Nudges to Improve Learning and Gender Parity: Preliminary findings on supporting parent-child educational engagement during Covid-19 using mobile phones - Aurino, Elisabetta; Tsinigo, Edward; Wolf, Sharon (EdTech Hub, 2022)
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Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Improv Theater and Whiteness in Education: A Systematic Literature Review - Tanner, Samuel J.; McCloskey, Andrea (Review of Educational Research, 2022)
Improv theater has expanded beyond a popular American form of entertainment into an educational experience for students and teachers. It may be difficult to imagine that an interactive, joyful, and collaborative improv workshop might be harmful, but our own experiences as professional improvisers led us to observe that even well-intentioned, antiracist improv theater interventions tend to reflect Whiteness more than democratic values. We investigate this observation through a systematic review of education research articles. Our review of 30 studies reveals that, to varying degrees, researchers have regarded improvisation as an instrumental practice to improve some other activity or as metaphor for the activity of teaching. We found that Whiteness has been central to the use of improvisation in educational contexts. Finally, this study illustrates that a turn toward disciplined improvisation or an improvisational ethos offers one way to practice the ideals of democratic education.
Publisher: American Educational Research Association
Keywords: arts education; qualitative research; race; social justice

College-Level Sex Education Courses: A Systematic Literature Review - Manning-Ouellette, Amber; Shikongo-Asino, Josephine (American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2022)
Understanding college-level sex education can help campus stakeholders understand student knowledge, inform policies, and influences on culture. Although there is a large amount of research on sexual health programming, little is known about the types of sex education curriculum on college campuses. This systematic literature review evaluates the breadth of postsecondary sex education research over the last 10 years. Three sex education course themes indicate research spans the following areas: philosophical and pedagogical considerations, perceived student knowledge and learning, and cultural and feminist-informed sex education. Finally, the results also indicate there are six types of courses taught at the college-level.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/15546128.2022.2026850
Keywords: College; higher education; sex education

Research (Schools2030, 2022)
Through the generous support of the Jacobs Foundation, Schools2030 is working with independent research partners to increase our understanding of how holistic
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Trialling open educational resources for technology-supported teacher professional development in rural Zimbabwe - Walker, Hannah; Hennessy, Sara; Pimmer, Christoph (Research Papers in Education, 2022)
This study reports on the adaptation and outcomes of a teacher professional development (TPD) programme in a rural Zimbabwean secondary school. The programme incorporated Open Educational Resources (OER), specifically OER4school materials, that were provided via tablet computers for teachers and students. A mixed-methods case study was employed to explore teachers’ perceptions, knowledge, experiences of interactive learning and teaching in relation to this TPD, as well as their perceptions and experiences of the role and value of using technology to support student learning. Video data from structured lesson observations were triangulated with teacher post-lesson interviews and thematically coded. The interviews indicated that all teachers demonstrated a change in mindset and a clear understanding of interactive teaching methods. However, the structured observations revealed that only half of the teachers were using these interactive methods. Teachers also emphasised the value of OER and tablet technologies in improving lesson planning and making classroom learning more authentic. The use of technology, as both a TPD medium and as a classroom tool, showed potential to enhance the quality of TPD and teacher quality. Yet more specific teacher development to support the interactive use of technology within the classroom would be beneficial.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2022.2034925
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; Open education resources; Zimbabwe; educational technology; tablets; teacher education; teacher professional development

A systematic literature review to identify evidence-based principles to improve online environmental education - Merritt, Eileen G.; Stern, Marc J.; Powell, Robert B.; Frensley, B. Troy (Environmental Education Research, 2022)
Many environmental educators shifted to online programs in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a systematic literature review to identify program characteristics from digital environmental education experiences that are associated with one or more elements of environmental literacy. After reviewing 153 candidate articles, 32 articles that evaluated 47 diverse programs met our selection criteria. For each of these programs, we systematically coded the articles to identify guiding theories, program types, program characteristics, and outcomes assessed. We also identified the authors’ explanations and empirical evidence for program characteristics that led to positive outcomes. In this paper, we synthesize the results and present 12 guiding principles that show promise in enhancing outcomes related to environmental literacy in online programs for K-12 students. These principles, which are defined and illustrated with examples from the literature, include: social-ecological connections, relevance, social interactions, role models, autonomy, active involvement, challenge, use of multiple modalities, positive framing, preparation, feedback and reflection.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2022.2032610 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/13504622.2022.2032610 2129771:K74T9WSY
Keywords: Distance learning; STEM; _genre:LR-literature_review; environmental literacy; literature review; online learning; virtual field trips

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

TVET Research in SSA: Recommendations for Thematic Priorities - Haßler, Björn; Haseloff, Gesine (Africa Journal of Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2022)
This paper builds on our study on research on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The study was commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) and was conducted in 2019. Our study undertook a systematic literature review, which evaluated over 2,000 scientific publications, classifying some 300 as relevant to the topic and examined them in greater detail. One focus area was the institutionalisation of research on TVET in sub-Saharan Africa, its actors, networks and funding. A second area focused on the topics and content addressed by researchers on TVET in SSA. Our comprehensive study allows us to derive indications for future TVET research in SSA, which form the content of the present paper. Our recommendations for future research emerge from: The research literature analysed; A series of expert interviews; and A Structured Community Review. Our key contribution is an extension of the Mulder-Roelofs Vocational Education and Training Research Framework of categories for TVET research. The framework reflects the focus and quality criteria of European/German TVET, and is an ideal starting point. Through our research, we revised and extended the framework for use in SSA. Our goal was to build on international standards on the one hand, but on the other hand to extend and apply those for use in SSA. It therefore makes it possible to respond to the latest state of research both from a European perspective (e.g., donors/organisations like BMBF), as well as to examine the broad spectrum of very different aspects of TVET research in SSA. After presenting the relevant categories of TVET research, the authors go into detail on the topics for further research. Their conclusion recommends continuous research monitoring based on a constantly updated international network of researchers and institutions with an interest in TVET research in SSA. In particular, we propose a coordinated effort for an online, international community of stakeholders and researchers involved in TVET research in sub-Saharan Africa (https://convet.org).
Number: 1 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0268 2129771:9W8CBQSQ
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; Education; Internationalisation; Research; TVET; Teacher; Work Based; _bjoern_cv; _genre:LR-literature_review; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _yl:a

What We Learn about Girls’ Education from Interventions That Do Not Focus on Girls - Evans, David K; Yuan, Fei (The World Bank Economic Review, 2022)
What is the best way to improve access and learning outcomes for girls? This review brings together evidence from 267 educational interventions in 54 low- and middle-income countries – regardless of whether the interventions specifically target girls – and identifies their impacts on girls. To improve access and learning, general interventions deliver average gains for girls that are comparable to girl-targeted interventions. General interventions have similar impacts for girls as for boys. Taken together, these findings suggest that many educational gains for girls may be achieved through nontargeted programs. Many of the most effective interventions to improve access for girls relax household-level constraints (such as cash transfer programs), and many of the most effective interventions to improve learning for girls involve improving the pedagogy of teachers. Girl-targeted interventions may make the most sense when addressing constraints that are unique to, or most pronounced for, girls.

The effects of ventilation and temperature on sleep quality and next-day work performance: pilot measurements in a climate chamber - Fan, Xiaojun; Shao, Huiqi; Sakamoto, Mitsuharu; Kuga, Kazuki; Lan, Li; Wyon, David P.; Ito, Kazuhide; Bivolarova, Mariya P.; Liao, Chenxi; Wargocki, Pawel (Building and Environment, 2022)
Ten healthy young adults slept one by one in a specially designed and constructed sleep capsule located in a climate chamber at two temperatures (24 °C and 28 °C) and two ventilation rates that ensured that the resulting CO2 concentrations were 800 and 1700 ppm. Subjectively rated sleep quality was reduced at 28 °C and reduced ventilation, while sleep onset latency was longer under these conditions. Sleep efficiency was lower at 28 °C. Subjectively rated fatigue and sleepiness decreased after sleeping under all conditions but less so after sleeping at 28 °C. The subjects indicated that their work performance improved after sleeping at 24 °C but not when ventilation was reduced and the temperature increased. Both objectively measured and subjectively rated work performance was worse after sleeping in the condition with increased temperature. The subjects felt warmer at 28 °C although the thermal environment was still rated as acceptable but the air in the capsule was rated stuffier, the acceptability of the air quality decreased and the rated odour intensity increased at this condition. The wrist skin temperature was always higher at 28 °C with reduced ventilation but only during the sleep onset latency period. The subjects felt slightly warm and rated the air stuffier when ventilation was reduced. The present results, albeit from a small exploratory pilot study, show that increased temperature and reduced ventilation both have negative effects on sleep quality, which may have consequences for next-day work performance. These pilot experiment results require validation due to the low number of subjects.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108666 2129771:BUB5I8PW 4682641:FPDE9BKS
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; Next-day work performance; Physiological responses; Sleep quality; Temperature; Ventilation

Summary Report: Evaluation of the Rapid Teacher Training - Centre for Research and Integrated Development (Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, Zimbabwe),; UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa; Open Development and Education (OpenDevEd, 2022)
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Keywords: _r:AddedByZotZen; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Wheels of Change: Transforming Girls' Lives with Bicycles - Fiala, Nathan; Garcia-Hernandez, Ana; Narula, Kritika; Prakash, Nishith (Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), 2022)
Reducing the gender gap in education is a primary goal for many countries. Two major challenges for many girls are the distance to school and their safety when commuting to school. In Zambia, we studied the impact of providing a bicycle to a school-going girl who lives more than 3 km from the school. We randomized whether a girl received a bicycle with a small cost to her family to cover replacement parts, a bicycle where these costs are covered by the program, and therefore is zero cost to the family, or a control group. One year after the intervention, we find that the bicycle reduced average commuting time to school by 35%, reduced late arrival by 66%, and decreased absenteeism by 27%. We find continued improvement in girls' attendance and reduction in dropouts two, three, and four years after the intervention. We also find evidence of improved math test scores, girls expressing higher feelings of control over their lives and, for those who received bicycles with a small cost to her family, higher levels of aspirations, self-image, and a desire to delay marriage and pregnancy. Heterogeneity analysis by distance to school shows an inverted U-shape for most of the schooling and empowerment results, suggesting greater impact for girls that live further away from school. These results suggest that empowerment outcomes worked through increased attendance in school.
Publication Title: IZA Discussion Papers KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:5G8EIWDE 2129771:WW2D2FUL
Keywords: Zambia; attendance; bicycles; dropout; female aspiration; female empowerment; girls' education; grade transition; safety; test scores; ⛔ No DOI found

Data Collection Report: OECS Declaration on Education Statement - Gonsalves, Sarah-Lee; Regis, Callista; Haßler, Björn (Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0262 2129771:8MXW5XLH
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

OECS Education Forum Meeting Report - Gonsalves, Sarah-Lee; Regis, Callista; Haßler, Björn (Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0260 2129771:EQ69UM4U
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

Pitch Deck: Academic Recovery Programme Phase II - Gonsalves, Sarah-Lee; Regis, Callista; Haßler, Björn (Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0258 2129771:VCDTU7ES
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

Revised Programme Brief - Gonsalves, Sarah-Lee; Regis, Callista; Haßler, Björn (Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0259 2129771:DQIZ3PIQ 2129771:T85S88PM
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

ARP Phase I Implementation Progress Report - Gonsalves, Sarah-Lee; Regis, Callista; Megha-Bongnkar, Ghislaine; Haßler, Björn (Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0257 2129771:CZ63JZQS 2129771:K4BCVK9E
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

OECS Declaration on Education Statement - Gonsalves, Sarah-Lee; Regis, Callista; Theeb, Thaer AlSheikh; Haßler, Björn (Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0261 2129771:79LLTCAU
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; _bjoern_cv

Revised Programme Description - Gonsalves, Sarah-Lee; Regis, Callista; Villavicencio, Xuzel; Haßler, Björn (Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0256 2129771:BAT326IU
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

2020/21 Education Statistical Yearbook - Ministry of Education (Rwanda) (2022)

Special COVID-19 report - Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, 2022)
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Costed Implementation Plan - Vijil, Alejandra; Haßler, Björn (Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0263 2129771:ADZ57F4H
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

Using Evidence-Informed Practice in Primary School Improvement in an Under-Achieving School System: A Case Study in Sierra Leone - Mason, Miriam; Galloway, David (The Emerald Handbook of Evidence-Informed Practice in Education, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1108/978-1-80043-141-620221044 4869029:G8NLIA2X

