What about children? Implications from their subjective perception and the risk of overheating in schools - te Kulve, Marije; Hellwig, Runa T.; van Dijken, Froukje; Boerstra, Atze (Windsor Conference 2020: Resilient Comfort, 2020)
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Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; ⛔ No DOI found

West African Senior School Certificate Examination: Sierra Leone Results Analysis - Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (2022)
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Welcome to Implementation Science - Eccles, Martin P.; Mittman, Brian S. (Implementation Science, 2006)
Implementation research is the scientific study of methods to promote the systematic uptake of research findings and other evidence-based practices into routine practice, and, hence, to improve the quality and effectiveness of health services and care. This relatively new field includes the study of influences on healthcare professional and organisational behaviour.
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Welcome - GRID3

Weight of evidence: a framework for the appraisal of the quality and relevance of evidence - Gough, David (Research papers in education, 2007)
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Week 2 - Laura Czerniewicz - Equity and Care in Moving Online (2020)
Laura Czerniewicz shares experiences this past year in South Africa and offers insight and guidance for educators now confronting a forced move online #PivotOnline Course - https://www.edx.org/course/pivoting-t... - https://linkresearchlab.org/pivot/
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WebPlotDigitizer - Extract data from plots, images, and maps
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Webinar Deck: COVID-19, Schooling and Learning (Brac Institute of Governance and Development)
The education system in Bangladesh has always struggled to provide quality education to nearly 40 million children enrolled in schools. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this learning crisis as all educational institutions across the country have been closed for over two months with no immediate plans for reopening. Yet […]
Library Catalog: bigd.bracu.ac.bd KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:LZUAYXLW

Web-interface for Zotero Libraries (OpenDevEd/Zotero-kerko-docs) (Open Development & Education, 2020)
Contribute to OpenDevEd/Zotero-kerko-docs development by creating an account on GitHub.
original-date: 2020-04-05T19:45:15Z KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:EY95LGTE
Keywords: _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Web-interface for Zotero Libraries (edtechhub/eth-evidence-library-kerko) - Lesieur, David (EdTech Hub, 2020)
original-date: 2019-12-06T10:51:53Z KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:UJ5L6IIQ
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Web Design Guidelines for Low Bandwidth - Introduction
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:FCH8CQV2

Weather tracker: Ethiopia hit by severe drought amid east Africa floods (The Guardian, 2023)
More than 50 people dead in Tigray and Amhara regions while UN warns of ‘crisis-level hunger or worse’ in Somalia
Keywords: Africa; Drought; Environment; Ethiopia; Extreme weather; Somalia; Turkey; World news

Wearables for Measuring Health Effects of Climate Change–Induced Weather Extremes: Scoping Review - Koch, Mara; Matzke, Ina; Huhn, Sophie; Gunga, Hanns‐Christian; Maggioni, Martina Anna; Munga, Stephen; Obor, David; Sié, Ali; Boudo, Valentin; Bunker, Aditi; Dambach, Peter; Bärnighausen, Till; et al. (Jmir mhealth and uhealth, 2022)
Although climate change is one of the biggest global health threats, individual-level and short-term data on direct exposure and health impacts are still scarce. Wearable electronic devices (wearables) present a potential solution to this research gap. Wearables have become widely accepted in various areas of health research for ecological momentary assessment, and some studies have used wearables in the field of climate change and health. However, these studies vary in study design, demographics, and outcome variables, and existing research has not been mapped.In this review, we aimed to map existing research on wearables used to detect direct health impacts and individual exposure during climate change-induced weather extremes, such as heat waves or wildfires.We conducted a scoping review according to the PRISMA-ScR (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews) framework and systematically searched 6 databases (PubMed [MEDLINE], IEEE Xplore, CINAHL [EBSCOhost], WoS, Scopus, Ovid [MEDLINE], and Google Scholar). The search yielded 1871 results. Abstracts and full texts were screened by 2 reviewers (MK and IM) independently using the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The inclusion criteria comprised studies published since 2010 that used off-the-shelf wearables that were neither invasive nor obtrusive to the user in the setting of climate change-related weather extremes. Data were charted using a structured form, and the study outcomes were narratively synthesized.The review included 55,284 study participants using wearables in 53 studies. Most studies were conducted in upper-middle-income and high-income countries (50/53, 94%) in urban environments (25/53, 47%) or in a climatic chamber (19/53, 36%) and assessed the health effects of heat exposure (52/53, 98%). The majority reported adverse health effects of heat exposure on sleep, physical activity, and heart rate. The remaining studies assessed occupational heat stress or compared individual- and area-level heat exposure. In total, 26% (14/53) of studies determined that all examined wearables were valid and reliable for measuring health parameters during heat exposure when compared with standard methods.Wearables have been used successfully in large-scale research to measure the health implications of climate change-related weather extremes. More research is needed in low-income countries and vulnerable populations with pre-existing conditions. In addition, further research could focus on the health impacts of other climate change-related conditions and the effectiveness of adaptation measures at the individual level to such weather extremes.
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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

'We have to raise our children differently' (BBC News)
Three black parents and their children discuss raising a black child, racism and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Section: England KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:YKCWSAXD

We asked 7,000 people how the UK should build back better – here's what they told us - Phoenix, Ann; Stevenson, Olivia; Morris, Siobhan (The Conversation)
The UK government’s plan to ‘build back better’ can only work if we understand what that means to different populations.

WBR-Policy-Brief-2020.04.30.pdf

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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Water reed for construction
Water reed is due to its properties an ideal product for construction.

Water reed for construction - Hiss-Reet
Water reed is due to its properties an ideal product for construction.

Water demand and Schistosomiasis among the Gumau people of Bauchi State, Nigeria - Akogun, Oladele B (Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ENGLAND, 1990)
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Water Cycle in Nature-An Innovative Virtual Reality and Virtual Lab: Improving Learning Experience of Primary School Students. - Bogusevschi, Diana; Muntean, Gabriel-Miro (CSEDU (1), 2019)
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Keywords: _C:Dominican Republic DOM; _C:Greece GRC; _C:Ireland IRL; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Portugal PRT; _C:Romania ROU; _C:Slovakia SVK; _C:Spain ESP; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Water and Sanitation in Schools: A Systematic Review of the Health and Educational Outcomes - Jasper, Christian; Le, Thanh-Tam; Bartram, Jamie (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2012)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3390/ijerph9082772 2129771:9ZIXAXI8

WASCAL II - West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use - BMBF
Richtlinie zur Förderung von Zuwendungen für WASCAL II - West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use („Kompetenzzentrum zur wissenschaftlichen Unterstützung gegen den Klimawandel und des anpassungsfähigen Landmanagements im westlichen Afrika), Bundesanzeiger vom 15.02.2019
Library Catalog: www.fona.de KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:2YPFIWB6 2317526:5BU8PHLS

Warmer environments increase implicit mental workload even if learning efficiency is enhanced - Kimura, Tsukasa; Takemura, Noriko; Nakashima, Yuta; Kobori, Hirokazu; Nagahara, Hajime; Numao, Masayuki; Shinohara, Kazumitsu (Frontiers in Psychology, 2020)
Publisher: Frontiers KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00568 2129771:YWHYN59R 4682641:XYPND8K4
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT

Wanted, A National Teacher Supply Policy for Education:The Right Way to Meet The "Highly Qualified Teacher" Challenge - Darling-Hammond, Linda; Sykes, Gary (education policy analysis archives, 2003)
Teacher quality is now the focus of unprecedented policy analysis. To achieve its goals, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires a “highly qualified teacher” in all classrooms. The concern with teacher quality has been driven by a growing recognition, fueled by accumulating research evidence, of how critical teachers are to student learning. To acquire and retain high-quality teachers in our Nation’s classrooms will require substantial policy change at many levels. There exists longstanding precedent and strong justification for Washington to create a major education manpower program. Qualified teachers are a critical national resource that requires federal investment and cross-state coordination as well as other state and local action. NCLB provides a standard for equitable access to teacher quality that is both reasonable and feasible. Achieving this goal will require a new vision of the teacher labor market and the framing of a national teacher supply policy. States and local districts have vital roles to play in ensuring a supply of highly qualified teachers; however, they must be supported by appropriate national programs. These programs should be modeled on U.S. medical manpower efforts, which have long supplied doctors to high- need communities and eased shortages in specific health fields. We argue that teacher supply policy should attract well-prepared teachers to districts that sorely need them while relieving shortages in fields like special education, math and the physical sciences. We study the mal-distribution of teachers and examine its causes. We describe examples of both states and local school districts that have fashioned successful strategies for strengthening their teaching forces. Unfortunately, highly successful state and local program to meet the demand for qualified teachers are the exception rather than the rule. They stand out amid widespread use of under-prepared teachers and untrained aides, mainly for disadvantaged children in schools that suffer from poor working conditions, inadequate pay and high teacher turnover. The federal government has a critical role to play in enhancing the supply of qualified teachers targeted to high-need fields and locations, improving retention of qualified teachers, especially in hard-to-staff schools, and in creating a national labor market by removing interstate barriers to mobility.
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Vulnerability, partnerships and the pursuit of survival: Urban livelihoods and apprenticeship contracts in a West African City - Hanson, Kobena (GeoJournal, 2005)
This paper analyses local level apprenticeship contracts and networks to highlight informal urban livelihoods within the context of socio-economic vulnerability and wider contemporary changes taking place in Koforidua, Ghana. It does so by specifically examining the complex entanglements of interpersonal relationships that characterize apprenticeship contracts within which home-based entrepreneurs and artisans in Koforidua engage in to sustain both current livelihoods, as well as to shore themselves against socio-economic vulnerability triggered in part by adjustment. As a result of the changing geography of the city, network entanglements, comprising resilient ties and egalitarian relations, have become vital to urban livelihoods in this community. However, apprenticeship contracts and the networks they engender can be a double-edged sword. For instance, demands of reciprocity or support from co-network members, neighbours and family, can be so taxing that some individuals opt out of the network. This tension notwithstanding, this paper contends that apprenticeship contracts and the network spaces they create have created a new social cohesion and community that transcend the traditionally known spaces of social support, i.e. ethnic ties, family ties or even institutional support. © Springer 2005.
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Voluntary participation and natural grouping with smartphones: an effective and practical approach to implement a quasi-experiment - Jia, Jiyou; Chen, Zhenzhen (International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation, 2020)
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Keywords: __C:filed:1; ❓ Multiple DOI

VolkswagenStiftung (2020)
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Voices Confined to Classrooms: The Marginalised Status of Teachers in Curriculum Development in Lusaka, Zambia - Mwanza, Christine (2018)

