of literature on classroom assessments (CA) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and South Asia finds that they are rarely implemented effectively. It is extremely common to find references to CA in policy documents but find that teachers do not use CA in the classroom. Sometimes this is because there is little institutional support for CA, few example materials, and no training, and sometimes this is because teachers do not understand or see the purpose of CA and continue to teach in a top-down manner. Most schooling systems in developing countries have a crippling emphasis on summative exams, and teachers often end up ‘teaching to the test’ whether they want to or not. Parental pressure plays some part in teaching styles, as teachers are under pressure to show parents that they are preparing their children to pass important exams which open the door to the next level of education. Teacher training chronically underprepares teachers for CA; in some cases not giving any training and in others only explaining how to fill in the government-mandated forms. On the other hand, there are examples in the literature of teachers intuitively using CA methods such as questioning, observation and homework, but not naming it as CA.
Accepted: 2017-09-15T15:28:03Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:FR9W3CQK 4869029:BCN3YZRU
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

School-Related Violence - Thompson, Stephen (2016)
Violence against children is a global problem. It includes physical violence, psychological violence such as insults and humiliation, discrimination, neglect and maltreatment. It has short- and long-term repercussions that are often grave and damaging for children (Pinheiro 2006). Bullying, gender-based violence, accidental violence, discrimination and violence, sexual assault or harassment, physical violence and psychological violence, describe some of the most prevalent forms of school-based violence (South African Human Rights Commission 2006). The evidence base on school-related violence must be improved to inform policies (Antonowicz 2010). To assess the evidence that does exist, this helpdesk report presents a non-systematic review of the evidence on school-related violence. It is based on the evidence found through a rapid internet search and through consultation with experts in this field. The report is broken down into four sections: reducing and preventing school-related violence; safe, inclusive and violence-free schools; cyber bullying; and school-related gender-based violence. It is recognised that the topic of school-related violence is complex and multifaceted. While this report aims to offer a useful synthesis of the evidence available, as well as relevant case studies and policy recommendations, it only scratches the surface of a very large and pressing global problem.
Accepted: 2017-10-06T13:57:06Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:DQUS7CJ4 4869029:ERSGE67L
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Social media research: The application of supervised machine learning in organizational communication research. - van Zoonen, Ward; van der Meer, G. L. A., Toni (Computers in Human Behavior, 2016)
Despite the online availability of data, analysis of this information in academic research is arduous. This article explores the application of supervised machine learning (SML) to overcome challenges associated with online data analysis. In SML classifiers are used to categorize and code binary data. Based on a case study of Dutch employees’ work-related tweets, this paper compares the coding performance of three classifiers, Linear Support Vector Machine, Naïve Bayes, and logistic regression. The performance of these classifiers is assessed by examining accuracy, precision, recall, the area under the precision-recall curve, and Krippendorf’s Alpha. These indices are obtained by comparing the coding decisions of the classifier to manual coding decisions. The findings indicate that the Linear Support Vector Machine and Naïve Bayes classifiers outperform the logistic regression classifier. This study also compared the performance of these classifiers based on stratified random samples and random samples of training data. The findings indicate that in smaller training sets stratified random training samples perform better than random training samples, in large training sets (n = 4000) random samples yield better results. Finally, the Linear Support Vector Machine classifier was trained with 4000 tweets and subsequently used to categorize 578,581 tweets obtained from 430 employees.
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Keywords: Communication research; Content analysis; Supervised machine learning; Twitter

Mathematics education in Sub-Saharan Africa : status, challenges, and opportunities - World Bank (The World Bank, 2016)
This study on Assessment of mathematics education in Sub Saharan African countries is in support of the efforts to improve mathematics education in the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The study is in response to a growing recognition that countries in SSA will need to boost performance in the Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects if they are to realize their full potential in a competitive global market increasingly shaped by the use of new technologies. Chapter 1 of this report lists the constituent countries of SSA and describes the study’s research questions and methods. Chapter 2 explores the economic and social arguments for making the improvement of mathematics education in the region a priority. Chapter 3 presents evidence as to current levels of numeracy and mathematical competence in the countries of SSA from a wide range of assessments. Chapter 4 looks at factors which have the potential to raise mathematical achievement indirectly by improving the quality of schooling in general. Chapter 5 considers the effectiveness of various interventions targeted specifically at improving mathematical outcomes. Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 are dedicated to issues concerning the capacities of serving teachers of mathematics and the pre-service training arrangements for those preparing to teach mathematics in schools. Chapter 8 describes assessment practices and their potential roles in improving learning outcomes. Chapter 9 gives an overview of a range of more recent initiatives designed to improve mathematics education both in SSA and beyond. Chapter 10 summarizes the study’s main findings and sets out some suggestions for overcoming barriers to progress. Finally, Appendix A sets out the findings of the in-country surveys.
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Mainstreaming an Effective Intervention: Evidence from Randomized Evaluations of “Teaching at the Right Level” in India - Banerjee, Abhijit; Banerji, Rukmini; Berry, James; Duflo, Esther; Kannan, Harini; Mukherji, Shobhini; Shotland, Marc; Walton, Michael (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2016)
Previous randomized studies have shown that addressing children’s current learning gaps, rather than following an over-ambitious uniform curriculum, can lead to significant learning gains. In this study, we evaluate a series of efforts to scale up the NGO Pratham’s approach to teaching children according to their actual learning level, in four Indian States. While this approach was previously shown to be extremely effective when implemented with community volunteers outside of school, the objective of these new scale-up evaluations was to develop a model that could be implemented within the government school system. In the first two instances (Bihar and Uttarakhand), the methodology was not adopted by government schoolteachers, despite well-received training sessions and Pratham support. Motivated by the quantitative and qualitative analysis of these early attempts, we adapted the approach and designed large-scale experiments in the states of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to test two new scale-up models. In Haryana, teachers received support from government resource persons trained by Pratham, and implemented the approach during a dedicated hour. In Uttar Pradesh, Pratham volunteers implemented high-intensity, short-burst “learning camps” for 40 days, in school and during school hours, with additional 10-day summer camps. Both models proved effective, with gains in language of 0.15 standard deviation in Haryana, and 0.70 standard deviations in Uttar Pradesh, on all students enrolled in these schools at baseline. These two models provide blueprints that can be replicated inside other government systems.
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Keywords: C:India; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:India IND; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Nepal NPL; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Theme 5: Teaching and learning materials (Coordinators) - Haßler, Björn (Transforming Teacher Education and Learning, Ministry of Education (Ghana), 2016)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Theme 5: Teaching and Learning Materials (Tutors) - Haßler, Björn (Transforming Teacher Education and Learning, Ministry of Education (Ghana), 2016)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

ABRA: Online Reading Support. Evaluation Report and Executive Summary - McNally, Sandra; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer; Rolfe, Heather (Education Endowment Foundation, 2016)
Abracadabra (ABRA) is a 20-week online literacy program composed of phonic fluency and comprehension activities based around a series of age-appropriate texts. Four 15-minute sessions per week are delivered by a teaching assistant (TA) to groups of three to five pupils. This report summarizes the findings of a randomized controlled trial assessing the impact of ABRA on literacy outcomes for Year 1 pupils. The trial also assesses the impact of an offline, paper and pencil version of the same intervention (referred to here at "the non-Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) intervention"). There were 51 participating schools and 2,241 pupils at randomization, and a total of 48 schools and 1,884 pupils were included in the final analysis (84% of the initial pupils at randomization). The trial took place between October 2014 and May 2015. Fifty-one schools were randomly assigned to either receive some version of the intervention or to act as a "control" school delivering business as usual. In the schools receiving the intervention, pupils were randomized to receive one of the following options: (1) ABRA, (2) the non-ICT intervention, and (3) standard literacy provision. The process evaluation involved observing sessions to understand a variety of factors in the intervention. These included an evaluation of which elements contributed to successful implementation, the perceptions and experiences of TAs and project leads, levels of pupil engagement, and the mechanisms behind the estimated impacts. This was an efficacy study, due to the involvement of the developer in the delivery of the program. Key conclusions of this report are: (1) The children who received ABRA, or its offline alternative were found to make two and three months' progress in literacy respectively compared to the children who received standard provision. This positive result would be unlikely to occur by chance; (2) For both ABRA and the offline alternative, the impact for children eligible for free school meals and children with below average pre-test outcomes was larger than for all pupils; (3) Successful implementation contributed to a well-designed and delivered training program which emphasized fidelity and consistency, enforced by ongoing support from the project team; (4) The process evaluation found that both the ICT and non-ICT interventions may be best delivered in groups of similar rather than mixed ability. The process evaluation also suggested minor changes to the intervention to make it more culturally relevant to British pupils, and to remove some repetition in the non-ICT program; and (5) Future research will examine whether ABRA or the non-ICT intervention can be successfully delivered at scale, and will look at longer-term impacts through assessing Key Stage 1 data from this trial.
Publication Title: Education Endowment Foundation ERIC Number: ED581099 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:YVVDH5N2 2486141:3IXCDD64
Keywords: Comparative Analysis; Diagnostic Tests; Educational Technology; Elementary School Students; Foreign Countries; Intervention; Literacy Education; Low Income Groups; Online Courses; Phonics; Pretests Posttests; Program Effectiveness; Program Evaluation; Randomized Controlled Trials; Reading Programs; Reading Tests; Small Group Instruction; Student Characteristics; Technology Uses in Education

