The Relationship between Smartphone Use and Academic Performance in a Sample of Tertiary Students in Singapore: A Cross-Sectional Study. - Zhao, Jingming; Yuping, Wei; Maideen, Ismail; Moe, Zan Khin; Nasirudeen, A. M. A. (Journal of Educational Technology, 2018)
Publisher: ERIC KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:ICUATGDN
Keywords: Final_citation; ⛔ No DOI found

Donor Scorecard Just Beginning: Addressing inequality in donor funding for Early Childhood Development - Zubairi, Asma; Rose, Pauline (London: Theirworld, 2018)

스마트폰을 이용한 한국 간호대학생 대상 간호교육의 통합적 고찰 - 신혜원; 이정민; 김신정 (한국간호교육학회지, 2018)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:8XSBJE2N 2129771:MUJPG6DR 2129771:Y9WSDLKF
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Implementing large-scale instructional technology in Kenya: Changing instructional practice and developing accountability in a National Education System - Piper, Benjamin; Oyanga, Arbogast; Mejia, Jessica; Pouezevara, Sarah (International Journal of Education and Development using ICT, 2017)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:JVE8HV42
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

Overview of UK development education landscape with a focus on partnerships between UK schools and those overseas - Bourn, Douglas; Blum, Nicole; Ndaruhutse, Suzy; Mattingly, Jacqui (2017)
This rapid review provides an overview of the UK development education landscape with a focus on what else apart from the British Council’s Connecting Classrooms Programme is going on to build partnerships between schools in the UK and schools overseas? How many children/schools are part of something like this? These questions are related to a second query covered in a separate helpdesk report that examines childhood development stages; specifically, when is the best time to influence children’s and young people’s thinking on global issues? These helpdesk reports are designed to help inform a business case and guide DFID’s thinking for a new approach to delivering development education in the UK when the current phases of Connecting Classrooms and the Global Learning Programme (GLP) ends.
Accepted: 2018-01-22T11:24:58Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:5VKF6VFB 4869029:MTZ4DKRN
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Childhood development stages and learning on global issues - Bourn, Douglas; Hunt, Frances; Hassan, Ahmed (2017)
This helpdesk report provides a summary of available literature and evidence relating to childhood development stages; specifically, when is the best time to influence children’s thinking on global issues. This question is related to a second query covered in a separate helpdesk report that examines the development education landscape in the UK: specifically, what else apart from British Council’s Connecting Classrooms Programme is going on to build partnerships between schools in the UK and schools overseas? How many children/schools are part of something like this? These helpdesk reports are designed to help inform a business case and guide DFID’s thinking for a new approach to delivering development education in the UK when the current phases of Connecting Classrooms and the Global Learning Programme (GLP) ends. Key definitions and terminology can be found in Annex 1.
Accepted: 2018-01-22T14:09:14Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:PFDE5IT2 4869029:8TKPP7W4
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Adoption And Impact Of Oer In The Global South - Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Arinto, Patricia (Zenodo, 2017)
Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges, for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution. These challenges include: unequal access to education; variable quality of educational resources, teaching, and student performance; and increasing cost and concern about the sustainability of education. The Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project seeks to build on and contribute to the body of research on how OER can help to improve access, enhance quality and reduce the cost of education in the Global South. This volume examines aspects of educator and student adoption of OER and engagement in Open Educational Practices (OEP) in secondary and tertiary education as well as teacher professional development in 21 countries in South America, Sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia. The ROER4D studies and syntheses presented here aim to help inform Open Education advocacy, policy, practice and research in developing countries.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.5281/ZENODO.1005330 2129771:3DZS7JBW 2486141:9SZHI7IA
Keywords: Global South; OEP; OER; Open Education; Open Educational Practices; Open Educational Resources

Theory of Change Analysis: Building Robust Theories of Change - Mayne, John (Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 2017)
Models for theories of change vary widely as do how they are used. What constitutes a good or robust theory of change has not been discussed much. This article sets out and discusses criteria for robust theories of change. As well, it discusses how these criteria can be used to undertake a vigorous assessment of a theory of change. A solid analysis of a theory of change can be extremely useful, both for designing or assessing the designs of an intervention as well as for the design of monitoring regimes and evaluations. The article concludes with a discussion about carrying out a theory of change analysis and an example.

Post-development 25 years after The Development Dictionary - Ziai, Aram (Third World Quarterly, 2017)
Few books in the history of development studies have had an impact like The Development Dictionary – A Guide to Knowledge as Power, which was edited by Wolfgang Sachs and published by Zed Books in 1992, and which was crucial in establishing what has become known as the Post-Development (PD) school. This special issue is devoted to the legacy of this book and thus to discussing PD.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2017.1383853
Keywords: Post-Development; development discourse; development studies; development theory

A Bayesian Network Meta-Analysis to Synthesize the Influence of Contexts of Scaffolding Use on Cognitive Outcomes in STEM Education - Belland, Brian R.; Walker, Andrew E.; Kim, Nam Ju (Review of Educational Research, 2017)
Computer-based scaffolding provides temporary support that enables students to participate in and become more proficient at complex skills like problem solving, argumentation, and evaluation. While meta-analyses have addressed between-subject differences on cognitive outcomes resulting from scaffolding, none has addressed within-subject gains. This leaves much quantitative scaffolding literature not covered by existing meta-analyses. To address this gap, this study used Bayesian network meta-analysis to synthesize within-subjects (pre-post) differences resulting from scaffolding in 56 studies. We generated the posterior distribution using 20,000 Markov Chain Monte Carlo samples. Scaffolding has a consistently strong effect across student populations, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines, and assessment levels, and a strong effect when used with most problem-centered instructional models (exception: inquiry-based learning and modeling visualization) and educational levels (exception: secondary education). Results also indicate some promising areas for future scaffolding research, including scaffolding among students with learning disabilities, for whom the effect size was particularly large (ḡ = 3.13).
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3102/0034654317723009 2129771:57B2KQ9C 2486141:EHUMD849
Keywords: Bayesian network meta-analysis; STEM; cognitive tutor; intelligent tutoring systems; problem-centered instruction; scaffold

Not just for special occasions: supporting the professional learning of teachers through critical reflection with audio-visual information - Saito, Eisuke; Khong, Thi Diem Hang (Reflective Practice, 2017)
Despite increased use of professional learning communities in the teacher education field, they do not necessarily guarantee change in teachers’ daily practice. This study is a multiple case study of three school leaders in Vietnam to connect their teachers’ learning and practice by utilising visual records. In the cases studied, we see a progression of models of joint reflection based on visual information, from only occasional reflection to daily critical reflection, the latter of which the authors call ‘vide-flection’ referring to a process for people to consider their actions, thoughts, or experiences by utilising video-recorded images. For joint vide-flection, school leaders visit every classroom for several minutes every day to observe the wellbeing and learning of pupils and video-record struggles or breakthroughs in children’s learning; they share those images with teachers to jointly reflect on the situations. Through this vide-flection, teachers develop more detailed awareness of pupils needs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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Keywords: ADULTS; AUDIOVISUAL aids in education; AUDIOVISUAL materials; CRITICAL thinking studies; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; EDUCATION; FOCUS groups; INTERVIEWING; PROFESSIONAL education; PROFESSIONAL employee training; REFLECTION (Philosophy); RESEARCH funding; Reflective practice; SCHOOL administrators; TEACHER training; TEACHING; THEMATIC analysis; VIETNAM; Vietnam; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2099873; __finaldtb; critical reflection; professional learning; teacher professional development; vide-flection

Tool: Assessing the Quality of Education Evaluations - USAID Office of Education (2017)
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Open Education and the Sustainable Development Goals: Making Change Happen - Lane, Andy (Journal of Learning for Development - JL4D, 2017)
Education for All has been a concept at the heart of international development since 1990 and has found its latest instantiation within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as SDG 4, ‘Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all’. Open education, in the form of resources and practices are both seen as contributors to SDG4 as evidenced by the recent 2nd World Open Educational Resources Congress. The ambition for open education to contribute to the SDGs is clear from this and other gatherings but the means to make it happen are not as clear, and many have claimed that little has happened since the SDGs were launched in 2015. To help address this apparent gap, this paper: (1) sets out the scale and scope of the SDGs; (2) reviews the potential contribution of open educational resources and practices to support the SDGs, and (3) uses a framing of power and systems thinking to review the way open education activities might be fostered within tertiary education in all local, national and regional contexts in order to support the SDGs, and not just SDG 4. It will also tentatively propose a theory of change that brings together power relationships, systems thinking and open education as key components and provide a case study of how this might work in practice through a newly funded project proposal. It is hoped that this theory of change and proposal will be a starting point for wider debate and discussion on how to make change happen in this important arena.
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Getting the Right Teachers into the Right Schools: Managing India's Teacher Workforce - Ramachandran, Vimala; Béteille, Tara; Linden, Toby; Dey, Sangeeta; Chatterjee, Prerna Goel (World Bank Publications, 2017)
India's landmark Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (2009) guarantees education to all children aged 6-14 years. The Act mandates specific student-teacher ratios and emphasizes teacher quality. Writing this into legislation took seven years, but the seven years since has proven that ensuring effective teachers are recruited and placed in all schools in a time-bound manner is considerably more challenging. This report takes a detailed look at the complexity of the teacher management landscape in elementary and secondary schools in nine Indian states. On a daily basis, the administrative machinery of these states has to manage between 19,000 to nearly a million teachers in different types of schools and employment contracts, and cope with recruiting thousands more and distributing them equitably across schools. This report examines the following issues: official requirements for becoming a schoolteacher in India; policies and processes for teacher recruitment, deployment and transfers; salaries and benefits of teachers; professional growth of teachers; and grievance redressal mechanisms for teachers. For the first time in India, this report compares and contrasts stated policy with actual practice in teacher management in the country, using a combination of primary and secondary data. In so doing, the report reveals the hidden challenges and the nature of problems faced by administrators in attempting to build an effective teacher workforce which serves the needs of all of India’s 200 million school children. The report examines states with varying characteristics, thus generating knowledge and evidence likely to be of interest to policy makers and practitioners in a wide range of contexts.
Google-Books-ID: SQpADwAAQBAJ
Keywords: Education / General; Education / Professional Development

Information and Communication Technology for Development - Heeks, Richard (2017)

Research Methods in Education - Cohen, Louis; Manion, Lawrence; Morrison, Keith (Routledge, 2017)
This thoroughly updated and extended eighth edition of the long-running bestseller Research Methods in Education covers the whole range of methods employed by educational research at all stages. Its five main parts cover: the context of educational research; research design; methodologies for educational research; methods of data collection; and data analysis and reporting. It continues to be the go-to text for students, academics and researchers who are undertaking, understanding and using educational research, and has been translated into several languages. It offers plentiful and rich practical advice, underpinned by clear theoretical foundations, research evidence and up-to-date references, and it raises key issues and questions for researchers planning, conducting, reporting and evaluating research.This edition contains new chapters on:Mixed methods researchThe role of theory in educational researchEthics in Internet researchResearch questions and hypothesesInternet surveysVirtual worlds, social network software and netography in educational research Using secondary data in educational researchStatistical significance, effect size and statistical powerBeyond mixed methods: using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to integrate cross-case and within-case analyses.Research Methods in Education is essential reading for both the professional researcher and anyone involved in educational and social research. The book is supported by a wealth of online materials, including PowerPoint slides, useful weblinks, practice data sets, downloadable tables and figures from the book, and a virtual, interactive, self-paced training programme in research methods. These resources can be found at: www.routledge.com/cw/cohen.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:V7GAVRKW 4426965:SIGIGX74

Methods for dealing with multiple outcomes in meta-analysis: a comparison between averaging effect sizes, robust variance estimation and multilevel meta-analysis - Moeyaert, Mariola; Ugille, Maaike; Natasha Beretvas, S.; Ferron, John; Bunuan, Rommel; Van Den Noortgate, Wim (International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2017)

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

Disability in and Around Urban Areas of Sierra Leone - Trani, Jean-Francois; Bah, Osman; Bailey, Nicki; Browne, Joyce; Groce, Nora; Kett, Maria (2017)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:HBY77CAK 2129771:QHDCLY92 2405685:FSQFJ72I
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Moving teachers to Malawi’s remote communities: A data-driven approach to teacher deployment - Asim, Salman; Chimombo, Joseph; Chugunov, Dmitry; Gera, Ravinder (2017)
There are severe geographical disparities in pupil-teacher ratios (PTR) across Malawi, with most teachers concentrated near commercial centers and in rural schools with better amenities. Most of the variation in PTR is concentrated in small sub-district areas, suggesting a central role for micro-geographic factors in teacher distribution. Employing administrative data from several government sources, regression analysis reveals that school-level factors identified by teachers as desirable are closely associated with PTR, including access to roads, electricity, and water, and distance to the nearest trading center, suggesting a central role for teachers’ interests in PTR variation. Political economy network mapping reveals that teachers leverage informal networks and political patronage to resist placement in remote schools, while administrative officials are unable to stand up to these formal and informal pressures, in part because of a lack of reliable databases and objective criteria for the allocation of teachers. This study curates a systematic database of the physical placement of all teachers in Malawi and links it with data on school facilities and geo-spatial coordinates of commercial centers. The study develops a consistent and objective measure of school remoteness, which can be applied to develop policies to create rules for equitable deployments and targeting of incentives. Growing awareness of disparities in PTRs among district education officials is already showing promising improvements in targeting of new teachers. Simulation results of planned policy applications show significant potential impacts of fiscally-neutral approaches to targeted deployments of new cohorts, as well as retention of teachers through data-calibrated incentives.
Keywords: Data-driven model; Deployments; Lebanon_event_2021; Malawi; Political economy; Schools; Teachers; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:Gambia GMB; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:India IND; _C:Indonesia IDN; _C:Italy ITA; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Mozambique MOZ; _C:Philippines PHL; _C:Singapore SGP; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