Voices and Evidence from End-Users of the GLTV and GLRRP Remote Learning Programme in Ghana: Insights for inclusive policy and programming - Hodor, Raymond; Owusu, Ernest Adu; Ofori-Davis, Lucy; Afram, Alexander; Sefa-Nyarko, Clement (EdTech Hub, 2021)
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Vocational Training and the Informal Economy - de Largentaye, Armand Rioust (Promoting Pro-poor Growth: Employment, 2009)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Vocational Training Act - Government of Botswana (1998)
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Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; CC:Botswana; publicImportV1

Vocational skills formation in the informal economy in Tanzania - Höjlund, Gunilla (2013)
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Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; publicImportV1

Vocational Enterprise Institutions
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Vocational education voucher delivery and labor market returns: A randomized evaluation among Kenyan youth - Hicks, Joan Hamory; Kremer, Michael; Mbiti, Isaac; Miguel, Edward (2011)
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Keywords: -AB-Research; CLL:en; MaintenanceTag-AB-Research-previous; ⛔ No DOI found

Vocational Education and Training through Open and Distance Learning: World review of distance education and open learning - Moran, L; Rumble, G (2004)
The world needs workers with more and better skills. Conventional apprenticeships and old methods of professional training are not providing enough skilled workers, so governments, companies and colleges are all using open and distance learning to fill these gaps. This unique international review of experience looks at the policies needed in both the private and the public sector for effective vocational education and training at all levels – from basic skills to continuing professional education. It goes on to examine the new roles of information and communication technologies, establishing what we know about their performance, and identifying the choices to be made in applying technologies to vocational education and training. The book will help senior institutional managers and policy makers to understand and appreciate: • the role distance education can play in increasing skills levels in young people and the existing workforce; • the potential advantages and disadvantages of using technology, and therefore make better-informed choices about technology use; • how to integrate distance education with traditional educational models and approaches.
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Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:South Africa; CA:AandC; CL:en; CL:pt; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:T; F:learning; F:policy; P:measurement; P:media; P:teacher education; Q:ICT; Q:ODEL; Q:distance education; Q:distance learning; Q:educational technology; Q:open learning; T:Ausbildung; T:Educação Profissional Técnica de Nível Médio; T:Educação profissionalizante; T:Fortbildung; T:Lehrlingsausbildung; T:TVET; T:continuing education; T:work-based learning; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Vocational education and training in Sub-Saharan Africa: current situation and development - Eicker, F; Haseloff, G; Lennartz, B (W. Bertelsmann Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 2017)
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Vocational education and training in southern Africa: a comparative study - Akoojee, Salim; Gewer, Anthony; McGrath, Simon A. (2005)
Introduction This volume is intended to develop and share knowledge within the southern African region regarding the challenges faced by vocational education and training (VET) systems and the responses to these challenges. Some of these challenges arise out of the history of VET in the region, whilst others relate to current international discourses about VET. The field of VET in southern Africa has been badly neglected. It is very difficult to find an article in the international journals on the topic, and it is even less likely that it will have been written by a national of the region, based at one of its research institutions. VET has also attracted little attention in the policy community for more than a decade, given the donor fascination with basic education since the World Conference on Education for All in 1990 (McGrath 2002). However, VET can play an important role in supporting social and economic development goals, and major VET policy reforms and the creation of new institutions are either underway or planned in all seven countries under study in this book. Therefore, it is my intention in this introduction to illuminate the nature of some of these changes, their origins and their likelihood of success. In so doing, I will show how VET is an important policy nexus – located as it is between economic and educational policy, between the state and the market, and between concerns with poverty and growth. Before this volume turns to examine this complexity through an exploration of the experiences of seven countries (Botswana, Lesotho, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland), it is important to locate these national and contemporary debates in the historical evolution of ideas about VET. In so doing, I will look at both internal trends within Africa and the impact of external ideas.
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Vocational Education and Training for Sustainability in South Africa: The Role of Public and Private Provision - McGrath, Simon; Akoojee, Salim (International Journal of Educational Development, 2009)
Written in the twilight of the Mbeki Presidency, this paper considers the role that skills development has in the sustainability of the South African political-economic project. It explores some of the disarticulations of public policy and argues that these both undermine public sector delivery and open up opportunities for private provision to be, under certain circumstances, more responsive to the challenges of national development. We argue that there is a possibility that the state could work more smartly with both sets of providers. Crucially, however, this would necessitate working more smartly within itself. This was a major plank of the Mbeki strategy but it has failed conspicuously with regard to the Education-Labour relationship. Whether a new President can achieve a radical reworking of this relationship may be an important indicator of the viability of any new development project. (Contains 1 table.)
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Vocational education and training for development: A policy in need of a theory? - McGrath, Simon (International Journal of Educational Development, 2012)
The current decade has seen a significant return of interest in vocational education and training (VET) amongst the international policy community. This rise in policy and programmatic interest in VET's role in development, however, stands in contrast to the state of the academic debate. Whilst there have continued to be both policy and academic developments in VET in OECD countries; in the South there has been a paucity of VET research and little in the way of theoretical exploration. Rather, the academic orthodoxy in the international education and development field is dismissive of VET's possible contribution. Given the return of the policy interest in VET for development, and the possibilities of a broader vision of education–development relations beyond 2015, when the MDGs end, it is time to revisit the role of VET in development from an explicitly theoretical stance. In this article, I argue that the current approach to VET is grounded in an outmoded model of development, whilst the academic critique of VET in developing countries is clearly long outdated. In contrast, I examine the implications for VET of recent trends in thinking about development through the exploration of three particular theoretical approaches: human rights, capabilities and integrated human development. I conclude by considering the purposes, natures and possibilities of VET as a means of human development.
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Vocational education and training for African development: a literature review - McGrath, Simon; Ramsarup, Presha; Zeelen, Jacques; Wedekind, Volker; Allais, Stephanie; Lotz-Sisitka, Heila (Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 2020)
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Vocational education and training for African development: a literature review - McGrath, Simon; Ramsarup, Presha; Zeelen, Jacques; Wedekind, Volker; Allais, Stephanie; Lotz-Sisitka, Heila; Monk, David; Openjuru, George; Russon, Jo-Anna (Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 2020)
The SDGs mark the clearest global acceptance yet that the previous approach to development was unsustainable. In VET, UNESCO has responded by developing a clear account of how a transformed VET must be part of a transformative approach to development. It argues that credible, comprehensive skills systems can be built that can support individuals, communities, and organisations to generate and maintain enhanced and just livelihood opportunities. However, the major current theoretical approaches to VET are not up to this challenge. In the context of Africa, we seek to address this problem through a presentation of literatures that contribute to the theorisation of this new vision. They agree that the world is not made up of atomised individuals guided by a “hidden hand”. Rather, reality is heavily structured within political economies that have emerged out of contestations and compromises in specific historical and geographical spaces. Thus, labour markets and education and training systems have arisen, characterised by inequalities and exclusions. These specific forms profoundly influence individuals’ and communities’ views about the value of different forms of learning and working. However, they do not fully define what individuals dream, think and do. Rather, a transformed and transformative VET for Africa is possible.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2019.1679969 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/13636820.2019.1679969 2129771:7Z66FVXB 2129771:XGUWRPRD
Keywords: Africa; Development; VET; _genre:LR-literature_review; interesting

Vocational Education and Training Authority
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Vocational Education and Training Authority - Government of Tanzania
The Vocational Education and Training Authority (VETA) is an autonomous Government Agency established by an Act of Parliament in 1994 (Cap 82 Revised edition 2006). The overall objective of VETA is to oversee the Vocational Education and Training system in Tanzania by coordinating, regulating, financing and providing of Vocational Education and Training in Tanzania.
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Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; CC:Tanzania; publicImportV1; tVET Key_institution

Vocational Education and Training – An Overview - Pütz, Helmut (2003)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Vocational and Technical Training
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VLIV POUŽITÍ MOBILNÍHO DOTYKOVÉHO ZAŘÍZENÍ PŘI PROCVIČOVÁNÍ UČIVA - Klubal, Libor (Klára Rybenská Experimentální ověření efektivity vỳuky anglického jazyka s využitím myenglishlab........... 128 Danuše Vymetálková, 2016)
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Visualizing Topics with Multi-Word Expressions - Blei, David M.; Lafferty, John D. (arXiv, 2009)
We describe a new method for visualizing topics, the distributions over terms that are automatically extracted from large text corpora using latent variable models. Our method finds significant $n$-grams related to a topic, which are then used to help understand and interpret the underlying distribution. Compared with the usual visualization, which simply lists the most probable topical terms, the multi-word expressions provide a better intuitive impression for what a topic is "about." Our approach is based on a language model of arbitrary length expressions, for which we develop a new methodology based on nested permutation tests to find significant phrases. We show that this method outperforms the more standard use of $\chi2$ and likelihood ratio tests. We illustrate the topic presentations on corpora of scientific abstracts and news articles.
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Keywords: Statistics - Machine Learning; _yl:a

Visual learning analytics to support classroom discourse analysis for teacher professional learning and development - Chen, Gaowei (The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Dialogic Education, 2019)
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Visual demands of modern primary classrooms and the impact of refractive anomalies on academic performance - Narayanasamy, Sumithira (Queensland University of Technology, 2015)

Visions for the Sustainable Implementation of the One Laptop per Child Project - Adam, Taskeen (University of Cambridge, 2015)
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Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

Vision for SLR tooling infrastructure: Prioritizing value-added requirements - Al-Zubidy, Ahmed; Carver, Jeffrey C.; Hale, David P.; Hassler, Edgar E. (Information and Software Technology, 2017)
Context Even with the increasing use of Systematic Literature Reviews (SLR) in software engineering (SE), there are still a number of barriers faced by SLR authors. These barriers increase the cost of conducting SLRs. Objective For many of these barriers, appropriate tool support could reduce their impact. In this paper, we use interactions with the SLR community in SE to identify and prioritize a set of requirements for SLR tooling infrastructure. Method This paper analyzes and combines the results from three studies on SLR process barriers and SLR tool requirements to produce a prioritized list of functional requirements for SLR tool support. Using this list of requirements, we perform a feature analysis of the current SLR support tools to identify requirements that are supported as well as identify the need for additional tooling infrastructure. Results The analysis resulted in a list 112 detailed requirements (consolidated into a set of composite requirements) that SE community desires in SLR support tools. The requirements span all the phases of the SLR process. The results show that, while recent tools cover more of the requirements, there are a number of high-priority requirements that are not yet fully covered by any of the existing tools. Conclusion The existing set of SLR tools do not cover all the requirements posed by the community. The list of requirements in this paper is useful for tool developers and researchers wishing to provide support to the SLR community with SE.
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Keywords: Empirical software engineering; Systematic literature review; Tooling infrastructure; _Added-ailr-2024