Análise de programas estruturadores de saúde do Estado de Minas Gerais por meio de indicadores finalísticos - Santos, Geovana Maria Carmo; Silveira, Mauro César; Oliveira, Andre Correa de (Revista do Serviço Público, 2016)
O presente artigo visa analisar a relação entre o gasto nos programas estruturadores da área de saúde, do Governo de Minas Gerais, com os indicadores finalísticos da referida área, entre os anos de 2004 a 2013. Este estudo justifica-se pela possibilidade de se sinalizar a efetividade da alocação de recursos orçamentários, no âmbito da saúde, em face do modelo de Gestão para Resultados adotado pelo governo do estado. Os resultados encontrados sugerem uma forte correlação entre as variáveis, a despeito de três correlações consideradas não significativas, pelos cálculos estatísticos, e de uma das correlações que sinalizou uma relação contrária ao esperado. A análise de regressão confirmou a relação linear entre as variáveis, para os casos que se comportaram conforme a hipótese deste trabalho. A partir das entrevistas realizadas com dois gestores estaduais, apreende-se que, embora os indicadores não influam diretamente sobre a alocação de recursos, estes orientam o processo de implementação das políticas, sob uma perspectiva de priorização, e consistem, também, em importantes mecanismos para aperfeiçoamento do processo de gestão.
Number: 3 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.21874/rsp.v67i3.713 2129771:MEJYRJEW
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

Training Teachers on the Job: What Works and How to Measure It - Popova, Anna; Evans, David K.; Arancibia, Violeta (World Bank, 2016)
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Keywords: C:Low- and middle-income countries; _genre:LR-literature_review

Cost efficiency: teacher professional development (International Rescue Committee (IRC), 2016)
This brief explores the relative costs of running these different professional development activities across nine programs in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Pakistan.
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy - O'Neil, Cathy (Penguin UK, 2016)
'A manual for the 21st-century citizen... accessible, refreshingly critical, relevant and urgent' - Financial Times 'Fascinating and deeply disturbing' - Yuval Noah Harari, Guardian Books of the Year In this New York Times bestseller, Cathy O'Neil, one of the first champions of algorithmic accountability, sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life – and threaten to rip apart our social fabric.We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives - where we go to school, whether we get a loan, how much we pay for insurance - are being made not by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: everyone is judged according to the same rules, and bias is eliminated. And yet, as Cathy O'Neil reveals in this urgent and necessary book, the opposite is true. The models being used today are opaque, unregulated, and incontestable, even when they're wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination. Tracing the arc of a person's life, O'Neil exposes the black box models that shape our future, both as individuals and as a society. These "weapons of math destruction" score teachers and students, sort CVs, grant or deny loans, evaluate workers, target voters, and monitor our health. O'Neil calls on modellers to take more responsibility for their algorithms and on policy makers to regulate their use. But in the end, it's up to us to become more savvy about the models that govern our lives. This important book empowers us to ask the tough questions, uncover the truth, and demand change.
Google-Books-ID: 60n0DAAAQBAJ
Keywords: Business & Economics / Statistics; Computers / Artificial Intelligence / General; Computers / Programming / Algorithms; Mathematics / General; Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy; Political Science / Political Ideologies / General; Science / General; Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects; Technology & Engineering / Social Aspects

Hybrid online/offline mobile solutions for accessing open educational resources in areas with poor internet connectivity - D.L. Pugoy, Reinald Adrian; D.L. Habito, Consuelo; B. Figueroa, Roberto (Asian Association of Open Universities Journal, 2016)
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Keywords: __C:filed:1

Does private schooling narrow wealth inequalities in learning outcomes? Evidence from East Africa - Alcott, Benjamin; Rose, Pauline (Oxford Review of Education, 2016)
In many low- and lower-middle-income countries, private schools are often considered to offer better quality of education than government schools. Yet, there is a lack of evidence to date on their role in reducing inequalities: namely, the extent to which private schooling improves learning among the most disadvantaged children. Our paper uses household survey data from Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda to identify whether any observed impact of private schooling on core literacy and numeracy skills differs according to children’s household wealth. We demonstrate wealth gaps in access to private schooling, and use inferential models to account for observable differences between those who do and do not enrol in private schools. In Kenya and Uganda, we find that private schooling appears to improve the chances of children learning relative to their peers in government schools, but the chances of the poorest children learning in private schools remains low and is at best equivalent to the richest learning in government schools. In Tanzania, private schooling does not seem to improve poorer children’s learning, whereas it does for richer children. These findings raise a caution about the extent to which private provision can help narrow learning inequalities.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/03054985.2016.1215611 10/gftss4 2129771:UZMRHVBW 261495:Q3BWUMWN

Teacher assistant support and deployment in mainstream schools - Butt, Rosemary (International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2016)
Models of support for students with disability and learning difficulties in mainstream classes in Australia rely extensively on teacher assistants (TAs). Current models, however, inadvertently perpetuate low expectations because providing TA support can be one of the most restrictive supports offered in a school [Giangreco, M. F. 2010a. “One-to-One Paraprofessionals for Students with Disabilities in Inclusive Classrooms: Is Conventional Wisdom Wrong?” Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 48 (1): 1–13; Etscheidt, S. 2005. “Paraprofessional Services for Students with Disabilities: A Legal Analysis of Issues.” Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities 30(2): 60–80]. In addition, the increasing instructional role of TAs in the classroom is concerning. Negative outcomes for students where TAs provide support have been noted [Giangreco, M. F., J. C. Suter, and M. B. Doyle. 2010. “Paraprofessionals in Inclusive Schools: A Review of Recent Research.” Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation 20: 41–57; Webster, R., P. Blatchford, and A. Russell. 2010. “Should Teaching Assistants Have a Pedagogical Role? Lessons Following the DISS Project.” Paper Presented at the BERA annual conference, September 1–4, University of Warwick, UK]. A qualitative case study was conducted in an Australia city over three years across four primary school sites to identify the issues and propose possible solutions. The study identified five different models of TA support and deployment. It was found support models used in mainstream schools were generally inequitable – if students did not have a disability or learning difficulty they received instruction primarily from a qualified teacher, but if students had a disability or learning difficulty, they received instruction from a TA who may have had no qualifications, no involvement in planning, limited supervision and unclear reporting; and no clear duty statement requirements. A more inclusive and more equitable model of TA support is discussed.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2016.1145260
Keywords: Teacher assistant; deployment; inclusive education; mainstream; support

Blended Learning Approach to Develop the Teachers’ TPACK - Qasem, Arwa Ahmad Abdo; Viswanathappa, Gandla (Contemporary Educational Technology, 2016)
A theoretical framework has emerged recently to guide research in the teachers’ use of ICT and it is the technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK). Early research indicates that Blended learning is increasingly being adopted at all levels of educational system. It is considered as a way to foster engaging in interactive learning experiences. The purpose of this article was to determine the levels of ICT knowledge on e-course design through blended learning approach among science teachers of secondary schools in Yemen. The study was conducted on the sample of 60 science teacher trainees in Ibb city. The ICT knowledge scale was used based on TPACK. To analyze the data t-test was used. The findings in this study indicated that TPACK has provided a valuable tool for assessing teacher knowledge in the area of technology integration, the teachers’ ICT knowledge was above average in two groups, and there is significant difference between experimental and control groups on ICT knowledge scale. Recommendations are made for future research on online collaboration activities to raise awareness of factors related to online group work and to determine the in-service training needs of teachers on ICT use to follow-up support and to ensure successful utilization of new technologies.
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Keywords: Blended Learning; Computer Assisted Instruction; Control Groups; ERIC; Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Experimental Groups; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Information Technology; Instructional Design; Instructional Effectiveness; Knowledge Level; Likert Scales; Online Courses; Pedagogical Content Knowledge; Postsecondary Education; Preservice Teachers; Pretests Posttests; Quasiexperimental Design; Science Teachers; Secondary Education; Secondary School Teachers; Technological Literacy; Technology Uses in Education; Trainees; Yemen; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2096173; __finaldtb

revised from 2014). USAID/ Kenya Primary Math and Reading (PRIMR) Initiative: Endline impact evaluation – revised edition. Prepared under the USAID EdData II - Piper, B.; King, S.; Mugenda, A. (2016)
Place: Research Triangle Park, NC Publisher: RTI International
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