Emerging Issues in East Africa for Girls’ Education in East Africa - Booth, Rachel (2022)
Despite progress on girls’ education in the past 25 years, many girls in East Africa are still facing profound education challenges. When combined with gender norms, poverty, location, and disability, girls are likely to struggle with accessing and remaining in education. External pressures such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate-related disasters, and conflict all exacerbate existing inequalities This report draws together evidence on the current status of girls’ education in Somalia, Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and South Sudan, based on 15 days of desk-based research and key informant interviews. Using a combination of education systems thinking and the socio-ecological model, it examines and emphasises the importance of feedback loops, relationships between different actors in the education system and social norms and power which influence education systems and girls’ educational outcomes. The countries covered in this study are at different stages of education system evolution. Further detailed research is needed to find specific entry points for girls’ education support by country. Entry points for potential support have emerged as common themes across the four FCDO priority countries. These are System strengthening, creating Enabling Environments, and Investment in Girls Agency.
Accepted: 2022-01-21T14:05:54Z Publisher: Institute of Development Studies KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.19088/K4D.2022.007 2129771:IJ2H9WS3 4869029:V49HDXN2
Keywords: ⚠️ Invalid DOI

Technology Use for Teacher Professional Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Recommendations for policy from a systematic review - D'Angelo, Sophia; Hennessy, Sara; Kreimeia, Adam; Koomar, Saalim; Cao, Lydia; McIntyre, Nora; Brugha, Meaghan; Zubairi, Asma (EdTech Hub, 2022)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Keywords: _r:AddedByZotZen

Delivering Remote Learning Using a Low-Tech Solution: Evidence from an RCT during the Covid-19 Pandemic - Islam, Asad; Wang, Liang Choon; Hassan, Hashibul (EdTech Hub, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2339240:6IBI8JWJ 4804264:D3L8MYTT
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

A Landscape Review of ICT for Disability-inclusive Education - World Bank (World Bank, 2022)
Information and communication technology (ICT) tools can have a catalytic effect in advancing both educational access and learning outcomes for children with disabilities. Despite tremendous potential, a gap exists between technology advancements and their large-scale application in educating children with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries. This landscape review of ICTs for disability inclusive education by the Inclusive Education Initiative seeks to understand the current status and trends in the practice of educational technology (EdTech) and the use of ICT in improving the educational participation and outcomes of children with disabilities. The review explores what factors enable or restrict this improvement within the wider EdTech ecosystem.
Accepted: 2022-03-04T16:17:23Z
Keywords: Access to Education; Access to Learning; Disability Inclusion; Edtech; Education Technology; Inclusive Education

Developing a Proof of Concept for a Regional Learning Hub for Eastern and Southern Africa Part 5: Final report - Groeneveld, Caspar; Michels, Guillaume; Kaye, Tom (EdTech Hub, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:D9MV4ND2
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Developing a Proof of Concept for a Regional Learning Hub for Eastern and Southern Africa Part 5: Final report - Groeneveld, Caspar; Michels, Guillaume; Kaye, Tom (EdTech Hub, 2022)
In 2021 the UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO), UNESCO, UNHCR, the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) and EdTech Hub began collaborating to develop a Regional Learning Hub (RLH). The aim of the RLH is to create a platform to provide teaching and learning content aligned to the curricula of different countries in the region that is appropriate to local contexts. The RLH is envisaged as a platform where digital learning content has been pre-aligned with national curricula to enable use by governments and education stakeholders to facilitate quick selection of content for educational use in their regions. This document is the fifth and final report on the development of a proof of concept for the Hub. We recommend beginning with this document and then moving to any of the remaining four reports, depending on your interest: Inception report User research Skills taxonomy Content curation An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Keywords: _r:AddedByZotZen

Kaufman's Clinical Neurology for Psychiatrists - E-Book - Kaufman, David Myland; Geyer, Howard L.; Milstein, Mark J.; Rosengard, Jillian (Elsevier Health Sciences, 2022)
The only reference to focus on the must-know aspects of neurology for psychiatrists, Kaufman's Clinical Neurology for Psychiatrists, 9th Edition, brings you up to date with the knowledge you need to excel on the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and other examinations. It fully covers the exam topics you’ll encounter, along with new content, high-quality illustrations, and multiple-choice questions. In addition, this book prepares you for clinical work in the 21st century. Discusses timely, clinically-relevant topics such as chronic and acute traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer’s disease, correctible causes of dementia, violence, neurologic illnesses that present with symptoms of autism, illicit drug use, stroke, migraine, Parkinson’s disease, tardive dyskinesia current treatments, and more. Includes nearly 2,000 multiple-choice questions both in print and online—all written to help you succeed on the ABPN certifying exam. Features new content, new and improved clinical illustrations: life-like patient sketches, anatomy line drawings, CTs, MRIs, and EEGs. Explains each condition's neurologic and psychiatric features, easily performed office and bedside examinations, appropriate tests, differential diagnosis, and management options. Correlates neurologic illnesses with the DSM-5.
Google-Books-ID: 0jxZEAAAQBAJ KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:RJ3U4KK8
Keywords: Final_citation; Medical / Neurology; Medical / Psychiatry / General

Program Assessment of Kolibri FLY - Open Development and Education (OpenDevEd, 2022)
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Keywords: _r:AddedByZotZen

Engaging Girls with E-Learning: A curated list of good practices - AlSheikh Theeb, Thaer (EdTech Hub, 2022)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Keywords: Helpdesk Response; _r:AddedByZotZen

Undergraduate-level teaching and learning approaches for interprofessional education in the health professions: a systematic review - Aldriwesh, Marwh Gassim; Alyousif, Sarah Mohammed; Alharbi, Nouf Sulaiman (BMC Medical Education, 2022)
Although most systematic reviews of interprofessional education (IPE) evaluated the impact of IPE on the students’ acquisition of knowledge in relation to other professions, the development of teamwork skills, and the changes in collaborative behaviour, the processes involved in IPE (i.e., approaches to teaching and learning) are under-researched. The purpose of the study was to conduct a systematic review to establish how IPE has been implemented in university-based undergraduate curricula, focusing on the teaching and learning approaches.

Pedagogies of embodiment in physical education – a literature review - Aartun, Iselin; Walseth, Kristin; Standal, Øyvind Førland; Kirk, David (Sport, Education and Society, 2022)
Physical education puts the body center stage. Embodiment has emerged as a concept that broadens the focus on the body beyond the dualistic natural scientific point of view. Research into embodied learning and embodiment has had various focuses, including the sociological aspects of embodiment and the embodied experiences of students. This article is a literature review of peer-reviewed empirical studies aiming to explore empirical research on pedagogies of embodiment in physical education. We ask what characterizes the empirical research literature on pedagogies of embodiment in physical education, and what implications for teaching and learning we can find in this literature. Forty-two studies met the criteria and were included in the review. Based on a thematic analysis of the studies, two main themes emerged. The first theme, ‘enabling critical reflection’, highlights that physical education can contribute to the development of critical thinking skills among pupils and provide them with safe spaces to discuss ‘taken for granted’ understandings of gender, health, and body ideals within physical education. The second main theme, ‘Exploring (new) movements’, shows how pupils’ exploration of (new) movements can contribute to the development of body awareness and meaningful experiences. Physical education taught after principles of pedagogies of embodiment involves pupil-centered approaches and inductive approaches to teaching. These approaches give pupils the opportunity to be involved in choosing activities and creating content. Pedagogies of embodiment place focus on the importance of reflection before, during, and after activities in physical education, and expand the repertory of activities that physical education may include. In this way, pedagogies of embodiment may facilitate embodied learning, empowerment, and positive experiences of being in movement. Future research should investigate further the possibilities pedagogies of embodiment gives for teachers and learners, and how the potential to challenge traditional pedagogy can be developed.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2020.1821182
Keywords: critical reflection; embodiment; experience; movement exploration; pedagogies; physical education

Guidance on Pre-Assessment for Establishing E-Learning Centres - AlSheikh Theeb, Thaer; McGinty, Sara; Obaid, Rasha (EdTech Hub, 2022)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Evaluating and enhancing quality in higher education teaching practice: a meta- review - Harrison, Reema; Meyer, Lois; Rawstorne, Patrick; Razee, Husna; Chitkara, Upma; Mears, Steven; Balasooriya, Chinthaka (Studies in Higher Education, 2022)
High-quality teaching is central to the higher education sector. Its pursuit has become heightened with increasing competition across institutions and opportunities to study globally through various modes. This systematic meta-review provides a synthesis of evidence relating to the methods used to assess and enhance the quality of teaching practice within higher education. Key words, synonyms and subject headings were used to search six electronic databases between January 2009 and August 2019. Titles and abstracts of publications were screened and full text articles assessed against the eligibility criteria. Findings were extracted and integrated in a narrative synthesis. Thirteen review articles, revealed that the use of teaching quality: student feedback data, self-assessment tools, peer review of teaching (formative and summative) and the use of teaching portfolios. We report evidence related to the effectiveness of each of these approaches and that a multi-modal approach may be most effective but requires consideration of resourcing.
Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2020.1730315
Keywords: Teaching quality; higher education; peer review; student evaluation; teaching practice

Geographical determinants and hotspots of out-of-school children in Nigeria - Adeleke, Richard; Alabede, Opeyemi (Open Education Studies, 2022)
In Nigeria, children lack access to primary school education, and this hinders their social, cognitive, emotional, and physical skills’ development. With one in every five of the world’s out-of-school children in Nigeria, achieving universal primary education by 2030 remains a challenge. Several studies have investigated the factors that have led to an increase in out-of-school children (OOSC); however, these studies are based on individual level and household predictors with little evidence on the geographical determinants. Hence, this study examines the relationship between OOSC and the socio-economic attributes of the geographical location where they reside. Findings of the spatial analysis show that Sokoto, Zamfara, Yobe, Taraba, and Plateau are the hotspots of out-of-school children. The result further reveals that there is spatial variation in the predictors of out-of-school children in the country. Poverty and internally generated revenue (IGR) predict more cases of school non-attendance in northern Nigeria while foreign direct investment determines the number of children that are out-of-school in the southern region. The study recommends spatially explicit policies to reduce the number of OOSC in Nigeria.
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Access
Keywords: Nigeria; Spatial analysis; foreign direct investment; out-of-school children; poverty

Review of Learning Tools for Effective Radiology Education During the COVID-19 Era - Chen, David; Ayoob, Andres; Desser, Terry S.; Khurana, Aman (Academic Radiology, 2022)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has significantly disrupted medical education around the world and created the risk of students missing vital education and experience previously held within actively engaging in-person activities by switching to online leaning and teaching activities. To retain educational yield, active learning strategies, such as microlearning and visual learning tools are increasingly utilized in the new digital format. This article will introduce the challenges of a digital learning environment, review the efficacy of applying microlearning and visual learning strategies, and demonstrate tools that can reinforce radiology education in this constantly evolving digital era such as innovative tablet apps and tools. This will be key in preserving and augmenting essential medical teaching in the currently trying socially and physically distant times of COVID-19 as well as in similar future scenarios.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.acra.2021.10.006 2129771:QSZQL2KL
Keywords: Coronavirus; Electronic teaching tools; Medical education; Online education; Radiology; SARS-Cov-2; _genre:LR-literature_review