Visible learning for teachers: Maximizing impact on learning - Hattie, John (Routledge, 2012)
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Visible learning: A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement - Hattie, John (Routledge, 2009)
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Virtual Teacher Coaching May Not Be the Solution We Hoped For - Evans, David (Center For Global Development, 2020)
How can we help teachers to upgrade their pedagogical skills? Teacher coaching is a promising and increasingly popular candidate. Teacher coaching means teachers receive feedback in their place of work on specific things they can do better, not some general theory of pedagogy that’s completely disconnected from their day-to-day practice.
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Virtual Community Mentoring Models for Middle School Underachievers Psychosocial Development and Well-Being During COVID-19 - Gomes, Roseline Florence; Thomas, Lijo (Journal of Learning for Development, 2022)
Recent studies highlight the outcomes of COVID-19 on the psychosocial skills of early adolescents. It shows the unavailability of virtual community mentoring models for teenagers' individual and interpersonal growth in the virtual scenario. Hence, there emerges a need to explore and apply the available virtual communication resources by facilitators, families, and other community professionals for teenagers’ self-development. This article reports the application of virtual resources like WhatsApp, graphic design platforms (CANVA and Adobe), graphic interchange formats (GIPHY App), all-in-one visual content editing forums (InShot App), and memes (Meme Generator App) in engaging and supporting community mentoring capacities leading to psychosocial development and well-being for teenagers during COVID-19. Through this article, contemporary virtual models are explored and executed with community guidance to integrate the personal developmental skills of middle school underachievers. There is also a need to work with community interventions by using virtual mentoring skillsets for positive youth development.
Number: 1
Keywords: COVID-19; Psychosocial Development; Virtual Community Models; ⛔ No DOI found

Violence in Schools - Bolton, Laura (2017)
This rapid literature review sets out to identify evidence on approaches to measuring the prevalence of violence in schools across low and middle income countries and the data available based on these measurement approaches. The review includes a list of key sources of evidence on measurements and a review of statistical data on the the prevalence of violence in schools for low and middle income countries globally.
Accepted: 2017-09-08T10:45:52Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:5659BGEB 4869029:PT83LLPZ
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Violence, Disruption and the Spatial Resilience of Northern Nigerian Markets’ - Ajadi, S.B. (The Cambridge Land Society Magazine, 2022)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Violence against primary school children with disabilities in Uganda: a cross-sectional study - Devries, Karen M.; Kyegombe, Nambusi; Zuurmond, Maria; Parkes, Jenny; Child, Jennifer C.; Walakira, Eddy J.; Naker, Dipak (BMC public health, 2014)
Publisher: Springer

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

Village based schools in Mangochi: Evaluation report - Hyde, Karin AL; Kadzamira, Esme C.; Sichinga, Juliet C.; Chibwana, Mike P.; Ridker, Ronald G. (Centre for Educational Research and Training, University of Malawi, Zomba, 1996)
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Keywords: _C:Malawi MWI; ⛔ No DOI found

Viewing mobile learning from a pedagogical perspective. - Kearney, Matthew; Schuck, Sandra; Burden, Kevin; Aubusson, Peter (Research in Learning Technology, 2012)
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View of Challenges of Teachers on Teaching Practice: A Case Study of Students of Freetown Teachers’ College in Sierra Leone | Asian Journal of Interdisciplinary Research - Kamara, Alhaji Bakar (Asian Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, 2020)
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Video Improves Learning in Higher Education: A Systematic Review - Noetel, Michael; Griffith, Shantell; Delaney, Oscar; Sanders, Taren; Parker, Philip; del Pozo Cruz, Borja; Lonsdale, Chris (Review of Educational Research, 2021)
Universities around the world are incorporating online learning, often relying on videos (asynchronous multimedia). We systematically reviewed the effects of video on learning in higher education. We searched five databases using 27 keywords to find randomized trials that measured the learning effects of video among college students. We conducted full-text screening, data extraction, and risk of bias in duplicate. We calculated pooled effect sizes using multilevel random-effects meta-analysis. Searches retrieved 9,677 unique records. After screening 329 full texts, 105 met inclusion criteria, with a pooled sample of 7,776 students. Swapping video for existing teaching methods led to small improvements in student learning (g = 0.28). Adding video to existing teaching led to strong learning benefits (g = 0.80). Although results may be subject to some experimental and publication biases, they suggest that videos are unlikely to be detrimental and usually improve student learning.
Publisher: American Educational Research Association KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3102/0034654321990713 2129771:DP396LQG
Keywords: _genre:LR-literature_review; active learning; cognitive load; instructional design; multimedia; online learning

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

Video as a tool for agricultural extension in Africa: a case study from Ghana - David, Soniia; Asamoah, Christopher (International Journal of Education and Development using ICT, 2011)
The paper explores the effectiveness of video viewing clubs (VVCs) as a training method based on a formal survey of 32 Ghanaian women farmers who were trained on cocoa integrated crop and pest management (ICPM) using this method. Results suggests that the video viewing club is effective as a relatively low cost, interactive training method for providing low literacy populations with skills, information and knowledge on complex technical topics. While there was no significant difference between VVC participants and a control group in cocoa yields and implementation of selected ICPM practices, the study demonstrated that VVC training significantly improved farmers' knowledge of most topics covered. Farmers' perception of changes in their practices provided further evidence of the positive impact of the training, as did their high rate of knowledge diffusion. The use of local facilitators in the VVCs, which created a sense of ownership and added to the credibility of the technical messages, contributed to farmers' appreciation of the method. The paper concludes by discussing the challenges of scaling up VVCs and identifying issues for further research. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:R; CT:T; F:women; HDR25; P:agricultural; Q:distance learning; Q:educational technology; Q:interactive; R:case study; R:impact; R:survey; T:Training; T:trainee; Z:Agricultural education; Z:Cocoa; Z:Distance learning; Z:Educational technology; Z:Farmers; Z:Video; _C:Ghana GHA; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Vicarious Resilience: An Exploration of Teachers and Children’s Resilience in Highly Challenging Social Contexts - Acevedo, Victoria Eugenia; Hernandez-Wolfe, Pilar (Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 2014)
This study explores the formulation of vicarious resilience as a useful concept in the middle school age school educational arena. It addresses the question of how teachers who work with learners who experienced dislocation and adversity are affected by the children’s stories of resilience. It focuses on the teachers’ interpretations of their learners’ stories, and how they make sense of the impact these stories have had on their lives. Twenty-one teachers who work in accelerated learning programs in Cali, Colombia, were interviewed about their perceptions of their learners’ overcoming of adversity. Data were analyzed through the Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR) methodology to describe the themes that speak about the effects of witnessing how learners coped constructively with adversity. These themes are discussed to advance the concept of vicarious resilience and how it can contribute to sustaining and empowering teachers dealing with challenging children and trauma.
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Vegetation Change Detection Due to Anthropogenic Activities in the Falgore Game Reserve, Kano, Nigeria - Tudunwada, I.Y. (Geotunis Conference, 6th Session, 26th, 2012)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Van-der-Berg-Spaull-2020-Counting-the-Cost-COVID-19-Children-and-Schooling-15-June-2020-1.pdf
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Valutazione formante per l’attivazione cognitiva. Spunti per un uso efficace delle tecnologie per apprendere in classe - Trinchero, Roberto (Italian Journal of Educational Technology, 2018)
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Validity in design science research - Larsen, K.; Lukyanenko, R.; Muller, R. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, 2020)
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Validity Argument for Practical Measures of Student Experience in Project - Penuel, Bill
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Validation of Designbuilder Simulation Accuracy Using Field Measured Data of Indoor Air Temperature in a Classroom Building - Abba, Habu Yusuf; Majid, Roshida Abdul; Ahmed, Muhammad Hamdan; Gbenga, Olutobi (Management, 2022)
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Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; ⛔ No DOI found

Valid Training Providers (Nigeria) - National Industrial Training Authority (2020)
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Utilizing Open Education Resources to Enhance Students' Learning Outcomes during the COVID-19 Schools Lockdown: A Case of Using Kolibri by Selected Government Schools in Uganda - Kabugo, David (Journal of Learning for Development, 2020)
A preview of the international dashboard of trends in education suggests that Open Education Resources (OER) have and will continue to impact the provision of education during institutional closure owing to the global COVID-19 pandemic. However, the toughest question that is often presented to OER promoters regards the pedagogical effectiveness of OER: If education resource users are not cognizant and do not pay for the production, distribution and utilization of the required resources, then, how can the production, distribution and utilization of such resources be effectively used? Basing on data obtained from the system (Kolibri) usage-logs and e-interviews (online conversational interviews) on Zoom which were conducted with twenty five (25) purposively selected teachers, and one hundred (100) students invited from 10 Government-Aided Secondary Schools in Uganda, this study presents a Discourse Analysis (DA) of teachers' use of OER on Kolibri and draws on such insights gained to propose a potentially transformative model for efficient and effective utilization of OER to enhance students' learning outcomes during the COVID-19 schools lockdown.
Publisher: Commonwealth of Learning ERIC Number: EJ1280825 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.56059/jl4d.v7i3.465 4804264:EGD5LGRE 4804264:LPAW7QQH
Keywords: Access to Education; COVID-19; Developing Nations; Educational Technology; Final_citation; Foreign Countries; Instructional Effectiveness; Learning Analytics; Open Educational Resources; Outcomes of Education; Pandemics; Public Schools; STEM Education; School Closing; Secondary School Students; Secondary School Teachers; Student Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; Videoconferencing; cited; existing

Utilizing Open Education Resources to Enhance Students’ Learning Outcomes during the COVID-19 Schools Lockdown: A Case of Kolibri by Selected Government Schools in Uganda - Kabugo, David (Journal of Learning for Development, 2020)
A preview of the international dashboard of trends in education suggests that Open Education Resources (OERs) have and will continue to impact the provision of education during institutional closure owing to the global Covid-19 pandemic. However, the toughest question that is often presented to OERs promoters regards the efficiency (sustainability) and the pedagogical effectiveness of OERs: If education resource users are not cognizant and do not pay for the production, distribution, and utilization of the required resources, then, how can the production, distribution, and utilization of such resources be efficiently and effectively used? Basing on usage-logs and interview data that were collected from 25 teachers in 10 Government-Aided Secondary Schools in Uganda, this report presents a Discourse Analysis of teachers’ use of OERs on Kolibri and draws on such insights gained to propose a potentially transformative model for efficient and effective utilization of OERs to enhance students’ learning outcomes during COVID-19 schools lockdown.
Number: 3 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:WFAEAVB7
Keywords: COVID-19; Kolibri; Learning Outcomes; Utilizing Open Education Resources; ⛔ No DOI found