The impacts of professional learning communities on science teachers’ knowledge, practice and student learning: a review - Dogan, Selcuk; Pringle, Rose; Mesa, Jennifer (Professional Development in Education, 2016)
The purpose of this article is to provide a review of empirical studies investigating the impact of professional learning communities (PLCs) on science teachers’ practices and knowledge. Across 14 articles that satisfied the definition we embraced, most were devoted to the change in science teaching practices, disciplinary content knowledge (DCK) and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of K–12 science teachers. Although a small number of studies have implicit focus on comparing measures of student learning, we set out to examine the studies in science education and present how teachers engaged in PLCs focusing on examining and exploring strategies to promote student learning. Analysis of the related studies resulted in the following: PLCs can help teachers increase their PCK and DCK; increases in PCK and DCK may facilitate the change in teacher practices from traditional into more inquiry-based approaches; science teachers collaboratively focusing on student learning in PLCs are more likely to change their practice; and studies do not embrace student learning as an essential feature of PLCs. Methodological flaws and future directions along with implications for science teachers’ professional development are discussed.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/19415257.2015.1065899
Keywords: professional development; professional learning communities; science education; teacher knowledge; teacher practice

What Really Works to Improve Learning in Developing Countries? An Analysis of Divergent Findings in Systematic Reviews - Evans, David K.; Popova, Anna (The World Bank Research Observer, 2016)
Over the course of just two years, at least six reviews have examined interventions that seek to improve learning outcomes in developing countries. Although the reviews ostensibly have the same objective, they reach sometimes starkly different conclusions. The first objective of this paper is to identify why reviews diverge in their conclusions and how future reviews can be more effective. The second objective is to identify areas of overlap in the recommendations of existing reviews of what works to improve learning. This paper demonstrates that divergence in the recommendations of learning reviews is largely driven by differences in the samples of research incorporated in each review. Of 229 studies with student learning results, the most inclusive review incorporates less than half of the total studies. Across the reviews, two classes of programs are recommended with some consistency. Pedagogical interventions that tailor teaching to student learning levels—either teacher-led or facilitated by adaptive learning software—are effective at improving student test scores, as are individualized, repeated teacher training interventions often associated with a specific task or tool. Future reviews will be most useful if they combine narrative review with meta-analysis, conduct more exhaustive searches, and maintain low aggregation of intervention categories.
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The Obstacles of Geographical Information System (GIS) Development: A Study of Teachers' Distribution in Sukabumi, Indonesia - Yani, Ahmad; Rosita, Rosita (Atlantis Press, 2016)
Geographical Information System (GIS) is an application used to process data in form of thematic maps which is arranged overlapping to produce informations needed by the user. Employing descriptive method, this study indicated that basically the GIS deve
ISSN: 2352-5428
Keywords: Lebanon_event_2021; _C:Indonesia IDN; _C:Kenya KEN; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Empowering Global Citizens: A World Course - Reimers, Fernando M.; Chopra, Vidur; Chung, Connie K.; Higdon, Julia; O'Donnell, E. B. (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016)
How do we help students work effectively with others from diverse cultural backgrounds? How do we help them understand the world? How do we prepare them for work and life in an era of globalization, volatility, and uncertainty? Empowering Global Citizens offers educators and parents compelling answers to those questions.This book presents The World Course, a curriculum on global citizenship education designed to equip students with the competencies they need to thrive and contribute to sustainable development in an era of globalization. Drawing on curriculum mapping this book offers a coherent and rigorous set of instructional units to support deep learning of twenty-first-century competencies that develop agency, imagination, confidence, and the skills to navigate the complexity of our times. Drawing on a rich conceptual framework of global education, The World Course scaffolds the development of global competency drawing on project-based learning and other pedagogies that support personalization. The course expands children’s horizons, helping them understand the world in which they live in all its complexity from kindergarten to high school. This is done through learning activities at the zone for proximal development for each age group, with activities that foster student agency and a growth mindset.

Automatic Teacher Modeling from Live Classroom Audio - Donnelly, Patrick J.; Blanchard, Nathan; Samei, Borhan; Olney, Andrew M.; Sun, Xiaoyi; Ward, Brooke; Kelly, Sean; Nystran, Martin; D'Mello, Sidney K. (Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on User Modeling Adaptation and Personalization, 2016)
We investigate automatic analysis of teachers' instructional strategies from audio recordings collected in live classrooms. We collected a data set of teacher audio and human-coded instructional activities (e.g., lecture, question and answer, group work) in 76 middle school literature, language arts, and civics classes from eleven teachers across six schools. We automatically segment teacher audio to analyze speech vs. rest patterns, generate automatic transcripts of the teachers' speech to extract natural language features, and compute low-level acoustic features. We train supervised machine learning models to identify occurrences of five key instructional segments (Question & Answer, Procedures and Directions, Supervised Seatwork, Small Group Work, and Lecture) that collectively comprise 76% of the data. Models are validated independently of teacher in order to increase generalizability to new teachers from the same sample. We were able to identify the five instructional segments above chance levels with F1 scores ranging from 0.64 to 0.78. We discuss key findings in the context of teacher modeling for formative assessment and professional development.
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Keywords: _C:Canada CAN; _C:Congo; Republic COG; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; automatic feedback; classroom discourse; dialogic instruction; educational data mining; speech recognition

Minding our language: why education and technology is full of bull**** … and what might be done about it - Selwyn, Neil (Learning, Media and Technology, 2016)
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Assessment For Learning Without Limits - Peacock, Alison (Open University Press, 2016)
This book explores assessment practices that offer an enlightening and enabling view of all learners. Following the demise of national curriculum levels the book embraces a unique opportunity to change how children are assessed. Rather than simply replacing the old structure with a new one it focuses instead on enabling children to learn in meaningful ways so that assessment becomes a tool for improvement rather than judgment. Building on two influential research studies Learning without Limits (Hart et al 2004) and Creating Learning without Limits (Swann et al 2012) the book continues the story of an alternative ‘learning without limits’ pedagogy. Inspired by a relentless focus on every child’s capacity to learn the book explores what can be achieved when we remove limits on learning. School leaders and teachers struggling against practices that seeks to define label and rank explore the opportunity to view assessment reform as a means of reducing inequity through ‘learning without limits’ principles of collaboration professional learning and inquiry. Children share their views and offer powerful insights into what may be achieved when limits are lifted on their learning. Consequently a liberating and alternative view of assessment is presented achieved through children and adults working in partnership. Throughout the book practical examples are offered illustrated by real life stories often about children who have achieved more than their teachers thought possible.At a time when schools are in pursuit of new assessment practices and reporting of progress the insights in this book about what is possible are highly pertinent for individual teachers school leaders and teacher educators wondering how best to foster children’s learning capacity.

Does technology improve reading outcomes? Comparing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of ICT interventions for early grade reading in Kenya - Piper, Benjamin; Zuilkowski, Stephanie Simmons; Kwayumba, Dunston; Strigel, Carmen (International Journal of Educational Development, 2016)
Education policymakers are investing in information and communications technology (ICT) without a research base on how ICT improves outcomes. There is limited research on the effects of different types of ICT investments on outcomes. The Kenya Primary Math and Reading (PRIMR) study implemented a randomized controlled trial comparing the effects and cost of three interventions – e-readers for students, tablets for teachers, and the base PRIMR program with tablets for instructional supervisors. The results show that the ICT investments do not improve literacy outcomes significantly more than the base non-ICT instructional program. Our findings show that cost considerations should be paramount in selecting ICT investments in the education sector.
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Keywords: Education policy; International education; Kenya; Literacy; Reading; Technology; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2457283; ___working_potential_duplicate; __finaldtb

RAMESES II reporting standards for realist evaluations - Wong, Geoff; Westhorp, Gill; Manzano, Ana; Greenhalgh, Joanne; Jagosh, Justin; Greenhalgh, Trish (BMC Medicine, 2016)
Realist evaluation is increasingly used in health services and other fields of research and evaluation. No previous standards exist for reporting realist evaluations. This standard was developed as part of the RAMESES II project. The project’s aim is to produce initial reporting standards for realist evaluations.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1186/s12916-016-0643-1 2129771:NMZQ4N2F
Keywords: Delphi approach; Realist evaluation; Reporting guidelines