A review of research on teacher competencies in higher education - Dervenis, Charalampos; Fitsilis, Panos; Iatrellis, Omiros (Quality Assurance in Education, 2022)
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to thoroughly assemble, analyze and synthesize previous research to investigate and identify teaching staff competencies derived from the roles and tasks attributed to university professors. Design/methodology/approach In this literature review, the authors looked at both the conceptual framework exploring the educational concepts and the learning theories focusing on teaching staff roles and competencies in higher education. Thirty-nine scientific papers were studied in detail from a total of 102 results, which were eligible based on the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses statement. Findings A multi-dimensional approach to teacher competencies in higher education was proposed, which consists of six main dimensions with their respective characteristics. Thirty-two discrete teaching staff competencies were identified and distributed in the aforementioned dimensions. The research revealed that specific competencies, such as the digital competence of teachers, which have lately become of high importance worldwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic implications, surprisingly, until recently, they were considered secondary in the educational process. Research limitations/implications The study was based on the existing literature without using data drawn from an appropriate questionnaire addressed to students and/or interviews with academics. In addition, in an effort to maintain a homogeneous base of teacher competencies, inclusion of domains of expertise was avoided. Further research should focus on designing and developing a holistic model using analytical learning approaches that will contribute to the assessment of teachers’ competencies and explore the relationship of these competencies to students’ academic achievement, contributing quality to higher education. Practical implications A specific framework of teacher competencies in higher education, in practice, can be a useful reference point not only for ensuring quality in the selection of teachers and their career-long professional development but also for national education policy strategies. The definition of teacher competencies framework contributes to facilitating effective dialogue for the evaluation and quality assurance in education between agencies, authorities, researchers, teachers, policymakers, education managers and different communities at large. Social implications These competencies are at the heart not only of the teaching and learning process but also in the workplace and in society in general and are increasingly recognized as essential. An adequately prepared community and management equipped with the required employee competencies is able to react immediately and in a positive way to any obstacle, yielding optimal results. Originality/value This is the first review, to the authors’ knowledge, to comprehensively explore the literature to identify, classify and rank the teaching staff competencies in higher education, revealing the gap between perceived and actual importance of various competencies.
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Keywords: Competencies; Higher education; Quality education; Skills; Teacher effectiveness; Teacher quality

Knowledge hiding behavior in higher education institutions: a scientometric analysis and systematic literature review approach - Fauzi, Muhammad Ashraf (Journal of Knowledge Management, 2022)
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to systematically review knowledge hiding (KH) behavior in higher education institutions (HEIs). KH is regarded as an unethical and antisocial behavior by many scholars, which should not be prevalent in HEIs. Design/methodology/approach A two-phase analysis through quantitative scientometric analysis and qualitative systematic literature review method through the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) model was applied. In phase 1,174 articles were analyzed using the VOSviewer through co-word and co-citation analyses. In Phase 2, 20 related studies on KH in HEIs were qualitatively analyzed on the fundamental concept of KH. The main themes were determined based on current research findings, through the identification of relevant gaps in the context of higher education. Findings In Phase 1, co-word and co-citation analyses resulted in six and three clusters, respectively. Subsequently, in Phase 2, five themes were discovered: terminology of KH, scale of KH, cultural and geographical context, KH among academics and students and relevant theories. Further, discussion on the institutional factors of individuals, organizations, technology and culture is presented. Practical implications This review lays out a practical guide to facilitate HEIs in managing KH behavior among academics, employees, and students. Strategies can be planned and implemented to foster and inculcate knowledge sharing behavior to circulate knowledge while at the same time diminishing KH behavior in HEIs. Originality/value To the best of the author’s knowledge, this study is the first to review KH behavior in the context of HEIs through quantitative and qualitative analysis.
Keywords: Academics; Higher education institution; Knowledge hiding; Knowledge sharing; Students

Sustainability in engineering education: A review of learning outcomes - Gutierrez-Bucheli, Laura; Kidman, Gillian; Reid, Alan (Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022)
Although UNESCO and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals have articulated the critical role of engineering in achieving sustainable forms of development, there remains the need to analyze the design, features, and nature of sustainability-focused initiatives in engineering education. To date, few studies have identified the main knowledge gaps in this sector of higher education. At the same time, there is no known research exploring student and graduate learning outcomes in particular contextual settings. To address these gaps, this article uses a realist scoping review to map and analyze how engineering education has approached sustainability in higher education institutions since the 1990s. Our study explores the approaches of curricula, teaching, and learning renewals promoted in higher education engineering programs identifying critical differences between the expected and actual learning outcomes. Key findings drawn from a range of international contexts include broad evidence that engineering education providers desire to approach sustainability from an integrative perspective. However, this approach typically demands more administrative resources to develop formal and hidden curriculum mechanisms. As a result, engineering education struggles to foster the associated intra- and inter-cultural learning characteristics expected within integrated sustainability education. Findings also suggest re-evaluating the connotation and senses of ‘being and becoming an engineer’, including social responsibilities in engineering education, to empower students as active agents of change. Implications for practice, policy, and curriculum development of nine approaches to engineering education for sustainability are also offered, alongside possibilities and priorities for future research.
Keywords: Education for sustainable development; Engineering education; Learning outcomes; Realist review; Scoping review; Sustainable development

Outputs register for Tich Me Ar Tich Dem - Haßler, Björn (OpenDevEd, 2022)
ZenodoArchiveID: 6472483 ZenodoArchiveConcept: 6472482 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0272 2129771:PTGJQVPU
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; _r:AddedByZotZen

Tich Me Ar Tich Dem — Inception Report - Haßler, Björn; Lurvink, Anne-Fleur; Beoku-Betts, Iman; McBurnie, Chris; Adam, Taskeen; Blower, Tom (OpenDevEd, 2022)
Our research addresses the Sierra Leonean government’s need to optimise and validate an effective model for in-service TPD. As noted, a distributed TPD model is favoured (building on the World Bank’s Free Education project and the Sierra Leone Education Attendance Monitoring System (SLEAMS), using a ‘one-tablet-per-school’ (OTPS) model). Evidence indicates that this low-tech approach to TPD can improve learning outcomes in emergencies (⇡Haßler, et al., 2019). In contrast, COVID-19 interventions that focus on ‘remote learning for children’ are catastrophically failing (⇡Asadullah, 2020; ⇡Asanov, et al., 2020; ⇡BRAC, 2020; ⇡Le Nestour, et al., 2020; ⇡Uwezo Kenya, 2020). Our research provides crucial and timely evidence to shore up current government plans for a scalable, effective TPD intervention. Our research identifies whether this TPD model addresses the needs of rural / disadvantaged teachers. Our study focuses on a sample of teachers and students from schools in rural / semi-rural areas to understand whether and how school-based TPD initiatives promote student learning (as an alternative to traditional centralised and cascade models). Such traditional models are severely disrupted by COVID-19, highlighting our study’s relevance to education continuity in emergencies.
ZenodoArchiveID: 6335781 ZenodoArchiveConcept: 6335780 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/opendeved.0268 10.53832/opendeved.0269 2129771:3RTBA9FR
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; _bjoern_cv; _r:AddedByZotZen; _yl:b

Outputs register for HLR3 - Teacher Allocation Sierra Leone - Haßler, Björn; McBurnie, Chris; Beoku-Betts, Iman (EdTech Hub, 2022)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _r:AddedByZotZen

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

Mapping the field of research on African higher education: a review of 6483 publications from 1980 to 2019 - Zavale, Nelson Casimiro; Schneijderberg, Christian (Higher Education, 2022)
Following a global trend, higher education (HE) in Africa has also become a complex enterprise, potentially demanding specific expertise in higher education research. However, despite this, there is a dearth of analysis into the state of research on African HE. This paper seeks to fill this gap by mapping and analysing African HE research. We undertake a systematic review of 6483 articles and books focusing on African HE published from 1980 to 2019 in indexed and non-indexed journals and book-publishers. We particularly examine the evolution of publications, the journals and book publishers, the authors’ affiliations, the researched countries, the publications’ thematic classification, the most prolific authors, and the most influential publications. Based on this analysis, we draw four main conclusions. First, research on African HE is a rather recent phenomenon or has witnessed a recent rise or renewal. Second, a few selected journals and book-publishers, particularly those with a strong regional or international reputation, dominate the field. Third, four communities of researchers are more represented: the community researching teaching and learning issues, the community focusing on structural transformation of HE, the community focusing on the internal organisation of HE and the community focusing on societal engagement of HE. Four, South Africa dominates the field both as home to most of the authors (including the most prolific) and the empirical field of most publications (including the most influential). If South Africa is excluded, African HE research is weak, but some communities are emerging, particularly in West, East and Southern Africa.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:QBL95EJ2 2129771:SDBUUA7A
Keywords: Africa; Higher education research; Mapping the field; Systematic review

Brazil : The SOL-ution for Smart Community Procurement (World Bank, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1596/37687 4804264:47T8S2JH
Keywords: Final_citation

Principles for Digital Development (Principles for Digital Development, 2022)
Resources & Expertise for the Digital Principles
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Meaningful Connectivity — unlocking the full power of internet access - A4AI (Alliance for Affordable Internet, 2022)
Meaningful Connectivity — unlocking the full power of internet access 4G-like speed Our internet speeds make or break our online experience. We all know
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:S3MTAHJV
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Validation of Designbuilder Simulation Accuracy Using Field Measured Data of Indoor Air Temperature in a Classroom Building - Abba, Habu Yusuf; Majid, Roshida Abdul; Ahmed, Muhammad Hamdan; Gbenga, Olutobi (Management, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:4UHQEB9X 4682641:55AFYSVG
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; ⛔ No DOI found

ChatGPT: Fundamentals, applications and social impacts - Abdullah, Malak; Madain, Alia; Jararweh, Yaser (2022 Ninth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS), 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1109/SNAMS58071.2022.10062688 4804264:QU9KCAEF
Keywords: Final_citation

Education research designed for uptake: Co-constructing an actionable research agenda for Education Research in Conflict and Protracted-Crisis (ERICC - Adesina, Adedoyin; Akogun, Oladele B (Paper Presentation. 67th Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES, 2022)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Combined effects of ventilation rates and indoor temperatures on cognitive performance of female higher education students in a hot climate - Ahmed, Riham; Mumovic, Dejan; Bagkeris, Emmanouil; Ucci, Marcella (Indoor air, 2022)
Publisher: Wiley Online Library KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1111/ina.13004 2129771:7WXPHPA2 4682641:MM48GLCP
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT

Effects of thermal sensation and acclimatization on cognitive performance of adult female students in Saudi Arabia using multivariable-multilevel statistical modeling - Ahmed, Riham; Ucci, Marcella; Mumovic, Dejan; Bagkeris, Emmanouil (Indoor air, 2022)
Publisher: Wiley Online Library KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1111/ina.13005 2129771:UE8PMH8F 4682641:XU7Y5YK5
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT

Durumi Camp: Conflict and the Spatial Praxes of a Furtive-Periphery’ - Ajadi, S.B. (‘Embodying the Periphery’, 2022)

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

Education research in conflict and protracted crisis - Akogun, O.; Adesina, A.; Watts, M. (2022)

Education research in conflict and protracted crisis - Akogun, O.; Adesina, Adedoyin; Watts, M. (2022)

Improving Literacy Outcomes for Disadvantaged Girls Through Empowerment: The Case of Siyani Sahelian Programme in Pakistan - Aslam, Monazza; Cashman, Laura; Hamid, Moaaz; Rawal, Shenila; Jamil, Baela Raza; Sabates, Ricardo; Saeed, Saba (Poverty Impacts on Literacy Education, 2022)
Literacy acquisition is important for the formation of higher order skills, further engagement with written forms of knowledge, and deeper participation in society. Yet not all children have the opportunity to acquire literacy skills in their own mother tongue to allow them to continue to advance to...
ISBN: 9781799887300 Pages: 149-164 Publisher: IGI Global KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8730-0.ch008 2129771:XLPT2QR3

The labor market impacts of technological change: From unbridled enthusiasm to qualified optimism to vast uncertainty - Autor, David (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:VCWNNRKI
Keywords: Final_citation

Achieving Cost-Effective Instructional Coaching at Scale: Evidence from Senegal - Bagby, Emilie; Swift-Morgan, Jennifer; Niang, Ablaye; Upadhyay, Arjun (Chemonics International, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:8AGIFNPV 4804264:N5EEDTIJ
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Enhancement of Productivity Using Chatbots - Balatamoghna, B.; Nagajayanthi, B. (Futuristic Communication and Network Technologies, 2022)

18. GLOBAL LEARNING ECOLOGIES: LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR EQUITY - Barron, Brigid (Education, 2022)
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Lowering Barriers to Remote Education: Experimental Impacts on Parental Responses and Learning - Beam, Emily; Mukherjee, Priya; Navarro-Sola, Laia (SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022)
We conduct a randomized controlled trial with households of secondary school students in Bangladesh to investigate how parents adjust their investments in response to three educational interventions: an informational campaign about an educational phone application, an internet data subsidy, and oneon-one phone learning support. We find that offering an educational service in a context where other barriers to take-up exist can still trigger parental educational investments by acting as a signal or nudge. These behavioral changes result in lasting learning gains concentrated among richer households, reflecting that the relevant behavior change—increased tutoring investment—is easier for them to implement. In contrast, when interventions do increase take-up, they have the potential to narrow the socioeconomic achievement gap. We observe that increased usage of the targeted educational service limits parental behavioral responses. This implies that learning gains in these cases are directly caused by the potential effectiveness of the services adopted. In our setting, remote one-to-one teacher support improves learning among students from poorer households, whereas receiving the free data package jointly with the app information has no impact on learning.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.2139/ssrn.4234910 4804264:LEHG7KXA
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