Utilization of water reed in production of various insulation panels - Karademir, Arif; Yetis, Ferhat; Imamoglu, Sami; Varlıbas, Hulya (Science and Engineering of Composite Materials, 2013)
Some panels and particleboards were made from reed mats and blends of reed-wood chips to be used inside buildings for sound and heat insulations. It was seen that the outer layers of the reed body (spike) was almost water resistant and exceptionally resistant to the penetration of common adhesives. Therefore, the panels from stitched reed mats exhibited very poor mechanical strength. The sound transmissions of such panels (1–3 km/s) made with various combinations, however, were recorded to be excellent compared with that of particleboards made of wood (17 km/s). Blends of reed chips (2 cm) and wood chips, however, gave particleboards with better mechanical properties (5–17 MPa) than that of panels made from reed mats (2 MPa). An increasing amount of reed chips in tested particleboards was recorded to be improving both sound and heat insulations from 17 to 6 km/s and from 0.34 to 0.27 W/mK, respectively. The bending strength of samples, however, was reduced from 26 to 5 MPa. Thickness swelling was also noted to increase from 18% to 85% due to reed chips addition. It was concluded that the outer layers of water reeds should be modified via chemical and/or enzymatic methods to increase the interfacial bounds between adhesives.
Publisher: De Gruyter
Keywords: heat insulation; insulation panels; particleboards; sound insulation; water reeds

Uso de repositórios de recursos educacionais abertos nas práticas pedagógicas: uma revisão sistemática - Universidade Federal de Brasília (Brasil); Ferreira Borges, Flavio; Teixeira, Janaína Angelina; Universidade de Brasília (Brasil); Osuna Acedo, Sara; Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (España) (RELATEC Revista Latinoamericana de Tecnología Educativa, 2020)

Uso da tecnologia assistiva na educação inclusiva no processo de alfabetização de escolares: revisão sistemática - Biazus, Graziela Ferreira; Rieder, Carlos Roberto Mello (Revista Educação Especial, 2019)
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Keywords: _C:Austria AUT; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Spain ESP; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

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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Using video to support in-service teacher professional development: the state of the field, limitations and possibilities - Major, Louis; Watson, Steven (Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2018)
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Using video for professional development: the role of the discussion facilitator - Coles, Alf (Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2013)
Past research into the use of video for professional development has failed to problematise or theorise sufficiently the role of the discussion facilitator. It has been reported consistently that it can be hard or take time to establish norms for discussion of video but little has been said about reasons why, or the role of the discussion facilitator. As a starting point in this area, I suggest fives aspects or decision points in the role of the facilitator. Two aspects are taken from the literature and the others are drawn from empirical data, collected as part of an enactivist study into the use of video in one sec- ondary school. At the school, teachers commented on finding video watching in a group more useful than lesson observation, with no evidence of this taking time to develop. I offer speculations, based on enactivist category theory, as to why the use of video in this school is effective. Having presented key aspects of the role of the facilitator of video use, a further look at the detail of the data from discussions serves to highlight some of the complexities involved in just one of the categories (and, by implication, the others). I conclude that the role of the facilitator cannot be separated from a consideration of the historical context in which discussion takes place.

Using value-added measures of teacher quality - Hanushek, E.A.; Rivkin, S.G. (CALDER Brief, 2010)

Using the Robot as a Research Assistant: Research Design Using Generative AI - Wang, Shida (NYU SPS Applied Analytics Laboratory, 2023)
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Using the Infrastructure of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program to Deliver a Scalable Integrated Early Child Development Program in Colombia: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. - Attanasio, Orazio P.; Fernández, Camila; Fitzsimons, Emla O.A.; Grantham-McGregor, Sally M.; Meghir, Costas; Rubio-Codina, Marta (BMJ, 2014)

Using the Capability Approach to improve female teacher deployment to rural schools in Nigeria - Tao, Sharon (International Journal of Educational Development, 2014)
This study focuses on the socio-cultural and institutional factors that affect female teacher deployment in rural primary schools in Nigeria. In Kwara State, there are extreme imbalances in teacher distribution between rural and urban areas due to female teachers’ active avoidance and/or attrition from rural posts. Given these problems, this article discusses an innovative use of the Capability Approach that informed a rural teacher deployment policy that addressed a number of issues that were specifically identified through female teachers’ values and lived experiences. This research not only had the positive analytical and political effects of prioritising the knowledge, participation and empowerment of female teachers; but it also provided a more fine-grained and holistic understanding of issues hindering effective deployment and retention of female Nigerian teachers, which informed the development of comprehensive and relevant strategies to address these.
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Keywords: Lebanon_event_2021; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Ethiopia ETH; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:India IND; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Lesotho LSO; _C:Liberia LBR; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Mozambique MOZ; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Senegal SEN; _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Sudan SDN; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:Zimbabwe ZWE; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Using text mining for study identification in systematic reviews: a systematic review of current approaches - O’Mara-Eves, Alison; Thomas, James; McNaught, John; Miwa, Makoto; Ananiadou, Sophia (Systematic Reviews, 2015)
The large and growing number of published studies, and their increasing rate of publication, makes the task of identifying relevant studies in an unbiased way for inclusion in systematic reviews both complex and time consuming. Text mining has been offered as a potential solution: through automating some of the screening process, reviewer time can be saved. The evidence base around the use of text mining for screening has not yet been pulled together systematically; this systematic review fills that research gap. Focusing mainly on non-technical issues, the review aims to increase awareness of the potential of these technologies and promote further collaborative research between the computer science and systematic review communities.
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Keywords: Automation; Review efficiency; Screening; Study selection; Text mining

Using telecollaboration to promote intercultural competence in teacher training classrooms in Turkey and the USA - Üzüm, Babürhan; Akayoglu, Sedat; Yazan, Bedrettin (ReCALL, 2020)
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Using technology to support teacher continuous professional development in Sierra Leone - Beoku-Betts, Iman; Plaut, Daniel; Tanweer, Rabia (2022)

Using Technology to Support At-Risk Students’ Learning - Darling-Hammond, Linda; Zielezinski, Molly; goldman, shelley (Alliance for Excellent Education, 2014)
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Keywords: Final_citation; anystyle; existing

Using technology to improve the equity of teacher allocation in Sierra Leone: the challenge and a way forward - McBurnie, Chris; Vijil, Alejandra; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2022)
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Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Using technology to improve the equity of teacher allocation in Sierra Leone: the challenge and a way forward - McBurnie, Chris; Vijil, Alejandra; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2022)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _r:AddedByZotZen

​Using technology to deliver educational services to children and youth in environments affected by crisis and/or conflict - Carlson, , S (USAID, 2013)
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Using Technology to Deliver Educational Services to Children and Youth in Environments Affected by Crisis and/or Conflict - Carlson, Samuel (USAID, 2013)
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Keywords: Screened; ___working_potential_duplicate; ⛔ No DOI found

Using technology for enhancing teaching and learning in Bangladesh: challenges and consequences - Shohel, M. Mahruf C.; Kirkwood, Adrian (Learning, Media and Technology, 2012)
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Using Smartphones as Experimental Tools—Effects on Interest, Curiosity, and Learning in Physics Education - Hochberg, Katrin; Kuhn, Jochen; Müller, Andreas (Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2018)
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Keywords: __C:filed:1

Using research evidence - A practice guide - Nesta (2016)
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Using repeated visual exposure, rewards and modelling in a mobile application to increase vegetable acceptance in children - Farrow, Claire; Belcher, Esme; Coulthard, Helen; Thomas, Jason M.; Lumsden, Joanna; Hakobyan, Lilit; Haycraft, Emma (Appetite, 2019)
Publisher: Elsevier KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.appet.2019.104327 2129771:X9TFETZW
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Using Open and Educational Resources (OERs) and Wiki’s to Support Entrepreneurship Training in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Institutions in Zambia - Konayuma, G (2013)
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Using Mobile Phone Texting to Support the Capacity of School Leaders in Ghana to Practise Leadership for Learning - Swaffield, Sue; Jull, Stephen; Ampah-Mensah, Alfred (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013)
Several years into a collaborative professional development programme to build the Leadership for Learning capacity of Basic school headteachers throughout Ghana, the challenge is to sustain commitment, deepen understanding and share learning among the school leaders. Employing ubiquitous mobile phone technology, weekly text messages have been sent to the programme's 175 initial participants. During the year of the pilot project different forms of messages have been tried, and feedback from recipients suggests their value. The paper reports experience and findings from the pilot, and considers plans for scaling-up to reach all 18,000 Basic schools across the country.
Keywords: Ghana; Leadership for Learning; SMS; headteachers; mobile phone; professional development; school leaders; text messages

Using Machine Learning to Parameterize Moist Convection: Potential for Modeling of Climate, Climate Change, and Extreme Events - O'Gorman, Paul A.; Dwyer, John G. (Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2018)
Abstract The parameterization of moist convection contributes to uncertainty in climate modeling and numerical weather prediction. Machine learning (ML) can be used to learn new parameterizations directly from high‐resolution model output, but it remains poorly understood how such parameterizations behave when fully coupled in a general circulation model (GCM) and whether they are useful for simulations of climate change or extreme events. Here we focus on these issues using idealized tests in which an ML‐based parameterization is trained on output from a conventional parameterization and its performance is assessed in simulations with a GCM. We use an ensemble of decision trees (random forest) as the ML algorithm, and this has the advantage that it automatically ensures conservation of energy and nonnegativity of surface precipitation. The GCM with the ML convective parameterization runs stably and accurately captures important climate statistics including precipitation extremes without the need for special training on extremes. Climate change between a control climate and a warm climate is not captured if the ML parameterization is only trained on the control climate, but it is captured if the training includes samples from both climates. Remarkably, climate change is also captured when training only on the warm climate, and this is because the extratropics of the warm climate provides training samples for the tropics of the control climate. In addition to being potentially useful for the simulation of climate, we show that ML parameterizations can be interrogated to provide diagnostics of the interaction between convection and the large‐scale environment. , Plain Language Summary Small‐scale features such as clouds are typically represented in climate models by simplified physical models, and these simplified models introduce errors and uncertainties. A promising alternative approach is to use machine learning to train a statistical model to represent small‐scale processes based on output from expensive physics‐based models that better represent the small‐scale processes. Here we use idealized tests to explore the implications of incorporating a machine‐learning model of atmospheric convection in a climate model. We find that such an approach can give accurate simulations of mean climate and heavy rainfall events. The machine‐learning model does not work well for global warming if it is only trained on the current climate. However, it does work well for global warming if trained on both the current and warmer climates, and it works surprisingly well if only trained on the warmer climate. We also show that the machine‐learning model can be used to better understand the underlying physical processes. , Key Points Random‐forest parameterization of convection gives accurate GCM simulations of climate and precipitation extremes in idealized tests Climate change captured when trained on control and warm climate, or only on warm climate, but not when trained only on control climate Machine‐learning parameterizations can also be interrogated to generate diagnostics of interaction of convection with the environment