From Proof of Concept to Scalable Policies: Challenges and Solutions, with an Application - Banerjee, Abhijit; Banerji, Rukmini; Berry, James; Duflo, Esther; Kannan, Harini; Mukerji, Shobhini; Shotland, Marc; Walton, Michael (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2017)
The promise of randomized controlled trials is that evidence gathered through the evaluation of a specific program helps us—possibly after several rounds of fine-tuning and multiple replications in different contexts—to inform policy. However, critics have pointed out that a potential constraint in this agenda is that results from small "proof-of-concept" studies run by nongovernment organizations may not apply to policies that can be implemented by governments on a large scale. After discussing the potential issues, this paper describes the journey from the original concept to the design and evaluation of scalable policy. We do so by evaluating a series of strategies that aim to integrate the nongovernment organization Pratham's "Teaching at the Right Level" methodology into elementary schools in India. The methodology consists of reorganizing instruction based on children's actual learning levels, rather than on a prescribed syllabus, and has previously been shown to be very effective when properly implemented. We present evidence from randomized controlled trials involving some designs that failed to produce impacts within the regular schooling system but still helped shape subsequent versions of the program. As a result of this process, two versions of the programs were developed that successfully raised children's learning levels using scalable models in government schools. We use this example to draw general lessons about using randomized control trials to design scalable policies.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1257/jep.31.4.73 4804264:9575HZHI 4804264:XHDEF452
Keywords: Design of Experiments: General; Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation; Analysis of Education; Education: Government Policy; Nonprofit Institutions; Final_citation; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration; NGOs; Social Entrepreneurship; Economic Development: Human Resources; anystyle; cited; existing

Allô École! Using mobile technologies to connect government, teachers, and parents - World Bank (World Bank, 2017)
A World Bank pilot is promoting a mobile social accountability platform « Allô École! » to increase accountability in the primary education sector of the DRC.
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Keywords: C: Democratic Republic of Congo

Research Methods in Education - Cohen, Louis; Manion, Lawrence; Morrison, Keith (Routledge, 2017)
This thoroughly updated and extended eighth edition of the long-running bestseller Research Methods in Education covers the whole range of methods employed by educational research at all stages. Its five main parts cover: the context of educational research; research design; methodologies for educational research; methods of data collection; and data analysis and reporting. It continues to be the go-to text for students, academics and researchers who are undertaking, understanding and using educational research, and has been translated into several languages. It offers plentiful and rich practical advice, underpinned by clear theoretical foundations, research evidence and up-to-date references, and it raises key issues and questions for researchers planning, conducting, reporting and evaluating research. This edition contains new chapters on: Mixed methods research The role of theory in educational research Ethics in Internet research Research questions and hypotheses Internet surveys Virtual worlds, social network software and netography in educational research Using secondary data in educational research Statistical significance, effect size and statistical power Beyond mixed methods: using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to integrate cross-case and within-case analyses. Research Methods in Education is essential reading for both the professional researcher and anyone involved in educational and social research. The book is supported by a wealth of online materials, including PowerPoint slides, useful weblinks, practice data sets, downloadable tables and figures from the book, and a virtual, interactive, self-paced training programme in research methods. These resources can be found at: www.routledge.com/cw/cohen.

Pedagogical Demands in Mathematics and Mathematical Literacy: A Case of Mathematics and Mathematical Literacy Teachers and Facilitators - Machaba, France Masilo (EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2017)
The purpose of this article is to examine teachers’ and facilitators’ (subject advisors) views of the approaches to teaching mathematics and mathematical literacy (ML). Using Bernstein’s (1996) constructs of recognition and realisation rules, I analysed data from interviews conducted with mathematics and ML teachers and facilitators. The analysis shows that some teaching strategies are associated with mathematics and others with ML. That is, teachers and facilitators refer to teaching strategies that are domain specific (mathematics and ML). I therefore ask what it means for teaching strategies to be domain specific, particularly in the context of mathematics and ML.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.12973/ejmste/78243 2486141:M29F3K2N

Research Methods in Education - Cohen, Louis; Manion, Lawrence; Morrison, Keith (Routledge, 2017)
This thoroughly updated and extended eighth edition of the long-running bestseller Research Methods in Education covers the whole range of methods employed by educational research at all stages. Its five main parts cover: the context of educational research; research design; methodologies for educational research; methods of data collection; and data analysis and reporting. It continues to be the go-to text for students, academics and researchers who are undertaking, understanding and using educational research, and has been translated into several languages. It offers plentiful and rich practical advice, underpinned by clear theoretical foundations, research evidence and up-to-date references, and it raises key issues and questions for researchers planning, conducting, reporting and evaluating research. This edition contains new chapters on: Mixed methods research The role of theory in educational research Ethics in Internet research Research questions and hypotheses Internet surveys Virtual worlds, social network software and netography in educational research Using secondary data in educational research Statistical significance, effect size and statistical power Beyond mixed methods: using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to integrate cross-case and within-case analyses. Research Methods in Education is essential reading for both the professional researcher and anyone involved in educational and social research. The book is supported by a wealth of online materials, including PowerPoint slides, useful weblinks, practice data sets, downloadable tables and figures from the book, and a virtual, interactive, self-paced training programme in research methods. These resources can be found at: www.routledge.com/cw/cohen.
Google-Books-ID: 9mYPEAAAQBAJ KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:K73IF5SZ 4502395:9PBD6WAE
Keywords: Education / Experimental Methods; Education / General; Education / Research

Impact of childhood screening for disability/impairment on education and learning - Rohwerder, Brigitte (2017)
Evidence indicates that disability is a leading cause of marginalisation in education, with enrolment, primary school completion and literacy rates consistently falling below those of non-disabled children, as children with disabilities are ‘less likely to attend or remain in school, have lower transition and completion rates and do not achieve the levels of results of their peers’ (Wapling, 2016, p. 3). A number of screening tools have been used in low and middle income countries, including in schools, to identify children at risk of disability and to direct them to appropriate help. However, as many children with disabilities are out of school, screening which takes place solely in schools may miss them. New and innovative screening technologies and tools are being developed, with the aim of overcoming some of the challenges faced in low and middle income countries. However, there appears to be very little evidence which looks at the impact of screening on education and learning outcomes of children with disabilities. A systematic review of education for children with disabilities in low and middle income finds that there is relatively little formal research which assesses strategies for ensuring quality education for children with disabilities, including in relation to impairment identification (Wapling, 2016, p. 3).
Accepted: 2017-11-23T17:16:51Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:I3Q7YQNJ 4869029:QQ9YXHHM
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Shades of Grey: Guidelines for Working with the Grey Literature in Systematic Reviews for Management and Organizational Studies - Adams, Richard J.; Smart, Palie; Huff, Anne Sigismund (International Journal of Management Reviews, 2017)
This paper suggests how the ‘grey literature’, the diverse and heterogeneous body of material that is made public outside, and not subject to, traditional academic peer-review processes, can be used to increase the relevance and impact of management and organization studies (MOS). The authors clarify the possibilities by reviewing 140 systematic reviews published in academic and practitioner outlets to answer the following three questions: (i) Why is grey literature excluded from/included in systematic reviews in MOS? (ii) What types of grey material have been included in systematic reviews since guidelines for practice were first established in this discipline? (iii) How is the grey literature treated currently to advance management and organization scholarship and knowledge? This investigation updates previous guidelines for more inclusive systematic reviews that respond to criticisms of current review practices and the needs of evidence-based management.
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Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; -missingHU; DL4D cited; __C:filed:1; publicImportV1

School-based physical activity interventions and physical activity enjoyment: A meta-analysis - Burns, Ryan D.; Fu, You; Podlog, Leslie W. (Preventive Medicine, 2017)
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to examine the effectiveness of school-based physical activity interventions on increasing students' physical activity enjoyment. An internet search with several databases using the keywords “Adolescents”, “Children”, “Enjoyment”, “Physical Activity”, and “Schools” was performed yielding over 200 published studies. Studies were eliminated based on the lack of experimental manipulation (i.e., non-intervention studies), no assessment of physical activity enjoyment as an outcome variable, a lack of a control or comparison group, and no reporting of the effect estimate's variability (i.e., standard deviation, standard error, etc.). This procedure resulted in 10 studies being examined in the meta-analysis. Data were analyzed in the state of Utah, USA in 2017. The Hartung-Knapp-Sidak-Jonkman method for a random effects meta-analysis was employed with studies being weighted by inverse variance. The pooled Standardized Mean Difference=0.38 (95% C.I. [0.10–0.65], p=0.011). Cochran's Q test showed statistical significance (p<0.001) and the I2=76.6%, suggesting large heterogeneity across the 10 studies. Egger's regression model yielded an intercept coefficient that was statistically significant (bias=3.28, 95% C.I. [0.21–6.36], p=0.039), indicating the presence of small-study effects. This meta-analysis provides evidence that school-based physical activity interventions can be effective in increasing physical activity enjoyment in children and adolescents. However, the magnitude of the pooled effect was small-to-moderate and there was evidence for publication bias and large between-study heterogeneity.
Keywords: Adolescent; Child; Exercise; Meta-analysis; Schools

Analysing Cost-Effectiveness Of Raising Learning For Marginalised Girls Through Camfed'S Programme: Methodological A Methodological Note - Delprato, Marcos; Alcott, Benjamin; Rose, Pauline; Sabates, Ricardo (Zenodo, 2017)
This note provides an overview of the methodological approach being taken to analyse cost-effectiveness of Camfed’s programme in Tanzania and Zimbabwei. It highlights the association between Value for Money and cost-effectiveness, and pays particular attention to the importance of measuring cost-effectiveness from an equity perspective. It further identifies the implications of calculating cost-effectiveness with consideration of sustainability, scalability and replicability of Camfed’s programme.

Examining the impact of instructional technology and material design courses on technopedagogical education competency acquisition according to different variables - Gokdas, Ibrahim; Torun, Fulya (Kuram ve Uygulamada Egitim Bilimleri, 2017)
The need to integrate technology into education has made necessary a thorough examination of teachers’ technopedagogical competencies. While training preservice teachers, it is of particular importance that they acquire technopedagogical education competences during their preservice education. Practical and theoretical course content and Instructional Technology and Material Design (ITMD) courses are thought to be essential for preservice teachers’ technopedagogical education competency acquisition. However, the role of ITMD courses in preservice teachers’ technopedagogical education competency acquisition has remained obscure in the literature. As such, the study aims to describe the effect that ITMD courses have on technopedagogical education competency acquisition. The research was conducted with a total of 186 preservice teachers studying in the departments of classroom teaching and preschool teaching in a Faculty of Education in Turkey. The research data were gathered using the Technopedagogical Education Competency Scale (TPACK-deep), developed by Kabakci Yurdakul, Odabasi, Kilicer, Coklar, Birinci, and Kurt. This five-point Likert type scale consists of a total of four factors, i.e. design, proficiency, ethics, and exertion. The internal reliability coefficient of the 33-item scale was .95. The scale was applied by faculty members in-line with the course description designated by the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) as a pre- and post-test at the beginning and end of the semester that the course was given. A paired samples t-test and CHAID (Chi-squared Automatic Interaction Detection) analysis were incorporatedly employed to analyze the data. The research showed that ITMD courses influenced preservice teachers’ acquisition of technopedagogical education competencies. The following were observed to be critical predictor variables in technopedagogical education competency acquisition: having received computer training prior to taking the ITMD courses and the average time one spends using a computer per day.
Place: Istanbul Publisher: EDAM (Educational Consultancy Ltd.) KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.12738/estp.2017.5.0322 2405685:XJ6W8XN4 2534378:GJ3VLQ36 2534378:WA8MCE6F 2534378:XN65FFGQ
Keywords: Communication; Computers; Core curriculum; Early childhood education; Education; Educational technology; Knowledge; Learning; Mathematics; Pedagogy; Preschool education; Science education; Social research; Students; Teacher education; Teaching methods; Web 2.0; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2095985; __finaldtb

Sierra Leone 2015 Population and Housing Census: Thematic Report on Disability - Kabia, Francis; Tarawally, Umaru (Statistics Sierra Leone, 2017)
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Teachers and the Teaching Profession in Sierra Leone: A Comprehensive Situation Analysis - Wright, Cream (TSC, 2017)
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

6 Out of 10 Children and Adolescents Are Not Learning a Minimum in Reading and Math (2017)
New data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics show that 617 million children and adolescents worldwide are not achieving minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics. The figure signals “a learning crisis” according to the UIS, which could threaten progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....
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Members of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities - UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (2017)
Library Catalog: uil.unesco.org KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:6M59HAXD

School-Based Teacher Professional Development in East Africa: Emerging Lessons from Kenya and Tanzania - Hardman, Jan (International Handbook of Teacher Quality and Policy, 2017)
This chapter discusses the main challenges facing both governments and the international donor community in the East African region as they implement effective teacher professional development. It reviews the emerging evidence suggesting educational quality is largely obtained by engaging teachers in reviewing their pedagogical processes at the school and classroom levels. It concludes with a discussion of the key priorities for policymakers in Kenya, Tanzania and East Africa more generally as they work towards improving pedagogical practices of both teachers and teacher educators and raising learning outcomes for all children as part of the new post-2015 education agenda.
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Keywords: _C:Canada CAN; _C:Cuba CUB; _C:Finland FIN; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Korea; Republic KOR; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Senegal SEN; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United States USA; _C:Zambia ZMB; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Cambodia teacher professional development policy options brief. Prepared for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Cambodia under All Children Reading – Asia (ACR–Asia), All Children Reading – Cambodia, Contract No - Piper, B.; Spratt, J. (RTI International, 2017)
Issue: 17 Pages: 00017