How can education systems rise up to the climate challenge? - Beardmore, Sarah; Martinez, Raphaelle; Tammi, Anna-Maria (Global Partnership for Education, 2022)
The climate crisis adds another layer to the existing learning crisis and calls for building education systems that can prepare for crises, ensure continued access to education during unpredictable times, and prevent and mitigate their negative impacts as much as possible.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:Y9R36QZR 2486141:SW2Y8WPG

How Can Education Systems Structure Virtual Communities of Practice for Teachers Most Effectively? - Bedoya, Guadalupe; Belyakova, Yulia; Cilliers, Jacobus; Deeb, Antoine; Evans, David K; Jeon, Youngkwang; Kelly, Emma (2022)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Improving the teaching of FLN: Insights from behavioral sciences - Better purpose (2022)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) commissioned this report to draw insights on how the behavioral sciences could provide a lens to help us (1) better understand the problem of low foundational learning levels in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) by shedding light on what influences teachers’ decision-making in the classroom, and (2) help shape solutions to improve foundational learning by supporting teachers to implement effective instructional practices.
Keywords: education

Dealing with online and blended education in modern challenging times - Bhutoria, Aditi (DECISION, 2022)
Publisher: Springer

Managerial practices and school efficiency: a data envelopment analysis across OECD and MENA countries using TIMSS 2019 data - Bhutoria, Aditi; Aljabri, Nayyaf (Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022)
Publisher: Springer

SAI International School: In Pursuit of Academic Happiness - Bhutoria, Aditi; Mukhopadhyay, Bhaswati (2022)
Publisher: Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Case Research Center
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

The Effects of Air Temperature to the Cognitive Performance of Grade Five Pupils - Bigueja, Myrna C.; Tabardillo, Rosemarie A.; Amoroso, Sheila E.; Tabardillo, Joselito D. (2022)
High temperature makes the children uneasy during classroom activities. This study examines the effect of air temperature to children‟s cognitive performance. The school profile was determined such as: the total number of teachers, number of enrollees, land area (sq.m.), number of buildings and number of trees was determined to support the analysis of the data collected. The respondents were the Top thirty (30) Grade V pupils from public city elementary school in the Bicol Region. The pen-and-paper test was administered using the standardized test question in Science V of forty (40) items. The examination was done in the room without ventilation at 9:00 O‟clock to 11 O‟clock in the morning. Outdoor and indoor air temperature was recorded. The temperature recorded in the seven Public Central City Elementary Schools ranged from 240C to 310C. The recorded temperature indicates that the air contains particulates or pollutants like CO2 resulting in high temperature. Future work is required to establish evidence based guidelines for average temperatures and CO2 levels in classrooms. Findings suggest that high ventilation rates and low temperatures are required to provide optimum health outcomes and learning conditions. Natural Ventilation is also recommended through planting more trees in school vicinity to provide fresher air.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:FU6YMJ8Z 4682641:84YTA4AD
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; ⛔ No DOI found

Machine learning in weather prediction and climate analyses—applications and perspectives - Bochenek, Bogdan; Ustrnul, Zbigniew (Atmosphere, 2022)
Publisher: MDPI

Onder de motorkap: Onderzoek naar EdTech testbeds in Europa - Boot, N.; Jukema, H.; Stappen, E. van der (2022)
Het onderwijs is voortdurend in ontwikkeling. Studenten hebben behoefte aan afwisselend onderwijs dat aansluit op hun eigen belevingswereld. Terwijl docenten het best mogelijke onderwijs willen
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The Sandbox Model: A Novel Approach to Iterating while Implementing an Emergency Education Program in Lebanon during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Boujikian, Michèle; Carter, Alice; Jordan, Katy (Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2022)
Jusoor's Refugee Education Program helps Syrian refugee children living in Lebanon integrate back into formal schooling. When schools closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the refugee program adapted to distance learning by developing Azima, a novel program that used WhatsApp to enable children to keep learning. Azima had to respond immediately to the emergency context while maintaining high education standards, and it also needed to find an effective way to test and refine its content quickly. To do this, the Azima program adopted an innovative experimental approach called a sandbox. A sandbox model operates in rapid iterative cycles and uses multiple methods to quickly test a program's assumptions about how it will meet its goals. In this field note, we use Azima as a case study to report on our experience of applying the sandbox model. We reflect on the benefits and limitations of this novel approach in supporting the use of education technology in a crisis situation.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.33682/rj45-k7z7 4426965:TTY7N7J4 4804264:U5M5IJQA
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

The Sandbox Model: A Novel Approach to Iterating while Implementing an Emergency Education Program in Lebanon during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Boujikian, Michèle; Carter, Alice; Jordan, Katy (Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2022)
Jusoor's Refugee Education Program helps Syrian refugee children living in Lebanon integrate back into formal schooling. When schools closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the refugee program adapted to distance learning by developing Azima, a novel program that used WhatsApp to enable children to keep learning. Azima had to respond immediately to the emergency context while maintaining high education standards, and it also needed to find an effective way to test and refine its content quickly. To do this, the Azima program adopted an innovative experimental approach called a sandbox. A sandbox model operates in rapid iterative cycles and uses multiple methods to quickly test a program's assumptions about how it will meet its goals. In this field note, we use Azima as a case study to report on our experience of applying the sandbox model. We reflect on the benefits and limitations of this novel approach in supporting the use of education technology in a crisis situation.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.33682/rj45-k7z7 2129771:RXTUNSRQ 4426965:TTY7N7J4

Research-to-Change Toolkit: Implementation Research for Youth Practitioners - Brian Batayeh (IREX and Youth Excel Consortium., 2022)
Batayeh, B., et al. (2022). Research-to-Change Toolkit: Implementation Research for Youth Practitioners. IREX and Youth Excel Consortium. KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:UR8ZPXXC

Trends in Digital Personalized Learning: Landscape Review of Personalized Learning Solutions in Low and Middle-Income Countries - Castillo, Nathan M.; Adam, Taskeen; Alam, Andaleeb; Alrawashdeh, Ghaida S; Tiwari, Priyamvada (UNICEF Office of Global Insight & Policy, 2022)
Digital Personalized Learning (DPL) - tech solutions and products that tailor learning to individuals and their specific learning needs - have the potential to improve learning outcomes and close gaps for students who have fallen behind. However, there is a limited of evidence from digital personalized learning interventions deployed across the developing world. This landscape review identifies trends and gaps in DPL implementation in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) contexts. This research report presents data on DPL effectiveness in LMICs from over 40 interventions worldwide by to classifying and categorizing design features, implementation models, and scalability factors. Implications for future research and design are discussed from a multi-stakeholder perspective.
Keywords: Global studies; Learning; Policy action; Quality of education; technology in education

Improving the Impact of Educational Technologies on Learning Within Low-Income Contexts - Castillo, Nathan; Adam, Taskeen; Haßler, Björn (Learning, Marginalization, and Improving the Quality of Education in Low-income Countries, 2022)
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Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; dode_eth-src-eth; dode_eth-trf2-dode

Chatbot-facilitated Nursing Education - Chang, Ching-Yi; Kuo, Shu-Yu; Hwang, Gwo-Haur (Educational Technology & Society, 2022)
Publisher: JSTOR KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:26E9DABC 2129771:3GK6A7RV 2129771:IAM3H3NX
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Curriculum Implementation in Zambia: Best Practices of Bridging the Gap between the Intended and the Achieved School Curriculum - Changwe, Robert; Mwanza, Christine (International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2022)

Artificial intelligence for climate change adaptation - Cheong, So‐Min; Sankaran, Kris; Bastani, Hamsa (WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2022)
Abstract Although artificial intelligence (AI; inclusive of machine learning) is gaining traction supporting climate change projections and impacts, limited work has used AI to address climate change adaptation. We identify this gap and highlight the value of AI especially in supporting complex adaptation choices and implementation. We illustrate how AI can effectively leverage precise, real‐time information in data‐scarce settings. We focus on supervised learning, transfer learning, reinforcement learning, and multimodal learning to illustrate how innovative AI methods can enable better‐informed choices, tailor adaptation measures to heterogenous groups and generate effective synergies and trade‐offs. This article is categorized under: Application Areas > Government and Public Sector
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Loans and Scholarships in Africa’s Higher Education Finance: A Comparative Analysis of Capitation, Policy and Recoveries in Eleven Countries - Chirwa, Ireen Nayame; Masaiti, Gift; Mwale, Nelly; Mkandawire, Sitwe Benson; Mulenga, Innocent Mutale; Sichula, Noah Kenny (British Journal of Education, 2022)
Publisher: European-American Journals

The building block thesis - Choudary, Sangeet Paul; Maruwada, Shankar (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:QIAJKXGS
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

Implementation of education technology in schools and colleges - CooperGibson Research (Department for Education, 2022)
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What has Worked at Scale? - Crawfurd, Lee; Hares, Susannah; Sandefur, Justin (Schooling for All Feasible Strategies to Achieve Universal Education, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:4RHA5K3J
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Digital Literacy and Skills Toolkit Implementation in Indonesia: Experience and Lessons Learned from a Small Survey - CSIS Indonesia (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:RFIS2BBM 5242966:IWAG3HHA

A Topic is Not a Theme: Towards a Contextualised Approach to Topic Modelling - Doogan, Caitlin (Monash University, 2022)

The Impact of a Tech-Supported, School-Based TPD Model on Learning Outcomes in Tanzania - EdTech Hub (EdTech Hub, 2022)
The Impact of a Tech-Supported, School-Based TPD Model on Learning Outcomes in Tanzania In partnership with Aga Khan University and Tanzania Institute of Education Country: Tanzania | Topic Area: Teacher Continuous Professional Development (TCPD) Project summary The study researches effective and cost-effective sustainable, technology-supported, decentralised, and school-based Teacher Continuous Professional Development (TCPD) models to improve learning outcomes in rural primary…
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:35LL73NE 4426965:RRIBCEWR

The Impact of GIS-Supported Teacher Allocation in Sierra Leone - EdTech Hub; Education Commission; Fab Inc. (EdTech Hub, 2022)
ZenodoArchiveID: 5596875 ZenodoArchiveConcept: 5596874 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/edtechhub.0055 2129771:RIHMNP95 2405685:QAH4K4D6
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Knowledge Pack : Digital Teaching and Learning - , EdTech Team (World Bank, 2022)

Integrated Phase Change Material windcatcher system for hybrid cooling and ventilation in tropical building - Eso, Olamide; Darkwa, Jo; Calautit, John (2022)
This study presents a novel solar fan-assisted multi-directional windcatcher (MDW) with encapsulated phase change material tubes (E-PCMT) for tropical buildings. The ventilation, cooling, and thermal storage performance of the integrated ventilative cooling system is investigated using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Ansys Fluent software under tropical climate conditions. A parametric geometric analysis of three different E-PCMT configurations with melting temperatures at 28oC was conducted to assess the thermal storage performance at different air velocities. The impact of the optimised EPCMT when incorporated inside the air stream of the MDW was further studied. To overcome air flow resistance caused by the obstruction by EPCM-T inside the air streams, the windcatcher airflow is assisted by a wall-mounted axial solar fan that is activated when outdoor air velocity is less than 2m/s. The results based on a typical tropical location showed that the system was able to achieve a consistent and stable air temperature drop of up to 2.64oC over a 4-6-hour. Even at an outdoor air velocity of 1.88m/s, the novel integrated system, in addition to its cooling performance was still able to achieve a supply air velocity rate of 0.16 - 0.57 m/s, meeting the ventilation rates required for indoor comfort.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4874017:GA76HUTU 5072953:NEMABBUB
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; ⛔ No DOI found

Addressing the climate, environment, and biodiversity crises in and through girls’ education - Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:W68GTDSA 5072953:HQ2C4WY8
Keywords: selected_for:effects of climate ch...on learning...LMICs 2024

Introducing EIDU’s Solver Platform: Facilitating Open Collaboration in AI to Help Solve the Global Learning Crisis - Friedberg, Aidan (Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners’ and Doctoral Consortium, 2022)
EIDU provides child-focused learning content along with digitally supported structured pedagogy programmes for teachers and is being rolled out to all public pre-primary schools across four counties in Kenya. EIDU is content-agnostic, allowing any provider to integrate new content into the platform, with the choice and order of content for each individual child optimised through personalisation algorithms. Autonomous digitised assessment tools enable real-time learning measurement which can be fed back to content providers and researchers, facilitating continuous improvement cycles. EIDU is providing open access to its platform to facilitate collaboration in the personalisation space with ‘the Solver Platform’. Researchers will have access to a vast, anonymised learning dataset to train and develop personalisation algorithms. These algorithms can be deployed onto the platform using a plug-in system and will automatically be evaluated and selected based on their measured learning impact, always ensuring the safety of learners comes first.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1007/978-3-031-11647-6_18 4804264:NDEFZCRT
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Socioeconomic inclusion during an era of online education - Garcia, Manuel B. (IGI Global, 2022)
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Studying dilemmas of mathematics teaching in Southern Africa - Gobede, Fraser; Mosvold, Reidar (African Journal of Teacher Education and Development, 2022)
Publisher: AOSIS (Pty) Ltd.