Evidence for digital learning - Haßler, Björn (2016)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Education in Emergencies Endline Evaluation Report – Sierra Leone - Sankoh, Didan; Cowan, Emma (Girls' Education Challenge, UK Aid, 2016)
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Design Based Implementation Research (DBIR) for Sustaining Innovation in Classroom Instruction - Ubaidullah, Aysha (2016)
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DESIGN BASED IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH (DBIR) FOR SUSTAINING INNOVATION IN CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION - Ubaidullah, Aysha (2016)
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Building a Better Mousetrap: How Design-Based Research was Used to Improve Homemade PowerPoint Games - Siko, Jason; Barbour, Michael (TechTrends, 2016)
This paper is a review of a three-cycle, design-based research study that explored the relationship between the pedagogical research and the actual implementation of a game design project using Microsoft PowerPoint. Much of the initial literature on using homemade PowerPoint games showed no significant improvement in test scores when students created these low-tech games, despite the fact that the game project was grounded in sound pedagogical strategies. After each iteration changes were made to better reflect the recommendations from the literature, and at the end of the study, students creating games were performing statistically higher on tests than their counterparts who did not create games. Limitations of the study are discussed, as well as ideas for future research in the area of student-generated games as an instructional approach. Retrieved from http://rdcu.be/ne9S
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Democracy on the Move? The Potential Link Between Circular Migration and Democratization - Rother, Stefan (2016)
This chapter argues that circular migration may contribute to transformation in areas that have so far been rarely touched upon in the debate. Besides the transfer of financial remittances and professional skills, political and (un)democratic attitudes and practices may also be diffused through temporary or circular migration. Based on a survey among 1000 Philippine return migrants from six destinations and qualitative research, this chapter shows that at an individual level, the migration experience may have a positive or negative influence on the democratic attitudes of migrants. This effect might be enforced through circular migration, because it provides the migrant with a regular “reality check” in comparing home and destination country. The findings are discussed with reference to a clearly democratic country (Japan), a clearly authoritarian state (Saudi Arabia) and the “special case” of Hong Kong. For policy makers, the case studies allow to draw a conclusion that opens up new vistas: If circular migrants should contribute to the development in their home countries, it is of utmost importance to provide them with opportunities for organizing and political participation while being abroad.
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The effectiveness of self-regulated learning scaffolds on academic performance in computer-based learning environments: a meta-analysis - Zheng, Lanqin (Asia Pacific Education Review, 2016)
This meta-analysis examined research on the effects of self-regulated learning scaffolds on academic performance in computer-based learning environments from 2004 to 2015. A total of 29 articles met inclusion criteria and were included in the final analysis with a total sample size of 2648 students. Moderator analyses were performed using a random effects model that focused on the three main areas of scaffold characteristics (including the mechanism, functions, delivery forms, mode, and number of scaffolds; how to promote self-regulated learning by scaffolds); demographics of the selected studies (including sample groups, sample size, learning domain, research settings, and types of computer-based learning environments); and research methodological features (including research methods, types of research design, types of organization for treatment, and duration of treatment). Findings revealed that self-regulated learning scaffolds in computer-based learning environments generally produced a significantly positive effect on academic performance (ES = 0.438). It is also suggested that both domain-general and domain-specific scaffolds can support the entire process of self-regulated learning since they demonstrated substantial effects on academic performance. Different impacts of various studies and their methodological features are presented and discussed.
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Keywords: Academic performance; Meta-analysis; Scaffold; Self-regulated learning

Students’ Perceived Heat-Health Symptoms Increased with Warmer Classroom Temperatures - Bidassey-Manilal, Shalin; Wright, Caradee Y.; Engelbrecht, Jacobus C.; Albers, Patricia N.; Garland, Rebecca M.; Matooane, Mamopeli (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2016)
Temperatures in Africa are expected to increase by the end of the century. Heat-related health impacts and perceived health symptoms are potentially a problem, especially in public schools with limited resources. Students (n = 252) aged ~14–18 years from eight high schools completed an hourly heat-health symptom log over 5 days. Data loggers measured indoor classroom temperatures. A high proportion of students felt tired (97.2%), had low concentration (96.8%) and felt sleepy (94.1%) during at least one hour on any day. There were statistically significant correlations, when controlling for school cluster effect and time of day, between indoor temperatures ≥32 °C and students who felt tired and found it hard to breathe. Consistently higher indoor classroom temperatures were observed in classrooms constructed of prefabricated asbestos sheeting with corrugated iron roof and converted shipping container compared to brick classrooms. Longitudinal studies in multiple seasons and different classroom building types are needed.
Number: 6 Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3390/ijerph13060566 2129771:FL8M9WN7 4682641:JTKBLJKU
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; BE:temperature; South Africa; climate change; health; school; temperature

Does Teaching Experience Increase Teacher Effectiveness? A Review of the Research - Kini, Tara; Podolsky, Anne (Learning Policy Institute, 2016)
Do teachers continue to improve in their effectiveness as they gain experience in the teaching profession? This paper aims to answer that question by critically reviewing recent literature that analyzes the effect of teaching experience on student outcomes in K-12 public schools in the United States. This report reviews 30 studies published within the last 15 years that analyze the effect of teaching experience on student outcomes in the United States. The goal of this paper is to provide researchers and policymakers with a comprehensive and timely review of this body of work. A renewed look at this research is warranted due to advances in research methods (including the use of teacher and student fixed effects) and data systems that have allowed researchers to more accurately answer this question. Specifically, by including teacher fixed effects in their analyses, researchers have been able to compare a teacher with multiple years of experience to that same teacher when he or she had fewer years of experience. In contrast, older studies often used less precise methods, such as cross-sectional analyses, which compare distinct cohorts of teachers with different experience levels during a single school year. [For the research brief to this report "Does Teaching Experience Increase Teacher Effectiveness? A Review of the Research. Research Brief," see ED606427.]
ISSN: ISSN- Publication Title: Learning Policy Institute
Keywords: Achievement Gains; At Risk Students; Attendance; Collegiality; Correlation; Educational Legislation; Educational Policy; Elementary Secondary Education; Ethnicity; Federal Legislation; Gender Differences; Mathematics Achievement; Peer Influence; Public School Teachers; Racial Differences; Reading Achievement; Socioeconomic Status; Student Characteristics; Teacher Distribution; Teacher Effectiveness; Teaching Conditions; Teaching Experience; _C:India IND; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Student Support Services in the OECS - Knight, Verna; Robinson, Sandra (The Education Development Management Unit (EDMU), OECS Commission, 2016)
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The Impact of Information Provision on Human Capital Accumulation and Child Labor in Peru - IPA (Innovations for Poverty Action, 2016)
One reason children from disadvantaged backgrounds receive less schooling and join the labor force at younger ages with fewer skills may be that they and their families lack crucial information needed to make the right long run investment decisions regarding their human capital. In Peru, IPA and J-PAL worked with researchers and the Ministry of Education to evaluate at scale two low-cost ways of providing relevant information to help students and their families make more informed decisions. Using a series of telenovela-style videos screened as part of the curriculum in schools as well as through an interactive tablet app, the research project evaluated how information provided at different ages could shape human capital decisions. Results suggest that the programs were effective at changing educational plans and lowering dropout rates, while significant effects on child labor were mixed. The policy has now been adopted by the government and scaled up to 100 percent of public schools with full class days.
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Communication in Sierra Leone: an Analysis of Media and Mobile Resources - Wittels, Annabelle; Maybanks, Nick (BBC Media Action, 2016)
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Education for All 2000–2015: The Influence of Global Interventions and Aid on EFA Achievements - Benavot, Aaron; Antoninis, Manos; Bella, Nicole; Delprato, Marcos; Härmä, Joanna; Jere, Catherine; Joshi, Priyadarshani; Blanchy, Nihan Koseleci; Longlands, Helen; McWilliam, Alasdair; Zubairi, Asma (The Handbook of Global Education Policy, 2016)

Teachers’ Professional Capabilities and the Pursuit of Quality in Sub-Saharan African Education Systems: Demonstrating and Debating a Method of Capability Selection and Analysis - Buckler, Alison (Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2016)
This paper reports on the methodological approach of a study that examined an important dimension of the global challenge to better understand the ‘quality’ element of Education for All (EFA): the professional lives of women teachers in rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Teachers from five countries (Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Sudan) provided a focus for exploring the relationship between official representations of teachers’ work and the professional lives teachers create and experience. Sen's (1999) capability approach was used as a framework for understanding this relationship and to produce two conceptualizations of professional capabilities for teachers generated by the official and teacher perspectives, respectively. These capabilities are organized around the pursuit of quality in teachers’ work. The paper explains how these two conceptualizations were determined, justifies four key aspects of the method used and highlights key insights into the teachers’ professional lives enabled by this approach.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2014.991706
Keywords: Capabilities; Capability approach; Education; Gender; Measurement

Theme 4: Group Work (Coordinators) - Haßler, Björn (Transforming Teacher Education and Learning, Ministry of Education (Ghana), 2016)
This handbook is the HANDBOOK FOR PD COORDINATORS for Theme 4, focusing on group work. In many everyday situations people work alongside colleagues, speak and listen to friends, and see what others do and how they do it. This is how we all learn. As we talk to others, we discover new ideas and information. If activities in the college classrooms are centred on the tutor, then the student teachers do not get enough time to be active: they do not have the opportunity to try, to demonstrate their learning or to ask questions. In such situations, some students may only give short answers and some may say nothing at all. In large classes, the situation is even worse, with only a small proportion of students saying anything at all. One reason for doing group work in the classroom is to give students more opportunities to participate. Working in groups and pairs is about learning collaboratively. Collaborative learning means two or more student teachers working together to achieve a shared goal. This includes peer collaboration (for groups of two student teachers), and small group work (for smaller groups). It requires you to interact and talk about what you are thinking with one another in a specific learning context. Questions can be posed, ideas can be challenged and misunderstandings can be heard and investigated.
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Theme 4: Group Work (Tutors) - Haßler, Björn (Transforming Teacher Education and Learning, Ministry of Education (Ghana), 2016)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Assessment of medical waste management in seven hospitals in Lagos, Nigeria - Awodele, Olufunsho; Adewoye, Aishat Abiodun; Oparah, Azuka Cyril (BMC Public Health, 2016)
Medical waste (MW) can be generated in hospitals, clinics and places where diagnosis and treatment are conducted. The management of these wastes is an issue of great concern and importance in view of potential public health risks associated with such wastes. The study assessed the medical waste management practices in selected hospitals and also determined the impact of Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) intervention programs. A descriptive cross-sectional survey method was used.
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Keywords: Environmental hazards; Healthcare workers; LAWMA and Lagos; Medical waste; Waste management