Psychometric assessment of three newly developed implementation outcome measures - Weiner, Bryan J.; Lewis, Cara C.; Stanick, Cameo; Powell, Byron J.; Dorsey, Caitlin N.; Clary, Alecia S.; Boynton, Marcella H.; Halko, Heather (Implementation Science : IS, 2017)
Background Implementation outcome measures are essential for monitoring and evaluating the success of implementation efforts. Yet, currently available measures lack conceptual clarity and have largely unknown reliability and validity. This study developed and psychometrically assessed three new measures: the Acceptability of Intervention Measure (AIM), Intervention Appropriateness Measure (IAM), and Feasibility of Intervention Measure (FIM). Methods Thirty-six implementation scientists and 27 mental health professionals assigned 31 items to the constructs and rated their confidence in their assignments. The Wilcoxon one-sample signed rank test was used to assess substantive and discriminant content validity. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (EFA and CFA) and Cronbach alphas were used to assess the validity of the conceptual model. Three hundred twenty-six mental health counselors read one of six randomly assigned vignettes depicting a therapist contemplating adopting an evidence-based practice (EBP). Participants used 15 items to rate the therapist’s perceptions of the acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of adopting the EBP. CFA and Cronbach alphas were used to refine the scales, assess structural validity, and assess reliability. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to assess known-groups validity. Finally, half of the counselors were randomly assigned to receive the same vignette and the other half the opposite vignette; and all were asked to re-rate acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility. Pearson correlation coefficients were used to assess test-retest reliability and linear regression to assess sensitivity to change. Results All but five items exhibited substantive and discriminant content validity. A trimmed CFA with five items per construct exhibited acceptable model fit (CFI = 0.98, RMSEA = 0.08) and high factor loadings (0.79 to 0.94). The alphas for 5-item scales were between 0.87 and 0.89. Scale refinement based on measure-specific CFAs and Cronbach alphas using vignette data produced 4-item scales (α’s from 0.85 to 0.91). A three-factor CFA exhibited acceptable fit (CFI = 0.96, RMSEA = 0.08) and high factor loadings (0.75 to 0.89), indicating structural validity. ANOVA showed significant main effects, indicating known-groups validity. Test-retest reliability coefficients ranged from 0.73 to 0.88. Regression analysis indicated each measure was sensitive to change in both directions. Conclusions The AIM, IAM, and FIM demonstrate promising psychometric properties. Predictive validity assessment is planned. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13012-017-0635-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Guidance on Conducting a Systematic Literature Review - Xiao, Yu; Watson, Maria (Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2017)
Literature reviews establish the foundation of academic inquires. However, in the planning field, we lack rigorous systematic reviews. In this article, through a systematic search on the methodology of literature review, we categorize a typology of literature reviews, discuss steps in conducting a systematic literature review, and provide suggestions on how to enhance rigor in literature reviews in planning education and research.
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Higher education, developmental leadership and good governance - Fontana, Giuditta (2017)
The last decade has witnessed renewed interest in the social benefits of higher education, with recent research suggesting that universities have a role in nurturing developmental leaders who enable positive change and better governance in low-income and conflict-affected countries (Brannelly et al, 2011b). This review summarises available evidence on the relationship between higher education, developmental leadership and good governance in developing and conflict-affected countries. It draws on examples from a variety of countries, including Ghana, the Philippines, Oman, Lebanon, Cote d’Ivoire and Botswana among others. Most of the literature considered in this report is academic. A large proportion was produced by the Developmental Leadership Programme (DLP) based at the University of Birmingham, which is currently in the process of publishing a summary report.
Accepted: 2017-09-15T15:29:17Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:WZST375I 4869029:4XJUP93U
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Factors shaping lecturers’ adoption of OER at three South African universities - Cox, Glenda; Trotter, Henry (2017)
The research presented here focuses on understanding the obstacles, opportunities and practices associated with Open Educational Resources (OER) adoption at three South African universities. It addresses the question: Why do South African lecturers adopt – or not adopt – OER? In trying to answer this, the authors also attempt to identify which factors shape lecturers’ OER adoption decisions, and how lecturers’ institutional cultures influence their OER use and creation choices. This study employed a qualitative research approach through in-depth personal interviews with 18 respondents at three different universities which together broadly represent the characteristics of South Africa’s university sector. Unique analytical tools – the OER adoption pyramid and OER adoption readiness tables – were developed to help with analysing and synthesising the data. Findings indicate that whether and how OER adoption takes place at an institution is shaped by a layered sequence of factors – infrastructural access, legal permission, conceptual awareness, technical capacity, material availability, and individual or institutional volition – which are further influenced by prevailing cultural and social variables. This study has value and application for researchers and institutions pursuing an OER agenda, policy-makers seeking tools to assess OER readiness in institutional contexts, and funding agencies aiming to boost institutional OER engagement. The dataset arising from this study can be accessed at: https://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/dataportal/index.php/catalog/555
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Repositories of Open Educational Resources: An Assessment of Reuse and Educational Aspects - Santos-Hermosa, Gema; Ferran-Ferrer, Núria; Abadal, Ernest (The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017)
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Keywords: OER; evaluation; higher education; open educational resources; repositories; reuse

INEE Guidance Notes on Teacher Compensation in Fragile States, Situations of Displacement and Post-Crisis Recovery (Resource Centre, 2017)
This Guidance Note provides a suggested framework for compensating teachers in fragile states, situations of displacement, and post-crisis recovery—situations where teachers are often underpaid or not paid at all. The note focuses on how to develop coordinating polices regarding teacher compensation, how to develop appropriate systems for managing the financial aspects of teacher payment, and how to provide complementary forms of teacher motivation and support to ensure teacher well-being.
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Non-state education provision; access and quality for the marginalised - Aslam, Monazza (2017)
This report undertakes a rapid review of some recent, high quality syntheses and reports to summarise the evidence on the effectiveness of different types of non-state schools in reaching the marginalised and providing quality education to them. Non-state provision has risen dramatically over the last few decades especially across South and West Asia and the Latin America and Caribbean region and provides opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere. The all-encompassing term ‘non-state’ constitutes a spectrum of providers with different characteristics, scope and scale. Overall, the evidence is indicative of potential improvements in learning outcomes in certain types of non-state provision but this is caveated by the very low overall learning outcomes across education systems, as well as by the extent to which non-state provision is aligned with human rights. There is evidence of certain types of non-state providers being able to reach the marginalised and disadvantaged more effectively but questions exist with regards to their sustainability. Whilst different types of arrangements may work in different contexts, the critical factor remains the governments’ ability to both foster an enabling environment but also combine it with effective legislation, monitoring and regulation to ensure quality education provision.
Accepted: 2017-09-11T13:28:47Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:K2PXJKPC 4869029:HZE56QEV
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Big Data in Climate: Opportunities and Challenges for Machine Learning - Karpatne, Anuj; Kumar, Vipin (Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2017)

Open Government Case Study: Costing Sierra Leone’s Open Data Program - Joswiak, Naomi (Results for Development, 2017)
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Action Research: All You Need to Know - McNiff, Jean (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017)
This practical text supports readers on their journey to becoming self-reflective practitioner-researchers. It provides the ideas and frameworks necessary to understand action research and expertly guides readers through the practicalities and complexities of doing research in their own context. Inside you will find: An action plan to help you embark on your projectGuidance and advice on learning to ask the right questions as you progressA full resource on writing up and communicating your resultsInspiration to explain the significance of what you have achieved, so that other people can learn with and from you Accessible and insightful, this is the complete start to finish guide to doing influential action research. It is the ideal companion for students and researcher-practitioners in any research setting, from education and health to business.
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Action Research: All You Need to Know - McNiff, Jean (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017)
This practical text supports readers on their journey to becoming self-reflective practitioner-researchers. It provides the ideas and frameworks necessary to understand action research and expertly guides readers through the practicalities and complexities of doing research in their own context. Inside you will find: An action plan to help you embark on your projectGuidance and advice on learning to ask the right questions as you progressA full resource on writing up and communicating your resultsInspiration to explain the significance of what you have achieved, so that other people can learn with and from you Accessible and insightful, this is the complete start to finish guide to doing influential action research. It is the ideal companion for students and researcher-practitioners in any research setting, from education and health to business.
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Evaluating Indoor Environmental Performance of Laboratories in a Northern Nigerian University - Ali, S.M.; Martinson, D.B.; Al-Maiyah, S. (“Passive and Low Energy Architecture” (PLEA) Conference at Edinburgh, 2017)
Poor environmental comfort in learning spaces can have an impact on the learning capacities of students. It is not unusual to find learning spaces in Nigerian higher institutions in which the indoor environmental qualities do not meet the occupants’ requirements. Despite being in the tropics, where solar radiation is in abundance, Nigerian building industry professionals pay little attention to passive energy utilization. Knowing how buildings perform in the country may appeal to their consciousness in reconsidering this situation. This paper is part of an ongoing study on comfort in higher education facilities involving lecture theatres and laboratories in Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. Objective and subjective assessments were undertaken during the wet-warm season of August 2016. It reports the assessment conducted on two laboratories, with a view to finding how they perform environmentally in comparison to occupants’ preferences and international comfort standards. Although some of the measured and calculated physical parameters, have not met the thresholds specified by ASHRAE-55 and EN 15251, the respondents expressed their acceptance of the laboratories’ situations subjectively. This is not surprising as these standards are often based on experiments implemented in developed countries, where the severity of the climatic conditions and the culture are dissimilar to sub Saharan Africa.
Publisher: Network for Comfort and Energy Use in Buildings KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:BDC63GUN 2486141:VKRKNRCA 5072953:I44GNID5 5072953:QD5TXEIW
Keywords: IEQ; Kano; Nigeria; Predicted Mean Vote; Predicted Percentage of Dissatisfied; ⛔ No DOI found

Did the shift to computer-based testing in PISA 2015 affect reading scores? A View from East Asia - Komatsu, Hikaru; Rappleye, Jeremy (Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017)
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Improving literacy instruction in Kenya through teacher professional development and text messages support: A cluster randomized trial - Jukes, M.C.H.; Turner, E.L.; Dubeck, M.M.; Halliday, K.E.; Inyega, H.N.; Wolf, S.; Brooker, S.J. (Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017)
We evaluated a program to improve literacy instruction on the Kenyan coast using training workshops, semiscripted lesson plans, and weekly text-message support for teachers to understand its impact on students’ literacy outcomes and on the classroom practices leading to those outcomes. The evaluation ran from the beginning of Grade 1 to the end of Grade 2 in 51 government primary schools chosen at random, with 50 schools acting as controls. The intervention had an impact on classroom practices with effect sizes from 0.57 to 1.15. There was more instruction with written text and more focus on letters and sounds. There was a positive impact on three of four primary measures of children’s literacy after two years, with effect sizes up to 0.64, and school dropout reduced from 5.3% to 2.1%. This approach to literacy instruction is sustainable, and affordable and a similar approach has subsequently been adopted nationally in Kenya.
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Keywords: Africa; Classroom Observation Techniques; Dropout Rate; ERIC; Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Early Childhood Education; Effect Size; Elementary Education; Elementary School Students; Elementary School Teachers; Faculty Development; Foreign Countries; Grade 1; Grade 2; Handheld Devices; Improving Learning in Sub-Saharan Africa Using Rigorous Research Designs; Intelligence Tests; Intervention; Interviews; Kenya; Literacy Education; Maximum Likelihood Statistics; Pretests Posttests; Primary Education; Program Effectiveness; Promising Interventions Are Great; but Are They Enough?; Questionnaires; RCT; Randomized Controlled Trials; Raven Progressive Matrices; Rural Schools; Statistical Analysis; Teacher Improvement; Teaching Methods; Telecommunications; What We Are Learning About Early Education in Sub-Saharan Africa; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2096051; ___working_potential_duplicate; __finaldtb; early grade reading; literacy instruction

Understanding Sierra Leonean and Liberian teachers’ views on discussing past wars in their classrooms - Shepler, Susan; Williams, James H. (Comparative Education, 2017)
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Understanding Sierra Leonean and Liberian teachers’ views on discussing past wars in their classrooms - Shepler, Susan; Williams, James H. (Comparative Education, 2017)
Various curricular and textbook initiatives exist to aid in the national processes of coming to terms with past violence, often serving the political goals of the victors, sometimes supported by international transitional justice institutions. Sierra Leone and Liberia each experienced a devastating civil war during the 1990s and into the 2000s, and each is struggling to rebuild shattered education systems. In addition, each country has experienced a set of post-conflict transitional justice initiatives: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in each, and a Special Court for Sierra Leone. Although their respective ministries of education have attempted to address peace education through UNICEF-sponsored curriculum revision processes, those efforts have not yet reached the majority of serving teachers, so a discussion of teachers’ actual practices is vital. This article uses interviews with teachers in rural and urban Sierra Leone and Liberia to discuss whether and how teachers talk about past war in their classrooms; whether they think it is important to discuss past conflicts, and if so, why; and what kind of curricular support would help them better teach about the wars. The article discusses how and why teachers embrace or subvert official efforts through their classroom practices, and compares the Sierra Leone and Liberia contexts and results. This research will help us to understand teachers’ own perspectives on addressing past conflict in their classrooms, and perhaps help policy-makers better implement their peace education initiatives.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2017.1338641 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/03050068.2017.1338641 2129771:UVNJFUHG 2405685:9FVX5LB3
Keywords: Education; Liberia; Sierra Leone; _C:Sierra Leone SLE; teachers; teaching about conflict; transitional justice

Optimization of school network using location-allocation analysis: Case study: Bandung, Indonesia - Alifi, Muhammad Riza; Hayati, Hashri; Supangkat, Suhono (2017)
Pages: 6

A Curriculum Framework for the Sustainable Development Goals First Edition - Osman, Amina; Ladhani, Sultana; Findlater, Emma; Mckay, Veronica (2017)
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development marks a paradigm shift in the global framework for development and presents a unique opportunity to reorient efforts towards a new path for development with sustainability at its core. Education is central to this and to the achievement of all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Education directly relates to one goal (SDG 4) but cuts across the entire SDG agenda. At the 19th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (CCEM) held in The Bahamas (June 2015), ministers reinforced the centrality of education for building resilience and preparing the next generation of Commonwealth citizens to contribute positively to the social, environmental and economic development of their communities. Ultimately, ministers highlighted the pivotal role that education has in achieving sustainable development and driving the SDGs. Given this and following the recommendations made at the 19th CCEM, the Education Section of the Health and Education Unit within the Commonwealth Secretariat has developed a Curriculum Framework for the SDGs to support member countries in addressing all 17 SDGs through education and learning. Goal 4 of the Sustainable Development Goals seeks to ensure “inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”. Within the framework, a life course approach is followed, reinforcing the need for lifelong learning and for all citizens to participate in achieving the SDGs. It is envisioned that this framework will help countries to develop successful learners, confident individuals and responsible citizens who are resilient and uphold the core values and principles of the Commonwealth, as declared in the Commonwealth Charter, and who strive for sustainable development. The framework aims to ensure that citizens develop the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to flourish in life, learning and work environments, and to appreciate their place in a diverse world, while building and strengthening pathways to peace and tolerance. The Curriculum Framework for the SDGs allows for a high degree of flexibility through the non-prescriptive nature of its content. It is hoped that this framework will serve as a guide for countries to conceptualise, review or further develop their national curricula and ensure that education is integral to any strategy to create a resilient generation that will advocate for action and the attainment of the SDGs in a holistic, integrated manner. It will provide conceptual support for teacher training, adult learning and community development.