Assessment of students’ digital competences in primary school: a systematic review - Godaert, Eline; Aesaert, Koen; Voogt, Joke; Van Braak, Johan (Education and Information Technologies, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1007/s10639-022-11020-9 4804264:H3METBU9
Keywords: Final_citation

How learning and employment records shape access to quality education and jobs - Goger, Annelies; Parco, Allyson; Carter-Rau, Rohan; Homma, Kazumi; Meliksetyan, Ani; Milman, Natalie (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:CA5WC9QJ 4804264:QVG49FYU
Keywords: Final_citation; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

Impact of Living Conditions on Online Education: Evidence from China. Sustainability 2022, 14, 3231 - Gu, J. (s Note: MDPI stays neu-tral with regard to jurisdictional claims in …, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:8YP8Q36V

Impact of Living Conditions on Online Education: Evidence from China - Gu, Jiafeng (Sustainability, 2022)
Publisher: MDPI KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3390/su14063231 2129771:PWJFE7P8

The digital divide in online learning in China during the COVID-19 pandemic - Guo, Congbin; Wan, Boshen (Technology in Society, 2022)
Publisher: Elsevier KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.102122 2129771:AFGPK6KJ

Global education trends and research to follow in 2022 - Gustafsson-Wright, Emily; Hadani, Helen Shwe; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Jalbout, Maysa; King, Elizabeth M.; ODonoghue, Jennifer L.; Olsen, Brad; Shapiro, Jordan; Vegas, Emiliana; Winthrop, Rebecca (2022)
Publisher: Brookings Institution KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:H5U6GHQI
Keywords: Final_citation; ⛔ No DOI found

Digital tools for real-time data collection in education - Gustafsson-Wright, Emily; Osborne, Sarah; Aggarwal, Muskan (2022)
Publisher: Brookings Institution KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:LCXWWJ8C
Keywords: Final_citation; ⛔ No DOI found

From Evidence to Scale: Lessons Learned from the Quality Education India Development Impact Bond. - Gustafsson-Wright, Emily; Osborne, Sarah; Shankar, Aditi (Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2022)
Publisher: ERIC KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:KCHASA45
Keywords: Final_citation; ⛔ No DOI found

Early Grade Mathematics in South Africa - Hamsa, Venkat; Roberts, Nicky (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Resource list for T-TEL Ghana (2015-2016) - Haßler, Björn (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:FGQR8MW3

TVET Research in SSA: Recommendations for Thematic Priorities | Africa Journal of Technical and Vocational Education and Training - Haßler, Björn; Haseloff, Gesine (2022)
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Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

Technology use for teacher education and professional development: Insights from a systematic review [preprint] - Hennessy, Sara; D'Angelo, Sophia; McIntyre, Nora; Brugha, Meaghan; Zubairi, Asma (2022)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Technology Use for Teacher Professional Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A systematic review - Hennessy, Sara; D'Angelo, Sophia; McIntyre, Nora; Koomar, Saalim; Kreimeia, Adam; Cao, Lydia; Brugha, Meaghan; Zubairi, Asma (Computers and Education Open, 2022)
Pre-service education and in-service teacher professional development (collectively termed teacher professional development or TPD here) can play a pivotal role in raising teaching quality and, therefore, learning outcomes for children and young people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, TPD opportunities in LMICs are limited, unsustained, and often not informed by recent research evidence, and outcomes are mixed. Educational technologies offer potential to enhance formally provided programmes and informal peer-learning forms of TPD. We present the first systematic review of the literature pertaining to technology-mediated TPD for educators of school-aged learners in LMICs, aiming to characterise appropriate and effective uses of technology along with specific constraints operating in those contexts. An in-depth synthesis of 170 studies was undertaken, considering macro-, meso- and micro-level factors during TPD design and implementation in the 40 LMICs represented. Volume of publications increased dramatically over the review period (2008–2020), indicating that the field is rapidly developing. Results largely showed benefits for teachers, but evidence for sustainability, cost-effectiveness or tangible impacts on classroom practice and student outcomes was thin. Promising, locally-contextualised forms of technology-mediated TPD included virtual coaching, social messaging, blended learning, video-stimulated reflection, and use of subject-specific software/applications. We report on the variable effectiveness of programmes and limited attention to marginalised groups. To maximise effectiveness of technology-enhanced TPD, the role of facilitators or expert peers is paramount – yet often glossed over – and the interpersonal dimension of teacher learning must be maintained. Recommendations are made for researchers, policymakers, teachers and teacher educators.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.caeo.2022.100080 10.5281/zenodo.4733147 2129771:AQSTZII8 2129771:RT5YCTNI 2129771:XLTBLBZA 2339240:5GVQGQC4 2405685:E5J2KHF2 2405685:RKQI4W3A 2405685:T5QVE96Z 2534378:DZ4AXQJ2 4426965:RRTYWK3S
Keywords: ICT; Teacher professional development; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_knowledge_product; _MELA_seen; _genre:LR-literature_review; e-learning; low- and middle-income countries (LMICs); pedagogy; peer learning; teacher training; technology

Technology Use for Teacher Professional Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A systematic review - Hennessy, Sara; D'Angelo, Sophia; McIntyre, Nora; Koomar, Saalim; Kreimeia, Adam; Cao, Lydia; Brugha, Meaghan; Zubairi, Asma (Computers and Education Open, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.caeo.2022.100080 10.5281/zenodo.4733147 2339240:5GVQGQC4 2339240:LPFYJHUF 2405685:E5J2KHF2 2405685:KXGE9JIR 2405685:RKQI4W3A 2405685:T5QVE96Z 2534378:5CCARHUH 2534378:DZ4AXQJ2 4804264:4QCM8LRH
Keywords: Disability; Final_citation; Read; Referenced; Teacher education and training; What works evidence; _EdTechHub_Output; _MELA_knowledge_product; _MELA_seen; cited; existing

A critical view on the suitability of machine learning techniques to downscale climate change projections: Illustration for temperature with a toy experiment - Hernanz, Alfonso; García‐Valero, Juan Andrés; Domínguez, Marta; Rodríguez‐Camino, Ernesto (Atmospheric Science Letters, 2022)
Abstract Machine learning is a growing field of research with many applications. It provides a series of techniques able to solve complex nonlinear problems, and that has promoted their application for statistical downscaling. Intercomparison exercises with other classical methods have so far shown promising results. Nevertheless, many evaluation studies of statistical downscaling methods neglect the analysis of their extrapolation capability. In this study, we aim to make a wakeup call to the community about the potential risks of using machine learning for statistical downscaling of climate change projections. We present a set of three toy experiments, applying three commonly used machine learning algorithms, two different implementations of artificial neural networks and a support vector machine, to downscale daily maximum temperature, and comparing them with the classical multiple linear regression. We have tested the four methods in and out of their calibration range, and have found how the three machine learning techniques can perform poorly under extrapolation. Additionally, we have analysed the impact of this extrapolation issue depending on the degree of overlapping between the training and testing datasets, and we have found very different sensitivities for each method and specific implementation.

Artificial intelligence and education: a critical view through the lens of human rights, democracy and the rule of law - Holmes, Wayne; Persson, Jen; Chounta, Irene-Angelica; Wasson, Barbara; Dimitrova, Vania (Council of Europe, 2022)
The aim of this book is to provide a holistic view to ensure that AI empowers educators and learners, not over-empowers them, and that future developments and practices are truly for the common good. Artificial intelligence (Al) is increasingly having an impact on education, bringing opportunities as well as numerous challenges. These observations were noted by the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers in 2019 and led to the commissioning of this report, which sets out to examine the connections between Al and education (AI&ED). In particular, the report presents an overview of AI&ED seen through the lens of the Council of Europe values of human rights, democracy and the rule of law; and it provides a critical analysis of the academic evidence and the myths and hype. The Covid-19 pandemic school shutdowns triggered a rushed adoption of educational technology, which increasingly includes AI-assisted classrooms tools (AIED). This AIED, which by definition is designed to influence child development, also impacts on critical issues such as privacy, agency and human dignity – all of which are yet to be fully explored and addressed. But AI&ED is not only about teaching and learning with AI, but also teaching and learning about AI (AI literacy), addressing both the technological dimension and the often-forgotten human dimension of AI. The report concludes with a provisional needs analysis – the aim being to stimulate further critical debate by the Council of Europe’s member states and other stakeholders and to ensure that education systems respond both proactively and effectively to the numerous opportunities and challenges introduced by AI&ED
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State of the art and practice in AI in education - Holmes, Wayne; Tuomi, Ilkka (European Journal of Education, 2022)
Recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have generated great expectations for the future impact of AI in education and learning (AIED). Often these expectations have been based on misunderstanding current technical possibilities, lack of knowledge about state-of-the-art AI in education, and exceedingly narrow views on the functions of education in society. In this article, we provide a review of existing AI systems in education and their pedagogic and educational assumptions. We develop a typology of AIED systems and describe different ways of using AI in education and learning, show how these are grounded in different interpretations of what AI and education is or could be, and discuss some potential roadblocks on the AIED highway.
_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ejed.12533 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1111/ejed.12533 4804264:NING5825 4804264:VVNH9AMG
Keywords: Final_citation; anystyle; existing

(untitled) - Holon IQ (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:ZE7ASGBJ 4426965:CG7WZWJA

Building Educational Foundations through Innovation & Technology (BEFIT) Malawi Scale-Up Program Overview - Imagine WorldWide, Hon Agnes (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:HYWUSGYP
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Promising Practices in Teacher Professional Development - Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:37FYLWZE
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Leave No Child Behind: Global report on boys' disengagement from education - Jere, Catherine; Eck, Matthias; Zubairi, Asma (UNESCO, 2022)

Aligning artificial intelligence with climate change mitigation - Kaack, Lynn H.; Donti, Priya L.; Strubell, Emma; Kamiya, George; Creutzig, Felix; Rolnick, David (Nature Climate Change, 2022)
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group UK London

Transformation of Education Policy and Governance in the Digital Era - Kamp-Hartong, S.; Piattoeva, N.; Saari, A.; Savage, G. (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:I6G6EY4M
Keywords: Final_citation; anystyle; existing

Reflections on Technology, Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development: Findings from a Teacher Survey in Tanzania. - Koomar, Saalim; Hennessy, Sara; Zubairi, Asma; Kindoli, Robert; Kreimeia, Adam (African Educational Research Journal, 2022)
Publisher: ERIC

Understanding evidence: a brief guide for edtech produceers - Kucirkova, Natalia (2022)
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Applications of machine learning and deep learning methods for climate change mitigation and adaptation - Ladi, Tahmineh; Jabalameli, Shaghayegh; Sharifi, Ayyoob (Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2022)
Climate change is a global issue that must be considered and addressed immediately. Many articles have been published on climate change mitigation and adaptation. However, new methods are required to explore the complexities of climate change and provide more efficient and effective adaptation and mitigation policies. With the advancement of technology, machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) methods have gained considerable popularity in many fields, including climate change. This paper aims to explore the most popular ML and DL methods that have been applied for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Another aim is to determine the most common mitigation and adaptation measures/actions in general, and in urban areas in particular, that have been studied using ML and DL methods. For this purpose, word frequency analysis and topic modeling, specifically the Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) as a ML algorithm, are used in this study. The results indicate that the most popular ML technique in both climate change mitigation and adaptation is the Artificial Neural Network. Moreover, among different research areas related to climate change mitigation and adaptation, geoengineering, and land surface temperature are the ones that have used ML and DL algorithms the most.