Investigating attitudes towards the use of mobile learning in higher education - Al-Emran, Mostafa; Elsherif, Hatem M.; Shaalan, Khaled (Computers in Human Behavior, 2016)
Mobile learning (M-learning) has become an important educational technology component in higher education. M-learning makes it possible for students to learn, collaborate, and share ideas among each other with the aid of internet and technology development. However, M-learning acceptance by learners and educators is critical to the employments of M-learning systems. Attitudes towards M-learning technology is an important factor that helps in determining whether or not learners and educators are ready to use M-learning. Such attitudes will serve to identify strengths and weaknesses and facilitate the development of the technology infrastructure. This paper aims at exploring students and educators' attitudes towards the use of M-learning in higher educational universities within Oman and UAE; two neighboring countries in the Arab Gulf region. To serve this purpose, two survey questionnaires were conducted: one for students and another for educators. The participants of this study are 383 students and 54 instructors from five universities. Different factors have been examined to test where there is a significant difference among students and educators' attitudes towards the use of M-learning, such as gender, age, country, level of study, smartphone ownership, major in terms of students and age, country, academic rank, academic experience and smartphone ownership in terms of educators. Findings revealed significant differences among the students’ attitudes towards M-learning with regard to their smartphone ownership, country and age. Furthermore, results indicated that M-learning can be one of the promising pedagogical technologies to be employed in the higher educational environments within the Arab Gulf countries.
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Keywords: Attitudes; Higher education; Mobile learning; __C:filed:1

Promoting Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation among Chemistry Students using Computer-Assisted Instruction - Gambari, Isiaka A.; Gbodi, Bimpe E.; Olakanmi, Eyitao U.; Abalaka, Eneojo N. (Contemporary Educational Technology, 2016)
The role of computer-assisted instruction in promoting intrinsic and extrinsic motivation among Nigerian secondary school chemistry students was investigated in this study. The study employed two modes of computer-assisted instruction (computer simulation instruction and computer tutorial instructional packages) and two levels of gender (male and female) using pretest-posttest experimental group design. Ninety (45 males and 45 females) senior secondary one (SS1) students from three secondary schools in Minna, Nigeria, made up the sample. The schools were purposively sampled and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The Experimental Group I was taught two selected concepts of chemistry using computer simulation instructional package (CSIP), Experimental Group II was exposed to computer tutorial Instructional package (CTIP) while conventional teaching method (CTM) was used for the Control Group. Validated Chemistry Achievement Test (CAT) and Chemistry Motivation Questionnaire (CMQ) with reliability coefficient of 0.89 and 0.94 respectively were used for data collection. Classroom observations as well as interview schedules were also conducted. Data from CAT and CTM were analyzed using One-way ANOVA and Scheffe’s post-hoc test, while the data from the classroom observations and interview schedules were thematically analyzed. The outcome of this study revealed that students taught with CSIP performed better than those in CTIP and CTM groups. The CSIP and CTIP were found also to be gender friendly. Moreover, students taught with CSIP had higher intrinsic and extrinsic motivation than their counterparts in CTIP and CTM respectively. Based on the findings, it was recommended that chemistry teachers should employ computer simulation for improving their students’ performance and motivation in the subject.
Publisher: M. Bastas KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.30935/cedtech/6161 2129771:PG4JC6A3 2129771:TVDK5NHS 2486141:AI95XPH6
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Effectiveness of Intelligent Tutoring Systems: A Meta-Analytic Review - Kulik, James A.; Fletcher, J. D. (Review of Educational Research, 2016)
This review describes a meta-analysis of findings from 50 controlled evaluations of intelligent computer tutoring systems. The median effect of intelligent tutoring in the 50 evaluations was to raise test scores 0.66 standard deviations over conventional levels, or from the 50th to the 75th percentile. However, the amount of improvement found in an evaluation depended to a great extent on whether improvement was measured on locally developed or standardized tests, suggesting that alignment of test and instructional objectives is a critical determinant of evaluation results. The review also describes findings from two groups of evaluations that did not meet all of the selection requirements for the meta-analysis: six evaluations with nonconventional control groups and four with flawed implementations of intelligent tutoring systems. Intelligent tutoring effects in these evaluations were small, suggesting that evaluation results are also affected by the nature of control treatments and the adequacy of program implementations.
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

The effects of integrating mobile devices with teaching and learning on students' learning performance: A meta-analysis and research synthesis - Sung, Yao-Ting; Chang, Kuo-En; Liu, Tzu-Chien (Computers & Education, 2016)
Mobile devices such as laptops, personal digital assistants, and mobile phones have become a learning tool with great potential in both classrooms and outdoor learning. Although there have been qualitative analyses of the use of mobile devices in education, systematic quantitative analyses of the effects of mobile-integrated education are lacking. This study performed a meta-analysis and research synthesis of the effects of integrated mobile devices in teaching and learning, in which 110 experimental and quasiexperimental journal articles published during the period 1993–2013 were coded and analyzed. Overall, there was a moderate mean effect size of 0.523 for the application of mobile devices to education. The effect sizes of moderator variables were analyzed and the advantages and disadvantages of mobile learning in different levels of moderator variables were synthesized based on content analyses of individual studies. The results of this study and their implications for both research and practice are discussed.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.compedu.2015.11.008 2129771:FMDDUGJN 2486141:NCE2ZHRU
Keywords: Evaluation methodologies; Pedagogical issues; Teaching/learning strategies

Digital Games, Design, and Learning: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis - Clark, Douglas B.; Tanner-Smith, Emily E.; Killingsworth, Stephen S. (Review of Educational Research, 2016)
In this meta-analysis, we systematically reviewed research on digital games and learning for K-16 students. We synthesized comparisons of game versus nongame conditions (i.e., media comparisons) and comparisons of augmented games versus standard game designs (i.e., value-added comparisons). We used random-effects meta-regression models with robust variance estimates to summarize overall effects and explore potential moderator effects. Results from media comparisons indicated that digital games significantly enhanced student learning relative to nongame conditions ([Formula: see text] = 0.33, 95% confidence interval [0.19, 0.48], k = 57, n = 209). Results from value-added comparisons indicated significant learning benefits associated with augmented game designs ([Formula: see text] = 0.34, 95% confidence interval [0.17, 0.51], k = 20, n = 40). Moderator analyses demonstrated that effects varied across various game mechanics characteristics, visual and narrative characteristics, and research quality characteristics. Taken together, the results highlight the affordances of games for learning as well as the key role of design beyond medium.
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Keywords: digital games; learning; meta-analysis; systematic review; ⛔ No DOI found

Baseline Study on the Current State of Open and Distance Learning in Cameroon - Ndongfack, Michael N. (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016)
Meeting in Mauritius in May 2014, COL Focal Points from Africa and the Mediterranean Regions reviewed the state of ODL in their respective countries and proceeded to map out their strategic plans for 2015–2018. The report from Cameroon demonstrated that although the country is making some progress in the domain of ODL, it lacks an ODL policy framework, a national body to manage distance education and expertise in the field of ODL. To address the issues raised, it was important to establish the baseline situation. The general objective of this study was to establish the current situation of ODL in Cameroon.
Accepted: 2016-12-01T18:29:24Z KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:75QE2PMH

Reflecting on Five Decades of Teacher Professional Development in Tanzania: The Missing Dimensions - Dachi, Hillary (Papers in Education and Development, 2016)
The importance of teacher development need not be over stated. This is adducible by the fact that transformations, innovations and diffusions in education make it imperative that teachers have to continually change and adopt. This paper takes stock of the trajectory of teacher professional development in Tanzania by locating related initiatives in the macro-policies and education transformations spanning a period of nearly five decades. It identifies the missing dimensions for robust in-service continuous professional development programmes (CPD) for primary and secondary school teachers. The paper proposes the need to support a cost effective in-service CPD model, which is school based designed around a reflective practitioner approach, for which teaching is an interactive problem solving professional undertaking requiring continuous updating of key competences that teachers require for classroom practices. Key words: teachers’ professionalism; teachers’ continuous professional development; macro-policies; education transformations
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Keywords: _C:Canada CAN; _C:Finland FIN; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Korea; Republic KOR; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Namibia NAM; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Uganda UGA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Overview of Enterprise Architecture work in 15 countries - Heikkilä, Jukka; Penttinen, Katja (2016)
This research report is an overview of enterprise architec- ture work in 15 countries. The report supports the ongoing enterprise architecture work of Finnish government done by the Ministry of Finance in the Interoperability Development Programme, by Finnish Enterprise Architecture Research -project.
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Keywords: Final_citation