Annotated Bibliography: Approaches to psycho-social support in protracted crises - Boateng, Pearl (2017)
This annotated bibliography highlights 14 key resources drawn from the studies which underpinned the questions answered in this helpdesk report. Some selection criteria included the source’s relevance to the query, recent publication, contextual relevance and methodology. The sources below are grouped into three sets: those selected based on their relevance to the Syrian context; those selected based on their focus on evidence of best practice psycho-social support in conflict/post-conflict settings; toolkits and guidelines to support decision-making and practitioners
Accepted: 2017-07-14T15:01:53Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:PKZC6PWQ 4869029:ND22CF5V
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Physical education and arts programme approaches in conflict settings - Boateng, Pearl (2017)
This helpdesk report is the concluding report in the query addressing psycho-social interventions in protracted crises with reference to Syria and its neighbouring countries as well as from other fragile and conflict affected states (FACS). This report specifically addresses sports/physical education programmes in and around Syria and its impact
Accepted: 2017-07-14T14:56:31Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:2XQA6NFD 4869029:YSB2TELS
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Approaches to providing psycho-social support for teachers and other school staff in protracted conflict situations - Ahmed, Hassan (2017)
This report summarises available literature and evidence relating to the above two specific questions. The geographical focus of this research is Syria and neighbouring countries. However, examples of evidence from different contexts are also drawn to inform this review. Education and psychosocial support are purported to have a dynamic and mutually reinforcing relationship. The Education For All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report for 2011 (UNESCO 2011) focused on education in conflict settings and recognised the importance of psychosocial interventions in addressing the negative effects of conflict, including depression, trauma, shame and withdrawal, which can have significant consequences for individual learning. According to UNICEF (2009) effective child-centred learning is important in promoting the psychosocial well-being of both learners and teachers. Evidence shows that students’ relationships with teachers are important predictors for academic performance and positive health and social behaviours. Several meta-studies identified perceptions of teacher fairness and teacher respect for students as important contributors to resilience and psychosocial wellbeing.
Accepted: 2017-07-14T14:57:40Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:CVPZ4YAT 4869029:QZBGXPAU
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Approaches to providing psycho -social support for children, teachers and other school staff, and social and emotional learning for children in protracted conflict situations - Mattingly, Jacqui (2017)
Whilst the provision of psychosocial activities is regularly mentioned in documents referring to the humanitarian response to education, there is a dearth of literature that refers to exactly what these programmes consist of, and how effective they are. There is, however, widespread recognition of the importance of providing psycho-social interventions to counter the impact of traumatisation on children and youth’s well-being and mental health, which can manifest in depression, shame, withdrawal or aggression.
Accepted: 2017-07-14T15:09:14Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:Q63SF9WJ 4869029:AMA45K8S
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Interrogating Gender Divides in Technology for Education and Development: the Case of the One Laptop per Child Project in Ghana - Steeves, Leslie; Kwami, Janet (Studies in Comparative International Development, 2017)
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project aims to make low-cost computers accessible to the “world’s poorest children,” presuming that the gadgets will support their empowerment via education. The project’s success globally, however, has been mixed at best, with many countries terminating their purchases due to cost, inadequate infrastructure, and negative side effects. In October 2010, Ghana suspended the country’s 3-year participation. This study examines the complex history and failure of OLPC Ghana in two pilot schools, one urban and one rural, with particular attention to gender bias. The analysis draws on interviews with government personnel, students, and teachers in the pilot classes. Despite lacking electric power in the rural community, UNDP’s Millennium Villages Project played a strong support role, making OLPC somewhat more effective with less of a gender divide in the rural school than in the urban school in Accra. Both pilot schools faced severe sustainability challenges raising decade-old questions about modernity and technological determinism. Further, in both schools, particularly the urban school, a digital divide by gender was evident.
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Keywords: C: Ghana

ICT in Education Policy and Strategy for Saint Lucia 2017–2020 - Ministry of Education (2017)
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Grundlagen beruflicher Bildung: Mitgestalten der Arbeitswelt - Rauner, Felix (wbv, 2017)
Schlanke Organisationsstrukturen in der Arbeitswelt erfordern mitdenkende Arbeitnehmer und Arbeitnehmerinnen, die die Prozesse der Arbeitswelt mitgestalten. Die berufliche Bildung setzt diese Anforderungen in einem neuen Leitbild um. Felix Rauner zeichnet in seinem Buch die Grundlagen für das neue Zusammenspiel von Arbeit, Technik und Bildung nach. Er zeigt, welchen Einfluss die Leitidee von der Mitgestaltung der Arbeitswelt auf die Berufsbildungsplanung und -forschung sowie auf die Gestaltung beruflicher Bildungsprozesse hat. Dabei spannt er den Bogen vom Beginn der 1980er-Jahre bis heute und erfasst das Wissen aus zahlreichen nationalen und internationalen Projekten zur beruflichen Bildung.
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Keywords: Education / Adult & Continuing Education

Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World - Paris, Django; Alim, H. Samy (Teachers' College Press, 2017)
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Engaging parents in their children’s education - Carter, Becky (2017)
In general systematic and rigorous reviews find limited (and little robust) evidence on the effectiveness of interventions to engage parents in their children’s learning in resource-constrained countries – when looking at parental participation in their children’s literacy development and parental engagement with schools. Effects tend to be mixed, with scarce evidence making it hard to come to firm conclusions on findings, including on the effects of the way parents engage in supporting their children’s learning. Reviews report more, and more consistent, evidence showing significant benefits from interventions supporting parental engagement with their children’s early childhood development (ECD). There are recommendations in the literature on the way parents are engaged in ECD interventions. In general the literature tends not to provide gender analysis, presumably because many interventions do not incorporate a gender focus (although some do). This rapid review has found limited evidence on the impact of interventions supporting parent engagement specifically for girls or for children with disabilities in resource constrained countries.
Accepted: 2017-07-14T15:06:00Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:4Q6AUSIT 4869029:LVF8VL95
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Education for Children with Disabilities - Thompson, Stephen (2017)
This report provides a rapid literature review of the evidence on what data and evidence exists, to identify, categorise and support children with disabilities to access education and achieve measurable learning outcomes in Tanzania and other similar resource-constrained contexts. Literature focused on the debate between mainstream and specialist education for children with disabilities is discussed. Where possible, the report flags gender dimensions. While the scope of the report did not allow for complex judgements to be made about the quality of the body of evidence, or of the strength of individual pieces of evidence, details were included to enable the reader to undertake such analysis if needed in the future, using the DFID How to Note on Assessing the Strength of Evidence. All the evidence included was in English, no more than 10 years old and from peer reviewed journals. A number of experts in the field were consulted.
Accepted: 2017-07-14T15:07:00Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:S64CMY8R 4869029:ESPPLNZ6
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Effective Adult Education - Bolton, Laura (2017)
The most important element for successful adult literacy and numeracy learning is to take a people-centred approach. Literacy and numeracy teaching should be incorporated into subjects that are directly relevant and useful for participants. Ideally, learners would be consulted on their priorities and be involved in the planning and design of the programme and of educational materials. The most effective learning will happen when adults are actively engaged in the construction of their own knowledge. Inter-generational or family learning programmes is one possible approach which has seen success in being responsiveness to the needs and concerns of learners.
Accepted: 2017-07-14T15:07:19Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:YIC8STEU 4869029:VU6CGGEB
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

As by Fire: The End of the South African University - Jansen, Jonathan (Tafelberg, 2017)
What are the real roots of the student protests of 2015 and 2016? Is it actually about fees? Why did the protests turn violent? Where is the government while the buildings burn? Former Free State University vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen delves into the unprecedented disruption of universities that caught South Africa by surprise. In frank interviews with eleven of the VCs most affected, he examines the forces at work, why the protests escalate into chaos, and what is driving – and exasperating – our youth. This urgent and necessary book gives us an insider view of the crisis, tells us why the conflict will not go away and what it means for the future of our universities.
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Strategy for South African public libraries to bridge the digital divide - Mphidi, Hamilton Hamilton (University of Pretoria, 2017)
This thesis reports on a study that investigated the role of public libraries in addressing the digital divide in South Africa. The study started in 2006. This study addressed the main research question: "How should a theoretical model look for South African public libraries to contribute to bridging the digital divide?" The central research problem was further addressed by asking the following questions: • What are the scope and implications of the digital divide? (These include the meaning of the concept, the dimensions and the factors leading to the digital divide.) • What has been reported on the role of libraries (including information services) in bridging the digital divide? • What have libraries in South Africa done to address the digital divide, and which possibilities are foreseen? • How can South African libraries be positioned to contribute to bridging the digital divide? The study followed a survey method using interviews with directors of Provincial Library Services (or their representatives), which are the controlling bodies of public libraries in South Africa, questionnaires distributed to representative staff members of participating public libraries in Gauteng, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal and individual interviews with selected heads/representatives of public libraries in Gauteng, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal. Data collected through the questionnaires were both quantitative and qualitative. Data was collected between 2011 and 2012. Quantitative data were analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), while qualitative data from interviews were analysed by content analysis and thematic categorising of information. In October 2015 a follow-up study of limited scope was conducted with three representatives from the three provincial library services to establish developments since the first round of data collections. Seven out of nine directors of Provincial Library Services in South Africa participated in the study. Furthermore, 247 public libraries from Gauteng, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal out of 463 public libraries and 18 heads/representatives of public libraries participated in this study. Findings on the opinions expressed on the role of public libraries in bridging the digital divide include the following: providing access to information and communication technologies (ICTs), offering information literacy and ICT literacy training, providing information to reduce the gap between "haves" and "have-nots", providing communities with equal, free access, reaching out and spreading ICTs to those who may not have online access and support and facilitating and promoting information exchange and communication between citizens and the government. The overall findings from the study were that although provincial library services have documents containing information on their mission and vision, their mission and vision statements do not address the digital divide or shed any light in this regard. The study found that provincial library services aimed to support public libraries to provide information resources, services to communities and access to information through ICT via targeted fund transfers to municipalities. None of the provincial library services included in the study had an explicit policy and strategies aligned to its vision and mission to guide and enable it in addressing the digital divide. Although all provincial library services included in the study had access to computer facilities in their headquarters, there were still disparities in the number of computer facilities available. It was also found that none of the provincial library services had its own website at the time of the study. They depended on the websites of their parent organisations. The study found that very few provincial library services had information technology (IT) units/departments charged with the responsibility of taking care of ICT facilities. They depended on external ICT service providers or the IT departments of their parent organisations to maintain the library's ICT infrastructure.
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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

Effectivity of E-Learning through Whatsapp as a Teaching Learning Tool - Gon, Sonia; Rawekar, Alka (MVP Journal of Medical Sciences, 2017)
Introduction: WhatsApp is a free messenger application that works across multiple platform and is being widely used among undergraduate students to send multimedia messages like photos, videos, audios along with simple text messages. Aims and Objectives: To assess the affectivity of social media like WhatsApp in delivering knowledge to 4th semester MBBS students and to compare the improvement of knowledge gain through e-learning and didactic lecture. Simultaneously, perception of learners about e-learning via WhatsApp will also be collated. Material and Methods: This prospective analytical interventional study was conducted in the department of Pathology from 01.02.2015 to 31.06.2015, on 4th semester MBBS students. Two groups of students were taught the same topics by two different T-L activities i.e., through WhatsApp and via didactic lectures. Assessment of knowledge was done by giving pre and post-test questionnaire of 20 marks for each topic. Perception of e-learning through WhatsApp was done by feedback form. Observation and Results: The post test results revealed that the learners with WhatsApp as a learning tool scored in the range of 5-20 marks while those with didactic lecture scored in the range of 3-17.5 marks and had an average of 11.6 and 11.9 score respectively. The two tailed t value between the two groups is 0.635 which is not statistically significant. Technical, educational and instructional advantages of teaching learning activity via WhatsApp out pars disadvantages. Facilitator’s availability and Learning anytime anywhere were top two advantages of learning through WhatsApp with 86.72% and 86.55% students agreeing to it. Message flooding, time consuming and eye strain were the other technical disadvantages observed in the present study with 63.23%, 75.28% and 68.53 students agreeing to it. Conclusion: Constant availability of facilitator and learning anytime anywhere has made WhatsApp a new and convenient tool for teaching learning activity. Though there is no significant difference between gain of knowledge from WhatsApp or didactic lectures, advantages (technical, educational or instructional) out pars the disadvantages. A few disadvantages, like message flooding and eyestrain can be overruled by making small groups and using mobiles with bigger screen. Enabling a Wi-Fi in the college campus can make its use cost effective.
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The Impact of School Health Programmes - Grant, Catherine (2017)
This report focuses on the impact of school health programmes. School health programmes can cover both the prevention and treatment of disease and malnutrition in a school setting (Snilstveit et al 2016). These services are designed to promote students' physical, cognitive, and social development. Effective school health programmes are broadly considered to be cost-effective. They build on existing health infrastructure and community partnerships, as well as a skilled workforce in schools (UNICEF 2000). This report focuses on four main areas of impact: enrolment (section 2); retention/dropout of students (section 3); learning outcomes (section 4), and health and nutritional benefits of students, families and communities (section 5). The report is divided into impacts at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels where this information was available, but a lot of the literature focused on schools in general. There was more evidence on school health programmes in primary schools than in secondary schools and very little literature found on the impact of health programmes in tertiary education.
Accepted: 2017-09-08T16:02:52Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:IFH88U6Q 4869029:FJJRE8KP
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Delivering school health programmes - Tull, Kerina (2017)
This report is a general overview of lessons learned about delivery mechanisms from school health programmes. Results are ordered by type of educational institution (primary, secondary, tertiary i.e. representing different age groups and needs), where available. Evidence on school health programmes is stronger for developed/higher income countries than low and middle income/developing countries. Limited information for tertiary school health programmes was available. The findings are ‘gender-blind’, but are separated by gender, where available. From the review of local, national and international school health programmes undertaken for this report, it is clear there is not a “one recommendation fits all” regarding delivery.
Accepted: 2017-10-19T12:58:59Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:VQDFV7BD 4869029:UTIJCN2N
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Open education and critical pedagogy - Farrow, Robert (Learning, Media and Technology, 2017)
This paper argues for a revaluation of the potential of open education to support more critical forms of pedagogy. Section 1 examines contemporary discourses around open education, offering a commentary on the perception of openness as both a disruptive force in education, and a potential solution to contemporary challenges. Section 2 examines the implications of the lack of consensus around what it means to be open, focusing on the example of commercial and proprietary claims to openness commonly known as ‘openwashing’. Section 3 uses Raymond's influential essay on open source software ‘The Cathedral and the Bazaar’ as a framework for thinking through these issues, and about alternative power structures in open education. In Section 4, an explicit link is drawn between more equal and democratic power structures and the possibility for developing pedagogies which are critical and reflexive, providing examples which show how certain interpretations of openness can raise opportunities to support critical approaches to pedagogy.
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Keywords: Final_citation; MOOC; OER; cited; critical pedagogy; critical theory; critique; discourse analysis; evidence; existing; open education; openwashing

Reforming teacher deployment in Indonesia - Heyward, Mark; Hadiwijaya, Aos Santosa; Mahargianto; Priyono, Edy (Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2017)
This paper reports on a mixed-method, multiple-site study of teacher deployment in Indonesian primary schools. Results from a sample of 23 districts were analysed at district and national level. Substantial disparities in teacher distribution were found in all districts, between schools, between sub-districts and between specialist subjects. Two main issues emerged: uneven teacher distribution and small schools. The study found that a policy research approach which addresses political and cultural, as well as technical, dimensions at sub-national level can succeed in improving teacher deployment where previous efforts have failed.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2017.1301978
Keywords: Comparative education; _C:Australia AUS; _C:India IND; _C:Indonesia IDN; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Republic of Moldova MDA; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; decentralization; educational administration; educational policy; teacher management

Implementation in Education - Findings from a Scoping Review - Albers, Bianca; Pattuwage, Loyal (2017)
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A review on windcatcher for passive cooling and natural ventilation in buildings, Part 1: Indoor air quality and thermal comfort assessment - Jomehzadeh, Fatemeh; Nejat, Payam; Calautit, John Kaiser; Yusof, Mohd Badruddin Mohd; Zaki, Sheikh Ahmad; Hughes, Ben Richard; Yazid, Muhammad Noor Afiq Witri Muhammad (Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017)
The most prominent challenge in 21th century is global warming which seriously threats the mankind. Building sector with 40% of global energy consumption and GHG emission play a key role in this threat. In this regard, the impact of cooling systems cannot be ignored where along with ventilation and heating systems totally account for 60% of energy consumed in buildings. Passive cooling systems can be a promising alternative to reduce energy consumption. One of the oldest passive cooling system that is still being used today is windcatcher. By manipulating pressure differences and the buoyancy effect, an adequate level of ventilation in buildings can be provided by windcatchers. Since most of the previous windcatcher studies assessed the design characteristics, the current investigation focused on the indoor air quality (IAQ) and thermal comfort aspects. The review details and compares the different theoretical and experimental methods employed by researchers in different case studies to assess the IAQ and thermal comfort. It was found that most IAQ studies were conducted in the UK using CFD and experimental techniques. Previous studies assessed IAQ based on several parameters such as air flow rate, air change rate, CO2 concentration, air change effectiveness and mean age of air. The findings of the studies revealed that satisfactory IAQ were generally achieved using the windcatcher. On the other hand, thermal comfort studies of windcatchers were mainly conducted in hot climates such as in the Middle East. In addition to night ventilation, the review also looked into the different types of cooling methods incorporated with windcatchers such as evaporative cooling, earth to air heat exchangers (EAHE) and heat transfer devices (HTD). Night ventilation was found to be effective in temperate and cold conditions while additional cooling using evaporative cooling, EAHE and HTD were found to be necessary in hot climates.
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Keywords: Badgir; Indoor air quality (IAQ); Natural ventilation; Passive cooling; Thermal comfort; Wind tower; Windcatcher

The Impact of Teacher Effectiveness on Student Learning in Africa - Buhl-Wiggers, Julie; Kerwin, Jason; Smith, Jeffrey; Thornton, Rebecca (Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), 2017)
Teaching quality is known to be critical for students’ education and life prospects in developed countries. However, little is known about how teacher quality affects student learning in Africa. This paper presents the first estimates of teacher value-added from an African country, using data from a school-based RCT in northern Uganda. Exploiting the random assignment of students to classrooms within schools, we estimate a lower bound on teacher effects. A 1-SD increase in teacher quality leads to at least a 0.14 SD improvement in student performance on a reading test at the end of the year. Shifting teachers from the 10th to the 90th percentile of quality increases performance by 0.36 SDs –comparable to the most effective education interventions conducted in Africa. Our results also suggest that an increase in teacher quality can make other education interventions more efficient.
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GraphoGame Teacher Training Service: evaluation report - School-to-School International (STS) (Agora Center, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 2017)
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Funding of Anti-Modern Slavery Interventions - Idris, Iffat (2017)
This review looks at the availability of funds to tackle modern slavery1 and human trafficking2, and the availability of data in this regard. It seeks to move beyond the findings of Martina Ucnikova’s 2014 paper, OECD and Modern Slavery: How much aid money is spent to tackle the issue?, and identify updated (post-2013) data on funding by governments as well as private sector and philanthropic organisations. The review found a very limited peer-reviewed academic literature in this regard and drew largely on reports by development organisations and think tanks (though these too were limited). The query called for a specific focus on LMICs, in particular 12 identified countries. However, most anti-modern slavery funding is directed globally and/or data is not disaggregated by country. This and time constraints meant it was not possible to address this aspect of the query.
Accepted: 2017-08-03T11:59:09Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:2PD354RX 4869029:K432U8V2
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Gender Norms in the Western Balkans - Browne, Evie (2017)
The Western Balkans remains a region dominated by patriarchal gender norms. The biggest challenge for improving gender equality is changing the mentality of women and men towards traditional gender roles (Petričević, 2012). The literature consistently identifies social attitudes as a barrier to increasing gender equality. Many people are not aware of women’s rights or gender non-discrimination laws (Petričević, 2012). In several areas of gender equality, legal provisions are adequate and conform to UN and international norms. However, these are not always implemented or adhered to in practice, due to lack of capacity, knowledge, resources or social barriers. Standard indicators of gender equality include: female/male school enrolment; literacy rate; unemployment; maternal mortality; life expectancy; adolescent fertility rate; proportion of women in parliament1. Others include violence against women and girls; gender equality policy and legislation. Much of the literature recognises the need to include men and raise men’s awareness about gender issues. Most of the literature on the Western Balkans looks at interpersonal and household gender norms, such as girls’ access to school, women’s work and household decision making. There is also a strong literature on women’s political participation and violence against women and girls. This report provides a brief summary of the main gender issues in the region, as reported in the literature. It is not a comprehensive literature review, but a collection of resources which highlight the key points to consider on gender. Each country has a large selection of resources on its specific gendered issues, which can provide more detail. There is a companion piece to this report which focuses on the relationship between gender and conflict in the Western Balkans2. This report sketches the main parameters of gender in the region.
Accepted: 2017-07-20T15:37:36Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:BC6MDSNX 4869029:7ZSLB7SC
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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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Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; A:East Africa; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:Namibia; CA:AandC; CL:de; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:T; F:learning; P:economy; P:teachers; Q:higher education; T:Educação profissionalizante; T:TVET; T:in-service TVET; publicImportV1

Quality Improvement Approaches: Implementation Science (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2017)
The implementation science approach to improvement in education centers on how to accommodate local school variables and other contextual factors that can impede successful implementation
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The Contribution of Education to Economic Growth - Grant, Catherine (2017)
There are many reasons why education is important, this report focuses on its contribution to economic growth and outcomes. Education ‘can be defined as the stock of skills, competencies, and other productivity-enhancing characteristics’ (WEF 2016). In general, education—as a critical component of a country’s human capital—increases the efficiency of each individual worker and helps economies to move up the value chain beyond manual tasks or simple production processes (WEF 2016). Human capital has long been considered the most distinctive feature of the economic system and further work has proven the impact of education on productivity growth empirically. The World Economic Forum 2016 suggested three channels through which education affects a country’s productivity. First, it increases the collective ability of the workforce to carry out existing tasks more quickly. Second, secondary and tertiary education especially facilitate the transfer of knowledge about new information, products, and technologies created by others (Barro and Lee 2010). Finally, by increasing creativity it boosts a country’s own capacity to create new knowledge, products, and technologies. There is a wealth of literature on this topic, showing the long held expectation that human capital formation (a population’s education and health status) plays a significant role in a country’s economic development. Better education leads not only to higher individual income but is also a necessary (although not always sufficient) precondition for long-term economic growth (IIASA 2008). Woessmann 2015 surveys the most recent empirical evidence stating that it shows the crucial role of education for individual and societal prosperity. Education is a leading determinant of economic growth, employment, and earnings. Ignoring the economic dimension of education would endanger the prosperity of future generations, with widespread repercussions for poverty, social exclusion, and sustainability of social security systems (Woessman 2015). For every US$1 spent on education, as much as US$10 to US$15 can be generated in economic growth (UNESCO 2012). If 75% more 15-year-olds in forty-six of the world’s poorest countries were to reach the lowest OECD benchmark for mathematics, economic growth could improve by 2.1% from its baseline and 104 million people could be lifted out of extreme poverty (UNESCO 2012).
Accepted: 2017-07-20T15:39:07Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:UJ8STPHE 4869029:LLQZCR8W
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Availability of digital object identifiers in publications archived by PubMed - Boudry, Christophe; Chartron, Ghislaine (Scientometrics, 2017)
Digital object identifiers (DOIs) were launched in 1997 to facilitate the long-term access and identification of objects in digital environments. The objective of the present investigation is to assess the DOI availability of articles in biomedical journals indexed in the PubMed database and to complete this investigation with a geographical analysis of journals by the country of publisher. Articles were randomly selected from PubMed using their PubMed identifier and were downloaded from and processed through developed Hypertext Preprocessor language scripts. The first part of the analysis focuses on the period 1966–2015 (50 years). Of the 496,665 articles studied over this period, 201,055 have DOIs (40.48%). Results showed that the percentage of articles with DOIs began to increase for articles published in the 2000s, with spectacular growth in the years 2002–2003, then reached a peak in 2015. Data on countries showed that some countries gradually implemented DOIs over the period 1966 to 2015 (the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands), while some did not (Russia, the Czech Republic, and Romania). The second part of the analysis focuses on the year 2015 and includes 268,790 articles published in 2015, randomly selected to evaluate the current implementation of DOIs. In 2015, 86.42% of articles had DOIs. The geographical analysis of countries of publishers showed that some countries (Russia, Thailand, and Ukraine) still assigned few DOIs to articles in 2015. Thus, if the scientific community aims to increase the number and the usefulness of services rendered by DOIs, efforts must be made to generalize their use by all persons involved in scientific publication, particularly publishers.

How Changes in Technology and Automation will Affect the Labour Market in Africa - Millington, A. Kerry (2017)
Estimates of how many jobs are vulnerable to being replaced by machine vary but it is clear that developing countries are more susceptible to automation compared to high-income countries. Traditionally, blue-collar routine jobs have been automated but with the emergence of greatly improved computing power, artificial intelligence and robotics, a much larger scope of occupations are at risk. Vulnerability to automation is now based on whether jobs or tasks are codifiable and whether they are routine or not. Highly-trained and skilled jobs can be more at risk than more varied, lesser skilled jobs. This rapid literature review found that whilst there is evidence, information and discussion of the impact of automation on the labour market in industrialised nations, there is much less on the potential impact in developing countries. The World Development Report 2016 Digital Dividends (World Bank 2016) was an excellent source of data and many of the figures presented are from this report. Whether you are a “techno-optimist” or a “techno-pessimist”, the impact of automation on the labour market will require long-term adjustment and policy changes to ensure the future of work is inclusive and sustainable and addresses increasing income inequality (Gelb and Khan December 2016) in an ever more automated and digital economy.
Accepted: 2017-07-06T10:51:57Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:CQA2P35C 4869029:BA9L2V5K
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Doing Reform Differently: Combining Rigor and Practicality in Implementation and Evaluation of System Reforms - Crouch, Luis; DeStefano, Joseph (2017)
This paper brings together two promising intellectual trends in development: Doing Development Differently (DDD), and whole-system reform. In addition, it provides a framework for evaluating system reforms, as rigorously as possible. Doing Development Differently proposes an approach to development in which many different things are tried, in smallish ways, involving stakeholders; in one sense it is a reaction against “blueprint” development. These approaches have much to recommend them.
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

An Analysis of Existing Evidence Around Perceptions of the Tanzanian Education System - Mobey, Helen (2017)
This Helpdesk report has been commissioned to help understand the extent to which the education system currently meets young people’s needs and how far the school represents a safe space for young people. In line with the plan to gather insights and identify trends, themes and areas for discussion for policy meetings about the wider population’s views on the above issues, datasets were identified analysed.
Accepted: 2017-09-08T16:14:04Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:YT9VRTRN 4869029:DDC5W2UL
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Evidence on Education as a Driver for Migration - Browne, Evie (2017)
This report synthesises two previous reports on drivers of migration, and focuses on the evidence on education’s role. The previous reports focused on education and migration in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS), and youth employment and education in low and middle income countries. The papers presented below reflect these original criteria, but reframe the studies to draw out the evidence on education as a driver. The report outlines the evidence on when and whether education services make a difference to people’s reasons for moving. This report includes rural-urban migration, regional and international migration, and migration away from fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS). It does not consider migration that is primarily economic, whether regular or irregular.
Accepted: 2017-07-06T10:49:55Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:SEWFWD5G 4869029:VB2QGU7D
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Professional Development Framework for Digital Learning (South Africa) - SchoolNet South Africa (schoolnet, 2017)
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Behaviour change approaches for social norms regarding gender - Grant, Catherine (2017)
This report aims to inform a project which will set up self-help groups for young men from deprived urban areas in developing countries. The project will deliver an open-source course or set of materials using the most appropriate format for community level mobilisers to equip themselves to facilitate a series of ‘courageous conversations’ amongst young men to spur critical thinking about gender roles and social norms. It aims to equip them to lead their own groups looking at harmful masculinities and the impact this has on their behaviour. A literature search was conducted looking for examples of community level support programmes which effectively used dissemination methods to enable these programmes to be self-managed and self-led. The subject area was widened to include self-help groups with other purposes using a variety of methods. There are many different ways in which different groups equip people to lead their own development and learning with others, thus enabling peer support and development without requiring trained facilitators to be physically present. This report considers social norms to be ‘shared beliefs about what is typical and appropriate behaviour in a valued reference group.
Accepted: 2017-07-06T10:49:15Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:KIBPA7P3 4869029:YVJ6LTMT
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Teacher Involvement in Curriculum Development in Zambia: A Role Analysis of Selected Secondary School Teachers in Lusaka District, Lusaka Province, Zambia - Mwanza, Christine (University of Zambia, 2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Executive Secretary's Office (2017)
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National Frequency Allocation Table 2017_1622727105.pdf (2017)

Roll Call: Getting Children Into School (Policy Bulletin, 2017)
Individual Evaluations Cited Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL)

Teacher Management: Emerging Issues in Kenya (European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2017)
Publisher: European Scientific Institute
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

The application of machine learning for evaluating anthropogenic versus natural climate change - Abbot, John; Marohasy, Jennifer (GeoResJ, 2017)
Publisher: Elsevier

Lessons Learned from World Bank Education Management Information System Operations - Abdul-Hamid, Husein; Saraogi, Namrata; Mintz, Sarah (2017)
ISBN (paper): 978-1-4648-1056-5 ISBN (electronic): 978-1-4648-1057-2
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

AEWG Accelerated Education 10 principles for effective practice - Accelerated Education Working Group (2017)

Land and the “Gradient Forces” of Religion and Urbanism: The Gospel Town - Ajadi, S.B. (IFRA-Nigeria, 2017)

Alternative Productivity Estimates Using Physical Activity - Akogun, Oladele B; Dillon, Andrew; Friedman, Jed; Prasann, Ashesh; Serneels, Pieter (2017)
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Factors influencing female undergraduate students' acceptance of, and motivation to, use tablet computers for learning - Alomary, Azza (University of Southampton, 2017)
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Report Cards: The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets. - Andrabi, Tahir; Das, Jishnu; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz (American Economic Review, 2017)

Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, Action - Andrews, Matt; Pritchett, Lant; Woolcock, Michael (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited impact, however; schools get built but children don't learn, IT systems are introduced but not used, plans are written but not implemented. These achievement deficiencies reveal gaps in capabilities, and weaknesses in the process of building state capability. 00This book addresses these weaknesses and gaps. It starts by providing evidence of the capability shortfalls that currently exist in many countries, showing that many governments lack basic capacities even after decades of reforms and capacity building efforts. The book then analyses this evidence, identifying capability traps that hold many governments back - particularly related to isomorphic mimicry (where governments copy best practice solutions from other countries that make them look more capable even if they are not more capable) and premature load bearing (where governments adopt new mechanisms that they cannot actually make work, given weak extant capacities). The book then describes a process that governments can use to escape these capability traps.
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Big data, big insights? Advancing service innovation and design with machine learning - Antons, D; Breidbach, CF (Journal of Service Research, 2017)
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Design-based online teacher professional development to introduce integration of STEM in Pakistan - Anwar, Tasneem (University of Minnesota, 2017)
In today's global society where innovations spread rapidly, the escalating focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) has quickly intensified in the United States, East Asia and much of Western Europe. Our ever-changing, increasingly global society faces many multidisciplinary problems, and many of the solutions require the integration of multiple science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) concepts. Thus, there is a critical need to explore the integration of STEM subjects in international education contexts. This dissertation study examined the exploration of integration of STEM in the unique context of Pakistan. This study used three-phase design-based methodological framework derived from McKenney and Reeves (2012) to explore the development of a STEM focused online teacher professional development (oTPD-STEM) and to identify the design features that facilitate teacher learning. The oTPD-STEM program was designed to facilitate eight Pakistani elementary school teachers' exploration of the new idea of STEM integration through both practical and theoretical considerations. This design-based study employed inductive analysis (Strauss and Corbin, 1998) to analyze multiple data sources of interviews, STEM perception responses, reflective learning team conversations, pre-post surveys and artifacts produced in oTPD-STEM. Findings of this study are presented as: (1) design-based decisions for oTPD-STEM, and (2) evolution in understanding of STEM by sharing participant teachers' STEM model for Pakistani context. This study advocates for the potential of school-wide oTPD for interdisciplinary collaboration through support for learner-centered practices. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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Research on open educational resources for development in the Global South: Project landscape - Arinto, Patricia; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; King, Thomas; Cartmill, Tess; Willmers, Michelle (African Minds, International Development Research Centre & Research on Open …, 2017)
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Impact of Free Availability of Public Child Care in Brazil. - Attanasio, Orazio; de Barro, Ricardo Paes; Carneiro, Pedro; Evans, David; Lima, Lycia; Olinto, Pedro; Schady, Norbert (2017)
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Zum Stand der Forschung zum Tableteinsatz in Schule und Unterricht aus nationaler und internationaler Sicht - Aufenanger, Stefan (Tablets in Schule und Unterricht, 2017)
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Linking vocational education and training (VET) progression pathways into the academic route in Tanzania: Case study in electrical and mechanical engineering programmes at Arusha technical college (ATC) - Augustine, S. Mbitila; Richard, J. Masika; Donatha, E. Mwase (International Journal of Vocational and Technical Education, 2017)
The bridging course was designed by the Vocational and Education Training Authority (VETA) in collaboration with three technical Colleges/Institutions: Arusha Technical College, Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology and Mbeya University of Science and Technology under the auspices of National Council for Technical Education (NACTE). The course was an immediate solution to the missing link between the Vocational Education and Training (VET) pathway for graduates and the Tanzanian national education model. Data were collected from a random sample of 350 students, from various parts of the country, to analyze the problem. Comparison tests of performance between students from the bridging course and from other educational routes were conducted. Results demonstrate that, the bridging course is a substantive solution to enabling VET students to progress toward further studies. Bridging courses in Technical Colleges and Institutes of Technology offer a valuable contribution to the vocational training sector if sponsored by both Government and Private sector in terms of fiscal and non-fiscal resources.
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From Proof of Concept to Scalable Policies: Challenges and Solutions, With an Application. - Banerjee, Abhijit; Banerji, Rukmini; Berry, James; Duflo, Esther; Kannan, Harini; Mukerji, Shobhini; Shotland, Marc; Walton, Michael (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2017)

“If he could speak, he would be able to point out who does those things to him”: Experiences of violence and access to child protection among children with disabilities in Uganda and Malawi - Banks, Lena Morgon; Kelly, Susan A.; Kyegombe, Nambusi; Kuper, Hannah; Devries, Karen (PloS one, 2017)
Publisher: Public Library of Science San Francisco, CA USA

Delivering education to the underserved through a public‐private partnership program in Pakistan - Barrera‐Osorio, Felipe; Blakeslee, David S.; Hoover, Matthew; Linden, Leigh L.; Raju, Dhushyanth; Ryan, Stephen P. (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, 2017)
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Compás Millennial: La generación Y en la era de la integración 4.0 - Basco, Ana Inés; Carballo, Marita; Pernas, Mariana; Alzualde, Paula; Codoni, Soledad; Conte Grand, Ramiro; Wulff, Alejandra; Basco, Ana Inés; Carballo, Marita (Inter-American Development Bank, 2017)
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Tablets zur Neubestimmung des Lernens? - Bastian, Jasmin (Tablets in Schule und Unterricht, 2017)
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Tablets in Schule und Unterricht - Bastian, Jasmin; Aufenanger, Stefan (Forschungsmethoden und-perspektiven zum Einsatz digitaler Medien, Wiesbaden, 2017)
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The Generalizability Puzzle - Bates, Mary Ann; Glennerster, Rachel (Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2017)
Rigorous impact evaluations tell us a lot about the world, not just the particular contexts in which they are conducted. Open access to this article is made possible by MIT.
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Die richtigen Mitarbeiter finden: Berufsbildung und HR-Management - Bauer, Annette; Kühnrich, Heinz-Joachim (Praxishandbuch Wirtschaft in Afrika, 2017)
Qualifizierte Fachkräfte stellen einen wichtigen Faktor für die Eintrittsentscheidung in einen Markt dar. Eine der am häufigsten genannten Hemmnisse für eine Investition in Afrika, ist deren Mangel. Vor allem für deutsche Unternehmen ist es wichtig mit ausgebildetem Personal die höhere Produktivität und Lebensdauer ihrer Produkte und Maschinen zu erreichen, um den meist höheren Investitionskosten im Marktvergleich Rechnung zu tragen und einen kosten- und zeiteffizienten After Sales Service anbieten zu können. Doch in vielen Ländern Afrikas ist diese Voraussetzung von qualifizierten Fachkräften noch nicht geschaffen. Folgendes Kapitel gibt einen Überblick über den wachsenden Bedarf an Fachkräften, die aktuelle Situation in der Berufsbildung, sowie Lösungsansätze zur Reduzierung der Lücke zwischen Angebot und Nachfrage an Fachkräften aus Sicht eines deutschen Anbieters für Aus- und Weiterbildungslösungen in Afrika.
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Adaptation in dissemination and implementation science - Baumann, Ana A.; Cabassa, Leopoldo J.; Stirman, S. Wiltsey (Dissemination and implementation research in health: translating science to practice, 2017)
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Instructional Scaffolding: Foundations and Evolving Definition - Belland, Brian R. (Instructional Scaffolding in STEM Education: Strategies and Efficacy Evidence, 2017)
This chapter covers the definition of instructional scaffolding, as well as its theoretical bases, and how those bases are reflected in computer-based scaffolding. Computer-based scaffolding is defined as a computer-based tool that extends and enhances student capabilities as students engage with authentic and ill-structured tasks. Despite its original atheoretical nature, scaffolding was linked to many theoretical frameworks, including activity theory, Adaptive Character of Thought-Rational (ACT-R), and knowledge integration. This variation in theoretical frameworks has led to differing scaffolding strategies (e.g., fading, adding, and fading/adding strategies) and overall scaffolding approaches. These are described in depth in this chapter.
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Keywords: ACT-R; Activity theory; Adding; Computer-based scaffolding; Contingency; Design of scaffolding; Dynamic assessment; Fading; Fading/adding; Intelligent tutoring systems; Intersubjectivity; Knowledge integration; One-to-one scaffolding; Peer scaffolding

Portability, Feasibility, Collaborativeness: Teachers’ Perception Of Tablet Use For Inclusive Education - Benigno, Vincenza; Caruso, Giovanni; Epifania, Marina Ottavia; Fante, Chiara; Ravicchio, Fabrizio; Trentin, Guglielmo (ICERI2017 Proceedings, 2017)
Tablet are characterized by features such as their ease of use, portability, feasibility and they are easily employable in collaborative learning (Schuck et al., 2013). Students themselves consider them as an effective tool for reflection, since it allows them to deepen their knowledge thanks to the possibility of on-line searching (Parmigiani et al., 2015). On the other side, teachers are aware of the fact that tablets can help in making lesson more interesting and varied (Heinrich, 2012), but their use also needs a rethinking of the pedagogical approach (Culé & Gasparini, 2012) since tablets allow a more students-centred learning (Ludwig et al., 2011). Further, Information and Communication Technologies in general are also used for the inclusion of the disabled children into class activities (Ifenthaler & Schweinbenz, 2013). We argue that tablets, thanks to their abovementioned features, may be particularly helpful in fostering the inclusion of children who are not disabled, but who cannot attend school for medical reasons. The socio-educational inclusion of these children was the main aim of the TRIS project (Tecnologie per l’Inclusione Socio-educativa [Technologies for socio-educational inclusion]), and Information and Communication Technologies, combined with new pedagogical methodologies, played a key role for the pursuing of this aim. During this project, we equipped a middle school classroom with one tablet for each teacher and student. In addition, after one year several activities were planned in collaboration with teachers to evaluate the use of tablets and some specific apps in different teaching area. The activity developed for chemistry involved the use of augmented reality software, and we were investigating its effect on students’ attitudes towards the subject. The one developed for Italian language was aimed to the investigation of whether the affordance of a specific app for the creation of mental app have helped the students in their creation in respect to paper and pencil. In this paper, we report the results regarding teachers’ perception of tablet use in everyday class activities, involving both their competencies and the frequency of use. We considered the impact of the tablet after six months and after one year and a half from their introduction. Furthermore, at the end of the specific activity, the teachers were interviewed in order to understand the potentiality of the tablet for the abovementioned subjects, for the inclusion of the homebound student, and the difficulty found in the planning and managing of the activities. All the teachers involved (n= 7) sustained the utility of the tablet for classes, mentioning its capacity to foster communication in collaborative working and to gain students’ attention. They mostly used the tablet for students’ individual work, on-line research, and for collaborative activities with the homebound student. Regarding the activities carried out with the teachers, they kept sustaining the tablet capacity to motivate students and to foster their active participation, but they also expressed several concerns regarding the high amount of time needed to plan and to implement the activities using the tablet.
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Challenges in Educational Reform: An Experiment on Active Learning in Mathematics. - Berlinski, Samuel; Busso, Matias (Economics Letters, 2017)
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(untitled) - Berlinski; Busso (2017)

Screen Time Can Be Dangerous for Kids’ Mental & Physical Health - Beurkens, Nicole (2017)
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10 Jahre Qualitätsmerkmale im Praxistest - BIBB (2017)
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Reconhecimento do trabalho de cuidado: o caso do Programa Expandido de Trabalhos Públicos na África do Sul - Bilo, Charlotte; others (International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2017)
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Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; C:South Africa; CLL:pt; publicImportV1

Ações de telessaúde no continente africano: uma revisão sistemática - Bittencourt, Hítalo Kassios (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Escola de Enfermagem. Curso de Saúde Coletiva: Bacharelado., 2017)
A África, em especial a região subsaariana, passa por uma crise de saúde-pública. Apesar do aumento de investimentos para tratamento de doenças contagiosas a região africana apresenta alarmantes índices de mortalidade infantil e doenças contagiosas como a AIDS. Tendo em vista este estado alarmante as ações de Telessaúde, por meio das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TIC), vem para diminuir lacunas, agilizando e qualificando a tomada de decisão clinica dos profissionais da saúde. O presente trabalho de conclusão de curso apresenta os resultados parciais de uma revisão sistemática feita nos Bancos de Dados (BD) Web Of Science (WoS), PubMed, Scopus e Embase sobre ações exitosas ou não de Telessaúde no continente Africano, analisando o perfil epidemiológico, história e conceito de Telessaúde, bem como apresentando suas análises bibliométricas.
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Early Childhood Development Coming of Age: Science through the Life Course. - Black, Maureen M.; Walker, Susan P.; Fernald, Lia C.H.; Andersen, Christopher T.; DiGirolamo, Ann M.; Lu, Chunling; C, Dana (McCoy et al, 2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Save the Children Sierra Leone - Boisvert, Kayla (UNHCR Accelerated Education Working Group, 2017)
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Keywords: _Added to LR; _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _T:reviewed

Enrollment without learning: Teacher effort, knowledge, and skill in primary schools in Africa - Bold, Tessa; Filmer, Deon; Martin, Gayle; Molina, Ezequiel; Stacy, Brian; Rockmore, Christophe; Svensson, Jakob; Wane, Waly (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2017)

"Ending Child Marriage: Reproductive Health Outcomes and Delaying Marriage and Childbearing for Adolescent Girls " In - Botea, Ioana; Chakravarty, Shubha; Haddock, Sarah; Wodon, Quentin (2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

El meta-análisis: una metodología para la investigación en educación - Botella, Juan; Zamora, Ángela (Educación XXI: revista de la Facultad de Educación, 2017)
Publisher: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (España), Facultad de Educación
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Teaching Equivalent Fractions to Secondary Students With Disabilities via the Virtual–Representational–Abstract Instructional Sequence - Bouck, Emily C.; Bassette, Laura; Shurr, Jordan; Park, Jiyoon; Kerr, Jackie; Whorley, Abbie (Journal of Special Education Technology, 2017)
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Evidence-based answers to questions about trigger warnings for clinically-based distress: A review for teachers - Boysen, Guy A. (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 2017)
According to the popular press, students have been increasingly demanding warnings before being exposed to potentially distressing classroom material. The validity of these types of trigger warnings has been a topic of vigorous debate. Based on a review of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research and closely related topics, this article answers questions that teachers might ask about the validity of the scientific assumptions behind trigger warnings and their use in the classroom. External stimuli causing distress is a feature common to many mental disorders, and trauma-based triggers of distress are an essential feature of PTSD. However, development of PTSD after a traumatic experience is relatively rare. Environmental triggers are often difficult to predict, but warnings may reduce distress among people with PTSD by allowing exposure to be controlled. To the extent that trigger warnings allow avoidance of hyperarousal when trying to learn, they should increase students’ classroom performance. However, avoidance of trauma reminders contributes to the persistence of PTSD symptoms. Although clinical research generally supports the notion of trigger warnings as an accommodation for individual students diagnosed with PTSD, the effectiveness of trigger warnings in the classroom is unknown. In addition, trigger warnings may be a legitimate accommodation for students with psychiatric disabilities, but this does not mean that they are relevant to nonclinical issues. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Place: US Publisher: Educational Publishing Foundation
Keywords: Classroom Management; Distress; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Student Attitudes; Teachers; Teaching; Trauma; Warnings

Optimal database combinations for literature searches in systematic reviews: a prospective exploratory study - Bramer, Wichor M.; Rethlefsen, Melissa L.; Kleijnen, Jos; Franco, Oscar H. (Systematic Reviews, 2017)
Background: Within systematic reviews, when searching for relevant references, it is advisable to use multiple databases. However, searching databases is laborious and time-consuming, as syntax of search strategies are database specific. We aimed to determine the optimal combination of databases needed to conduct efficient searches in systematic reviews and whether the current practice in published reviews is appropriate. While previous studies determined the coverage of databases, we analyzed the actual retrieval from the original searches for systematic reviews. Methods: Since May 2013, the first author prospectively recorded results from systematic review searches that he performed at his institution. PubMed was used to identify systematic reviews published using our search strategy results. For each published systematic review, we extracted the references of the included studies. Using the prospectively recorded results and the studies included in the publications, we calculated recall, precision, and number needed to read for single databases and databases in combination. We assessed the frequency at which databases and combinations would achieve varying levels of recall (i.e., 95%). For a sample of 200 recently published systematic reviews, we calculated how many had used enough databases to ensure 95% recall. Results: A total of 58 published systematic reviews were included, totaling 1746 relevant references identified by our database searches, while 84 included references had been retrieved by other search methods. Sixteen percent of the included references (291 articles) were only found in a single database; Embase produced the most unique references (n = 132). The combination of Embase, MEDLINE, Web of Science Core Collection, and Google Scholar performed best, achieving an overall recall of 98.3 and 100% recall in 72% of systematic reviews. We estimate that 60% of published systematic reviews do not retrieve 95% of all available relevant references as many fail to search important databases. Other specialized databases, such as CINAHL or PsycINFO, add unique references to some reviews where the topic of the review is related to the focus of the database. Conclusions: Optimal searches in systematic reviews should search at least Embase, MEDLINE, Web of Science, and Google Scholar as a minimum requirement to guarantee adequate and efficient coverage.
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Technology usage in mathematics education research – A systematic review of recent trends - Bray, Aibhín; Tangney, Brendan (Computers & Education, 2017)
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A critical review of frameworks for digital literacy: Beyond the flashy, flimsy and faddish–Part 1 - Brown, Mark (ASCILITE ℡all blog, 2017)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Challenges and Solutions of Higher Education in the Eastern Caribbean States. - Browne, Raffie A.; Shen, Hong (International Journal of Higher Education, 2017)
Publisher: ERIC KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.5430/ijhe.v6n1p169 2129771:NRUBXL6G
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Surveillance training for ebola preparedness in Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, and Mali - Cáceres, Victor M.; Sidibe, Sekou; Andre, McKenzie; Traicoff, Denise; Lambert, Stephanie; King, Melanie E.; Kazambu, Ditu; Lopez, Augusto; Pedalino, Biagio; Herrera Guibert, Dionisio J.; Wasswa, Peter; Cardoso, Placido; et al. (Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017)
© 2017, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). All rights reserved. The 2014–2015 epidemic of Ebola virus disease in West Africa primarily affected Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Several countries, including Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal, experienced Ebola importations. Realizing the importance of a trained field epidemiology workforce in neighboring countries to respond to Ebola importations, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Field Epidemiology Training Program unit implemented the Surveillance Training for Ebola Preparedness (STEP) initiative. STEP was a mentored, competency-based initiative to rapidly build up surveillance capacity along the borders of the at-risk neighboring countries Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau. The target audience was district surveillance officers. STEP was delivered to 185 participants from 72 health units (districts or regions). Timeliness of reporting and the quality of surveillance analyses improved 3 months after training. STEP demonstrated that mentored, competency-based training, where learners attain competencies while delivering essential public health services, can be successfully implemented in an emergency response setting.
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Emergent practices and material conditions in tablet-mediated collaborative learning and teaching - Cerratto-Pargman, Teresa; Jahnke, Isa; Damsa, Crina; Nussbaum, Miguel; Säljö, Roger (Making a Difference: Prioritizing Equity and Access in CSCL, 2017)
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Mobile Technologies and Digital Resources for Learning - Churchill, Daniel (Digital Resources for Learning, 2017)
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Action research - Cohen, Louis; Manion, Lawrence; Morrison, Keith (Research methods in education, 2017)

The Status of ICT in Education in Saint Lucia - Commonwealth of Learning (2017)
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Identifying effective education interventions in sub-Saharan Africa: A meta-analysis of impact evaluations - Conn, K.M. (Review of Educational Research, 2017)
In this article, I identify educational interventions with an impact on student learning in Sub-Saharan Africa. After a systematic literature search, I conducted a meta-analysis synthesizing 56 articles containing 66 separate experiments and quasi-experiments and 83 treatment arms. I evaluated 12 types of education interventions such as the provision of school supplies, the use of teacher incentives, and school-based management programs. I examine each intervention type, present analytics on relative effectiveness, and explore why certain interventions seem to be more effective. A key finding is that programs that alter teacher pedagogy or classroom instructional techniques had an effect size approximately 0.30 standard deviations greater than all other types of programs combined. Limited evidence further suggests that pedagogical programs that employed adaptive instruction or teacher coaching were particularly effective. Given that the literature in the field is still nascent overall, these results advocate for further research into these pedagogical interventions.
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Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches - Creswell, John W.; Creswell, J. David (Sage publications, 2017)
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Keywords: CitedIn:eCubed; Done:ReferenceFixed; TPD@Scale_1; eCubed

It takes a village to raise a teacher: the Learning Assistant programme in Sierra Leone - Crisp, Martin; Safford, Kimberly; Wolfenden, Freda (The Open University and Plan International, 2017)
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It takes avillage to raise a teacher: The Learning assistant programme in Sierra Leone - Crisp, Martin; Safford, Kimberly; Wolfenden, Freda (2017)
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Do Tests Applied to Teachers Predict Their Effectiveness? - Cruz-Aguayo, Yyannú; Ibarrarán, Pablo; Schady, Norbert (Economics Letters, 2017)

Developing an emergency nursing short course in Tanzania - Cunningham, C.; Brysiewicz, P.; Sepeku, A.; White, L.; Murray, B.; Lobue, N.; Sawe, H. (African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2017)
Abstract Nurses are the largest group of healthcare workers in Africa. By adequately equipping nurses to identify, intervene and care for emergency conditions, emergency healthcare systems can be strengthened. To address this need, a nursing working group was formed within the African Federation for Emergency Medicine (AFEM). The aim of this international emergency nursing group was to develop a guiding document to help improve emergency nursing skills within Africa. Using this guiding document, a group of Tanzanian clinical nurse trainers was selected to develop a context specific short course. They used this guiding document as a foundation to improve skill development. The pilot course was well received and has since expanded to training in five regions within the United Republic of Tanzania. The clinical nurse trainers leading the course, are supported by a mentorship programme with competent educators within a global emergency nursing infrastructure. This course, a combination of local knowledge, formal mentorship programs, and international nursing support, demonstrates that investing in the improvement of emergency nursing skills can have high impact results with low-cost. This will ultimately improve emergency care on the continent.
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Effective teacher professional development - Darling-Hammond, Linda; Hyler, Maria E.; Gardner, Madelyn (Learning Policy Institute, 2017)
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Data for development: What’s next? Concepts, trends and recommendations for German development cooperation - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH (2017)
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Keywords: Final_citation

Eckpunktepapier: Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung Afrikas – Herausforderungen und Optionen - Die Bundesregierung (2017)
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Cognitive Science in the Field: A Preschool Intervention Durably Enhances Intuitive But Not Formal Mathematics. - Dillon, Moira R.; Kannan, Harina; Dean, Joshua T.; Spelke, Elizabeth S.; Duflo, Esther (2017)

Supporting Parenting through Differentiated and Personalized Text-Messaging: Testing Effects on Learning During Kindergarten - Doss, Christopher; Fahle, Erin; Loeb, Susanna; York, Ben (2017)
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The Use of Tablets in Secondary Schools and Its Relationship with Computer Literacy - Drossel, Kerstin; Eickelmann, Birgit (IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education, 2017)
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(untitled) - Duflo (2017)
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The impact of free secondary education: Experimental evidence from Ghana - Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Working Paper, 2017)

A pilot of the use of short message service (SMS) as a training tool for anaesthesia nurses - Duys, R.; Duma, S.; Dyer, R. (Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia, 2017)
© 2017 The Author(s). Background: Anaesthesia nurses form a critical part of the team providing perioperative care to patients, but no accredited training exists for them in South Africa. In this setting, short in-service training interventions are a pragmatic attempt at improving nurse performance and patient outcomes. Traditional didactic teaching formats have limitations, and mLearning (the use of mobile telephones to facilitate education) has proved equivalent or superior to traditional teaching methods in several settings. Despite very high levels of mobile phone ownership amongst healthcare workers in Africa, this form of educational delivery has not been tested in the hospital-based nursing population. Methods: A telephonic true/false pre-test was performed with 12 nurses of varying levels of training, to assess their preexisting knowledge of anaesthesia. A pre-learning package was then delivered to them in the form of daily SMSs for a month, covering relevant anaesthesia content. A telephonic post-intervention test was performed to assess whether anaesthesia theory knowledge had improved. Results: Median test scores out of 30 were compared using a Wilcoxon signed rank test and were statistically higher in the postintervention test: 25 (IQR 20-26) vs. 21 (IQR 20-21.25) (p = 0.018). Conclusions: The results demonstrate an association between a cheap and widely available educational vehicle, and an increase in nurse knowledge scores. The use of mobile telephones in medical education in limited-resource settings should be explored further.
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Fundamentals of the development of Vocational Education and Further Education of VET pedagogues in Sub-Saharan Africa - Eicker, Friedhelm (2017)
For many years, the University of Rostock/Technical Education has supported three universities from Mozambique, Ethiopia and South Africa in their effort to establish a modern educational and further educational programme for VET pedagogues. A Further Education network was established in the first steps. If more German universities support it, this network can expand to various other Sub-Saharan African countries. This still poses the essential question which scientific approach will be the basic position. Furthermore the question is how the Further Education network of universities, vocational schools and other VET institutions should be developed locally in Sub-Saharan Africa. A constructivist approach, which is positioned between academic discipline and vocational science, will be proposed here. In the first place, university lecturers and selected teachers will be able to acquire shaping competence. A “Train the Trainer Further Education System” will be proposed.
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Networked shaping–a perspective for international vocational education and further education of vocational educators - Eicker, Friedhelm; Fiedler, Kai-Arne; Haseloff, Gesine (Social Dimension and Participation in Vocational Education and Training, 2017)
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Mobile Learning for English Language Acquisition: Taxonomy, Challenges, and Recommendations - Elaish, Monther M.; Shuib, Liyana; Ghani, Norjihan Abdul; Yadegaridehkordi, Elaheh; Alaa, Musaab (IEEE Access, 2017)
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Integrating scientific research: Theory and design of discovering similar constructs - Endicott, J.; Larsen, K.; Lukyanenko, R. (AIS SIGSAND Symposium, 2017)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Education Technology: An Evidence-Based Review - Escueta, Maya; Quan, Vincent; Nickow, Andre Joshua; Oreopoulos, Philip (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2017)
In recent years, there has been widespread excitement around the potential for technology to transform learning. As investments in education technology continue to grow, students, parents, and teachers face a seemingly endless array of education technologies from which to choose—from digital personalized learning platforms to educational games to online courses. Amidst the excitement, it is important to step back and understand how technology can help—or in some cases hinder—how students learn. This review paper synthesizes and discusses experimental evidence on the effectiveness of technology-based approaches in education and outlines areas for future inquiry. In particular, we examine RCTs across the following categories of education technology: (1) access to technology, (2) computer-assisted learning, (3) technology-enabled behavioral interventions in education, and (4) online learning. While this review focuses on literature from developed countries, it also draws upon extensive research from developing countries. We hope this literature review will advance the knowledge base of how technology can be used to support education, outline key areas for new experimental research, and help drive improvements to the policies, programs, and structures that contribute to successful teaching and learning.
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Education Technology: An Evidence-Based Review. - Escueta, Maya; Quan, Vincent; Nickow, Andre Joshua; Oreopoulos, Philip (NBER Working Paper, 2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Education Technology: An Evidence-Based Review - Escueta, Maya; Quan, Vincent; Nickow, Andre Joshua; Oreopoulos, Philip (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2017)
In recent years, there has been widespread excitement around the potential for technology to transform learning. As investments in education technology continue to grow, students, parents, and teachers face a seemingly endless array of education technologies from which to choose—from digital personalized learning platforms to educational games to online courses. Amidst the excitement, it is important to step back and understand how technology can help—or in some cases hinder—how students learn. This review paper synthesizes and discusses experimental evidence on the effectiveness of technology-based approaches in education and outlines areas for future inquiry. In particular, we examine RCTs across the following categories of education technology: (1) access to technology, (2) computer-assisted learning, (3) technology-enabled behavioral interventions in education, and (4) online learning. While this review focuses on literature from developed countries, it also draws upon extensive research from developing countries. We hope this literature review will advance the knowledge base of how technology can be used to support education, outline key areas for new experimental research, and help drive improvements to the policies, programs, and structures that contribute to successful teaching and learning.
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Paradigms for Networking Universities and Vocational Education and Training (VET) Institutions on Competency-Based Further Education in Sub-Saharan Africa - Ezekoye, Benadeth N (2017)
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Is Standardization the Answer to Personalization? - France, P.E. (Educational Leadership, 2017)
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Keywords: Final_citation; anystyle; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

NMC/CoSN horizon report: 2017 K - Freeman, Alex; Becker, Samantha Adams; Cummins, Michele (The New Media Consortium, 2017)
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Keywords: Final_citation

Tusome external evaluation—Midline report. Prepared for the Ministry of Education of Kenya, USAID/Kenya, and the UK Department for International Development under Contract No. AID-615-TO-1600012 - Freudenberger, E.; Davis, J. (Management Sciences International (MSI), a Tetra Tech company, 2017)

The production of human capital in developed countries: Evidence from 196 randomized field experiments - Fryer, R.G., Jr (Handbook of Economic Field Experiments, 2017)

Entrepreneurship Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Results of a Case Study in Senegal - Garcia-Rodriguez, Francisco J; Gil-Soto, Esperanza; Ruiz-Rosa, Ines; Sene, Papa Mamour (2017)
The number of entrepreneurship education programs has grown worldwide in the last two decades. This has helped consolidate a fruitful line of research focusing on measuring the impact that these programs have on participating students' entrepreneurship potential. However, to date, these programs have almost exclusively centered on more developed countries. The present work, on the contrary, analyses the impact of an entrepreneurship promotion program carried out for a period of three years in the socioeconomic and cultural context of a less developed country: Senegal. Specifically, the program was aimed at students on different degree programs at the University of Gaston Berger. Theoretical approaches of effectuation and bricolage were applied and students' enterprise potential was tested ex ante and ex post. The results show that students had a significant improvement in their entrepreneurial potential, thus reflecting the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education in these contexts.
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Sparking a Reading Revolution: Results of Early Literacy Interventions in Egypt and Jordan - Gove, Amber; Brombacher, Arnout; Ward-Brent, Michelle (New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2017)
This article examines the effects of two early grade reading interventions in two Arabic-speaking contexts (Egypt and Jordan), developed in partnership with ministries of education. The interventions relied on similar research bases for improving reading instruction in Arabic. In Egypt, the results of a 166-school pilot led to the national scale-up of the Early Grade Reading Program for more than 4 million children in grades 13. Informed by Egypt's experience, a demonstration effort in 43 schools led to a national rollout in Jordan's 2,651 public primary schools and the creation of a remediation program. We reflect on the conditions that influenced the pilot and scale-up outcomes given the commitments made to "inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all" under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
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Designing for Scale: Reflections on Rolling Out Reading Improvement in Kenya and Liberia - Gove, Amber; Korda Poole, Medina; Piper, Benjamin (New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2017)
Since 2008, the Ministries of Education in Liberia and Kenya have undertaken transitions from small-scale pilot programs to improve reading outcomes among primary learners to the large-scale implementation of reading interventions. The effects of the pilots on learning outcomes were significant, but questions remained regarding whether such large gains could be sustained at scale. In this article, the authors dissect the Liberian and Kenyan experiences with implementing large-scale reading programs, documenting the critical components and conditions of the program designs that affected the likelihood of successfully transitioning from pilot to scale. They also review the design, deployment, and effectiveness of each pilot program and the scale, design, duration, enabling conditions, and initial effectiveness results of the scaled programs in each country. The implications of these results for the design of both pilot and large-scale reading programs are discussed in light of the experiences of both the Liberian and Kenyan programs.
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Digest of TVET institutions statistics in Nigeria 2014-15 - Government of Nigeria (2017)
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Directory of Accredited Programmes Offered in Polytechnics, Technical and Vocational Institutions - Government of Nigeria (2017)
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SECT: The standardized early childhood development costing tool - Gustafsson‐Wright, Emily; Boggild‐Jones, Izzy; Gardiner, Sophie (2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Teachers’ Use of Information and Communications Technology in Education: Cameroon Secondary Schools Perspectives - Haji, abdoulai; Moluayonge, Gracemary Eloheneke; Park, Innwoo (TOJET : The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology; Adapazari, 2017)
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Keywords: :C:Cameroon; Cited; Communications technology; Data acquisition; Developing nations; Education; Education–Teaching Methods And Curriculum; Information technology; Learning; RRQ1:High; RRQ2:Medium; Rural areas; Secondary schools; Statistical tests; Teachers; Teaching; Training; ⛔ No DOI found

Extracting business objects and activities from labels of German process models - Hake, P.; Fettke, P.; Neumann, G. (Proceedings of the international conference on design science research in information system and technology, 2017)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Gestaltungsorientierung als Entwicklungsstrategie zur Beförderung der beruflichen Fortbildung – dargestellt und untersucht am Beispiel des Projektes VET-Net - Haseloff, Gesine (2017)
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The Train the Trainer-System ؊ Results of a research and development project for and with VET pedagogues in Sub-Saharan Africa - Haseloff, Gesine (2017)
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The Availability of Electronic Courses Using ICT Infrastructure in Teaching and Learning among Teachers in Nigeria's TVET Institutions. - Hashim, MHM; Abubakar, B (2017)
Abstract: As information and communication technology becomes a regular feature of the educational environment, it may be difficult for teaching and learning activities especially in TVET institutions to remain unchallenged. However, ICT application as a pedagogical tool in Nigerian TVET institutions is not a common practice and it also remains unclear how utilisation of ICT enhances pedagogy. This study is interested in the availability of electronic courses using ICT infrastructure in teaching and learning. Using activity theory as a guide, multiple case studies are conducted. The Qualitative Case Study Methodology is used in this research. Five TVET institutions and 20 participants are selected using maximum variation and homogeneous purposive sampling strategies, respectively. During the visits to the institutions, classroom observation is carried out, documents such as the curriculum and teacher's lecture materials are reviewed for triangulation. Semi-structured interviews are conducted with 20 selected participants as the primary data collection method. At the data analysis stage, the inductive and deductive methods are used to analyse the data and two strategies of grounded theory as open and axial coding are employed. The coding process is achieved through the use of an inherent feature of NViVOlO. The findings show that four themes: availability of infrastructure, computer specifications, educational software and connectivity.
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Measuring teacher classroom management skills: a comparative analysis of distance trained and conventional trained teachers - Henaku, Christina Bampo; Pobbi, Michael Asamani (Journal of Education and Practice, 2017)
Many researchers and educationist remain skeptical about the effectiveness of distance learning program and have termed it as second to the conventional training method. This perception is largely due to several challenges which exist within the management of distance learning program across the country. The general aim of the study is compare the classroom management skills exhibited by distance trained teachers to that of conventional trained teachers in their field of work. Teacher classroom management was classified into two multidimensional constructs consisting of effective behavior management skills and instructional learning format skills. A quantitative design strategy was adapted for the study. Primary data was collected using a questionnaire from 500 teachers-consisting of 250 conventional and 250 distance trained teachers–and 60 head teachers selected from basic schools across 10 regions in Ghana. Head teachers assessment of teachers served as a means of triangulating results obtained. Data obtained during survey was coded and entered into a SPSS statistical software and subsequently analysed using both descriptive and inferential methods. Results from the study reveal that there were no significant differences in all nineteen (19) items used in measuring teacher classroom control mechanism. Recommendations were made based on the findings of the study.
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Keywords: Behavior Change; Classroom Techniques; Comparative Analysis; Conventional Instruction; Distance Education; ERIC; Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Elementary Education; Elementary School Teachers; Foreign Countries; Ghana; Intermode Differences; Multidimensional Scaling; Questionnaires; Statistical Analysis; Teacher Surveys; Teaching Skills; Training Methods; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2096069; __finaldtb; ⛔ No DOI found

Improving Mathematics in Key Stages 2 and 3 - Henderson, P; Hodgen, J; Foster, C; Kuchemann, D (2017)
Eight recommendations to improve outcomes in maths for 7-14 year olds
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International Experiences with Intergrating Interactive Whiteboards: Policy, Practice, Pedagogy and Professional Development - Hennessy, Sara (Life in schools and classrooms, 2017)
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Keywords: __C:filed:1

Features of iPad language applications for speech-language therapy with children - Heyman, Nikki (2017)
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Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Austria AUT; _C:Canada CAN; _C:India IND; _C:Japan JPN; _C:New Zealand NZL; _C:Portugal PRT; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Spain ESP; _C:Switzerland CHE; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Barriers to and facilitators of the inclusion of learners with special education needs: An appraisal of the education systems of the islands of the Eastern Caribbean - Hodge, Carel Eulena; Bennett, Cary; Harrington, Ingrid; Zafarullah, Habib M. (2017)
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Keywords: _Added to LR; _G:reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

Professional development in clinical leadership: Evaluation of the chief residents clinical leadership and management programme - Hofmann, Riikka; Vermunt, Jan D. (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge Working Paper, 2017)
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Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

EdTech Decision-making in Higher Education - Hollands, Fiona M.; Escueta, Maya (2017)
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Keywords: Stefanie

Chapter 12: Considerations in Costing ODL and ICTs in TVET - Hoosen, S; Butcher, N (Using ICTs and Blended Learning in Transforming TVET, 2017)
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Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:Botswana; C:Namibia; C:South Africa; C:Zambia; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:Q; CT:T; Q:OER; T:TVET; publicImportV1

Bring your own device? - Hynes, Paul; Younie, Sarah (Debates in Computing and ICT Education, 2017)
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World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends for Women 2017 - I.L.O. (Essays on the Economics of Education'. International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie). 2016. "Impact Evaluation Repository." In. Islam, Asad. 2019. 'Parent–teacher meetings and student outcomes: Evidence from a developing country, 2017)
Publisher: Margaret Pinder, Elena L Grigorenko, Helen Baños Smith, Gijs Walraven, Elisa Meier
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Chapter 9: INVEST Africa - Isaacs, Shafika (Using ICTs and Blended Learning in Transforming TVET, 2017)
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Roll Call: Getting Children into School - J-PAL (2017)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Tablets im Schulunterricht in Skandinavien - Jahnke, Isa (Tablets in Schule und Unterricht, 2017)
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Open Government Case Study: Costing Sierra Leone’s Open Data Program - Joswiak, Naomi (Results for Development, 2017)
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE; ___working_potential_duplicate

Improving literacy instruction in Kenya through teacher professional development and text messages support: a cluster randomized trial - Jukes, Matthew CH; Turner, Elizabeth L.; Dubeck, Margaret M.; Halliday, Katherine E.; Inyega, Hellen N.; Wolf, Sharon; Zuilkowski, Stephanie Simmons; Brooker, Simon J. (Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017)
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Developing inclusive pre-service and in-service teacher education : Insights from Zanzibar primary school teachers - Juma, Said; Lehtomäki, Elina; Naukkarinen, Aimo (International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2017)
Developing inclusive teacher education to improve learning and schooling for all children is attracting increasing interest worldwide. This study examined teachers’ insights into the development of inclusive teacher education by drawing on collaborative action research conducted by 20 primary school teachers in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and self-reflective journals kept by the teachers and the first author. The qualitative thematic content analysis revealed: (1) the need to embed inclusive education and action research into pre-service and in-service teacher education curricula and (2) both school-based organisational learning and school–community and school–university collaborations may foster collaborative school cultures and inclusive inservice teacher education. The study discusses the role of teachers’ voices in informing teacher education development for educational equity and inclusion.
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Social Dimension and Participation in Vocational Education and Training - Kaiser, Franz; Krugmann, Susann (2017)
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An Observational Study of Classroom Acoustical Design and Repetitive Behaviors in Children With Autism - Kanakri, Shireen M.; Shepley, Mardelle; Tassinary, Louis G.; Varni, James W.; Fawaz, Haitham M. (Environment and Behavior, 2017)
The objective of the present study is to explore the impact of acoustical design on children with autism in school classrooms. Empirical research on this topic will provide information on how interior space features and spatial environment characteristics can be used to support the learning and developmental needs of children with autism. Specifically, the connection between repetitive behaviors and ambient noise levels in school classroom environments was observed in four classrooms. The occurrence of repetitive motor movements, repetitive speech, ear covering, hitting, loud vocalizations, blinking, and verbally complaining in relation to decibel levels were analyzed using Noldus Observer XT software. As hypothesized, a correlation between noise levels and frequency of target behaviors was found; that is, as decibel levels increased, several of the observed behaviors occurred with greater frequency. Further empirical testing is necessary to test a causal relationship between increased ambient noise levels and autism-related behaviors, and sensory discomfort as a mediator of that relationship. Findings are applied to the development of classroom design guidelines.

A guide for Accelerated Education Programme designers, implementers, evaluators and agencies - Kayla Boisvert; Jennifer Flemming; Ritesh Shah (2017)

Challenges of Technical Vocational Teacher Education and Teaching in Nigeria: The Need for Intervention - Kennedy, George W; Udoetuk, Udeme S (2017)
This paper reviews the critical roles of Technical Vocational teacher education and teaching in Nigeria. The paper establishes a nexus between quality Technical Vocational teacher education and national development. Critical challenges to Technical Vocational teacher education programmes and the teaching profession in Nigeria are identified to include over-crowded classes for teacher’s trainees, inequity in urban/rural deployment of teachers, poor funding and inadequate facilities, low quality Information and Communication technology (ICT) compliance and non-professionalization of teaching in Nigeria. Recommendations which include, a standard class, equity in urban/rural deployment of teachers, training/or retraining of Technical Vocational teacher in qualitative Information and Communication technology (ICT), Technical Vocational teacher mandatory membership in professional organisation, periodic attendance and active participation at conferences, seminars and workshop were made.
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The impact of teachers’ perspectives on the development of computing as a subject - Kennewell, Steve; Barnes, Jan (Debates in Computing and ICT Education, 2017)
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