Cognitive performance was reduced by higher air temperature even when thermal comfort was maintained over the 24–28°C range - Lan, Li; Tang, Jieyu; Wargocki, Pawel; Wyon, David P; Lian, Zhiwei (Indoor Air, 2022)
This study managed to create thermal comfort conditions at three temperatures (24°C-T24, 26°C-T26, and 28°C-T28) by adjusting clothing and air velocity. Thirty- six subjects (18 males and 18 females) were exposed to each of the three conditions for 4.5 h in a design balanced for order of presentation of conditions. During each exposure, they rated the physical environment, their comfort, the intensity of acute subclinical health symptoms, and their mental load, and they performed a number of cognitive tasks. Their physiological reactions were monitored. The subjects rated T24 to be comfortably cool, T26 to be comfortably neutral, and T28 to be comfortably warm. Their self-estimated performance did not differ between conditions but 12 of 14 objective metrics of cognitive performance decreased significantly at the elevated temperatures: compared with T24, their average cognitive performance decreased by 10% at T26 and by 6% at T28. At the elevated temperatures, their parasympathetic nervous system activity (as indicated by PNN50) and their arterial blood oxygen saturation level (SpO2) were both lower, which would be expected to result in reduced cognitive performance. The subjects also rated their acute subclinical health symptoms as more intense and their workload as higher at the elevated temperatures. These results suggest that where cognitive performance is the priority, it is wise to ensure a comfortably cool environment. The present study also supports the use of fans or natural ventilation to reduce the need for mechanical cooling.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1111/ina.12916 2129771:IZDK8FG8 4682641:CIQ8XNFD 4682641:M2MHIUAK
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT

Investigating the relation between electroencephalogram, thermal comfort, and cognitive performance in neutral to hot indoor environment - Lang, Xiaoyue; Wargocki, Pawel; Liu, Weiwei (Indoor Air, 2022)
The relation between electroencephalogram signals, thermal comfort, and cognitive performance in neutral to hot indoor environment was investigated. The experiments were carried out at four temperatures: 26ºC, 30ºC, 33ºC, and 37ºC, and two relative humidity levels: 50% and 70%. Thirty-two subjects were exposed for 175 min. The electroencephalogram signals were measured for 30 min 25 min after the onset of exposure while the recruited subjects performed neurobehavioral tests and rated their thermal comfort. The relative power of electroencephalogram signals has a significant correlation with thermal comfort and performance of neurobehavioral tests. The ratings of acceptability of thermal environment and thermal comfort, the speed, accuracy, and PI of completing the tests are negatively correlated with the relative power of δ-band, but positively correlated with θ-band, α-band, and β-band. The ratings of thermal sensation have a better correlation with the above four bands, but the correlation trend is opposite. A linear relation was found between electroencephalogram signals and the speed. The results showed that the relative power of P7 channel located in the occipital lobe is the most suitable as a single electroencephalogram channel to reflect joint thermal comfort and cognitive performance at high temperatures, especially its α-band.
_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ina.12941 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1111/ina.12941 2129771:9F3VADMF 4682641:4NSJKT5N
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; acceptability of thermal environment; cognitive performance; electroencephalogram; occipital lobe; thermal comfort; thermal sensation

Deploying artificial intelligence for climate change adaptation - Leal Filho, Walter; Wall, Tony; Mucova, Serafino Afonso Rui; Nagy, Gustavo J.; Balogun, Abdul-Lateef; Luetz, Johannes M.; Ng, Artie W.; Kovaleva, Marina; Azam, Fardous Mohammad Safiul; Alves, Fátima (Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022)
Publisher: Elsevier KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:JQ9G8AHZ 2129771:Q8HSB9ML 2129771:TTQJYJPB

The critical role of continuous professional development for teachers in Africa - Luneta, Kakoma (African Journal of Teacher Education and Development, 2022)

Beyond Data - Mantelero, Alessandro (Beyond Data: Human Rights, Ethical and Social Impact Assessment in AI, 2022)
In a technology context dominated by data-intensive AI systems, the consequences of data processing are no longer restricted to the well-known privacy and data protection issues but encompass prejudices against a broader array of fundamental rights. Moreover, the tension between the extensive use of these systems, on the one hand, and the growing demand for ethically and socially responsible data use on the other, reveals the lack of a framework that can fully address the societal issues raised by AI.
Keywords: AI; Data protection; Ethical Impact Assessment; Human rights; Privacy Impact Assessment; Risk-based approach; Self-determination; Social Impact Assessment

Beyond Data: Human Rights, Ethical and Social Impact Assessment in AI - Mantelero, Alessandro (T.M.C. Asser Press, 2022)
Keywords: AI Regulation; Artificial Intelligence; Data Protection; Ethics; Fundamental Rights; Human Rights; Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA); Impact Assessment; Open Access

Human Rights Impact Assessment and AI - Mantelero, Alessandro (Beyond Data: Human Rights, Ethical and Social Impact Assessment in AI, 2022)
The recent turn in the debate on AI regulation from ethics to law, the wide application of AI and the new challenges it poses in a variety of fields of human activities are urging legislators to find a paradigm of reference to assess the impacts of AI and to guide its development. This cannot only be done at a general level, on the basis of guiding principles and provisions, but the paradigm must be embedded into the development and deployment of each application. To this end, this chapter suggests a model for human rights impact assessment (HRIA) as part of the broader HRESIA model. This is a response to the lack of a formal methodology to facilitate an ex-ante approach based on a human-oriented design of AI. The result is a tool that can be easily used by entities involved in AI development from the outset in the design of new AI solutions and can follow the product/service throughout its lifecycle, providing specific, measurable and comparable evidence on potential impacts, their probability, extension, and severity, and facilitating comparison between possible alternative options.
Keywords: Data ethics; Democracy; Human Rights Impact Assessment; Human rights by design; Participation; Precautionary principle; Smart cities; Smart toys; Transparency

Open Issues and Conclusions - Mantelero, Alessandro (Beyond Data: Human Rights, Ethical and Social Impact Assessment in AI, 2022)
Having discussed in previous chapters the valuable contribution that an assessment model encompassing human rights, ethical and societal issues can provide to the development and regulation of AI, these concluding remarks address some of the challenges we face in implementing this approach in tangible reality. The focus on future global regulatory scenarios in the field of AI shows how the holistic HRESIA model, which includes the contextualisation of human rights and socio-ethical values in a given area, could be an effective answer for both the countries which have a human rights-based AI regulation and those who do not. In addition, holistic assessment and values-oriented design procedures can build trust in the development of AI, addressing the increasing public concern for invasive and pervasive AI applications, as well as the growing attention of policy makers to the side effects of AI use in the presence of concentration of power in digital services.
Keywords: AI regulation; Data protection; Digital ecosystems; Human rights; Risk assessment; Trust

Regulating AI - Mantelero, Alessandro (Beyond Data: Human Rights, Ethical and Social Impact Assessment in AI, 2022)
Although the debate on AI regulation is still fluid at a global level and the European initiatives are in their early stages, three possible approaches to grounding AI regulation on human rights are emerging. One option is a principles-based approach, comprising guiding principles derived from existing binding and non-binding international human rights instruments, which could provide a comprehensive framework for AI. A different approach focuses more narrowly on the impacts of AI on individual rights and their safeguarding through rights-based risk assessment. This is the path followed by the Council of Europe in its ongoing work on AI regulation. Finally, as outlined in the EU proposal, greater emphasis can be placed on managing high-risk applications by focusing on product safety and conformity assessment. Despite the differences between these three models, they all share a core concern with protecting human rights, recognised as a key issue in all of them. However, in these proposals for AI regulation, the emphasis on risk management is not accompanied by effective models for assessing the impact of AI on human rights. Analysis of the current debate therefore confirms that the HRESIA could not only be an effective response to human-rights oriented AI development that also encompasses societal values, but it could also bridge a gap in the current regulatory proposals.
Keywords: AI regulation; Ad hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAHAI); Artificial Intelligence Act; Co-regulation; Conformity assessment; Democracy; Technology assessment

The Social and Ethical Component in AI Systems Design and Management - Mantelero, Alessandro (Beyond Data: Human Rights, Ethical and Social Impact Assessment in AI, 2022)
The extensive and frequently severe impact of AI systems on society cannot be fully addressed by the human rights legal framework. Many issues involve community choices or individual autonomy requiring a contextual analysis focused on societal and ethical values. The social and ethical consequences of AI represent a complementary dimension, alongside that of human rights, that must be properly investigated in AI assessment, to capture the holistic dimension of the relationship between humans and machines. This assessment is more complicated than that of human rights, as it involves a variety of theoretical inputs on the underlying values, as well as a proliferation of guidelines. This requires a contextualised and, as far as possible, a participative analysis of the values of the community in which the AI solutions are expected to be implemented. Here the experts play a crucial role in detecting, contextualising and evaluating the AI solutions against existing ethical and social values. Ethics committees in scientific research, bioethics and clinical trials, as well as corporate AI ethics boards, can provide inputs for future AI expert committees within the HRESIA model. Based on the experience of these committees, the assessment cannot be entrusted entirely to experts, but it should also include a participatory dimension, which is essential to effective democratic decision-making process concerning AI.
Keywords: Clinical Ethics Committees; Clinical trials; Data ethics; Ethical values; Ethics boards; Ethics committee; Participation; Research Ethics Committees; Social values

Dimensions of digital literacy in the 21st century competency frameworks - Martínez-Bravo, María Cristina; Sádaba Chalezquer, Charo; Serrano-Puche, Javier (Sustainability, 2022)
Publisher: MDPI KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.3390/su14031867 2129771:FZCF772V

The impact of GIS-supported teacher allocation in Sierra Leone: High-level findings on teacher preferences in Sierra Leone - McBurnie, Chris; Godwin, Katie; Beoku-Betts, Iman (EdTech Hub, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.5281/zenodo.6504993 2129771:38B3CUIM
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

What Matters Most for Teacher Deployment? A case study of teacher preferences in Sierra Leone - McBurnie, Chris; Godwin, Katie; Beoku-Betts, Iman; Bernard-Jones, Lydia (EdTech Hub, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.53832/edtechhub.0095 2129771:IZ2H9WQW
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

When teachers are asked to deploy other teachers, we learn a lot about teacher preferences - McBurnie, Chris; Godwin, Katie; Bernard-Jones, Lydia (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:QJ86VAKD

Understanding Teacher School Choice Preferences: What Matters Most for Teacher Deployment in Sierra Leone? - McBurnie, Chris; Godwin, Katie; Haßler, Björn (2022)
This exploratory mixed-methods study investigates the factors that shape where teachers want to work in Sierra Leone. We identify five dominant factors: monetary incentives, school conditions, opportunities for professional development and support, school location, and relationships with the school and the community. Importantly, these factors combine to push and pull teachers to different locations. Moreover, the factors interact with individual teacher characteristics such as gender, family status, and experience to influence school choice preferences. This set of factors — and their interaction with certain teacher characteristics — continues to shape preferences as teachers move up the career ladder.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.5281/zenodo.6817992 2129771:7N48R3PH
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE; ⛔ No DOI found

The impact of GIS-supported teacher allocation in Sierra Leone: Inception Report - McBurnie, Chris; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.5281/zenodo.5896640 2129771:MUPACN2Q
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Youth Employment and Productivity: Medium-term Experimental Evidence from Rwanda - McIntosh, Craig; Zeitlin, Andrew (2022)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Digital trust: Why it matters for businesses | McKinsey - McKinsey (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:9F6SYMPJ
Keywords: Final_citation; existing

A review about COVID-19 in the MENA region: environmental concerns and machine learning applications - Meskher, Hicham; Belhaouari, Samir Brahim; Thakur, Amrit Kumar; Sathyamurthy, Ravishankar; Singh, Punit; Khelfaoui, Issam; Saidur, Rahman (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