Using Machine Learning to Analyze Physical Causes of Climate Change: A Case Study of U.S. Midwest Extreme Precipitation - Davenport, Frances V.; Diffenbaugh, Noah S. (Geophysical Research Letters, 2021)
Abstract While global warming has generally increased the occurrence of extreme precipitation, the physical mechanisms by which climate change alters regional and local precipitation extremes remain uncertain, with debate about the role of changes in the atmospheric circulation. We use a convolutional neural network (CNN) to analyze large‐scale circulation patterns associated with U.S. Midwest extreme precipitation. The CNN correctly identifies 91% of observed precipitation extremes based on daily sea level pressure and 500‐hPa geopotential height anomalies. There is evidence of increasing frequency of extreme precipitation circulation patterns (EPCPs) over the past two decades, although frequency changes are insignificant over the past four decades. Additionally, we find that moisture transport and precipitation intensity during EPCPs have increased. Our approach, which uses deep learning visualization to understand how the CNN predicts EPCPs, advances machine learning as a tool for providing insight into physical causes of changing extremes, potentially reducing uncertainty in future projections. , Plain Language Summary Extreme precipitation and flooding cause widespread impacts on human society. While global warming has increased the occurrence of these damaging events, there is still uncertainty about how climate change will affect precipitation and flooding, making it difficult to adequately prepare for future hazards. We use machine learning to understand why extreme precipitation is becoming more common in the U.S. Midwest by analyzing the atmospheric circulation patterns during extreme precipitation events. Our results show that there is heavier precipitation when extreme precipitation patterns occur, but the patterns themselves have not changed significantly in frequency over the past four decades. Our method could be used to better understand changes in extreme events in the Midwest and in other regions of the world. , Key Points We use a neural network to predict extreme precipitation from daily sea level pressure and 500‐hPa geopotential height fields Increasing Midwest extreme precipitation is linked to increasing moisture transport and precipitation during specific circulation patterns Our method is generalizable to studying how climate change affects the physical causes of various types of extreme events in other regions
Keywords: _z:no_pdf

Using machine learning to advance synthesis and use of conservation and environmental evidence - Cheng, S. H.; Augustin, C.; Bethel, A.; Gill, D.; Anzaroot, S.; Brun, J.; DeWilde, B.; Minnich, R. C.; Garside, R.; Masuda, Y. J.; Miller, D. C.; Wilkie, D.; et al. (Conservation Biology, 2018)
Article impact statement: Machine learning optimizes processes of systematic evidence synthesis and improves its utility for evidence-based conservation.
_eprint: https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/cobi.13117 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1111/cobi.13117 2129771:J3CYENW2

Using Live Video Streaming in Online Tutoring: Exploring Factors Affecting Social Interaction - Wu, Man; Gao, Qin (International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2020)
The growth of live video streaming (LVS) technology provides new possibilities for online tutoring in that it accommodates a massive number of learners simultaneously. Questions still exist, however, about the extent to which new technology can support interactions between an instructor and a vast number of learners, as well as which factors would influence learners’ interactions with the instructor and peer learners. This study explored these questions by conducting a survey involving 189 senior high school students participating in online LVS tutoring. The results indicated that learner–instructor interaction dominated social interaction in the online tutoring environment with the current system design. This design may also contribute to the development of the perceived presence of peer learners with few direct information exchanges among peers. Social Connectedness and perceived enjoyment positively influenced learner–instructor interaction, whereas social fears and the social presence of the instructor negatively influenced learner–learner interaction.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2019.1706288 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/10447318.2019.1706288 4804264:5WUHJDRY
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Using Large Language Models for Qualitative Analysis can Introduce Serious Bias - Ashwin, Julian; Chhabra, Aditya; Rao, Vijayendra (World Bank Washington, DC, 2023)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1596/1813-9450-10597 2486141:TNAS2ULG

Using iPads to teach inquiry science to students with a moderate to severe intellectual disability: A pilot study - Miller, Bridget T; Krockover, Gerald H; Doughty, Teresa (Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013)
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Using Interactive Radio Instruction to Mitigate the Educational Impact of Covid-19: A curated resource list - McBurnie, Chris (EdTech Hub, 2020)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:Y8CEB3LK
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Using Interactive Radio Instruction to mitigate the educational impact of COVID-19: a curated resource list - McBurnie, Chris (2020)
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Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; COV:COVID and reopening of schools; F: Helpdesk response; H:Radio; LP: English; _C:Liberia LBR; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _C:Sudan SDN; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Zambia ZMB; _EdTechHub_Output; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ___duplicate_item; _cover:v1; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _zenodoETH; dode_eth-src-eth; dode_eth-trf2-dode

Using improvement science to better support beginning teachers: The case of the building a teaching effectiveness network - Hannan, Maggie; Russell, Jennifer Lin; Takahashi, Sola; Park, Sandra (Journal of Teacher Education, 2015)
Publisher: SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA

Using implementation science to support the implementation of interventions in real world contexts | Self-evaluation | National Improvement Hub
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Using ICTs and Blended Learning in Transforming TVET - Latchem, Colin (UNESCO; COL, 2017)
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Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; HDR25; publicImportV1

Using GIS and spatial modelling to support school network planning in Estonia - Roosaare, Jüri; Sepp, Edgar (2012)
A spatial decision support system based on geo-informatics and spatial modelling tools has been used to provide a reorganization plan of school networks, The study was undertaken in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Research of Estonia
Keywords: _C:Austria AUT; _C:Estonia EST; _C:France FRA; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Portugal PRT; _C:Russian Federation RUS; _C:State of Palestine PSE; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Using GIS and Machine Learning to Classify Residential Status of Urban Buildings in Low and Middle Income Settings - Lloyd, Christopher T.; Sturrock, Hugh J. W.; Leasure, Douglas R.; Jochem, Warren C.; Lázár, Attila N.; Tatem, Andrew J. (Remote Sensing, 2020)
Utilising satellite images for planning and development is becoming a common practice as computational power and machine learning capabilities expand. In this paper, we explore the use of satellite image derived building footprint data to classify the residential status of urban buildings in low and middle income countries. A recently developed ensemble machine learning building classification model is applied for the first time to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and to Nigeria. The model is informed by building footprint and label data of greater completeness and attribute consistency than have previously been available for these countries. A GIS workflow is described that semiautomates the preparation of data for input to the model. The workflow is designed to be particularly useful to those who apply the model to additional countries and use input data from diverse sources. Results show that the ensemble model correctly classifies between 85% and 93% of structures as residential and nonresidential across both countries. The classification outputs are likely to be valuable in the modelling of human population distributions, as well as in a range of related applications such as urban planning, resource allocation, and service delivery.
Number: 23 Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Keywords: building classification; building footprint; machine learning; residential; superlearner

Using Formative Assessment to Create Coherent and Equitable Assessment Systems - Shepard, Lorrie A; Penuel, William R; Davidson, Kristen
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

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.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1177/0267658316637401 4804264:TCRA8A6R
Keywords: Final_citation

Using Explainability to Help Children UnderstandGender Bias in AI - Melsión, Gaspar Isaac; Torre, Ilaria; Vidal, Eva; Leite, Iolanda (Interaction Design and Children, 2021)

Using examination and learning assessment data to uncover foundational skill gaps in Sierra Leone’s secondary schools - Waistell, Daniel; De, Sourovi; Ofori Owusu, Diana; Allen, Reg; Sanni, Kayode; Dupigny, Albert (Education technology and data science for inclusive systems, 2019)
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE; ⛔ No DOI found

Using evidence to help build and evaluate good ideas in education technology - Knight, Simon; Moeini, Anissa; Clark-Wilson, Alison (EduResearch Matters, 2020)
As researchers, we care that our educational systems improve, support all learners, and are grounded solidly in research evidence. But how do we work with stakeholders like educational technology s…
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Using Evidence-Informed Practice in Primary School Improvement in an Under-Achieving School System: A Case Study in Sierra Leone - Mason, Miriam; Galloway, David (The Emerald Handbook of Evidence-Informed Practice in Education, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1108/978-1-80043-141-620221044 4869029:G8NLIA2X

Using electronic technology in the dynamic testing of young primary school children: predicting school achievement - Touw, Kirsten WJ; Vogelaar, Bart; Bakker, Merel; Resing, Wilma CM (Educational Technology Research and Development, 2019)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1007/s11423-019-09655-6 10/gf62gs 2129771:8L67ZYJJ 2129771:K8MADQWM
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Using educational transitions to estimate learning loss due to COVID-19 school closures: The case of Complementary Basic Education in Ghana - Sabates, Ricardo; Carter, Emma; Stern, Jonathan M. B. (International Journal of Educational Development, 2021)
Learning loss is expected for millions of children who have been out of school as a result of the current COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, it is uncertain how much learning will be lost and how wide the gaps may be for disadvantaged children. This paper uses a unique longitudinal dataset to estimate learning loss during a three-month transition from Complementary Basic Education to government schools in Ghana. Our results show an average learning loss of 66 % of previous learning gains in foundational numeracy during this transition period. More importantly, we estimate widening gaps in learning loss according to lack of home learning support, as well as lack of home learning resources. Our results have implications for the provision of learning activities and support at home, not just during current school closures due to COVID-19, but also during transitions between academic years.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2021.102377 2129771:GJKUCPKG
Keywords: COVID-19 school closure; Equity; Ghana; Learning; Literacy; Numeracy

Using educational transitions to estimate learning loss due to Covid-19 school closures - Ricardo, Sabates; Carter, Emma; Stern, Jonathan (REAL Centre, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, 2020)
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Keywords: _COVID_DEAA-List

Using education technology to support learners with special educational needs and disabilities in low- and middle-income countries - Coflan, Caitlin Moss; Kaye, Thomas (EdTech Hub, 2020)
EdTechHub.Source: 2405685:2WY8H4WW KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.5281/zenodo.3744581 2129771:QEIBUIQH 2405685:2WY8H4WW 2339240:Z7XXM8CG 2339240:ZZ8ISXSK 2405685:GG9HHSDL
Keywords: L:Special education needs and disabilities (SEND); LP: English; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:India IND; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Lesotho LSO; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Portugal PRT; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Spain ESP; _EdTechHub_Output; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; _cover:v1; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _zenodoETH; docs.opendeved.net; dode_eth-src-dode