Theme 3: Talk for Learning (Coordinators) - Haßler, Björn (Transforming Teacher Education and Learning, Ministry of Education (Ghana), 2016)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Theme 3: Talk for Learning (Tutors) - Haßler, Björn (Transforming Teacher Education and Learning, Ministry of Education (Ghana), 2016)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Promoting Effective Education in Electromagnetics: Taiwan's School of Accessible and Visualized Electromagnetics Formed [Education Corner] - Liao, W. J.; Wu, R. B.; Wu, T. L.; Ma, T. G.; Pang, Y. H.; Tsai, Z. M.; Yu, H. H.; Tu, K. M.; Lin, H. C.; Peng, S. T. (IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, 2016)
The School of Accessible and Visualized Electromagnetics (SAVE), a teaching and learning resource management consortium in Taiwan, has been formed to coordinate teachers from the field of electromagnetics (EM) to develop and share innovative teaching materials. Based on the cloud concept and following the simplicity, accessibility, visualization, and edutainment (S.A.V.E.) principles, various types of teaching resources, such as slides, problem sets, video clips, and interactive online laboratories, are available on the SAVE website for online learning. Teachers are able to customize a distinctive learning path to address the needs of a specific student group. To provide students with a means of evaluating their competence in EM, a large-scale online proficiency test was conducted concurrently at multiple sites. Analyses of test results and website uses are provided to assess the SAVE program performance and to draw future work topics.
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Keywords: Computer science; Electromagnetics; Engineering education; Market research; Radio frequency; Resource management; SAVE Website; Web sites; __C:filed:1; computational electromagnetics; computer aided instruction; innovative teaching materials; large-scale online proficiency test; learning resource management consortium; online learning; school of accessible and visualized electromagnetics

Expanding Access to Early Childhood Development Using Interactive Audio Instruction - World Bank (World Bank Group, Education Development Center, 2016)
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EVALUATION OF GROUNDWATER POTENTIAL OF CHANCHAGA AREA, MINNA, NORTH-CENTRAL NIGERIA - Akande, Waheed Gbenga; Abdullahi, Idris-Nda; Amadi, Nwanosike Amadi; Abdulfatai, Ibrahim Asema; Alabi, Adekola Amos; Yahaya, Tauheed (2016)
Inadequate potable water supply remains one of the challenges of residents of Minna Metropolis, Niger State, Nigeria owing to the basement complex terrain underlying the area. The rapid increase in population in the area, which is due to its proximity to the nation’s capital city (Abuja) among others, has led to a corresponding increase in the demand for potable water for domestic, irrigational and industrial uses which public water by government could not meet. Consequently, the inhabitants resort to seeking alternative arrangements for water through hand dug wells and surface water sources which are often of uncertain quality. Objectives: Thus, this study investigates the groundwater potential of Chanchaga area, Minna, North-central Nigeria with a view to delineating the suitable aquifer for groundwater development. Material and Methods: The technique employed for this study was Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES) of the Electrical Resistivity (ER) method. A total number of twenty-three (23) Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES) points were investigated using Schlumberger array configuration and the data obtained were analyzed using partial curve matching and computer iteration techniques. The data were interpreted to reveal various geoeletric layers that characterize the area. Results: The results revealed predominantly H-type curve typical of the basement complex system with three geoelectric layers: the top soil, weathered/fractured basement and fresh basement. The apparent resistivity of the first layer ranged from 25 Ωm – 928 Ωm with a corresponding thickness of 0.5 m – 3.1 m, second layer has apparent resistivity values of 8.3 Ωm – 41.3 Ωm with a corresponding thickness of 2.1 m – 33.0 m and the third geoelectric layer has apparent resistivity values ranging from 74 Ωm – 4173.5 Ωm with an infinite thickness. A careful examination and integration of the isopach map with the isoresistivity maps (at 30 and 40 metres depths) indicated that the central and northern parts of the study area have very low to low apparent resistivity values and shallow overburden which is capable of constituting shallow aquifer units. Conclusions: It is concluded that the central and northern parts of the study area have poor to marginal groundwater potential, and this is supported by the occurrences and concentration of fractures which can constitute weathered/fractured aquifers around these regions. It is recommended that water wells be drilled to an effective depth of 40 to 50 m for optimum groundwater yields, and that pumping test be carried out on the drilled wells in order to further determine the aquifer efficiency and productivity in the area.
Accepted: 2021-07-17T12:56:38Z Publisher: America Journal of Innovative Research and Applied Sciences KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:2KILYXWM 2486141:GDPV2RNB
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

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

Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls? - Fairlie, Robert W. (The BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2016)
Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed “the Boy Crisis.” An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these disparities exist across family resources and race. Focusing on disadvantaged schoolchildren, I then examine whether time investments made by boys and girls related to computer use contribute to the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for schoolwork and are more likely to use computers for playing games, but are less likely to use computers for social networking and email than are girls. Using data from a large field experiment randomly providing free personal computers to schoolchildren for home use, I also test whether these differential patterns of computer use displace homework time and ultimately translate into worse educational outcomes among boys. No evidence is found indicating that personal computers crowd out homework time and effort for disadvantaged boys relative to girls. Home computers also do not have negative effects on educational outcomes such as grades, test scores, courses completed, and tardies for disadvantaged boys relative to girls.
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Chapter 10 - Improving Education Outcomes in Developing Countries: Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Policy Implications - Glewwe, P.; Muralidharan, K. (Handbook of the Economics of Education, 2016)
Improvements in empirical research standards for credible identification of the causal impact of education policies on education outcomes have led to a significant increase in the body of evidence available on improving education outcomes in developing countries. This chapter aims to synthesize this evidence, interpret their results, and discuss the reasons why some interventions appear to be effective and others do not, with the ultimate goal of drawing implications for both research and policy. Interpreting the evidence for generalizable lessons is challenging because of variation across contexts, duration and quality of studies, and the details of specific interventions studied. Nevertheless, some broad patterns do emerge. Demand-side interventions that increase the immediate returns to (or reduce household costs of) school enrollment, or that increase students’ returns to effort, are broadly effective at increasing time in school and learning outcomes, but vary considerably in cost-effectiveness. Many expensive “standard” school inputs are often not very effective at improving outcomes, though some specific inputs (which are often less expensive) are. Interventions that focus on improved pedagogy (especially supplemental instruction to children lagging behind grade level competencies) are particularly effective, and so are interventions that improve school governance and teacher accountability. Our broad policy message is that the evidence points to several promising ways in which the efficiency of education spending in developing countries can be improved by pivoting public expenditure from less cost-effective to more cost-effective ways of achieving the same objectives. We conclude by documenting areas where more research is needed, and offer suggestions on the public goods and standards needed to make it easier for decentralized and uncoordinated research studies to be compared across contexts.
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Keywords: Cost effectiveness; Demand for education; Education in developing countries; Learning outcomes; Pedagogy; Policy evaluation; School enrollment and attendance; School governance; School inputs

Reconstructing education in post-conflict Sierra Leone - Pai, Grace (Security, Education and Development in Contemporary Africa, 2016)
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Youth unemployment in resource-rich Sub-Saharan Africa: A critical review - Ackah-Baidoo, Patricia (The Extractive Industries and Society, 2016)
This paper critically reviews the youth unemployment crisis in resource-rich Sub-Saharan Africa. Although the region has experienced continuous and a seemingly limitless ﬂow of investment in all types of extractive industries in recent decades, this growth has not directly translated into signiﬁcant poverty reduction. Its overdependence on natural resources economically seems to have had a negative impact on socioeconomic development overall, generating very few jobs for youth and exacerbating existing unemployment crises. The paper uses Ghana, one the region’s top mineral-rich countries, as a case study to explore these issues further.
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Study on Agricultural Technical and Vocational Education and Training (ATVET) in Developing Countries - Walker, Katharina; Hofstetter, Sonja (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2016)
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DBIR: february-2016-rpp-forum-measuring-results-of-partnerships-2 (DBIR, 2016)
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DBIR: january-2016-rpp-forum-addressing-challenges-in-partnerships-2 (DBIR, 2016)
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DBIR: nsta-2016-workshop-how-to-assess-three-dimensional-learning-in-your-classroom-building-tasks-that-work-2 (DBIR, 2016)
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DBIR: sss-2016-workshop-adapting-curriculum-for-3-dimensional-learning-2 (DBIR, 2016)
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Integration of ICTs into the curriculum of Cameroon primary and secondary schools: A review of current status, barriers and proposed strategies for effective Integration (International Journal of Education and Development Using Information and Communication Technology, 2016)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

T-TEL school partnership innovation (2016)
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World Development Report 2016: Digital Dividends (2016)
doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-0671-1 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1596/978-1-4648-0671-1 2129771:N3MJ38QH 2447227:35QZZKL8
Keywords: AWP2; AWP2-actual

From counting women to ensuring women count: A qualitative study of university and early career experiences of women secondary school teachers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from a capabilities perspective - Abay, Negar Ashtari (2016)
At the heart of this study is a concern with moving from counting women—from a quantitative focus on gender parity—to having women count—ensuring conditions exist that allow women teachers to fully participate in quality teaching and the positive transformation of the teaching profession. Women comprise less than 20% of secondary school teachers in Ethiopia (MoE, 2014), reflecting similar patterns of under-representation elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study uses in-depth interviews and field observations over a period of 15 months in Addis Ababa to shed light on why many women in Ethiopia who enter university do not make it into secondary school teaching and why many of those who enter teaching, in urban areas where most teachers are concentrated, do not stay in the profession. Drawing on a capabilities perspective, the study goes further to examine the cumulative disadvantage—in terms of well-being and agency—that women experience during the process of their university (undergraduate and teacher) training and in their early years of working in urban secondary schools, as well as the ways in which women contend with disadvantage. This study shows that such disadvantage and the responses to it have implications not only for whether women enter and stay in teaching but also for how they engage in their work. Utilizing the rich qualitative data collected and the analysis afforded by using the capability approach, the study concludes by recommending how different actors, including government, universities and schools, can foster institutional conditions of possibility (Walker, 2006a) and educational arrangements that enhance rather than limit full and equal participation in the teaching profession. Foregrounded throughout this study are the voices and experiences of young women, offering a perspective which disrupts the presumed norm of the single male teacher and highlights some of the limits of gender-neutral teacher policies.
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Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:Ethiopia; CA:AandC; CL:en; CL:pt; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:R; CT:T; F:gender; F:policy; F:teaching; F:women; P:measurement; P:school teacher; P:teacher education; P:teachers; Q:higher education; R:interview; R:observation; R:qualitative; R:quantitative; T:Ausbildung; T:career; Z:Higher education; Z:Teacher education; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

One Laptop per Child Rwanda: Enabling Factors and Barriers - Adam, Taskeen; Haßler, Björn; Cruickshank, Heather (Empowering the 21st Century Learner, 2016)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Austria AUT; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Belgium BEL; _C:Botswana BWA; _C:Burkina Faso BFA; _C:Canada CAN; _C:China CHN; _C:Croatia HRV; _C:Cuba CUB; _C:Cyprus CYP; _C:Denmark DNK; _C:Egypt EGY; _C:Ethiopia ETH; _C:Finland FIN; _C:France FRA; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:India IND; _C:Iran IRN; _C:Israel ISR; _C:Italy ITA; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Korea; Republic KOR; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Mexico MEX; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:New Zealand NZL; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Peru PER; _C:Poland POL; _C:Portugal PRT; _C:Romania ROU; _C:Russian Federation RUS; _C:Rwanda RWA; _C:Serbia SRB; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Spain ESP; _C:Sri Lanka LKA; _C:Sudan SDN; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Thailand THA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Uruguay URY; _C:Viet Nam VNM; _C:Zambia ZMB; _C:Zimbabwe ZWE; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Influence of Mobile Learning Training on Pre-Service Social Studies Teachers' Technology and Mobile Phone Self-Efficacies - Adedoja, Gloria; Oluwadara, Abimbade (Journal of Education and Practice, 2016)
Current instructional deliveries favour the use of mobile technology because of its inherent potentials and benefits such as portability, ease of use cost and others. Despite these benefits, many teachers especially in Sub-Saharan Africa still prefer the conventional method and use mobile phones for social engagements such as texting, chatting, callings and others. Though, these teachers use mobile phones for these social activities, using it for instruction is somewhat problematic for them without adequate training on its pedagogical implications. This is also because there are dearth of trainings in this area. Some factors that could however affect this type of specialised training include Technology Self-efficacy, Mobile Phone Self-efficacy, attitude, age and others. The sample of this present study was 101 pre-service social studies teachers in two Universities in Nigeria. The influence of the Mobile learning training on Technology/Mobile Phone Self-efficacies was explored. The results indicated that the pre-service social studies teachers have high Technology/Mobile Phone Self-efficacies after exposure to the training.
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Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; Age Differences; C:Nigeria; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:R; CT:T; ERIC; Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Electronic Learning; F:attitude; F:learning; F:pedagogy; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Instructional Effectiveness; Likert Scales; Nigeria; P:electro; P:services; P:social; P:teachers; P:technology; Postsecondary Education; Predictor Variables; Preservice Teachers; Pretests Posttests; Q:mobile learning; Questionnaires; R:questionnaire; Self Efficacy; Social Studies; Student Teacher Attitudes; T:Training; Technological Literacy; Technology Education; Z:Age Differences; Z:Electronic Learning; Z:Foreign Countries; Z:Instructional Effectiveness; Z:Likert Scales; Z:Predictor Variables; Z:Preservice Teachers; Z:Pretests Posttests; Z:Questionnaires; Z:Self Efficacy; Z:Social Studies; Z:Student Teacher Attitudes; Z:Technological Literacy; Z:Technology Education; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2096188; __C:filed:1; ___working_potential_duplicate; __finaldtb; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Integration durch Bildung. Migranten und Flüchtlinge in Deutschland: Gutachten - Aktionsrat Bildung; Blossfeld, Hans-Peter (Waxmann, 2016)
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The professional development of teachers in Higher Education in Oman: a case study of English teachers in the Colleges of Applied Sciences - Al-Ghatrifi, Yaqoob (University of Reading, 2016)
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Keywords: _C:Antigua and Barbuda ATG; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Bahrain BHR; _C:Benin BEN; _C:Canada CAN; _C:China CHN; _C:Egypt EGY; _C:France FRA; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Greece GRC; _C:India IND; _C:Iran IRN; _C:Ireland IRL; _C:Israel ISR; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Kuwait KWT; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Malta MLT; _C:Mexico MEX; _C:Mozambique MOZ; _C:Namibia NAM; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:New Zealand NZL; _C:Oman OMN; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Portugal PRT; _C:Qatar QAT; _C:Saudi Arabia SAU; _C:Somalia SOM; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:United Arab Emirates ARE; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Yemen YEM; _C:Zambia ZMB; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Pilot assessment of indoor environmental qualities of learning environments in Bayero University, Kano - Ali, S.M.; Martinson, D.B.; Al-Maiyah, S. (“Passive and Low Energy Architecture” (PLEA) Conference at Los Angeles in, 2016)
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ROAPA–Repositório de Objetos de Aprendizagem para o ensino de pesca e aquicultura - Alvim, Silvio José Trindade; others (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, 2016)
The use of technology in education has experienced a number of changes. The use of the computer as a learning tool promoter is a constant challenge for educators. The creation, classification and maintenance of digital materials with educational content are laborious but essential tasks for the good use of technologies of information and communication in education, in various levels of education. In this context, the work that follows is intended to propose the creation of a reference model for implementation of a Learning Object Repository (LOR) as well as outlining a production process of these objects and choosing a team based on roles and responsibilities modeled in the process. As methodological approach was made a literature review on the subject. Conceptual maps were used to support the planning of the repository model. For choosing the set of metadata used in the model was made a Systematic Review of Literature (SRL) and after these steps the initial software interface has been validated through a survey instrument using the Likert scale for evaluation of non-functional software requirements applied to a group of educators and students of the academic community of IFES Campus Piúma. It is expected that the model will serve as a subsidy for the implementation of a repository for use by technical courses of Aquaculture and Fisheries of aforementioned campus, allowing the search and use of digital educational materials for teachers and students, in a simply and efficiently way
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Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; CC:Brazil; CLL:pt; OER; publicImportV1

Computer usage for learning how to read and write in primary school - Arndt, Petra A. (Trends in Neuroscience and Education, 2016)
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Keywords: __C:filed:1

Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) Plus: Liberia. Program evaluation report - b (Implementing Mother Tongue, 2016)

Unlocking resilience through autonomous innovation - Bahadur, Aditya; Doczi, Julian (Overseas Development Institute, 2016)
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Improving Secondary School Teacher Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa - Bainton, Dave; Barrett, Angeline Mbogo; Tikly, Leon (University of Bristol, 2016)
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Keywords: C:sub-Saharan Africa; _C:Benin BEN; _C:Botswana BWA; _C:Burundi BDI; _C:Cameroon CMR; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Chile CHL; _C:China CHN; _C:Congo; Republic COG; _C:Ethiopia ETH; _C:Gambia GMB; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:India IND; _C:Ivory Coast CIV; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Mali MLI; _C:Mozambique MOZ; _C:Namibia NAM; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Philippines PHL; _C:Rwanda RWA; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:South Sudan SSD; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Improving Secondary School Teacher Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Framing the Issues - Bainton, Dave; Barrett, Angeline Mbogo; Tikly, Leon (Bristol Working Papers in Education, 2016)
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Keywords: Cited; RRQ1:High; ⛔ No DOI found

Girl power: cash transfers and adolescent welfare. Evidence from a cluster‐randomized experiment in Malawi - Baird, Sarah J.; Chirwa, Ephraim; Hoop, Jacobus De; Özler, Berk (Chapter in NBER book African Successes, Volume II: Human Capital, 2016)

Tablets in Schule und Unterricht: Forschungsmethoden und-perspektiven zum Einsatz digitaler Medien - Bastian, Jasmin; Aufenanger, Stefan (Springer-Verlag, 2016)
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Opening new doors: Community engagement in India - Batada, A.; Banarjee, S.; Subramanian, M. (The Sesame Effect: The Global Impact of the Longest Street in the World, 2016)
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Reducing parent‐school information gaps and improving education outcomes: Evidence from high frequency text messaging in Chile - Berlinski, Samuel; Busso, Matias; Dinkelman, Taryn; Martinez, Claudia (Unpublished Manuscript, 2016)

Mathematics education in Sub-Saharan Africa : status, challenges, and opportunities (Vol. 2) : main report (English) - Bethell, George (The World Bank Group, 2016)
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Matching couples with Scarf’s algorithm - Biró, Péter; Fleiner, Tamás; Irving, Robert W. (Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 2016)
Scarf’s algorithm [18] provides fractional core elements for NTU-games. Biró and Fleiner [3] showed that Scarf’s algorithm can be extended for capacitated NTU-games. In this setting agents can be involved in more than one coalition at a time, cooperations may be performed with different intensities up to some limits, and the contribution of the agents can also differ in a coalition. The fractional stable solutions for the above model, produced by the extended Scarf algorithm, are called stable allocations. In this paper we apply this solution concept for the Hospitals Residents problem with Couples (HRC). This is one of the most important general stable matching problems due to its relevant applications, also wellknown to be NP-hard. We show that if a stable allocation yielded by the Scarf algorithm turns outto be integral then it provides a stable matching for an instance of HRC, so this method can be used as a heuristic. In an experimental study, we compare this method with other heuristics constructed for HRC that are applied in practice in the American and Scottish resident allocation programs, respectively. Our main finding is that the Scarf algorithm outperforms all the other known heuristics when the proportion of couples is high.
Keywords: _C:Hungary HUN; _C:Ireland IRL; _C:Spain ESP; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

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

Can we open the black box of AI? - Castelvecchi, D. (Nature, 2016)
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Keywords: ❓ Multiple DOI

Implementation Research: Finding Common Ground on What, How, Why, Where, and Who - Century, Jeanne; Cassata, Amy (Review of Research in Education, 2016)
Over many decades, educators have developed countless interventions and theories about how to create lasting change. Implementation research is the study of these efforts with a set of basic questions: What are we doing? Is it working? For whom? Where? When? How? And, Why? In other words, implementation research is an endeavor to understand if and how educational efforts are accomplishing their goals. This chapter describes the landscape of implementation research, tracing it back to its historical roots and connecting it to other fields with the aim of identifying common threads across diverse efforts. The authors survey where the field is today and highlight different perspectives on complex questions that have long troubled researchers. They outline some of the sticky issues ahead and make a case for shared conceptual clarity and clearly communicated and understood language that will help researchers understand how various bodies of implementation research work are related. The authors conclude by describing the opportunity presented to the education research community in this moment: to capitalize on and learn from historical and contemporary work in education and other fields, and to identify connections across theories and approaches and find ways to collectively move forward toward the shared goal of making education better.
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Impact Evaluation of the Save the Children Early Childhood Stimulation Program in Bangladesh: Final Report. - Chinen, Marjorie; Bos, Johannes M. (American Institutes for Research, 2016)

Evaluation of the transformative potential of positive gender socialization in education for peace building - Chinen, Marjorie; Elmeski, Mohammed (Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016)
American Institutes for Research (AIR) is conducting an impact evaluation of The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund's (UNICEF's) teacher-training program and reinforcing text messages that aim to provide meaningful knowledge regarding the transformative potential of positive gender socialization in education for peace building in the region of Karamoja, Uganda. The impact evaluation assesses the effects of the teacher-training program, with an emphasis on gender socialization, on teachers' knowledge, attitudes, and practices concerned with gender equity, and positive gender socialization. The authors implemented a mixed-methods research design for the impact evaluation, using quantitative and qualitative methods. They compared the outcomes of interest among the teachers who benefit from the program with the outcomes of interest of comparable teachers in different schools who do not benefit from the program. The impact evaluation is based on an eight-month intervention, with baseline data collected in March 2015 and endline data collected in November 2015. One hundred five schools from eight Coordinating Centre Tutors (CCTs) located in the districts of Abim, Kaabong, and Napak are participating in the study, with a third of the schools receiving the training plus reinforcing text messages (the "complete intervention" group), another third receiving the teacher training only (the "limited intervention" group), and the other third not receiving any of the interventions (the control or "business as usual" group). A total of 916 teachers working in the 105 schools at the time of baseline data collection were surveyed. Provided that the various stakeholders respond in the manner anticipated, the trainings–and potentially the active teacher support and engagement delivered using the mobile SMS platform–should lead to a set of initial effects or intermediate outcomes. Tables and figures are appended.
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Keywords: Comparative Analysis; ERIC; Resources in Education (RIE); Educational Practices; Elementary Education; Elementary School Teachers; Foreign Countries; Inservice Teacher Education; Intervention; Mixed Methods Research; Outcome Measures; Peace; Program Effectiveness; Randomized Controlled Trials; Sex Fairness; Socialization; Synchronous Communication; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Characteristics; Telecommunications; Uganda; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2097972; ___working_potential_duplicate; __finaldtb

Open Data Readiness Assessment: Prepared for the Government of Sierra Leone - Chrzanowski, Pierre; Holm, Jeanne; Manley, Laura; Dodds, Elizabeth; Baker, Rob (World Bank Group; Open Aid Partnership, 2016)
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Using eye-tracking in applied linguistics and second language research - Conklin, Kathy; Pellicer-Sánchez, Ana (Second Language Research, 2016)
With eye-tracking technology the eye is thought to give researchers a window into the mind. Importantly, eye-tracking has significant advantages over traditional online processing measures: chiefly that it allows for more ‘natural’ processing as it does not require a secondary task, and that it provides a very rich moment-to-moment data source. In recognition of the technology’s benefits, an ever increasing number of researchers in applied linguistics and second language research are beginning to use it. As eye-tracking gains traction in the field, it is important to ensure that it is established in an empirically sound fashion. To do this it is important for the field to come to an understanding about what eye-tracking is, what eye-tracking measures tell us, what it can be used for, and what different eye-tracking systems can and cannot do. Further, it is important to establish guidelines for designing sound research studies using the technology. The goal of the current review is to begin to address these issues.
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Evaluating the Impact of 1: 1 Laptops on High School Science Students and Teachers - Crook, Simon Joseph (2016)
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Design-Based Research and Design-Based Implementation Research | InformalScience.org - Crowley, Kevin (2016)
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Keywords: Final_citation; existing

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

Education in Conflict and Crisis: How Can Technology Make a Difference? A Landscape Review. - Dahya, N. (GIZ, 2016)
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Education in Conflict and Crisis: How Can Technology Make a Difference? A Landscape Review - Dahya, Negin (GIZ, 2016)
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Landscape Review: Education in Conflict and Crisis - How Can Technology Make a Difference? | INEE - Dahya, Negin (2016)
Conflict and crisis are among the biggest obstacles to ensuring inclusive and quality education for all (Sustainable Development Goal 4). The use of information and communication technology (ICT) has the potential to support, enhance, and enable education for the most marginalized, affected by war, natural disasters, and the rapid spread of disease. Across these different contexts, tools like radio, mobile phones, mobile projectors, e-readers and tablets, laptops and computers can facilitate teaching and learning in a range of different ways. The term “mobility” with regard to learning is highly relevant in this landscape: it recognizes that learning should not stop as people move, and that people on the move are focused on continuing their education. This landscape aims to identify major trends, patterns, and lessons learned about the use of mobile technologies in crisis and conflict settings, and also to define gaps in our existing knowledge base.

Challenges in the Informal Construction Artisan Training System in the Ghanaian Construction Industry - Damasah, SK (College of Art and Built Environment, 2016)
This research sought to find out the challenges confronting the informal artisan training system in the Ghanaian construction industry and provide available opportunities to help improve the system. The study was limited to two regions namely Greater Accra and Volta regions of Ghana. In all, two hundred and thirty-three (233) artisans comprising of one hundred and thirteen (113) apprentices and one hundred and twenty (120) master artisans were used for the study. Questionnaires were the main research instrument but personal observation was also used by the researcher. The sample of three hundred (300) was used in the data analysis. Qualitative research approach was used, employing the descriptive approach. Data from the field was analysed using percentages. From the findings, it was realized that two main modes of skill acquisition were in play pertaining to the informal sector, these are the traditional method (75%) and the attachment method (25%). Another finding was that, one shortcoming of the informal system appears to be a lack of consistency and adequate content in the training that apprentice receive. The study concludes that there is little external motivation or capability for the system’s trainees to progress in performance or in improving their methods. More than 55% of the master artisans apply experimentation or trial and error in their work. It is recommended that, it will be essential to involve the master artisans in a reform process including efforts to provide them with opportunities to upgrade their own knowledge of construction skills.
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Effective Teacher Professional Development - Darling-Hammond, Linda; Hyler, Maria E; Gardner, Madelyn; Gardner, Madelyn (Learning Policy Institute, 2016)
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