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

How Sierra Leone is betting on data to fight the impact of climate change on schools - Momoh, A; Atherton, Paul (Global Partnership for Education, 2022)
Data can significantly improve decision-making and allow for prioritizing interventions to benefit the most vulnerable populations. That’s why the ministry of Education in Sierra Leone is working with Fab Inc. to develop a web-based data tool that helps estimate and prioritize where new schools are really needed.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:AT8FP8ZI 2405685:AVDJP4T3 4042040:AJHHQGBH
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Encouraging natural ventilation to improve indoor environmental conditions at schools. Case studies in the north of Spain before and during COVID - Monge-Barrio, Aurora; Bes-Rastrollo, Maira; Dorregaray-Oyaregui, Sara; González-Martínez, Purificación; Martin-Calvo, Nerea; López-Hernández, Dolores; Arriazu-Ramos, Ainhoa; Sánchez-Ostiz, Ana (Energy and Buildings, 2022)
Publisher: Elsevier KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111567 2129771:VV68XHRE 4682641:HVQK4BR6
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT

Mathematical knowledge for teaching in Africa 2014–2021: A review of literature - Mosvold, Reidar (African Journal of Teacher Education and Development, 2022)
Publisher: AOSIS

Education 2.0: A Vision for Educational Transformation in Egypt - Moustafa, Nariman; Elghamrawy, Ebtehal; King, Katherine; Hao, Yu (Claire); Hao, Yu (Education to Build Back Better: What Can We Learn from Education Reform for a Post-pandemic World, 2022)
Abstract This chapter presents a comprehensive description and analysis of Egypt’s Education 2.0 (EDU. 2.0) reform plan for grades K-2. The reform’s five key components are described including the new multidisciplinary curriculum, technology integration, school management Continuous Professional Development (CPD), access and infrastructure, and reformed assessment. We analyze this reform from five perspectives and conclude that a cultural shift, high-quality CPD, and a robust accountability system are imperative to sustainable educational reform in Egypt. This cannot be achieved without a shared vision and engagement between teachers, parents, and Egypt’s Education Ministry.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2486141:AQJ8FK3E 2486141:BHDTC79I 2486141:E5VU7PVJ 2486141:EPFVK6ZQ 2486141:PIL76ZYK
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

An integrated model for teacher continuing professional learning in Zimbabwean primary schools - Mtetwa, David KJ; Ndemo, Zakaria (African Journal of Teacher Education and Development, 2022)

Student Teachers School Experience in Zambia: Experiences and Challenges - Mulenga, Innocent Mutale; Bwalya, Katongo (East African Journal of Education and Social Sciences, 2022)

Civic education teaching resources and teacher preparedness for secondary school competency-based curriculum in Lusaka, Zambia - Mulenga, Innocent Mutale; Ng’andu, Moonga (East African Journal of Education and Social Sciences (EAJESS), 2022)

The application of artificial intelligence on different types of literature reviews-A comparative study - Müller, Henry; Pachnanda, Simran; Pahl, Felix; Rosenqvist, Christopher (2022 international conference on applied artificial intelligence (ICAPAI), 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 5440726:7LZBFT9U

Tanzania Weather & Climate - Natural habitat adventures (2022)
Tanzania has a generally comfortable climate year-round. Browse this month by month break down of weather and climate in Tanzania.
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Loans and scholarships in Africa’s higher education finance: a comparative analysis of capitation, policy and recoveries in eleven countries. - Nayame-Chirwa, Ireen; Masaiti, Gift; Mwale, Nelly; Mkandawire, Sitwe Benson; Mulenga, Innocent Mutale; Sichula, Noah Kenny (2022)
Publisher: British Journal of Education, 10 (16), 67-88
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

EdTech Evidence From Covid-19 Response: A thematic review of primary research from Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya, Pakistan and Sierra Leone - Nicolai, Susan; Jefferies, Kate; Lockhart, Ashley Stepanek (EdTech Hub, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:T6FMMLTA
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

EdTech Evidence From Covid-19 Response: A thematic review of primary research from Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya, Pakistan and Sierra Leone - Nicolai, Susan; Jefferies, Kate; Stepanek Lockhart, Ashley (EdTech Hub, 2022)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _r:AddedByZotZen

Teaching and learning of mathematics in the context of the National Numeracy Programme: Finding from a rapid in-depth qualitative study - Oliveira, Andre Correa de; Kanyoza, Charity; Boilo, Violet; Chidothi, Emmanuel; Kadzamira, Esme; Mpoola, Dorothy; McBurnie, Chris; Phiri, Magret; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2022)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; _forthcoming; _r:AddedByZotZen

Teaching Digital Ethics in Information Systems - Paltiel, Minna; Cheong, Marc; Coghlan, Simon; Lederman, Reeva (2022)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Girls’ education and climate change: A critical review of the literature - Pankhurst, Camilla (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:CBWZTHE2 5072953:H8GVVHIV
Keywords: selected_for:effects of climate ch...on learning...LMICs 2024

Development of special needs classroom prototypes to respond to the sensory needs of students with exceptionalities - Patel, Tina; Dorff, Juliann; Baker, Allison (Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research, 2022)
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited

Assessment of school Learning Continuity Plan (LCP) implementation: Basis for policy formulation - Peregrino, Lilia P.; Javillonar, Mark G.; Caballes, Dennis G.; Necio, Chona R.; Ramirez, Amor B. (Journal of Social, Humanity, and Education, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.35912/jshe.v2i3.967 2129771:XNHZ7GWK

Poor indoor climate: Its impact on health and life satisfaction, as well as its wider socio-economic costs - Phillips, William; Janta, Barbara; Gehrt, Daniel; Flemons, Lillian; Gkousis, Evangelos; Cole, Sam; Smith, Pamina; Hafner, Marco (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:GLCGM6ZP 4682641:NHR73DX9
Keywords: BE:Annotated; BE:RELEVANT

Blueprint for Inclusive Research & Development in Education: A Data-Driven Approach to Organize and Articulate Research Data Needs for Equitable Evaluation - Pratihast, Susmita; Mote, Erin (2022)
In the field of education, there is a gap between research and practice. Lack of data standardization and collection inhibits comparability and generalizability of findings in the context of population heterogeneity. Mapping of education research inquiries to local heterogeneous data representations from different repositories is expensive and creates barriers for content comprehensiveness in research. The paper focuses on design and usability of the Blueprint, an organizing data framework that summarizes key elements to represent education data needs to improve articulation of data needs and allow practitioners to be part of an inclusive research and development process in collaboration with the research community. The design process included an exhaustive landscape analysis of established data standards, conceptual frameworks in education domains as well as publicly available databases and indicators. This was supported by the analysis of current evidence and research base with the use of natural language processing techniques and topic modeling approaches. This methodology was used to validate and inform the inclusion of different elements in the Blueprint. A large stakeholder review process was adopted to further enhance and refine the Blueprint. With a generalizability score of 77% across multiple pilot studies, the paper focuses on the results of the pilot studies and demonstrates the real-world use cases for widespread applicability and scalability in the sector.
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Design for Scale - Principles of Digital Development (Principles for Digital Development, 2022)
Achieving scale requires adoption beyond an initiatives pilot population and often necessitates securing funding or partners that take the initiative to new communities or regions.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:KNYN657I
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Policies and interventions to remove gender-related barriers to girls' school participation and learning in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review of the evidence - Psaki, Stephanie; Haberland, Nicole; Mensch, Barbara; Woyczynski, Lauren; Chuang, Erica (Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2022)
Background Gender disparities in education continue to undermine girls' opportunities, despite enormous strides in recent years to improve primary enrolment and attainment for girls in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). At the regional, country and subnational levels gender gaps remain, with girls in many settings less likely to complete primary school, less likely to complete secondary, and often less likely to be literate than boys. The academic and policy literatures on the topic of gender-related barriers to girls' education are both extensive. However, there remain gaps in knowledge regarding which interventions are most likely to work in contexts with different combinations of barriers. Objectives This systematic review identified and assessed the strength of the evidence of interventions and exposures addressing gender-related barriers to schooling for girls in LMICs. Search Methods The AEA RCT Registry, Africa Bibliography, African Education Research Database, African Journals Online, DEC USAID, Dissertation Abstracts, EconLit, ELDIS, Evidence Hub, Global Index Medicus, IDEAS-Repec, Intl Clinical Trials Registry, NBER, OpenGrey, Open Knowledge Repository, POPLINE, PsychINFO, PubMed, Research for Development Outputs, ScienceDirect, Sociological Abstracts, Web of Science, as well as relevant organization websites were searched electronically in March and April of 2019. Further searches were conducted through review of bibliographies as well as through inquiries to authors of included studies, relevant researchers and relevant organizations, and completed in March 2020. Selection Criteria We included randomized controlled trials as well as quasi-experimental studies that used quantitative models that attempted to control for endogeneity. Manuscripts could be either published, peer-reviewed articles or grey literature such as working papers, reports and dissertations. Studies must have been published on or after 2000, employed an intervention or exposure that attempted to address a gender-related barrier to schooling, analyzed the effects of the intervention/exposure on at least one of our primary outcomes of interest, and utilized data from LMICs to be included. Data Collection and Analysis A team of reviewers was grouped into pairs to independently screen articles for relevance, extract data and assess risk of bias for each included study. A third reviewer assisted in resolving any disputes. Risk of bias was assessed either through the RoB 2 tool for experimental studies or the ROBINS-I tool for quasi-experimental studies. Due to the heterogeneity of study characteristics and reported outcome measures between studies, we applied the GRADE (Grading of Recommendation, Assessment, Development and Evaluation) approach adapted for situations where a meta-analysis is not possible to synthesize the research. Results Interventions rated as effective exist for three gender-related barriers: inability to afford tuition and fees, lack of adequate food, and insufficient academic support. Promising interventions exist for three gender-related barriers: inadequate school access, inability to afford school materials, and lack of water and sanitation. More research is needed for the remaining 12 gender-related barriers: lack of support for girls' education, child marriage and adolescent pregnancy, lack of information on returns to education/alternative roles for women, school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV), lack of safe spaces and social connections, inadequate sports programs for girls, inadequate health and childcare services, inadequate life skills, inadequate menstrual hygiene management (MHM), poor policy/legal environment, lack of teaching materials and supplies, and gender-insensitive school environment. We find substantial gaps in the evidence. Several gender-related barriers to girls' schooling are under-examined. For nine of these barriers we found fewer than 10 relevant evaluations, and for five of the barriers—child marriage and adolescent pregnancy, SRGBV, inadequate sports programs for girls, inadequate health and childcare services, and inadequate MHM—we found fewer than five relevant evaluations; thus, more research is needed to understand the most effective interventions to address many of those barriers. Also, nearly half of programs evaluated in the included studies were multi-component, and most evaluations were not designed to tease out the effects of individual components. As a result, even when interventions were effective overall, it is often difficult to identify how much, if any, of the impact is attributable to a given program component. The combination of components varies between studies, with few comparable interventions, further limiting our ability to identify packages of interventions that work well. Finally, the context-specific nature of these barriers—whether a barrier exists in a setting and how it manifests and operates—means that a program that is effective in one setting may not be effective in another. Authors' Conclusions While some effective and promising approaches exist to address gender-related barriers to education for girls, evidence gaps exist on more than half of our hypothesized gender-related barriers to education, including lack of support for girls' education, SRGBV, lack of safe spaces and social connections, inadequate life skills, and inadequate MHM, among others. In some cases, despite numerous studies examining interventions addressing a specific barrier, studies either did not disaggregate results by sex, or they were not designed to isolate the effects of each intervention component. Differences in context and in implementation, such as the number of program components, curricula content, and duration of interventions, also make it difficult to compare interventions to one another. Finally, few studies looked at pathways between interventions and education outcomes, so the reasons for differences in outcomes largely remain unclear.
_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/cl2.1207 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:3QB864LP 2129771:QGX3RJ8Q

Year long monitoring of indoor air quality and ventilation in school classrooms in Victoria, Australia - Rajagopalan, Priyadarsini; Andamon, Mary Myla; Woo, Jin (Architectural Science Review, 2022)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1080/00038628.2021.1988892 2129771:JYKTZFVU 4682641:7VMXIBCD
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT

MOLDOVA – DIGITAL EDUCATION READINESS ASSESSMENT 2021-22 - Rajasekaran, Subhashini; Casap, Lucia (World Bank Group, 2022)
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Keywords: Final_citation; anystyle; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

Kenya Digital Master Plan 2022-2032 - Republic of Kenya ICT Authority (2022)
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RTAC 4C3A Factsheet - Research Technical Assistance Center (Research Technical Assistance Center, 2022)
NORC at the University of Chicago KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:L8Z8J8W3