Using education technology to support learners with special educational needs and disabilities in low- and middle-income countries - Coflan, Caitlin Moss; Kaye, Tom (Zenodo, 2020)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:6XUPH2D6
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Using EdTech to Support Learning Remotely in the Early Years. Rapid Literature Review of Evidence from the Global Response to Covid-19. - Korin, Astrid (EdTech Hub, 2021)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Keywords: _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_seen; _cover:v3; _genre:LR-literature_review; _r:AddedByZotZen; _zenodoETH

Using EdTech to Support Effective Data Monitoring: A Curated Resource List. - Koomar, Saalim; Blest, Harriet (EdTech Hub, 2020)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:EK3RTX6F
Keywords: Final_citation

Using EdTech in Settings of Fragility, Conflict and Violence: A Curated Resource List - Koomar, Saalim; Moss Coflan, Caitlin; Kaye, Tom (EdTech Hub, 2020)
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Keywords: C:Yemen; F: Helpdesk response; LP: English; W:Fragile and conflict affected contexts; _C:Afghanistan AFG; _C:Algeria DZA; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Burkina Faso BFA; _C:Chad TCD; _C:Congo XCO; _C:Congo; Democratic Republic COD; _C:Egypt EGY; _C:France FRA; _C:Iraq IRQ; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Kuwait KWT; _C:Lebanon LBN; _C:Liberia LBR; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _C:South Sudan SSD; _C:Sudan SDN; _C:Syrian Arab Republic SYR; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:Yemen YEM; _EdTechHub_Output; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; _cover:v1; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _zenodoETH; docs.opendeved.net; dode_eth-src-eth; dode_eth-trf2-dode

Using Digital Technology to Improve Learning: Evidence Review - Lewin, Cathy; Smith, Andrew; Morris, Stephen; Craig, Elaine (Education Endowment Foundation, 2019)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:YPM38BW9 2486141:8DF29975

Using digital technology to improve learning - Stringer, Eleanor; Lewin, Cathy; Coleman, Robbie (Education Endowment Foundation, 2019)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:VNC5FJBM 2486141:JV4TL7X7
Keywords: _Added to LR; _T:reviewed

Using digital technology to enhance formative assessment in mathematics classrooms - Dalby, Diane; Swan, Malcolm (British Journal of Educational Technology, 2018)
00000 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1111/bjet.12606 2129771:LSCAUXJ2 2129771:Q8TBVWLR 2129771:UJHPHNP7
Keywords: _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:United Kingdom GBR; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Using digital technology and school-based professional development to leverage interactive classroom teaching in Zambia - Hennessy, Sara; Haßler, Björn; Mwewa, G. (Millennium Goals Revisited: A Common Wealth of Learning, 2012)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:UQKD4B63 2129771:ZTJE5WPC 261495:HNV94NFU
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; Björn-CV-OECS; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Using digital technology and school-based professional development to leverage interactive classroom teaching in Zambia - Hennessy, Sara; Haßler, Björn; Mwewa, G (2016)
This chapter describes a study which explored the feasibility of using information and communications technologies (ICTs) to support more interactive forms of subject teaching and learning in Sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, we: • provided open educational resources (OER) to three ICT-and Internetequipped primary schools in Zambia, all serving disadvantaged communities; • worked with partners to identify the needs of school-based continuing professional development (CPD) adapted to the local context; • responded to those needs by designing an appropriate intervention – focusing on participatory, collaborative and interactive pedagogies supported by ICTs and OER, both within the classroom and for teacher development.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:QG8ESI5B 2317526:CWBQU3Q9
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; Björn-CV-OECS; C:Zambia; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:R; CT:T; F:learning; F:teaching; P:teacher education; P:teachers; Q:ICT; Q:OER; Q:digital technology; Q:interactive; Q:interactive pedagogy; Q:open educational resources; Q:primary education; R:evaluation; T:Classroom teaching; Z:ICT in education; Z:Intervention evaluation; Z:Primary education; Z:Teacher education; publicImportV1

Using design-based research to bring partnership between researchers and practitioners - Getenet, Seyum (Educational Research, 2019)
Background: A key aim of educational research is for findings to inform practice, thereby bringing about improvements in teaching and learning. However, the relationship between research and practice is complex, and there is often no clear link between changes in practice and research findings. One of the challenges for research and practice is breaking down barriers and finding effective and sustainable ways to translate research findings into practical solutions in the classroom.Purpose: This discursive paper focuses on describing the nature of the partnership working involved when a design-based research (DBR) approach was employed to bring researchers and practitioners together. The researchers and practitioners worked in collaboration to design a professional development (PD) programme, in order to solve classroom problems and enhance practitioners’ research engagement.Sources of evidence: This paper describes the author’s experience of using DBR to co-design a PD programme that was responsive to a particular context and practitioners’ needs. It illustrates and exemplifies the ways in which the researcher–practitioner collaboration itself sits at the heart of the design process and enabled solutions to be found. The paper also considers the epistemological positions of the practitioners and researchers in the different stages of DBR. The context for the description is a mixed-methods intervention study conducted in two colleges of teacher education, which documented the design and refinement of a PD programme to facilitate teachers’ effective use of technology to teach mathematics.Discussion and conclusions: The examples presented and discussed here suggest how a DBR process is able to facilitate fruitful collaborations between researchers and practitioners and increase engagement in research. By working with practitioners to design interventions such as PD programmes, DBR can provide a practical approach for improving practice and deepening the relationship between educational research and classroom practice.
EdTechHub.Source: 2405685:SXE25TP7 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/00131881.2019.1677168 2129771:XWT48UG5 2339240:FNGCAY8H 2405685:SXE25TP7
Keywords: Design-based research; evidence-informed practice; practice; practitioners; professional development; teacher education

Using DeepSpeed and Megatron to Train Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, A Large-Scale Generative Language Model - Smith, Shaden; Patwary, Mostofa; Norick, Brandon; LeGresley, Patrick; Rajbhandari, Samyam; Casper, Jared; Liu, Zhun; Prabhumoye, Shrimai; Zerveas, George; Korthikanti, Vijay; Zhang, Elton; Child, Rewon; et al. (arXiv, 2022)
Pretrained general-purpose language models can achieve state-of-the-art accuracies in various natural language processing domains by adapting to downstream tasks via zero-shot, few-shot and fine-tuning techniques. Because of their success, the size of these models has increased rapidly, requiring high-performance hardware, software, and algorithmic techniques to enable training such large models. As the result of a joint effort between Microsoft and NVIDIA, we present details on the training of the largest monolithic transformer based language model, Megatron-Turing NLG 530B (MT-NLG), with 530 billion parameters. In this paper, we first focus on the infrastructure as well as the 3D parallelism methodology used to train this model using DeepSpeed and Megatron. Next, we detail the training process, the design of our training corpus, and our data curation techniques, which we believe is a key ingredient to the success of the model. Finally, we discuss various evaluation results, as well as other interesting observations and new properties exhibited by MT-NLG. We demonstrate that MT-NLG achieves superior zero-, one-, and few-shot learning accuracies on several NLP benchmarks and establishes new state-of-the-art results. We believe that our contributions will help further the development of large-scale training infrastructures, large-scale language models, and natural language generations.
arXiv:2201.11990 [cs]
Keywords: Computer Science - Computation and Language

Using Co-Design to Test and Refine a Model for Three-Dimensional Science Curriculum - Penuel, Bill
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:ZUCNVDVW
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Using blended learning to support marginalised adolescent girls’ education: a review of the evidence - Allier-Gagneur, Zoé; Chuang, Rachel; McBurnie, Chris; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2020)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.5281/zenodo.3952069 2129771:9Q4PMCJN 2129771:FX6TFDPQ 2339240:ENEKVCE3 2405685:7PYD5JNV 2405685:H3AI5F3C 2486141:TE93MW3V
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; Björn-CV-OECS; F: Helpdesk response; H:Blended learning; L:Gender and education; LP: English; _C:Afghanistan AFG; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:China CHN; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:India IND; _C:Iran IRN; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Lebanon LBN; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Russian Federation RUS; _C:Rwanda RWA; _C:Saudi Arabia SAU; _C:Senegal SEN; _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United States USA; _C:Zimbabwe ZWE; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; _bjoern_cv; _genre:LR-literature_review; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Using artificial intelligence to visualize the impacts of climate change - Luccioni, Alexandra; Schmidt, Victor; Vardanyan, Vahe; Bengio, Yoshua (IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2021)
Publisher: IEEE

Using AI to Automate Literature Reviews - Haßler, Björn; Hassan, Mustafa; Klune, Christopher (EdTech Hub, 2024)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org/
ZenodoArchiveID: 10529049 ZenodoArchiveConcept: 10529048 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/edtechhub.1003 2129771:JC66TBWQ 2405685:BVD8JX7V
Keywords: _forthcoming; _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence; coming soon

Using a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) to Develop an Adaptive K–2 Literacy Intervention With Personalized Print Texts and App-Based Digital Activities - Kim, James S.; Asher, Catherine A.; Burkhauser, Mary; Mesite, Laura; Leyva, Diana (AERA Open, 2019)
This study employs a sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART) design to develop an adaptive intervention with personalized print and digital content for kindergarten to Grade 2 children (n = 273). In Stage 1, we ask whether it is better for children to receive an adaptive intervention based on (a) 10 conceptually coherent texts or (b) 10 leveled texts on a range of topics. In Stage 2, we ask how best to encourage nonresponding children. Findings indicate that children who received either conceptually coherent texts or leveled texts performed similarly on reading comprehension posttests, while augmenting and intensifying follow-up with gamification of the app and text messages to parents improved comprehension outcomes for nonresponders. Descriptively, we find that only 26% (n = 71) of parents accessed the app, highlighting the need for better implementation procedures to increase take up of app-based digital activities.
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1177/2332858419872701 2129771:JZVT248T 4426965:ZRF7Z832

User or student: constructing the subject in Edtech incubator - Ramiel, Hemy (Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019)
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Keywords: Stefanie

User Journey Mapping and Ideation - McBurnie, Chris; Hassan, Mustafa Syed; Moustafa, Nariman; Walker, Hannah; Lurvink, Anne-Fleur; Macharia, Grace; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2023)
This resource is an output of the Open Development & Education 'EdTech Fellowship' programme. The programme page is avaialble here: https://opendeved.net/programmes/edtech-fellowship/.
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Keywords: _comingsoon; _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence

User fees in Primary Education in Malawi - Kadzamira, Esme (UNCTAD Expert meeting on Universal Access to Services, 2008)
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Keywords: _C:Malawi MWI; ⛔ No DOI found

Use of Twitter Technology in Educational Learning - Sunday, Ajibo Anthony (The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2021)
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

Use of tablet technology in the classroom. - Goodwin, K. (NSW Department of Education and Communities, 2012)
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Use of remedial teaching approaches for dyslexic students: Experiences of remedial teachers working in urban Pakistan - Khalid, M.; Anjum, G. (Cogent Psychology, 2019)
The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of remedial teachers while teaching dyslexic students in the urban hub of Pakistan—Karachi. The study explored assessment related experiences, the effectiveness of these approaches, and the challenges incurred by the teachers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine remedial teachers: Interpretive Phenomenological method was used for analysis of their experiences. Results yielded six major themes: Assessment process (Pre- and follow-up assessments), Effective Teaching Techniques (the Orton-Gillingham approach, Sequential approach, Technology-assisted learning, Integrative approach, and Play Therapy), Common challenges (stigma and denial, late diagnosis, behavioral problems, slow progress, and incongruence in teaching), and Role of family (role of parents, and role of other family members). Based on the interview responses, the most effective and popular approach used was the Orton-Gillingham approach, which incorporated multiple senses in the learning process, and was altered to meet the specific needs of a student. Results, implications, and directions for future research are also discussed. © 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
Publisher: Cogent OA KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/23311908.2019.1580181 2129771:SJUHF9HT 2339240:T39QY6L4 2486141:3RR5HUGL
Keywords: LMIC; Orton-Gillingham approach; SEN; Special education and; _AcademicRecoveryOECS; assessment and implementation; behavioral problems; challenges faced in remedial teaching; dyslexia in Pakistan; effective teaching approaches for dyslexia

Use of mobile touch device for knowledge retention - Klubal, Libor; Kostolányová, Kateřina (AIP Conference Proceedings, 2018)
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Use of invented algorithms by second graders in a reform mathematics curriculum - Carroll, W. M. (Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 1996)
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Use ICT to provide access to content, professional development and professional learning communities (Chapter 7) - Lawrie, James; Hennessy, S.; Haßler, Björn; Bhandigadi, Phalachandra (Where It’s Needed Most: Quality Professional Development for All Teachers., 2015)
INEE KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:6JRLX38M
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Use and Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Climate Change Adaptation in Africa - Rutenberg, Isaac; Gwagwa, Arthur; Omino, Melissa (African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, 2021)
Abstract Although Climate Change is a global phenomenon, the impact in Africa is anticipated to be greater than in many other parts of the world. This expectation is supported by many factors, including the relatively low shock tolerance of many African countries and the relatively high percentage of African workers engaged in the agricultural sector. High-income countries are increasingly turning their focus to climate change adaptation, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a critical tool in those efforts. Algorithms using AI are making better predictions on the short- and long-term effects of climate change, including predictions related to weather patterns, floods and droughts, and human migration patterns. It is not clear, however, that Africa is (or will be) maximally benefitting from those AI tools, particularly since they are largely developed by highly developed countries using data sets that are specific to those same countries. It is therefore important to characterize the efforts underway to use AI in a way that specifically benefits Africa in climate change adaptation. These efforts include projects undertaken physically in Africa as well as those that have Africa as their focus. In exploring AI projects in or about Africa, this chapter also looks at the sufficiency of such efforts and the variety of approaches taken by researchers working with AI to address climate change in Africa.
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USAID's Implementation Science Investment: Improving HIV and AIDS Programming through the Translation of Research to Practice

USAID/Kenya Primary Math and Reading (PRIMR) Initiative: Kisumu Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Intervention. Endline Report. - Piper, B.; Kwayumba, D. (Research Triangle Institute (RTI), 2014)
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USAID/Kenya Primary Math and Reading (PRIMR) Initiative: Final Report - RTI International (RTI International, 2014)
PRIMR-USAID (final) KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:ELH5JF8U 261495:QHFCGZVU

Urban water resource management for sustainable environment planning using artificial intelligence techniques - Xiang, Xiaojun; Li, Qiong; Khan, Shahnawaz; Khalaf, Osamah Ibrahim (Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 2021)
Publisher: Elsevier

Urban poverty and education. A systematic literature review - Silva-Laya, Marisol; D'Angelo, Natalia; García, Elda; Zúñiga, Laura; Fernández, Teresa (Educational Research Review, 2020)
This systematic literature review seeks to provide information on the limitations and opportunities faced by the urban poor in leveraging the potential benefits of education. The review covers the period 1995–2017 and includes 66 articles. The analysis addresses: a) the educational achievement of the urban poor and b) the conditions under which they receive education. Results show that, despite attending school, the urban poor are not able to fully satisfy their right to education. Their educational achievement is deficient in terms of learning, educational trajectory and the capacity to aspire to a better future and although they are included in schooling, material deprivation combined with socio-territorial characteristics and cultural and administrative obstacles means that this inclusion occurs in a stratified manner. The findings urge a reexamination of the discussion around the challenge of education in facilitating social mobility. Breaking the cycle between urban poverty and education requires multisectoral public policies with an equity perspective and the coordinated participation of various social actors.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.edurev.2019.05.002 2129771:BFVNFGTQ
Keywords: Academic achievement; Aspirations; Equity and access; School segregation; Urban poverty; _genre:LR-literature_review

Urban Education Technological Disparities: The Debilitating Impact on Our Students for Twenty-First Century Employment - Swinton, Angelia K.; Williams, Lauren Ashley (Computer-Mediated Learning for Workforce Development, 2018)
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Keywords: _C:Saudi Arabia SAU; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Upgrading informal apprenticeship: a resource guide for Africa - International Labour Office (2012)
OCLC: 793374144 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:2RASZQ7X 2317526:NNDJQFHD

UPDATE: The government of the republic of South Sudan has ordered the closure of all schools starting from Monday, 18th, March 2024 due to the high temperatures. According to the country's health ministry, there are reported cases of death resulting from high heat #NTVNews https://t.co/8s6Vr71yK1 - NTV UGANDA [@ntvuganda] (Twitter, 2024)
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Keywords: _z:class:countries

Unsupervised language model adaptation using LDA-based mixture models and latent semantic marginals - Haidar, Md Akmal; O'Shaughnessy, Douglas (Computer Speech & Language, 2015)
Publisher: Elsevier

Unstructured data in marketing - Balducci, B; Marinova, D (Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 2018)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1007/s11747-018-0581-x 2129771:2CA8BCWE 2129771:UWJSVBLQ 2405685:RTNHA8JP 2486141:GRQZTIKQ

Unpacking Sustainable Development Goal 4: Education 2030 - UNESCO (UNESCO, 2017)
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Unpacking PLCs: What evidence do we have about professional learning communities and how can we produce more? - Soares, Fernanda; Galisson, Kirsten (R&E Search for Evidence, 2018)
In this post, we further define professional learning communities (PLCs) and review existing evidence on the effect of PLCs. We then outline FHI 360-funded research that we have initiated to study PLCs in three low- and middle-income countries: Equatorial Guinea, Ghana and Nigeria.
Section: Uncategorized

Unmasking the Pyramid Kings: Crowd1 scam targets Africa - BBC Africa Eye documentary
Africa Eye brings you original, investigative journalism revealing secrets and rooting out injustice in the world’s most complex and exciting continent. Nothing stays hidden forever.
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Unmasking The Pyramid Kings (BBC News)
Behind the promises and the hype, Crowd1 hides some ugly truths, some wealthy scammers, and a whole pyramid of lies.
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Unlocking Talent: Evaluation of a tablet-based Masamu intervention in a Malawian Primary School - Pitchford, Nicola (2014)
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Unlocking resilience through autonomous innovation - Bahadur, Aditya; Doczi, Julian (Overseas Development Institute, 2016)
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Unlocking Data to Tell the Story of Education in Africa: Webinar Summary & Synthesis - Adam, Taskeen; Agyapong, Samuel; Asare, Samuel; Heady, Lucy; Wacharia, Wairimu; Mjomba, Renaldah; Mugo, John; Mukiria, Faith; Munday, Gemma (ESSA, Zizi Afrique, EdTech Hub, 2020)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.5281/zenodo.4279156 2129771:XYEJSVYW 2405685:S9MFQ8KB 2339240:HZTGKNN9
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; _EdTechHub_Output; _GS:not_indexed; _r:CopiedFromEvLib; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _zenodoETH; dode_eth-src-eth; dode_eth-trf2-dode

Unleashing the potential: transforming technical and vocational education and training - Marope, Priscilla Toka Mmantsetsa; Chakroun, Borhène; Holmes, K. P (2015)
"UNESCO has recently published the third volume of its Education on the Move series, a series dedicated to the analysis of key trends in education with the hope of inspiring dialogue among policy makers, educators and other key stakeholders on the challenges of education for tomorrow. The latest publication, entitled Unleashing the Potential: Transforming Technical and Vocational Education and Training is focused entirely on issues related to technical and vocational education and training (TVET). It takes stock of the steadily increasing demands and expectations on TVET systems around the globe and presents recent policy trends in the field of TVET. In their analysis, the authors provide insights into what it takes to unleash the potential of TVET systems around the world. They propose an integrated analytical approach that takes into consideration such factors as economic growth, social equity and issues related to sustainability so that TVET can contribute more effectively to contemporary policy issues such as youth unemployment, gender disparities and climate change. Overall, the book calls for a transformation of TVET systems to enable them to respond to the demands of their contexts. This transformation should enable TVET systems to acquire agility to stay current and responsive to the rapidly changing demands of the twenty-first century."–Publisher's website.
OCLC: 921829960 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:AVKWPPMP 2317526:JK6589HH

University education in Zambia in the face of austerity: history, trends and financing. - Masaiti, Gift; Simuyaba, Eunifridah (UNZA Press, 2018)

Universities prepare for semester of online and hybrid learning - Quinn, Callan (The Pie News, 2020)
News and business analysis for Professionals in International Education, Many students are not enthusiastic about online learning after a summer of lecture-by-Zoom. So what have universities and colleges planned for the new semester?
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Universal secondary education in the OECS: Some views on the curriculum - King, Winston K. (Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, 2009)
Publisher: University of the West Indies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:GN868WFE 2129771:MHNF2WNJ
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Universal Access Development Fund | Home - Universal Access Development Fund (Sierra Leone) (2020)
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Unintended Consequences of Rewards for Student Attendance: Results From a Field Experiment in Indian Classrooms. - Visaria, Sujata; Dehejia, Rajeev; Chao, Melody M.; Mukhopadhyay, Anirban (Economics of Education Review, 2016)

Unintended consequences of English school stock energy-efficient retrofit on cognitive performance of children under climate change - Dong, J.; Schwartz, Y.; Korolija, I.; Mumovic, D. (Building and Environment, 2024)
School building stock retrofit forms a key part of UK’s commitment to net-zero carbon target by 2050. However, with a changing climate, the retrofit of school buildings may have unintended consequences on classroom thermal environments and cognitive performance of children in non-heating seasons. This paper aims to quantify the impact of school stock retrofit in accordance with increasingly tightening energy efficiency regulatory requirements on cognitive performance of English children, while also exploring the potential adaptation measures under climate change. The results indicate that English schools that undergo envelope insulation exhibit higher Cognitive Performance Loss (CPL) of children compared to their original conditions. Passive climate adaptation measures, especially increased daytime ventilation rate was found to be an effective strategy for mitigating the impact of climate change on cognitive performance. However, the benefits of passive measures will diminish as the climate warms, while air conditioning will be required to maintain cognitive performance loss at relatively low levels. In addition to the reduction of heating load, envelope insulation can provide benefits for English schools in cooler climatic regions from both cognitive performance and energy point of view. The study calls for the CPL to be added as one of the key performance indicators when considering the long-term impact of climate change on schools. This would enable policy makers and relevant stakeholders to make more holistic decisions regarding school stock retrofit while ensuring that classrooms are conducive to learning.
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Keywords: _z:class:countries

UNICEF UK
Unicef is the world’s leading organisation working for children in danger. Make a donation, fundraise or campaign – help us keep children safe.
Library Catalog: www.unicef.org.uk KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:RWK2VAFP 2317526:MJAEINIR

UNICEF-Time-to-Teach-Report-2020 (1).pdf
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UNICEF scales up support to keep children learning, as COVID-19 forces schools to close - UNICEF (2020)
Library Catalog: www.unicef.org KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:IZE9L2NN IZE9L2NN

UNICEF Child Friendly Schooling (CFS) - Nampota, Dorothy; Jere, Catherine; Chiwaula, Lizzie; Meke, Elizabeth; Kadzamira, Esme (2012)
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Keywords: _C:Malawi MWI; ⛔ No DOI found

UNICEF: 100 million children vulnerable to climate change impacts in Nigeria (TheCable, 2023)
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says 100 million children are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change in Nigeria.

UNEVOC World TVET Database: Uganda - UNESCO-UNEVOC (2014)
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Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; CC:Uganda; publicImportV1

UNEVOC World TVET Database: Tanzania - UNESCO-UNEVOC (2016)
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Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; CC:Tanzania; publicImportV1

UNEVOC World TVET Database: Nigeria - UNESCO-UNEVOC (2012)
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Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; C:Nigeria; CC:Nigeria; publicImportV1

UNEVOC World TVET Database: Kenya - UNESCO-UNEVOC (2018)
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Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; CC:Kenya; publicImportV1

UNEVOC World TVET Database: Botswana - UNESCO-UNEVOC (2012)
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Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; CC:Botswana; publicImportV1

UNESCO’s Contributions to the Development of Education in Latin American Countries: Brazil and Bolivia - da Costa Santos, Johnatan; Quiroga, Maria Luisa Claure (2nd International Conference on Education Science and Social Development (ESSD 2019), 2019)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning - UNESCO
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UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities - UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (2015)
Library Catalog: uil.unesco.org KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:3GL44D89

UNESCO/CARICOM Webinar Series n° 1: Supporting teachers and education personnel to ensure continuity of learning: Supporting the preparation of teachers for distance education and reopening of schools - James, Freddy (2020)
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Keywords: _Added to LR; _T:reviewed

Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate) - Sub-Saharan Africa | Data - World Bank (2020)
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Understanding work-based learning in technical and vocational education and training in Nigeria - Haruna, Rabiu; Kamin, Yusri Bin; Buntat, Yahya Bin (International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, 2019)
© BEIESP. Work-based learning in technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is a separate pedagogy that strengthens the delivery of vocational education and training, and requires students to maintain balance in being a student and a trainee. While the concept of work-based learning is overwhelming, its practice in Nigerian Institutions is relatively low. This paper, therefore, investigates the awareness level of work-based learning in TVET in Nigerian education system. The study participants are 150 TVET Lecturers in Tertiary Institutions that have TVET departments. Mixed method research was adopted because of its ability to provide in-depth discussions into the investigation; questionnaires were developed in a two-step revision stage. First, a structured questionnaire was designed to collect quantitative and qualitative data. Second, validity test was carried out in which the questionnaire was applied to ten TVET lecturers outside the area of study to obtain feedback about the clarity of the questions, the use of appropriate terminology, and the possible omission of important issues. In follow up to validate the responses a focus group discussion was conducted to clarify some pertinent trends captured from the survey. Data collected were coded and analysed with SPSS. Findings among others revealed that there is low level of work-based learning awareness in Nigeria, adopting work-based learning in TVET program will increase students’ responsibilities related to acquiring new skills, which will expand their roles in contributing to nation’s building.
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Understanding theory of change in international development - Stein, Danielle; Valters, Craig (2012)
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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)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1007/s11423-016-9481-2 4804264:7A5EH84Z
Keywords: Final_citation

Understanding the pricing of the ChatGPT API - API (OpenAI Developer Forum, 2024)
Greetings, if our institution opts for the Tier 3 plan for the ChatGPT API, allowing students to utilize our API, and the usage either surpasses or falls below the predefined limits of Tier 3, how does it influence the monthly pricing? To clarify, if usage exceeds the Tier 3 limits, will our monthly payment remain fixed at $1000, or will the pricing be adapted according to our actual usage? You can refer to the link provided for details on the tier plans: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/...
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Understanding the impact of district-level decision -making on the distribution of highly qualified teachers: A multi-method and geo -spatial approach - Choi, Daniel S. (Arizona State University, 2007)
June 30, 2006 was the deadline under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act for ensuring “...that poor and minority children were not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, unqualified, or out-of-field teachers...” In the weeks after the deadline, the US Department of Education informed state departments of education that while no extension had been declared, states can still be in good standing if they show a “good faith” effort. Though states bear this responsibility, districts have the most direct influence on the distribution of “highly qualified” teachers. It is the district that directly recruits, selects, hires, and places teachers in all its schools. Therefore, the district makes the final decisions that control, in many ways, the balance of the distribution. This study, therefore, takes a district-level perspective for understanding the distribution of highly qualified teachers (HQTs) across schools. A multiple methods study approach was used to understand the various influences on the distribution of highly qualified teachers. In particular, I used three distinct, yet related methods in this study. They were: (1) Quantitative Analysis; (2) Geographical Analysis; and (3) Qualitative Analysis. The quantitative analyses revealed that weaker definitions of teacher quality mask the teacher quality shortage and gap that exists between local districts and between schools of varying demographic characteristics—particularly those with high concentrations of poor and minority students. The geographical analyses suggested that quality of geographical space influenced the presence of teacher quality in schools. Lastly, the qualitative analyses revealed that the district plays a mediating role as it enacts its own policy. In this process, the district is both influenced and is itself an influence on the final distribution of HQTs. The interviews with district and school staff revealed that the district's definition of teacher quality becomes stronger as the process moves closer to an actual hiring decision. It is at the school site where they seem to apply or screen for the fuller range of characteristics consistent with what the literature has identified as a HQT. In the end, these findings contribute to understanding the distribution of teacher quality more fully.
ISBN: 9781109960174
Keywords: Decision-making; Education; Highly qualified teachers; School districts; _C:India IND; _C:Philippines PHL; _C:Spain ESP; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Understanding the External Social Benefits of Education in Ethiopia: A Contextual Analysis Using Young Lives - Sabates, Ricardo; Zhao, Yiran Vicky; Mitchell, Rafael; Ilie, Sonia (Journal of Education Finance, 2021)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:AETKVZAP
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Understanding the elephant: the discourse approach to boundary identification and corpus construction for theory review articles - Larsen, K.; Hovorka, D.; Dennis, A.R. (Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 2019)
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Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024

Understanding the Effect of Covid-19 on the Education System and the Students in India - Ahlawat, Bhavna (International Journal of Engineering Applied Sciences and Technology, 2020 Vol. 5, Issue 5, ISSN No. 2455-2143, Pages 146-151, 2020)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Understanding the distribution of teacher effectiveness - Gagnon, Douglas Jude (University of New Hampshire, 2014)
The classroom teacher plays a powerful role in improving student outcomes, and teachers are increasingly looked at as a means to address disparities in achievement. Consequently, policy makers are becoming interested in understanding the distribution of teacher effectiveness across school characteristics. Very recent research suggests that, on average, students in high-poverty schools receive instruction from less effective teachers (as operationalized through teacher value-added scores) than do students in lower-poverty schools. This research seeks to build upon this literature by also examining how teacher effectiveness varies across urbanicity and location, doing so while using an often overlooked subset of schools—namely those that come from small and/or rural districts. The results of this study support the notion that teacher effectiveness is not equal across the poverty level of schools, as it finds a meaningful and robust connection between school FRPL rates and teacher value-added scores; findings pertaining to the urbanicity of schools are less conclusive. This study also finds that teacher effects vary across location, as does the connection between teacher effects and school FRPL rates. Evidence is put forth which suggests that this variability may do due in part to the supply of teachers in a given region. This study is organized into three essays: the first examines teacher effects across school income and urbanicity; the second incorporates the impact of location and teacher staffing theory; the third essay is a policy brief intended for a wide audience, as it synthesizes the findings of the first two essays to make concrete policy recommendations.
ISBN: 9781321342796
Keywords: Distribtution of Effectiveness; Education; Equality of Opportunity; Social sciences; Teacher Effectiveness; Teacher Supply; Value-Added Modeling; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Understanding the accuracy of teachers’ perceptions about low achieving learners in primary schools in rural India: An empirical analysis of alignments and misalignments - Wadmare, Pratik; Nanda, Mansi; Sabates, Ricardo; Sunder, Naveen; Wadhwa, Wilima (International Journal of Educational Research Open, 2022)
Teachers' perceptions of their students’ academic skills are crucial in enabling teaching at the appropriate level and shaping learning processes. We examine how accurate are teachers’ perceptions for low achieving students using data collected from around 1,800 primary school teachers across 848 schools in rural India. We find that around 40% of teachers inaccurately perceive that the low performing students in their classroom had already acquired foundational literacy, when they have not. Female teachers, para-teachers, and teachers with lower work burden are more likely to have accurate perceptions of low performing students. Our study highlights the need to work with teachers to ensure more realistic perceptions in order for pedagogical approaches like teaching at the right level to reach its intended impact.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.ijedro.2022.100198 2129771:8BDMZDN7
Keywords: Foundational Literacy; India; Perceptions; School Accountability; Teachers