RTAC Communication Products - Research Technical Assistance Center (Research Technical Assistance Center, 2022)
NORC at the University of Chicago KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:FN9GPIAU

RTAC Plan - Research Technical Assistance Center (Research Technical Assistance Center, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:8BA9MTCQ 2129771:KLUU32K6
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

RTAC Stakeholder Analysis - Research Technical Assistance Center (Research Technical Assistance Center, 2022)
NORC at the University of Chicago KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:BAC2W33S

RTAC Toolkit: Troubleshooting Guide - Research Technical Assistance Center (Research Technical Assistance Center, 2022)
NORC at the University of Chicago KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:XAXC3LKA

DigComp 2.2: The Digital Competence Framework for Citizens - With new examples of knowledge, skills and attitudes - Riina, Vuorikari; Stefano, Kluzer; Yves, Punie (Publications Office of the European Union, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:IMTEZ37V 5242966:FUE6JI2S

Sustainability and science and technology teacher education: A review of the literature - Rocksén, Miranda; Vhurumuku, Elaosi; Svensson, Maria (Science and Technology Teacher Education in the Anthropocene, 2022)
To introduce the theme of this book, in this chapter, we report the results from a review of the pertinent research literature, from South Africa and Sweden, focusing on approaches to sustainable development in science and technology teacher education. The 25 studies, selected for content analysis, were categorised into six approaches: (1) studies with content-focus, (2) studies of interdisciplinary approaches, (3) approaches proposing significant changes in teaching practices, (4) approaches challenging educational paradigms, (5) approaches developing theoretical models and (6) approaches towards effective integration of sustainable development in curricula. Although papers from both countries agree that contemporary challenges emanating from unsustainable exploitation of the environment and earth's resources necessitate reorientation in science and technology teacher education, there are differences in the ways in which this is approached. In Sweden, the emphasis has been on understanding and developing teachers’ and learners’ sustainability competencies, while in South Africa, the major focus has been on developing teachers’ pedagogical practices and implementation of policies and curricula.
Num Pages: 20 KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:DCPXWJFL
Keywords: _genre:LR-literature_review

Marrakesh Treaty (MT) in Summary for Rwanda and its Organisations of Persons with Disabilities - Rwanda Union of the Blind (2022)

An Analysis of ResNet50 Model and RMSprop Optimizer for Education Platform Using an Intelligent Chatbot System - Saadna, Youness; Boudhir, Anouar Abdelhakim; Ben Ahmed, Mohamed (Networking, Intelligent Systems and Security, 2022)
A chatbot is a software (or machine) that has the ability to talks with a user: it is a virtual assistant that can answer a number of user questions, and providing the correct responses. In the last few years, the use of chatbots is very popular in various fields, such as health care, marketing, educational, supporting systems, cultural heritage, entertainment, and many others. This paper proposes an intelligent chatbot system that can give a response in the form of natural language or audio to a natural language question or image input in different domains of education and will support multiple languages (English, French, and Arabic). To realize this System, we used different deep learning architectures (CNN, LSTM, Transformers), computer vision, transfer learning to extract image features vector, and natural language processing techniques. In the end, after the implementation of the proposed model, a comparative study was conducted in order to prove the performance of this system using image-response model and question-response model using accuracy and BLEU score metrics.
Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Chatbot; Education

Indoor air quality and health in schools: A critical review for developing the roadmap for the future school environment - Sadrizadeh, Sasan; Yao, Runming; Yuan, Feng; Awbi, Hazim; Bahnfleth, William; Bi, Yang; Cao, Guangyu; Croitoru, Cristiana; De Dear, Richard; Haghighat, Fariborz; Kumar, Prashant; Malayeri, Mojtaba; et al. (Journal of Building Engineering, 2022)
Several research studies have ranked indoor pollution among the top environmental risks to public health in recent years. Good indoor air quality is an essential component of a healthy indoor environment and significantly affects human health and well-being. Poor air quality in such environments may cause respiratory disease for millions of pupils around the globe and, in the current pandemic-dominated era, require ever more urgent actions to tackle the burden of its impacts. The poor indoor quality in such environments could result from poor management, operation, maintenance, and cleaning. Pupils are a different segment of the population from adults in many ways, and they are more exposed to the poor indoor environment: They breathe in more air per unit weight and are more sensitive to heat/cold and moisture. Thus, their vulnerability is higher than adults, and poor conditions may affect proper development. However, a healthy learning environment can reduce the absence rate, improves test scores, and enhances pupil/teacher learning/teaching productivity. In this article, we analyzed recent literature on indoor air quality and health in schools, with the primary focus on ventilation, thermal comfort, productivity, and exposure risk. This study conducts a comprehensive review to summarizes the existing knowledge to highlight the latest research and solutions and proposes a roadmap for the future school environment. In conclusion, we summarize the critical limitations of the existing studies, reveal insights for future research directions, and propose a roadmap for further improvements in school air quality. More parameters and specific data should be obtained from in-site measurements to get a more in-depth understanding at contaminant characteristics. Meanwhile, site-specific strategies for different school locations, such as proximity to trans portation routes and industrial areas, should be developed to suit the characteristics of schools in different regions. The socio-economic consequences of health and performance effects on children in classrooms should be considered. There is a great need for more comprehensive studies with larger sample sizes to study on environmental health exposure, student performance, and indoor satisfaction. More complex mitigation measures should be evaluated by considering energy efficiency, IAQ and health effects.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.jobe.2022.104908 2129771:NTBFI4GF 5072953:SMX87LLQ
Keywords: _z:class:countries

Why schools shouldn't use Whatsapp - Safeguarding In Schools - Safeguarding In Schools (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:ADPGPPA8
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

An insight into cultural competence and ethics in K-12 artificial intelligence education - Sanusi, Ismaila Temitayo; Olaleye, Sunday Adewale (2022 IEEE global engineering education conference (EDUCON), 2022)

Meta‐analysis examining the effects of electronic storybooks on language and literacy outcomes for children in grades Pre‐K to grade 2 - Savva, Marilena; Higgins, Steve; Beckmann, Nadin (Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2022)
Background: The array of availability of diverse digital reading applications, the mixed results emerging from small-scale experimental studies, as well as the long-standing tradition and range of known positive developmental outcomes gained from adultchild storybook reading warrant an investigation into electronic storybooks (e-books) by performing a meta-analysis, which includes recent studies.
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1111/jcal.12623 2129771:JWLRZDEL 4820891:4ME8FHSQ 4820891:5SQ8T6XV 4820891:A9IVD7B8
Keywords: _Import_to_OpenDevEd_EvLib

Localización de la demanda insatisfecha de instituciones educativas. Una propuesta metodológica basada en sala de cuatro (4) años de nivel inicial en Argentina - Sendón, María Alejandra (2022)
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Remote sensing and AI for building climate adaptation applications - Sirmacek, Beril; Vinuesa, Ricardo (Results in Engineering, 2022)
Publisher: Elsevier KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:CIJ7A7WG 2129771:QZQCI2BK

Early Grade Reading in South Africa - Spaull, Nic; Pretorius, Elizabeth (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Early Grade Reading and Mathematics Interventions in South Africa - Interventions - Spaull, Nic; Taylor, Stephen (Oxford University Press, 2022)

What Is Web3? - Stackpole, Thomas (Harvard Business Review, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:DGML3FPT
Keywords: Final_citation; anystyle; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in early childhood education: Curriculum design and future directions - Su, Jiahong; Zhong, Yuchun (Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 2022)
Publisher: Elsevier
Keywords: ❓ Multiple DOI

Educando en multi-emergencias: Un estudio cualitativo sobre el bienestar en docentes nicaragüenses - , SUMMA (SUMMA - KIX LAC, 2022)

TPD@Scale Compendium. Foundation for Information Technology Education and Development. - TPD@Scale Coalition for the Global South (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:A9USXK2I

Covid-19 and disadvantage gaps in England 2021 - Tuckett, Sam; Hunt, Emily; Robinson, David; Cruikshanks, Robbie (2022)
The Education Policy Institute has published a major report, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, examining disadvantage gaps in England during 2021. The “disadvantage gap” – the gap in grades between disadvantaged students and their peers – is a leading measure…Read more Covid-19 and disadvantage gaps in England 2021 ›
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:A9CQ3PEA 2486141:ZFAGRPL6
Keywords: _Not used in LR

Flood Vulnerability Mapping and Prediction for Early Warning in Jigawa State, Northern Nigeria, Using Geospatial Techniques - Tudunwada, I.Y.; Abbas, A. (International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2022)

A Proof-of-Concept Study of Can't Wait to Learn: A Digital Game-Based Learning Program for Out-of-School Children in Lebanon - Turner, Jasmine S.; Taha, Karine; Ibrahim, Nisreen; Neijenhuijs, Koen I.; Hallak, Eyad; Radford, Kate; Stubbé-Alberts, Hester; de Hoop, Thomas; Jordans, Mark J. D.; Brown, Felicity L. (Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2022)
Evaluations of education technology (ed tech) interventions in humanitarian settings are scarce. We present a proof-of-concept study of Can’t Wait to Learn, a digital game-based learning program that combines an experiential, active learning design with meaningful, competency-appropriate, and contextually relevant content. We assessed the feasibility of using this program to address the current education gap in Lebanon by implementing its mathematics component in basic literacy and numeracy classes (n=30) with out-of-school children (N=390) ages 10-14. We estimated changes in numeracy competency and psychosocial wellbeing and conducted focus group discussions (n=16) and key informant interviews (n=19) with children, facilitators, parents, and partner staff members to understand the lived experience, perceived impact, and implementation challenges of the program. Our findings support the feasibility of using ed tech programs to meet the needs of out-of-school children, as we saw significant improvements in numeracy, psychological symptoms, and selfesteem; positive reported experiences with the program; increased motivation among the children; and overall ease of implementation. Our suggested improvements to the game design and implementation model will support ongoing program adaptation and implementation, with the goal of increasing access to quality education for children living in humanitarian settings. Our findings will inform future studies that seek to conclusively determine the program’s effectiveness.

Effect of Campus Built Environment on Students’ Sustainable Activities - Unah, M.O.; Ali, S.M.; Jaafar, G.A. (BIMA, Journal of Science and Technology, 2022)
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Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Artificial intelligence and digital transformation: competencies for civil servants - UNESCO (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:LAZEHLEV 5242966:SKP8E494

Pulse Check on Digital Learning - UNICEF (UNICEF, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:5W278JTU
Keywords: Final_citation

Pulse Check on Digital Learning - UNICEF (2022)
On Digital Learning
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:QILIXLDF
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

The 12 Transferable Skills from UNICEF’s Conceptual and Programmatic Framework - UNICEF (2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:X9XHJ863 2486141:IK64WM3A

Trends in digital personalized learning in low- and middle-income countries: Executive Summary - UNICEF (UNICEF, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:CETJJQB7 4426965:97VHCI3I

Assuring and improving quality public digital learning for all - United Nations (United Nations, 2022)
Publisher: United Nations KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:TVKZT89C
Keywords: Final_citation

World Population Prospects 2022 - United Nations (United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, 2022)
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 4804264:NKUD26V6
Keywords: Final_citation

A journal of the Environmental and Social Sciences - University, Bayero; Savanna, Kano Nigeria; Ali, S.M.; Martinson, D.B.; Al-Maiyah, S. (Savanna, 2022)
Place: Kano, Nigeria. BIMA Publisher: journal of Science and Technology KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:BSWM39XW 2129771:EWVN4H88 2129771:XISZKN6G
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Educational Technology Rapid Cycle Evaluations - USA Department of Eduction (Office of Educational Technology, 2022)
With more classrooms connected to high-speed Wi-Fi, it is imperative to create an evidence-based process to determine the effectiveness of technology apps used in the classroom. Why RCE? Rapid-Cycle tech evaluations are designed to assist school leaders in making evidence-based decisions regarding ed tech acquisitions. Traditional research approaches do not meet the needs of evaluating […]
KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 2129771:B2UW6JVK 4426965:C42WY8Z8

Occupants’ responses to window views, daylighting and lighting in buildings: A critical review - Vasquez, Natalia Giraldo; Rupp, Ricardo Forgiarini; Andersen, Rune Korsholm; Toftum, Jørn (Building and Environment, 2022)
Publisher: Elsevier KerkoCite.ItemAlsoKnownAs: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.109172 2129771:ACWLIE85 4682641:BBG374H3
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT