Bouncing forward: a resilience approach to dealing with COVID-19 and future systemic shocks - Hynes, William; Trump, Benjamin; Love, Patrick; Linkov, Igor (Environment Systems and Decisions, 2020)
Policy questions are often framed in popular discussion as situations where pulling the right levers will get the economy and society back on track after shocks and crises. This approach ignores how systems interact and how their systemic properties shape socioeconomic outcomes, leading to an over-emphasis on a limited set of characteristics, notably efficiency. We argue that this emphasis on efficiency in the operation, management and outcomes of various economic and social systems is not a conscious collective choice, but rather the response of the whole system to the incentives that individual components face. This has brought much of the world to rely upon complex, nested, and interconnected systems to deliver goods and services around the globe. While this approach has many benefits, the Covid-19 crisis shows how it has also reduced the resilience of key systems to shocks, and allowed failures to cascade from one system to others. This paper reviews the impact of COVID-19 on socioeconomic systems, discusses the notion of resilience, and provides specific recommendations on both integrating resilience analytics for recovery from the current crisis as well as on building resilient infrastructure to address future systemic challenges.
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Women Empowerment in Kano State from 1967-2017: An Assessment - I.A., Muhammad J.; Bala, I.; Musa, A.; Kano; Aisha Abdu-Ismail (Isa, M.A.,Kurawa, 1967)
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World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends for Women 2017 - I.L.O. (Essays on the Economics of Education'. International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie). 2016. "Impact Evaluation Repository." In. Islam, Asad. 2019. 'Parent–teacher meetings and student outcomes: Evidence from a developing country, 2017)
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Exploring Students' Perceptions of Academic Disengagement and Reengagement in a Dropout Recovery Charter School Setting - Iachini, Aidyn L.; Buettner, Cynthia; Anderson-Butcher, Dawn; Reno, Rebecca (Children & Schools, 2013)
Abstract. The purpose of this exploratory case study was to understand the academic disengagement and reengagement process from the perspective of students enro
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Causal Inference Without Balance Checking: Coarsened Exact Matching - Iacus, Stefano M.; King, Gary; Porro, Giuseppe (Political Analysis, 2012)
Keywords: CitedIn:eCubed; Done:ReferenceFixed; eCubed

The Future is Now: Transversal Skills in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 21st Century - IADB (Inter-American Development Bank, 2019)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

An evaluation of classroom-illumination: a critical requirement for effective designing and construction of naturally-illuminated schools in Nigeria - Ibhadode, Osagie; Ajayi, Oluseyi Olarenwaju; Abioye, Abiodun Ayodeji; Ismaila, Joseph; Adekunle, Adebayo Abidemi (Progress in Industrial Ecology, an International Journal, 2019)
Keywords: BE:Annotated; BE:RELEVANT; BE:light; ❓ Multiple DOI

Technology and Teacher Professional Development (TPD): the process and content of microlearning in a school-based integrated in-service teacher education (INSET) project - Ibn Junaid, Muhammad; Ogange, Betty; Allela, Melissa (2016)

Technology and Teacher Professional Development (TPD): the process and content of microlearning in a school-based integrated in-service teacher education (INSET) project - Ibn Junaid, Muhammad; Ogange, Betty; Allela, Melissa (2019)

Teaching and Learning Experiences in Medical Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College (KCMUCo), Tanzania - Ibrahim, Glory; Luzinge, Heavenlight; Kapanda, Gibson (Journal of Learning for Development, 2020)
Objective The purpose of this paper was to share teaching and learning experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and mandated university closure. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among all eligible students and faculty members using voluntary anonymous questionnaires.  To capture the attitudes and perceptions of respondents, five-point Likert scale questions were used. Results A total of 865 (58%) students and 57 (51%) faculty members participated in the survey. Uptake of e-learning platforms increased by 15.4% for students, 43.0% for faculty and by 22.3% in courses. The overall students’ strength of consensus measure of perception on accessibility of platforms was 65% and support entities 79%. About 70% of students owned a smartphone as a learning device. More than 67% of the students highlighted the cost of Internet bundles as a major challenge. Conclusion Shifting from blended learning to online learning during the lockdown was feasible given the pre-planned e-learning practices.
Keywords: COVID-19; blended learning; online learning; students and faculty experiences; ⛔ No DOI found

Perception, performance, and detectability of conversational artificial intelligence across 32 university courses - Ibrahim, Hazem; Liu, Fengyuan; Asim, Rohail; Battu, Balaraju; Benabderrahmane, Sidahmed; Alhafni, Bashar; Adnan, Wifag; Alhanai, Tuka; AlShebli, Bedoor; Baghdadi, Riyadh (Scientific Reports, 2023)
Keywords: ❓ Multiple DOI

Technical and vocational education and training in Uganda: A critical analysis - Ibrahim, Mike Okumu; School of Economics, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; Bbaale, Edward (Development Policy Review, 2019)
This article undertakes a diagnostic study of the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sub‐sector in Uganda, with a view to characterizing the sub‐sector and identifying its potential strengths and weakness. We undertook a cross‐sectional pre‐survey of purposively selected key stakeholders in the TVET sub‐sector. We selected performance indicators following their importance in influencing the TVET reform process. Both qualitative and quantitative data was solicited from the stakeholders. Quantitative data was collected through stakeholder‐specific structured questionnaires, whilst qualitative data was collected through desk review and field visits, individual focused interviews and focus group discussions. Our findings indicate that financing and planning constraints have resulted in poor quality equipment, under‐ and ill‐trained staff, limited adoption of a competence‐based education and training (CBET) curriculum, not to mention the supervision inadequacies of TVET institutions. Besides, the limited TVET sub‐sector interaction with the private sector has incapacitated TVET curriculum development to nurture skills demanded by the private sector. Furthermore, backward technology use in the private sector has equally inhibited the success of student attachment programmes. Finally, legal ambiguities have perpetuated a qualification jungle and overlapping curricula.

12. Profiling - ICO (UK) (2022)
Keywords: Final_citation; existing

Design Kit: The Human-Centered Design Toolkit - IDEO (2015)
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Design Thinking for Educators - IDEO (2013)
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Bar dissolution in prolate halos - Ideta, Makoto; Hozumi, Shunsuke (The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2000)
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Bar Dissolution in Prolate Halos (In: The Physics of Galaxy Formation) - Ideta, Makoto; Hozumi, Shunsuke (2001)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

The Scaling Playbook - IDRC (2019)
Keywords: Common good; Public interest; Scaling (Social sciences)

An assessment of employability skills among technical and vocational education students in Nigeria - Idris, A; Rajuddin, MR (Archives Des Science, 2012)
The research was conducted to investigate the level of importance as well as the competence among the students of technical and vocational education in terms of employability skills in Nigeria. There are 233 final year students that constituted the sample for the study in Kano State. The respondents were picked from mechanical, electronic, electrical installation and automobile departments in technical colleges in the state. The data was collected using questionnaire which was adapted from Employability skills for Australian small and medium sized enterprises. The analysis was done using descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation. The findings of the study showed that all the respondents perceived the employability skills components as high and rated their competency as low. A significant difference was found among the students in terms of their ages while no significant difference was found between the respondents in the area of competency. The study concludes that there is still an opportunity for technical and vocational institution in Nigeria to focus and redouble efforts towards equipping the students’ employability skills. Quality education and training enhances productivity, therefore, students of technical and vocational education in Nigeria need a better education that will help in accomplish the national goals.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Central Africa; A:West Africa; C:Nigeria; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:T; F:assessment; F:women; T:TVET; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Funding of Anti-Modern Slavery Interventions - Idris, Iffat (2017)
This review looks at the availability of funds to tackle modern slavery1 and human trafficking2, and the availability of data in this regard. It seeks to move beyond the findings of Martina Ucnikova’s 2014 paper, OECD and Modern Slavery: How much aid money is spent to tackle the issue?, and identify updated (post-2013) data on funding by governments as well as private sector and philanthropic organisations. The review found a very limited peer-reviewed academic literature in this regard and drew largely on reports by development organisations and think tanks (though these too were limited). The query called for a specific focus on LMICs, in particular 12 identified countries. However, most anti-modern slavery funding is directed globally and/or data is not disaggregated by country. This and time constraints meant it was not possible to address this aspect of the query.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Improving School Work in Challenging Context: Practitioners’ Views following a Participatory Action Research Project from Eritrea - Idris, Khalid Mohammed; Asfaha, Yonas Mesfun (Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE), 2019)
Keywords: _C:China CHN; _C:Eritrea ERI; _C:Ethiopia ETH; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Namibia NAM; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Saudi Arabia SAU; _C:Senegal SEN; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Sudan SDN; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:Zambia ZMB; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE) - Idris, Khalid Mohammed; Asfaha, Yonas Mesfun
Keywords: _C:China CHN; _C:Eritrea ERI; _C:Ethiopia ETH; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Namibia NAM; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Saudi Arabia SAU; _C:Senegal SEN; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Sudan SDN; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:Zambia ZMB; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

The acceptance of Tablet-PCs in classroom instruction: The teachers’ perspectives - Ifenthaler, Dirk; Schweinbenz, Volker (Computers in Human Behavior, 2013)

On Technology Integration: Perspective from Nigeria - Ifinedo, Eloho (JYU dissertations, 2019)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Botswana BWA; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Chile CHL; _C:China CHN; _C:Congo XCO; _C:Congo, Democratic Republic COD; _C:Egypt EGY; _C:Estonia EST; _C:Finland FIN; _C:France FRA; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:India IND; _C:Indonesia IDN; _C:Israel ISR; _C:Italy ITA; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Korea, Republic KOR; _C:Luxembourg LUX; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Mali MLI; _C:Mauritius MUS; _C:Mexico MEX; _C:Morocco MAR; _C:Mozambique MOZ; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Niger NER; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Russian Federation RUS; _C:Rwanda RWA; _C:Saudi Arabia SAU; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Thailand THA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United Arab Emirates ARE; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Viet Nam VNM; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Doctrine and Layers in Space: A Critique of Stephen Ajadi’s Design for the Anglican Church in Ogidi, Nigeria’ - Igwe, M.J. (Lagos Journal of Architecture, 2019)
Keywords: ⚠️ Invalid DOI

Escaping from the Resource Curse: Evidence from Botswana and the Rest of the World - Iimi, Atsushi (IMF Staff Papers, 2007)
It is commonly accepted that resource-rich economies tend to fail in accelerating growth because of various adverse effects of abundant natural resources, such as Dutch disease and rent seeking. Using the latest cross-country data, this study empirically readdresses the question of whether resource abundance can contribute to growth. It finds that governance determines the extent to which the growth effects of resource wealth can materialize. In developing countries in particular, the quality of regulation, such as the predictability of changes of regulations, and anticorruption policies, such as transparency and accountability in the public sector, are most important for effective natural resource management and growth. The paper also attempts to interpret the theme and results in the context of Botswana, which is endowed with abundant natural resources but has experienced the most remarkable economic performance in the region.

Dynamic content synchronization between learning management systems over limited bandwidth network - Ijtihadie, Royyana M.; Hidayanto, Bekti C.; Affandi, Achmad; Chisaki, Yoshifumi; Usagawa, Tsuyoshi (Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, 2012)
Well-designed instructional material is equally important for successful e-Learning implementation. Teachers and instructors play a major role in terms of designing and building learning content. In one respect, it requires costs in terms of effort, time and experience. In other respects, a good learning content is likely a result of recurring revisions as a result of teaching experience as well as evaluating student activities. In the case of higher educational institutions (HEI) in developing countries (such as Indonesia), resource sharing in many aspects is highly recommended effort against high cost and redundant works, e-Learning is no exception. Sharing and re-using e-Learning content on particular subject between Learning Management Systems (LMS) can be one of the methods. In addition, collaborative teaching may cause a content develops gradually while conducting content sharing. Thus, the capability of synchronizing the content between LMS is necessary. On the other hand, typical e-Learning implementation might not be appropriate due to the concerns of network infrastructure in developing countries. In some areas, the network has less bandwidth and even frequent disconnections. This paper introduces a novel method of sharing e-Learning content between distributed Learning Management Systems by using dynamic content synchronization. This method also suites the need of course sharing which supports collaborative teaching activity. Moreover, this approach is designed to address the needs of content sharing in areas with network infrastructure limitation in terms of bandwidth and availability.
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Math Curriculum - Illustrative Mathematics (Illustrative Mathematics K–12 Math)
Our math curriculum is a problem-based core curriculum designed to address content and practice standards to foster learning for all.

Resolution Concerning Updating the International Standard Classification of Occupations - ILO (2007)

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

Causal inference in statistics, social, and biomedical sciences - Imbens, G.W.; Rubin, D.B. (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

In-service Teachers' Sense of Agency after Participation in a Research Master Course - Impedovo, Maria Antonietta (International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Participating in an international master’s programme: impact on agency for African in-service teachers - Impedovo, Maria Antonietta; Ligorio, Maria Beatrice (Professional Development in Education, 2016)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Designing theoretically-informed implementation interventions - Improved Clinical Effectiveness through Behavioural Research Group (ICEBeRG) (Implementation science: IS, 2006)
Clinical and health services research is continually producing new findings that may contribute to effective and efficient patient care. However, the transfer of research findings into practice is unpredictable and can be a slow and haphazard process. Ideally, the choice of implementation strategies would be based upon evidence from randomised controlled trials or systematic reviews of a given implementation strategy. Unfortunately, reviews of implementation strategies consistently report effectiveness some, but not all of the time; possible causes of this variation are seldom reported or measured by the investigators in the original studies. Thus, any attempts to extrapolate from study settings to the real world are hampered by a lack of understanding of the effects of key elements of individuals, interventions, and the settings in which they were trialled. The explicit use of theory offers a way of addressing these issues and has a number of advantages, such as providing: a generalisable framework within which to represent the dimensions that implementation studies address, a process by which to inform the development and delivery of interventions, a guide when evaluating, and a way to allow for an exploration of potential causal mechanisms. However, the use of theory in designing implementation interventions is methodologically challenging for a number of reasons, including choosing between theories and faithfully translating theoretical constructs into interventions. The explicit use of theory offers potential advantages in terms of facilitating a better understanding of the generalisability and replicability of implementation interventions. However, this is a relatively unexplored methodological area.

Outcome Mapping: A Basic Introduction - in, Copyright © 2022 Research to Action All rights reserved Log (Research to Action, 2012)
Outcome mapping (OM) is a methodology for planning and assessing projects that aim to bring about ‘real’ and tangible change. It has been developed with...

"Sowing Seeds" and Its Efficiency. Case Study about the Tanoda Programme of the Greek Catholic Church in the Huszár District in Nyíregyháza (Hungary) - Inántsy Pap, Ágnes; Morvai, Laura (Acta Universitatis Sapientiae. Social Analysis, 2015)
The general laws of the school career of disadvantaged students have been studied by Hungarian researchers for decades (Kozma 1975, Papp 1997, Liskó 2002, Imre 2002ab, etc.). In Hungary, there are several remedial education programmes for the disadvantaged and talent development programmes for the gifted Many tanodas (special afternoon schools offering extra-curricular activities) were established in Hungary when the country's accession to the European Union brought about an increase in the number of grant opportunities. Scientific interest in the effectiveness of compensatory/ remedial education programmes, and thus tanodas, increased enormously (Lányi 2008, Krémer 2008, Fejes 2014, etc.). Our case study examines the operation of a church-run tanoda in one of the most disadvantaged regions of the country, in an area with Roma majority population in a county seat Local children from 12 elementary schools go to this institution, primarily for remedial education and talent development We conducted our research in the autumn of 2014 at the request of the Hungarian Institute for Educational Research and Development (OFI), as members of the CHERDHungary research group. Our findings are based on the content analysis of the operational documents of the Tanoda (Organizational and Operational Regulations, House Rules, Pedagogical Programme), the analysis of the interviews with the teachers at the Tanoda (English teacher, Hungarian language and literature teacher, identity development coach, personal development coach, teacher of self-knowledge-spiritual guide, and the professional supervisor), and on the data from a focus group interview with 9 children from the Tanoda . Everyone expressing their opinion about the operation of the Tanoda confirmed that the complex activities of the Tanoda do not only help children to catch up, avoid dropping out of school, and even form plans about further education, but they also provide spiritual, psychological, and mental support to the children The environment provided by the Tanoda enables students to realize their human dignity and shape their everyday life, relationships, and future.
Keywords: _Added to LR; _T:reviewed; ⛔ No DOI found

THE WRITING AND SUPERVISION OF BRIGHT ENGLISH TEXTBOOK DEVELOPMENT FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN INDONESIAN CONTEXT - Inayati, Nina; Abidasari, Erlyna; WS, Kharisma Naidi (Englisia: Journal of Language, Education, and Humanities, 2019)
Keywords: _C:Indonesia IDN; _C:United Kingdom GBR; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Teacher Deployment Algorithm - Inc, Fab; Hub, EdTech (Open Development & Education, 2023)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://opendeved.net/
Keywords: _comingsoon; _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence

Teacher Deployment Algorithm Training Presentation - Inc, Fab; Hub, EdTech (Open Development & Education, 2023)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://opendeved.net/
Keywords: _comingsoon; _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence

The Case of Non-formal Education Provisions in Namibia - Indabawa, SA (2000)
There are established and irrefutable evidences which show the symbiotic and dialectical links between education and development. (Aklilpelu,'90, Duke,'85;Obaiiewa.'84, Omolewa.'94;Indabawa,'94; and Sagcan.'97). Education can liberate and make human beings more completely human (Freire); it can empower especially the disadvantaged groups. It is also capable of being an instrument for the eradication of literacy, preventable diseases, social apathy, social immobility and can as well enhance the human potential for greater economic productivity and reduction of human social inequality, (Anipene,'80; Adiseshiah,'80;Duke,'83; and Indabawa,'91). Given this background. all investment in educational provisions, whether formal or nonformal. will be well justified. However, this is not to suggest that education on its own will be the only precondition for human development. Education too, has its own damaging consequences on society, especially if it is used as a vehicle for promoting less than the general good of society; or it turns out to be irelevant to the popular needs ( Ayandele,'74;Akinpelu,'97; Shirley,'96). The aim of this paper is to stimulate discussion of and interest in Nonformal Educational Provisions in the Republic of Namibia. In facilitating this, ttention will be paid to seven basic issues as follows: Country background, Concept of Nonformal Education. Policy context of nonformal education provisions; Diversity of provisions; relation to formal education; Relevance of programmes to beneficiaries and Impact.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:West Africa; C:Namibia; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:T; F:ministry; P:culture; Q:higher education; Q:open learning; T:TVET; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Gamification of student peer review in education: A systematic literature review - Indriasari, Theresia Devi; Luxton-Reilly, Andrew; Denny, Paul (Education and Information Technologies, 2020)
We present the first systematic review of the use of gamification in educational peer review activities. The goal of this work is to understand how gamification has been used to engage students in peer review activities and to summarize the empirical evidence for its effectiveness. Our main contribution is the presentation of a general model of the peer review process that captures the students’ activities and an examination of the specific actions within this model that have been gamified in the current literature. We also summarize the commonly used game mechanics and the context and year level of courses in which prior research has been conducted, along with the reported effects on student behavior. We find that artifact assessment and artifact creation are the two most commonly gamified actions with respect to our peer review model and that the quantity and quality of both the artifacts and the generated feedback are the most popular reward criteria. In addition, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) are the discipline areas in which gamified peer review activities are most often reported. In general, while the existing peer review literature reports mostly positive effects of gamification on student engagement, the range of student actions which have been incentivized remains narrow. Key activities, such as student reflection on the feedback received, have been largely unexplored with respect to gamification and thus present useful avenues for future work.
Keywords: _genre:LR-literature_review

Adafruit TPL5110 Low Power Timer Breakout - Industries, Adafruit
With some development boards, low power usage is an afterthought. Especially when price and usability is the main selling point. So what should you do when it's time to turn around and ...

Minimum Standards for Education: Preparedness, Response, Recovery - INEE (Interagency Network for Education in Emergencies, 2012)

Monitoring and Evaluation of ICT in Education Projects: A Handbook for Developing Countries. - InfoDev (The World Bank, 2005)

Infrapedia App - Infrapedia (Infrapedia, 2020)

Ghana RECOVR Survey Analysis - Innovations for Poverty Action (2020)

Legale Wege nach Europa. Arbeits- und Ausbildungsmöglichkeiten für Personen ohne Schutzperspektive - Institute Europe (2019)

Final Evaluation of the Project: Increasing Access, Retention and Performance in Primary Education: Implemented by Child to Child & the Pikin-To-Pikin Movement Kailahun District, Sierra Leone, 2011-2016 - Institute for Development
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Home - Institute for Future of Work - Institute for Future of Work
Keywords: Final_citation

ODL Embedded with Innovative Communication and Digital Media to Empower All Levels of Farm Sectors to be Smart Farmers - Intaratat, Kamolrat (Journal of Learning for Development, 2022)
This research shows how innovative communication and digital media could help empower any level of farm sector in Thailand and be embedded into ODL to serve their most effective demands.  Qualitative research was used via case-based studies among eight key farm leaders from four success farms with data mapping and an interview form. Content analysis was also used. Tangible results of how ODL embedded with innovative communication and digital media can empower all levels of farm sectors under “SDGs” is described. The main findings are “ODL embedded with Innovative communication and digital media must be: 1) undertaken for the right reasons; 2) sensitive to real demands and problems; 3) fit with the existing context such as existing infrastructure, i.e., farms and ICT; 4) best engaged among all stakeholders with all kinds of participatory processes; and 5) an appropriate design to fit with all farmers’ contexts, i.e., friendly relationships, pedagogical, administrative, and all kinds of participatory channels and opportunities.
Keywords: Innovative Communication & Digital Media; ODL; Smart Farmer Thailand; ⛔ No DOI found

Promising Practices in Teacher Professional Development - Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (Teachers in Crisis Context, 2022)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

INEE Guidance Notes on Teacher Compensation in Fragile States, Situations of Displacement and Post-Crisis Recovery - Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) (2009)
This Guidance Note provides a suggested framework for compensating teachers in fragile states, situations of displacement, and post-crisis recovery—situations where teachers are often underpaid or not paid at all. The note focuses on how to develop coordinating polices regarding teacher compensation, how to develop appropriate systems for managing the financial aspects of teacher payment, and how to provide complementary forms of teacher motivation and support to ensure teacher well-being. This document is intended for education program managers of education programme’s working in fragile states, situations of displacement and post-crisis recovery and education authorities within the government.
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans – TCPS 2 (2022) - Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics Government of Canada (2023)

IPCC-Climate-Trends-Fact-Sheet-for-Africa - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2023)

Reimagining our futures together: a new social contract for education - International Commission on the Futures of Education (UNESCO, 2021)
Keywords: Final_citation

School Mapping and Micro-planning in Primary Education (Tanzania) - International Development Center of Japan (2005)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Policy formulation and programme development - International Institute for Educational Planning (UNESCO, 2018)

Upgrading informal apprenticeship: a resource guide for Africa - International Labour Office (2012)

Sierra Leone: Economic Development Documents-National Development Plan, 2019-23 - International Monetary Fund (IMF, African Department, 2019)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

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

Sierra Leone : Economic Development Documents-National Development Plan, 2019-23 - International Monetary Fund. African Dept. (2019)
The Government of Sierra Leone’s new Medium-term National Development Plan (MTNDP) 2019–2023 has been founded on a strong political commitment to deliver devel-opment results that would improve the welfare of Sierra Leone’s citizens. The plan charts a clear path towards 2023 en route to the goal of achieving middle-income status by 2039 through inclusive growth that is sustainable and leaves no one behind. For the next five years, the Free Quality School Education Programme is the government’s flagship programme to provide a solid base to enhance human capital development and to facilitate the transformation of the economy.
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Library of the International Monetary Fund - International Monetary Fund; World Bank (Library Network)

Cost efficiency analysis: teacher professional development - International Rescue Committee (IRC) (2016)
This brief explores the relative costs of running these different professional development activities across nine programs in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Pakistan.
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Internet Penetration in Africa - Internet World Stats (Internet World Stats)

The Hartung-Knapp-Sidik-Jonkman method for random effects meta-analysis is straightforward and considerably outperforms the standard DerSimonian-Laird method - IntHout, Joanna; Ioannidis, John Pa; Borm, George F (BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2014)
Background: The DerSimonian and Laird approach (DL) is widely used for random effects meta-analysis, but this often results in inappropriate type I error rates. The method described by Hartung, Knapp, Sidik and Jonkman (HKSJ) is known to perform better when trials of similar size are combined. However evidence in realistic situations, where one trial might be much larger than the other trials, is lacking. We aimed to evaluate the relative performance of the DL and HKSJ methods when studies of different sizes are combined and to develop a simple method to convert DL results to HKSJ results. Methods: We evaluated the performance of the HKSJ versus DL approach in simulated meta-analyses of 2–20 trials with varying sample sizes and between-study heterogeneity, and allowing trials to have various sizes, e.g. 25% of the trials being 10-times larger than the smaller trials. We also compared the number of “positive” (statistically significant at p < 0.05) findings using empirical data of recent meta-analyses with > = 3 studies of interventions from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Results: The simulations showed that the HKSJ method consistently resulted in more adequate error rates than the DL method. When the significance level was 5%, the HKSJ error rates at most doubled, whereas for DL they could be over 30%. DL, and, far less so, HKSJ had more inflated error rates when the combined studies had unequal sizes and between-study heterogeneity. The empirical data from 689 meta-analyses showed that 25.1% of the significant findings for the DL method were non-significant with the HKSJ method. DL results can be easily converted into HKSJ results. Conclusions: Our simulations showed that the HKSJ method consistently results in more adequate error rates than the DL method, especially when the number of studies is small, and can easily be applied routinely in meta-analyses. Even with the HKSJ method, extra caution is needed when there are = <5 studies of very unequal sizes.

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

Exploring the use of Augmented Reality in a Kinesthetic Learning Application Integrated with an Intelligent Virtual Embodied Agent - Iqbal, Muhammad Zahid; Mangina, Eleni; Campbell, Abraham G. (IEEE, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Perspectives on Curriculum Design: Comparing the Spiral and the Network Models - Ireland, Jo; Mouthaan, Melissa (Research Matters, 2020)
Does one approach fit all when it comes to curriculum design? In debates on curriculum design, educators have argued that a curriculum model should take into account the differing knowledge structures of different subjects. Subjects such as maths and science are generally defined as well-structured knowledge domains, characterised by a linearity in learning objectives, and well-defined and predictable learning outcomes. Less structured subjects such as the arts and humanities could, however, benefit from models that encompass a different approach to learning. Two competing perspectives on curriculum design have emerged: the spiral model developed by Bruner in 1960, and non-linear models based on processes of learning in different knowledge domains. Research on curriculum design has tended to focus on the needs of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects. Many alternative models to the spiral have come from arts-based disciplines, in particular visual arts. This article contributes to the ongoing debate about curriculum design in different subjects. It details the key characteristics of Bruner's spiral model, and presents the main arguments made in favour of adopting flexible and non-linear curriculum models in specific subjects. We discuss a number of alternatives to the spiral model and analyse the relative strengths and weaknesses of these different approaches. The conclusion offers a discussion of implications of our findings for further research in curriculum design.
Keywords: Curriculum Design; Mathematics Education; Medical Education; Models; Music Education; Networks; Science Education; Sequential Approach; Spiral Curriculum; ⛔ No DOI found

Chapter 9: INVEST Africa - Isaacs, Shafika (Using ICTs and Blended Learning in Transforming TVET, 2017)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:Kenya; C:Zambia; CA:AandC; CLL:en; publicImportV1

A Map of Mkushi District Health Centres - Iseje, Fatuma (2023)
This map is an accurate map of the Health Centres coming under the Ministry of Health, Mkushi District. The health centre locations were collected an validated over a period of approximately two years (2022-23).
Keywords: _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence

Learning basic life support (BLS) with tablet PCs in reciprocal learning at school: Are videos superior to pictures? A randomized controlled trial - Iserbyt, Peter; Charlier, Nathalie; Mols, Liesbet (Resuscitation, 2014)

Attitude towards One-to-One Technology among Student Academic Achievement in Ninth Grade STEM Classes - Ishmael, Brenda Patterson (2020)
Keywords: _C:Austria AUT; _C:Greece GRC; _C:India IND; _C:Korea, Republic KOR; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Peru PER; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

The OECS Model of Integration in the Context of Caribbean Regionalism - Ishmael, Len (Membresía de CRIES/CRIES Members, 2002)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

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)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

The Moderating Effect of ICT Skills on Relationship Between HRM Practices and Teacher Educator Development in Bangladesh - Islam, Md Motaharul; Islam, Md Aminul
Keywords: _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:India IND; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Mauritius MUS; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:United States USA; _C:Viet Nam VNM; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Integration of Technology in Education for Marginalised Children in an Urban Slum of Dhaka City During the Covid-19 Pandemic - Islam, Touhidul; Hussain, Maria; Shimul, Shafiun Nahin; Rupok, Rifat Islam; Orthy, S. R. Khan (EdTech Hub, 2021)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Noise Levels in Malaysia Primary Schools: Are We Meeting the International Standards? - Ismail, Noraidah; Karim, Khairani
Noise is increasingly becoming a problem in schools and affects the audibility of speech. The effects of noise hamper learning opportunities for students. Noisy classrooms affect students’ academic performance and wellbeing. Studies have shown that children perform more poorly in noisy situations compared to adults. The current study was done to measure noise levels in classrooms in primary schools in Kuantan. A total of 31 classrooms from eight residential primary schools were selected as the place of study. The noise levels were measured using a sound level meter (SLM) in occupied and unoccupied conditions. On-site observations and checking were done and documented in each school and classroom. The results showed that the noise levels of occupied and unoccupied classrooms were higher than the values recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) which are 35 dB(A) and 55 dB(A) respectively. The findings showed that the measured noise levels in the classrooms were high enough that it might interfere with the effectiveness of teaching and learning among students and teachers. The source of noise was mainly from the students’ activities in the classes. The current study discusses a few possible suggestions to improve the classroom acoustics.
Keywords: BE:LMIC; BE:RELEVANT; ⛔ No DOI found

Employability Skills in TVET Curriculum in Nigeria Federal Universities of Technology - Ismail, Sarimah; Mohammed, Dahiru Sale (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015)
In the 21st century, employability skill is the most required skill besides technical knowledge in an attempt to compete for employment and sustain job at the industrial global market. However, Nigerian TVET graduates are not equipped with the employability skills needed by the industries and as a result, they are not ready to enter into workforce. This concept paper is written to discuss how the curriculum of one of TVET programmes at the Federal Universities of Technology in Nigeria, which is Electrical Technology Education has contributed to this issue. Analytical review on Electrical Technology Education programme curriculum showed that the curriculum gave less attention to practice based courses that provide skills of the programme than theory based courses and no course in the programme curriculum that directly teaches good attitudes and traits. As a result, there is lack of incorporation of employability skills such as Problem solving and decision making, Lifelong learning and Competencies amongst the graduates. Other issues discussed are the need of employability skills in TVET curriculum of Nigeria, employability skills, Electrical Technology Education in Nigeria, and the analysis of Electrical Technology Education curriculum in Nigeria The last part of this paper is recommendation for the curriculum of Electrical Technology Education to be designed with equal number of theory and practice courses by giving emphasize on all eleven generic skills, good traits and attitudes.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; Analysis; C:Nigeria; CC:Nigeria; CLL:en; Electrical Technology Education; curriculum; employability skills; integrations; needs; publicImportV1

Benefits of STEM Education - Ismail, Zenobia (2018)
The literature on STEM education in developing countries focuses on the challenges many young people face with regard to access to secondary and tertiary education in general as well as the gender gaps in STEM education. It therefore proposes strategies for overcoming these difficulties. Studies on STEM education usually adopt a regional focus such as Africa or Asia and therefore the reports amalgamate data from middle-income and low-income countries. There is some literature on the benefits of science and technology (as a sector) on economic growth or combating diseases such as HIV or malaria. The literature does not discuss the benefits of STEM education beyond the general view that STEM facilitates economic growth and competitiveness. Given that the literature does not address the query directly, the following approach is used in this rapid literature review: literature from developed and developing countries is used to discuss the rationale for STEM education and the key trends in this field. Statistics relating to the gender gap are presented and the impact of some programmes which aim to improve female participation in STEM in developing countries is discussed. Since much of the literature on STEM education mentions teacher training, this is discussed as a benefit of STEM education, together with meeting the demand for skills and innovations for secondary education. Case studies of STEM education projects in Rwanda, a low-income country which has prioritised education and undertaken several initiatives to improve STEM education, are used to highlight the benefits of STEM education.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Indicators and Methods for Assessing Entrepreneurship Training Programmes - Ismail, Zenobia (2018)
Entrepreneurship training programmes are an important component of demand side job creation strategies in developing countries (Fox and Kaul, 2017). Assessments of such programmes are constrained by variations in the programme content, as entrepreneurship training is often combined with grants, life-skills training, internships and mentorship. The targets of these programmes also vary and include vulnerable groups, subsistence entrepreneurs as well as firms which have greater potential for growth. The indicators of success should be adapted to suit the objectives and target group of the programme. Given the varied nature of entrepreneurship training programmes it is unsurprising that a range of indicators are used to assess them. The indicators can be grouped into three broad categories: indicators of business practices, indicators of business performance and psychological indicators. Income and profits are the most commonly used indicator (Cho & Honorati, 2014). Randomised control trials which compare treatment and control groups are the gold standard method for assessing entrepreneurship training programmes. However, the quality of these studies can be improved by having larger sample sizes, baseline assessments before the intervention and three to four follow-up assessments to assess the long-term success of the programme.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

The Impact of Entrepreneurship Training Programmes - Ismail, Zenobia (2018)
Entrepreneurship training programmes generally have a positive impact on existing and aspiring entrepreneurs, especially in terms of promoting better business practices. Programmes which provide training for entrepreneurs often include other interventions such as micro-finance, grants, internships or mentorship. The varied content of the programmes as well as differences in length and intensity undermines the extent to which such interventions can be compared. Consequently, it is difficult to reach a consensus regarding how effective entrepreneurship training programmes are. Entrepreneurship training programmes that combine training with finance have more impact on raising self-employment through start-ups as well as enhancing business performance and practices. Entrepreneurs are more likely to remain self-employed if they have access to a second capital grant
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Child Online Protection | ITU COP Guidelines - ITU (2020)
Keywords: Final_citation; anystyle; existing

Ministerial Roundtable - “Digitalizing daily life: government services and content driving digital transformation” – Part 1 - ITU Telecom World - ITU (2021)
Keywords: Final_citation

Digital storytelling and reflection in higher education: a case of pre-service student teachers and their lecturers at a university of technology - Ivala, Eunice; Gachago, Daniela; Condy, Janet; Chigona, Agnes (Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2014)
Employers in South Africa are calling for students graduating from higher education institutions (HEIs) to exhibit the capacity for reflection. However, many tertiary institutions fall short in allowing opportunities for reflection. As a result, HEIs are grappling to find ways of fostering reflection amongst their students. This paper argues that digital storytelling if implemented properly is one of the ways which can be used to help HEIs in this accomplishment. It documents results of production of digital stories by 29 final-year pre-service student teachers at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), South Africa, as part of their assessment in their professional development course. The study was informed by structuration theory and levels of reflection and cognitive processing to help the researchers understand the potential of digital storytelling in enhancing reflection. Qualitative methods of collecting data were utilized. Focus group interviews were conducted with the students and their facilitators to elicit whether production of digital stories led to reflection. Findings showed that the production of digital stories promoted the three levels of reflection and thus deep learning and higher-order thinking skills.
Keywords: Case Studies; Cognitive Processes; College Faculty; ERIC, Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Educational Technology; Focus Groups; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Personal Narratives; Postsecondary Education; Preservice Teachers; Professional Development; Qualitative Research; Reflection; Skill Development; South Africa; Story Telling; Teaching Methods; Technology Uses in Education; Video Technology; __:import:02; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2096367; __finaldtb

School Choice: Digital Prints and Network Analysis - Ivaniushina, Valeria; Williams, Elena (Springer International Publishing, 2018)
We apply social network analysis to examine school choice in the second-largest Russian city Saint-Petersburg. We use online data (“digital footprints”) of between-schools comparisons on a large school information resource shkola-spb.ru. This resource allows to identify clusters of city schools that have been compared to each other more often and thus reflect choice preferences of students and parents looking for a school. Network analysis is conducted in R (‘igraph’ package). For community detection, we employed fast-greedy clustering algorithm (Good et al. 2010). The resulting communities (school clusters) have been placed on a city map to identify territorial patterns formed according to choice preferences.Network analysis of the district school networks based on between-schools online comparisons reveals two main factors for community formation. The first factor is territorial proximity: users compare schools that are relatively close to each other and not separated by wide streets, parks, industrial areas, rivers, etc. The second grouping principle is the type of school: private schools always form a separate cluster which shows that they are not being compared with public schools. In one district there was also a cluster of elite or academically challenging public schools grouped together.
Keywords: Digital prints; Network analysis; School choice; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Russian Federation RUS; _C:Switzerland CHE; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

A review of anatomy education during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: Revisiting traditional and modern methods to achieve future innovation - Iwanaga, Joe; Loukas, Marios; Dumont, Aaron S.; Tubbs, R. Shane (Clinical Anatomy, 2021)
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had enormous effects on anatomy education. During the pandemic, students have had no access to cadavers, which has been the principal way to learn anatomy since the 17th century. As it is difficult to predict future access to cadavers for students or in-person classes, anatomy educators are encouraged to revisit all possible teaching methods in order to develop innovations. Here, we review anatomy education methods to apply to current and future education.
Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; _genre:LR-literature_review; anatomy education; cadaver; dissection; medical education; novel coronavirus; teaching; technology; virtual

Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET) Brief - Iyengar, R; Shin, HI; Aliyu, B; Menkiti, A (2014)
As Kaura Specialist Development Foundation (KSDF) explores various pathways to support Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET) for the youth in Bauchi state, Nigeria, this brief has been written to provide information on the current status of education and youth in Bauchi state, as well as to document relevant strategies and best practices utilized around the world for TVET. Positioned within the global framework, under Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the aim of this brief is to highlight prevalent trends cited in the TVET literature and global examples to support a design of an effective program for Bauchi state’s youth to develop their personal and professional skills to become an integral part of the workforce and engage in lifelong learning.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; C:Guinea; C:Mali; C:Mauritania; C:Nigeria; C:Senegal; CA:AandC; CL:de; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:T; F:access; F:gender; F:learning; P:economy; Q:distance learning; Q:mobile learning; T:Ausbildung; T:TVET; T:Training; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Improving learning by increasing motivation, targeting instruction, and addressing school governance - J-PAL (2013)
Keywords: CitedIn:eCubed; Done:ReferenceFixed; eCubed

Roll Call: Getting Children into School - J-PAL (2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Developing mobile digital skills in low- and middle-income countries - Jacobs, Lani (GSMA, 2021)

Evaluation of the vocational education orientation programme (VEOP) at a university in South Africa - Jacobs, L; Wet, C De (The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2013)
To address the training needs of Further Education and Training college (FETC) lecturers, and in the absence of a full professional education qualification, several higher education institutions, FETCs, and other bodies in South Africa formed an alliance to develop a short programme towards a possible future full qualification. In 2010 a Vocational Education Orientation Programme (VEOP) was piloted. In line with the responsibility for quality assurance, and the need to inform further developments in the training of FETC lecturers, the aim of this research was to evaluate the VEOP presented by the University of the Free State (UFS). To reach the stated aim, a two phase evaluative study was undertaken (1) to assess the individual modules, and (2) to holistically investigate the quality of the programme. Two questionnaires were used to gather data. The first set of data was collected at the completion of each of the six modules. For the second phase of the study, 48 lecturer-students were randomly selected more than a year after completion of the VEOP. The study identified a number of strengths and weaknesses of the VEOP. The results emphasise the need to carefully select tutors and train them to have an understanding of the FETC milieu, rethink the methodology employed in the education training of FETC lecturers, and redesign the modules’ contents to better reflect the FETC sector. The need to enhance student support and improve administration is also highlighted by the study. The results of the study may inform the development of a full qualification for FETC lecturers.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:South Africa; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:R; CT:T; F:learning; P:media; Q:distance education; Q:open education; Q:open learning; R:evaluation; T:Ausbildung; T:TVET; publicImportV1

Transactional sex in the wake of COVID-19: sexual and reproductive health and rights of the forcibly displaced - Jacobson, Lauren; Regan, Alexandra; Heidari, Shirin; Onyango, Monica Adhiambo (Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2020)
Keywords: COVID-19; forcibly displaced people; sexual and reproductive health; transactional sex

A review of research on bridging the gap between formal and informal learning with technology in primary school contexts - Jagušt, Tomislav; Botički, Ivica; So, H.-J. (Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2018)
Keywords: _C:China CHN; _C:Croatia HRV; _C:France FRA; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; literature / systematic review

Inclusion and Independence: The impact of Mobile Technology on the Lives of Persons with Disabilities in Kenya and Bangladesh - Jahan, Nusrat; Barbareschi, Giulia; Jan, Clara Aranda; Mutuku, Charles Musungu; Rahman, Naemur; Austin, Victoria; Holloway, Catherine (2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), 2020)
Globally, mobile technology plays a significant role connecting and supporting people with disabilities. However, there has been limited research focused on understanding the impact of mobile technology in the lives of persons with disabilities in low or middle- income countries. This paper presents the findings of a participatory photovoice study looking at the role that mobile phones play in the daily lives of 16 persons with disabilities in Kenya and Bangladesh. Participants used a combination of pictures and voice recordings to capture their own stories and illustrate the impact that mobile phone use has on their lives. Through thematic analysis, we categorized the benefits of mobile phones captured by participants as 1) Improved social connection; 2) Increased independence and 3) Access to opportunities. While mobile phones are ubiquitously used for communication, for persons with disabilities they become essential assistive technologies that bridge barriers to opportunities which are not accessible otherwise. Our paper adds evidence to the need for mobile phones for persons with disabilities to enable communication and connectivity in support of development.

Tablets im Schulunterricht in Skandinavien - Jahnke, Isa (Tablets in Schule und Unterricht, 2017)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Big Sisters - Jakiela, Pamela; Ozier, Owen; Fernald,, Lia; Knauer, Heather (2020)
We model household investments in young children when parents and older siblings share caregiving responsibilities and when investments by older siblings contribute to young children’s human capital accumulation. To test the predictions of our model, we estimate the impact of having one older sister (as opposed to one older brother) on early childhood development in a sample of rural Kenyan households with otherwise similar family structures. Older sibling gender is not related to household structure, subsequent birth spacing, or other observable characteristics, so we treat the presence of an older girl (as opposed to an older boy) as plausibly exogenous. Having an older sister rather than an older brother improves younger siblings’ vocabulary and fine motor skills by more than 0.1 standard deviations. Viewed through the lens of our model, the empirical pattern we observe suggests that: (i) older siblings’ investments in young children contribute to their human capital accumulation, and (ii) households perceive lower returns to investing in older girls than in older boys.

Systematic literature studies: database searches vs. backward snowballing - Jalali, S; Wohlin, C (2012)

Treatment Effects and the Measurement of Skills in a Prototypical Home Visiting Program. - James Heckman; Bei Liu; Mai Lu; Jin Zhou (Working Paper No. 13346, 2020)

UNESCO/CARICOM Webinar Series n° 1: Supporting teachers and education personnel to ensure continuity of learning: Supporting the preparation of teachers for distance education and reopening of schools - James, Freddy (SDG-Education 2030 Webinar Series for Latin America and the Caribbean: Leaving no one behind in times of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020)
Keywords: _Added to LR; _T:reviewed

Digital Interactions in Developing Countries: An Economic Perspective - James, Jeffrey (Routledge, 2013)
Jeffrey James is one of the relatively few academics to have systematically taken on the topic of IT and development. In this timely book he undertakes a methodological critique of prominent topics in the debate. Challenging the existing literature by international and governmental institutions, the book looks not only at the digital divide but also at issues such as digital preparedness, leapfrogging and low-cost computers. James also raises important issues which have been largely neglected in the literature, such as the implications for poverty in developing countries and the macroeconomics of mobile phones. The book argues that benefits from IT are captured in a different form in developing as opposed to developed countries. In the latter, gains come from technology ownership and use, whereas in the former, benefits cannot be captured as much in this way because ownership is more limited. Interestingly, the author shows that developing countries have responded to this distinction with a series of local innovations which are often low-cost and pro-poor. This finding contradicts the widely held view that poor countries are unable to generate major innovations within their own borders. Accessible and clearly written, this book will be of great interest to scholars of development economics and development studies, and is relevant to both policy-makers and academics.
Keywords: Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development; Business & Economics / Industries / Computers & Information Technology

Extending the Experience to Sub-Saharan Africa - James, Jeffrey (The Impact of Smart Feature Phones on Development: Internet, Literacy and Digital Skills, 2020)
The two previous chapters have been concerned with various aspects of a revolutionary new technology, that lies somewhere between a basic mobile phone and a relatively expensive smartphone. Before the advent of the new smart feature phone in India, users were required to buy smartphones in order to access the Internet. Now they are able to do so at a much lower cost. This chapter, however, deals with a different issue, namely, of whether and to what extent, the Indian experience can be replicated in other developing regions and Sub-Saharan Africa in particular. On the basis mainly of available data, I argue that the biggest obstacle to replication lies in affordability: in the price of handsets, data and incomes, Sub-Saharan Africa is at a disadvantage and with respect to device costs, a severe disadvantage. Other dimensions of replicability, however, were less clear-cut, partly because of a paucity of data. What is clear, though, is that associations between KaiOS Technologies and MTN and Orange have resulted in a strong African demand for mobile money through smart feature phones.
Keywords: India; Replication; Smart feature phones

The Smart Feature Phone Revolution in Developing Countries: Bringing the Internet to the Bottom of the Pyramid - James, Jeffrey (The Impact of Smart Feature Phones on Development: Internet, Literacy and Digital Skills, 2020)
Until recently, the only way for the population of developing countries to access the Internet was through expensive smartphones, designed in and for developed countries. In the past few years, however, a major new innovation has emerged, the smart feature phone with Internet connectivity, which was specifically designed for those with low incomes in developing countries. This chapter explains the development process for the smart feature phone, how this has influenced the nature and extent of adoption, and its use by low-income groups, including their demonstrated preference for uses related to entertainment rather than more traditional ‘work-related’ goals. The focus is on the case of India, where the JioPhone has already reached millions of people with low incomes.
Keywords: India; JioPhone; Mobile phone; Poverty; The Internet

The smart feature phone revolution in developing countries: Bringing the internet to the bottom of the pyramid - James, Jeffrey (The Information Society, 2020)
Until recently, the only way for the population of developing countries to access the Internet was through expensive smartphones, designed in and for developed countries. In the past few years, however, a major new innovation has emerged, the smart feature phone with Internet connectivity, which was specifically designed for those with low incomes in developing countries. This paper explains the development process for the smart feature phone, how this has influenced the nature and extent of adoption, and its use by lowincome groups, including their demonstrated preference for uses related to entertainment rather than more traditional “work-related” goals. The focus is on the case of India, where the JioPhone has already reached millions of people with low incomes.

Why Is India So Dominant in the Demand for New Smart Feature Phones That Are Internet Connected? - James, Jeffrey (New Perspectives on Current Development Policy: Covid-19, the Digital Divide, and State Internet Regulation, 2021)
In recent years, an innovation called the smart feature phone has brought the Internet to millions of poor people who would not otherwise have been able to go online. The purpose of this chapter is to show and explain why the new phones have spread most widely in India.
Keywords: Affordability; India; KaiOS technology; Multi-sequential model; Smart feature phones

Strategies and Approaches to Ensure Equitable Access to Quality Education in Economic Crises - James, Zoe (2018)
This helpdesk review has drawn primarily on evidence from systematic reviews and synthesis studies focused on (i) the impact of economic crises on education systems, and (ii) the effectiveness of strategies and approaches that aim to improve educational participation. It has focused on policy responses at the primary and secondary levels of education, and where possible has drawn on examples from effective responses in the context of large-scale economic crisis. Where evidence was not available from contexts of economic crisis, studies from resource-constrained low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) were considered. Economic crises pose particular challenges to the achievement of goals around equitable access to quality education. Falling household incomes can affect the ‘demand’ for schooling, increasing the cost of schooling, particularly for the poorest. Meanwhile, constrained government budgets can lead to reduced investments in schools and teachers, and associated declines in education quality (World Bank 2009). This review discusses five strategies and approaches to ensure equitable access to quality education, which have been identified as appropriate responses in literature on the impact of economic crisis on education (Lundberg and Wuermli 2012; Shafiq 2010; World Bank 2009). These are: (1) cash transfers; (2) scholarship programmes and fee waivers; (3) school feeding; (4) decentralisation and school grants; and (5) information-related activities. For all except ‘information-related activities’, there are examples of the effective implementation of that policy in contexts of economic crisis.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Teacher Motivation in Economic Crises - James, Zoe (2018)
This helpdesk review presents evidence of strategies and approaches that have worked to motivate teachers, with a focus on applications to contexts facing the sudden shock of economic crisis. It begins by presenting an overview of the ways in which economic crisis can impact education systems, drawing on recent relevant examples and presenting a detailed case study of Greece. It then moves on to review frameworks to understand teacher motivation, identifying the different factors that may be important in improving teacher motivation. Finally it presents evidence of strategies and approaches to improve teacher motivation. Evidence of strategies and approaches taken to explicitly improve teacher motivation in the context of the sudden shock of economic crisis is minimal. The examples of Greece, Indonesia, Venezuela, Argentina, Russia and beyond were consulted, and whilst there was some documentation of the impact of economic crisis in these contexts, there was very limited documentation of strategies and approaches taken to mitigate the effects of crisis on teachers. Evidence of strategies and approaches beyond financial incentives was also limited, even when considering a broader set of contexts. The focus of this review is therefore on strategies and approaches that have worked in resource-constrained LMIC contexts, whilst situating the discussion in the context of the ways in which economic crisis can (and has) impacted on education systems.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

The Effectiveness of School Grants in Low- and Middle-Income Contexts - James, Zoe; Joynes, Chris (2018)
This helpdesk review has drawn primarily on evidence from systematic reviews and synthesis studies focused on the effectiveness of school grants for the improvement of (i) equitable access to quality education, and (ii) the student learning outcomes. The rationale for school grants has emerged as part of relatively recent policy-driven practices for educational decentralisation and, within that, school-based decision-making. The devolution of a range of decisions to the school-level is assumed to improve accountability, efficiency and responsiveness to local needs (Bruns et al. 2011; Carr-Hill et al. 2016; Slater 2013). These decisions may include concerns related to curricula, finance, management and teachers, and may be taken at one or more administrative level (Bruns et al. 2011; Slater 2013). The literature identifies several key principles for effective implementation. This includes an acknowledgement of the range of challenges and barriers that are associated with the implementation of these type of models at the school level, including (i) the need for all actors to support the principles of decision-making reform; (ii) the need for local district support; and (iii) the reality that this type of reform places increased time and work demands on teachers and parents (Bruns et al. 2011). The review found that evidence of the effectiveness of school grant policies for equitable access to quality education was limited. Few studies provided rigorous examinations of the impact of school grants on equity of access across a range of measures, for example between rural/ urban locations, gender, or socio-economic status. The evidence base is relatively stronger in relation to the effectiveness of school grant policies for student learning outcomes, being suggestive of small but positive impacts. However, according to a 2016 synthesis study, these positive results are concentrated in middle-income countries, and stronger impacts tend to be found for wealthier students with more educated parents, with smaller effects found in disadvantaged communities (Carr-Hill et al. 2016; see also Hanushek et al. 2011; UNESCO 2017).
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Developing critical and theoretical approaches to educational technology research and practice - Jameson, Jill (British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

'Living Discourse': Critical Pedagogic Coaching for Active Student for Active Student Learning in Educational Technology - Jameson, Jill (Academic Conferences International Limited, 2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

‘Living Discourse’: Critical Pedagogic Coaching for Active Student Learning in Educational Technology - Jameson, Jill (Academic Conferences and publishing limited, 2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Improving Elementary Mathematics Education in Nicaragua: An Experimental Study of the Impact of Textbooks and Radio on Achievement. - Jamison, Dean T.; Searle, Barbara; Galda, Klaus; Heyneman, Stephen P. (Journal of Educational Psychology, 1981)

As by Fire: The End of the South African University - Jansen, Jonathan (Tafelberg, 2017)
What are the real roots of the student protests of 2015 and 2016? Is it actually about fees? Why did the protests turn violent? Where is the government while the buildings burn? Former Free State University vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen delves into the unprecedented disruption of universities that caught South Africa by surprise. In frank interviews with eleven of the VCs most affected, he examines the forces at work, why the protests escalate into chaos, and what is driving – and exasperating – our youth. This urgent and necessary book gives us an insider view of the crisis, tells us why the conflict will not go away and what it means for the future of our universities.

Decolonisation in Universities: The politics of knowledge - Jansen, Jonathan (NYU Press, 2019)
In this collection of case studies and stories from the field, South African scholars come together to trade stories on how to decolonise the universityShortly after the giant bronze statue of Cecil John Rhodes came down at the University of Cape Town, student protestors called for the decolonisation of universities. It was a word hardly heard in South Africa’s struggle lexicon and many asked: What exactly is decolonisation? This edited volume brings together the best minds in curriculum theory to address this important question. In the process, several critical questions are raised: Is decolonisation simply a slogan for addressing other pressing concerns on campuses and in society? What is the colonial legacy with respect to curriculum and can it be undone? How is the project of curriculum decolonisation similar to or different from the quest for postcolonial knowledge, indigenous knowledge or a critical theory of knowledge? What does decolonisation mean in a digital age where relationships between knowledge and power are shifting?The book combines strong conceptual analyses with novel case studies of attempts to ‘do decolonisation’ in settings as diverse as South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania and Mauritius. Such a comparative perspective enables reasonable judgements to be made about the prospects for institutional take-up within the curriculum of century-old universities.
Keywords: Political Science / History & Theory

Let’s face facts, the 2020 school year is lost. So what to do? - Jansen, Jonathan; Jansen, Jonathan (Times Select, 2020)
Covid-19 hasn’t caused the schooling crisis, it has just exposed how huge the inequalities in SA education are

Priorities and Interactions of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with Focus on Wetlands - Jaramillo, Fernando; Desormeaux, Amanda; Hedlund, Johanna; Jawitz, James W.; Clerici, Nicola; Piemontese, Luigi; Rodríguez-Rodriguez, Jenny Alexandra; Anaya, Jesús Adolfo; Blanco-Libreros, Juan F.; Borja, Sonia; Celi, Jorge; Chalov, Sergey; et al. (Water, 2019)
Wetlands are often vital physical and social components of a country’s natural capital, as well as providers of ecosystem services to local and national communities. We performed a network analysis to prioritize Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets for sustainable development in iconic wetlands and wetlandscapes around the world. The analysis was based on the information and perceptions on 45 wetlandscapes worldwide by 49 wetland researchers of the Global Wetland Ecohydrological Network (GWEN). We identified three 2030 Agenda targets of high priority across the wetlandscapes needed to achieve sustainable development: Target 6.3—“Improve water quality”; 2.4—“Sustainable food production”; and 12.2—“Sustainable management of resources”. Moreover, we found specific feedback mechanisms and synergies between SDG targets in the context of wetlands. The most consistent reinforcing interactions were the influence of Target 12.2 on 8.4—“Efficient resource consumption”; and that of Target 6.3 on 12.2. The wetlandscapes could be differentiated in four bundles of distinctive priority SDG-targets: “Basic human needs”, “Sustainable tourism”, “Environmental impact in urban wetlands”, and “Improving and conserving environment”. In general, we find that the SDG groups, targets, and interactions stress that maintaining good water quality and a “wise use” of wetlandscapes are vital to attaining sustainable development within these sensitive ecosystems.
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; SDGs; interactions; network analysis; priorities; sustainable development goals; wetlands; wetlandscapes

Water and Sanitation in Schools: A Systematic Review of the Health and Educational Outcomes - Jasper, Christian; Le, Thanh-Tam; Bartram, Jamie (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2012)

A child-to-child approach to improve literacy: Design of the Buddy Reading program - Jasti, C.; Jukes, M.C.; Dubeck, M.M.; Elliott; Inyega, H.N. (2016)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Impact of tablet PCs on learning outcomes in a classroom environment - Javed, Yasir; Samara, Khalid (International Journal of Learning Technology, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ❓ Multiple DOI

The International Handbook of Mathematics Teacher Education - Jaworski, B; Wood, T (Sense Publishers, 2008)

Themes and issues in inservice programmes - Jaworski, B; Wood, T (Mathematics Teacher Education: Critical International Perspectives, 1999)

Challenges in the Evaluation and Implementation of School-Based Prevention and Intervention Programs on Sensitive Topics - Jaycox, Lisa H.; McCaffrey, Daniel F.; Ocampo, Beverly Weidmer; Shelley, Gene A.; Blake, Susan M.; Peterson, Donna J.; Richmond, Lucinda S.; Kub, Joan E. (American Journal of Evaluation, 2006)
The current emphasis on best practices for school-based health and mental health programs brings with it the demand for evaluation efforts in schools. This article describes the challenges of launching a successful school program and evaluation, with lessons learned from three projects that focus on intimate partner violence. The authors discuss issues related to constraints on the research design in schools, the recruitment of schools and participants within schools, program and evaluation implementation issues, the iterative implementation-evaluation cycle, and the dissemination of programs and study findings. The authors emphasize the need for flexibility and cultural awareness during all stages of the process.

Understanding climate change with statistical downscaling and machine learning - Jebeile, Julie; Lam, Vincent; Räz, Tim (Synthese, 2021)

Whose fault is failure? Contested perspectives of academic support in tertiary educational institutions in South Africa - Jeffery, David; Johnson, David (Research in Comparative and International Education, 2019)
© The Author(s) 2019. This paper explores the argument that to widen participation in higher education, educational institutions should bear a greater responsibility for students’ learning. Central to this debate is the notion of ‘academic support’. There are many perspectives on what works to scaffold student participation and learning but rarely are the perspectives of those receiving support taken into account. This paper reports the findings of an exploratory ethnographic study in which students in a vocational college in South Africa reflected on the nature of academic support and access to it. Student narratives that underpin their understandings of how the support system ‘worked’, and what responsibilities they and the college respectively bore for their studies, are compared to the official prescript on student support services in South Africa – the so-called ‘Student Support Services Manual’ which was developed by the South African Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET). The data indicate sharp incongruences in thinking. While the student support services manual maintains that students are a product of their disadvantaged contexts and therefore require an institutional form of academic support, students themselves placed much less responsibility for the provision of academic support on the colleges. Instead, they attributed their success or failure to ‘character’ and their own dispositions towards learning. This is an unexpected finding in the context of an often highly charged debate on the factors that constrain learning and learning outcomes. This paper argues that it is this ‘locus of control’ that undermines the idea that student success is dependent on prescription alone.

The Mobile Gender Gap Report - Jeffrie, Nadia (GSMA, 2023)

Impact of Pandemic COVID-19 on Education in India - Jena, Pravat (International Journal of Current Research, 2020)
The impact of pandemic COVID-19 is observed in every sector around the world. The education sectors of India as well as world are badly affected by this. It has enforced the world wide lock down creating very bad effect on the students' life. Around 32 crore learners stopped to move schools/colleges, all educational activities halted in India. The outbreak of COVID-19 has advised us that change is inevitable. It has worked as a catalyst for the educational institutions to grow and opt for platforms and techniques, which have not been used before. The education sector has been fighting to survive the crises with a different approach and digitising the challenges to wash away the threat of the pandemic. This paper highlights some measures taken by Govt. of India to provide seamless education in the country. Both the positive and negative impacts of COVID-19 are discussed and some fruitful suggestions are pointed to carry out educational activities during the pandemic situation.
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⚠️ Invalid DOI

Sustainable Development in the OECS, an Antiguan and Barbudan case study. - Jenkins, Colin John (2014)

Textbook Broke: Textbook Affordability as a Social Justice Issue - Jenkins, J. Jacob; Sánchez, Luis A.; Schraedley, Megan A. K.; Hannans, Jaime; Navick, Nitzan; Young, Jade (Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020)
In light of rising textbook prices, open education resources (OER) have been shown to decrease non-tuition costs, while simultaneously increasing academic access, student performance, and time-to-graduation rates. Yet very little research to date has explored OER’s specific impact on those who are presumed to benefit most from this potential: historically underserved students. This reality has left a significant gap of understanding in the current body of literature, resulting in calls for more empirically-based examinations of OER through a social justice lens. For each of these reasons, this study explored the impact of OER and textbook pricing among racial/ethnic minority students, low-income students, and first-generation college students at a four-year Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) in Southern California. Drawing upon more than 700 undergraduate surveys, our univariate, bivariate and multivariate results revealed textbook costs to be a substantial barrier for the vast majority of students. However, those barriers were even more significant among historically underserved college students; thus, confirming textbook affordability as a redistributive justice issue, and positing OER as a potential avenue for realizing a more socially just college experience.
Keywords: Hispanic Serving Institution; OER; open education resources; redistributive justice; student equity

Forms of knowledge and modes of innovation - Jensen, Morten Berg; Johnson, Björn; Lorenz, Edward; Lundvall, Bengt-Åke; Lundvall, B. A. (The learning economy and the economics of hope, 2007)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

The (Perceived) Returns to Education and the Demand for Schooling. - Jensen, Robert (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2010)

Analysis of the ICILS 2018 Results by Korean Students' Educational Experience in Computer and Information Literacy and Computational Thinking - Jeon, Seongkyun; Son, Yoonhee; Park, Sangwook (The Journal of Korean association of computer education, 2020)
Keywords: Final_citation; ⛔ No DOI found

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

Implementation of learner support services in distance teacher education programmes in selected public colleges of education in Zambia - Jere, Getrude; ManchishI, Peter Chomba; Mulenga, Innocent Mutale (The Zambia Journal of Distance Education (Online ISSN 2789-052X), 2021)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

The Teacher Educators’ Knowledge of Learner Support Services in Distance Teacher Education Programmes in Selected Public Colleges of Education in Zambia - Jere, Getrude; Mulenga, Innocent Mutale; Manchishi, Peter Chomba (How Africa Has Turned Around, 2021)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Interconnectedness of Reward Dissatisfaction of Public Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Educators with Educator Turnover Intentions and Prolonged Tenure - Jeremiah, Andrew; Senior Lecturer - Human Resource Management Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), Windhoek, Namibia (2019)
Educator turnover intentions and prolonged tenure is a huge problem in Public TVET institutions in the Western Cape in South Africa. Educator turnover and prolonged tenure intentions is interconnected to educators ' dissatisfaction with rewards (intrinsic and extrinsic). Public TVET educators ' dissatisfaction with rewards result in increased turnover and lack of the desire to prolong tenure among educators. In 2006 educator turnover increased by 5.6%. Due to this problem the South African government was forced to replace about 20 000 educators annually in the education sector in all provinces. The major problem encountered by the government was that during this period of time, was that it was not producing enough teachers to fill in the gaps created increased educator turnover. As a result, high turnover experienced in educational institutions had a negative effect on the quality of service delivery. A structured self-administered Job Descriptive Index (JDI) questionnaire was utilized in collecting data. Data was processed using Software Package for Social Science (SPSS) Version 23. Results revealed that dissatisfaction with rewards (extrinsic and intrinsic) increased turnover and lack of a desire to prolong tenure among Public TVET educators in Public TVET institutions in the Western Cape. Recommendations were that Public TVET institutions needed to improve rewards (intrinsic and extrinsic) to manage increased turnover and lack of a desire by educators to prolong tenure. Therefore, it was recommended that Public TVET had to adopt the Total Rewards model invented by World at Work to manage the problem of increased Public TVET educator turnover.

Multimodality and Literacy in School Classrooms - Jewitt, Carey (Review of Research in Education, 2008)

A systematic review of conversational AI in language education: focusing on the collaboration with human teachers - Ji, Hyangeun; Han, Insook; Ko, Yujung (Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2023)
Keywords: _z:no_pdf

Voluntary participation and natural grouping with smartphones: an effective and practical approach to implement a quasi-experiment - Jia, Jiyou; Chen, Zhenzhen (International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation, 2020)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ❓ Multiple DOI

Recent Advances in Intelligent Textbooks for Better Learning - Jiang, Bo; Gu, Meijun; Du, Ying (AI in Learning: Designing the Future, 2023)
Intelligent textbooks are a new form of digital textbooks that provides students with intelligent learning services, such as automatic question answering, adaptive navigation support, automatic linking, and personalized recommendation. Educators are investing much effort into the conversion of their paper-based textbooks and digital textbooks into intelligent textbooks. This chapter provides a brief introduction to the development of intelligent textbooks and reviews major adaptive technologies and the usage of intelligent textbooks in the past decade. We first summarize the development of intelligent textbooks and the existing authoring platforms. Then, the key intelligent technologies used in the intelligent textbooks are reviewed, including domain modeling, student modeling, and instruction technologies. Moreover, the empirical studies conducted to evaluate intelligent textbooks are summarized. This chapter would promote understanding of the current state of the technology and platform development of intelligent textbooks.
Keywords: Adaptive learning systems; Intelligent textbooks; Intelligent tutoring system

Trustworthiness of Systematic Review Automation-An interview at Coventry University - Jiang, Xiaorui (medRxiv, 2023)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Mixing and Matching: Using Qualitative Methods to Improve Quantitative Impact Evaluations (IEs) and Systematic Reviews (SRs) of Development Outcomes - Jimenez, Emmanuel; Waddington, Hugh; Goel, Neeta; Prost, Audrey; Pullin, Andrew (CEDIL-Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning, 2018)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; 3ie; ___duplicate_item; publicImportV1

Mixing and matching: using qualitative methods to improve quantitative impact evaluations (IEs) and systematic reviews (SRs) of development outcomes - Jimenez, Emmanuel; Waddington, Hugh; Goel, Neeta; Prost, Audrey; Pullin, Andrew; White, Howard; Lahiri, Shaon; Narain, Anmol (Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2018)
Recent evaluations have begun to use qualitative data in a manner that helps improve the quality and relevance of studies through the inferences that are drawn from them, and their applicability to policy makers and programme implementers. This paper reviews this work and identiﬁes good practices to integrate qualitative methods into quantitative impact evaluations (IEs) and systematic reviews (SRs). Using recent literature on the characteristics of such practices, we developed two tools to assess the methodological rigour and mixed methods integration of 40 IEs and 7 SRs, drawing upon previous approaches. Our ﬁndings are that successful mixed methods quantitative impact evaluations: (1) provide a clear rationale for integration of methods; (2) deploy multidisciplinary teams; (3) provide adequate documentation; and (4) acknowledge limitations to the generalisability of qualitative and quantitative ﬁndings. Successful integration tended to improve mixed methods impact evaluations by collecting better data to inform the study design and ﬁndings, which helped contextualise quantitative ﬁndings. Our main observation on the integration of mixed methods in the systematic reviews is that mixed methods systematic reviews bringing together literatures that answer diﬀerent questions can go beyond the ‘sum of their parts’ to provide holistic answers about development eﬀectiveness. The ﬁndings of this study inform several recommendations to improve the conduct and reporting of mixed methods impact evaluations and systematic reviews.
Keywords: ___duplicate_item

Measuring digital literacy across three age cohorts: Exploring test dimensionality and performance differences - Jin, Kuan-Yu; Reichert, Frank; Cagasan Jr, Louie P.; de La Torre, Jimmy; Law, Nancy (Computers & Education, 2020)

Whatsapp chatbot - Jindal, Gaurang; Upadhyay, Dinesh; Jha, Ashish (EasyChair Preprint, 2020)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Thermal comfort and energy-saving potential in university classrooms during the heating season - Jing, Shenglan; Lei, Yonggang; Wang, Hongjian; Song, Chongfang; Yan, Xufeng (Energy and Buildings, 2019)
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT

Classifying settlement types from multi-scale spatial patterns of building footprints - Jochem, Warren C; Leasure, Douglas R; Pannell, Oliver; Chamberlain, Heather R; Jones, Patricia; Tatem, Andrew J (Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2020)
Urban settlements and urbanised populations continue to grow rapidly and much of this transition is occurring in less developed countries. Remote sensing techniques are now often applied to monitor urbanisation and changes in settlement patterns. In particular, increasing availability of very high resolution imagery (<1 m spatial resolution) and computing power is enabling complete sets of settlement data in the form of building footprints to be extracted from imagery. These settlement data provide information on the changes occurring in cities, particularly in countries which may lack other data on urbanisation. While spatially detailed, extracted building footprints typically lack other information that identify building types or can be used to differentiate intra-urban land uses or neighbourhood types. This work demonstrates an approach to classifying settlement types through multi-scale spatial patterns of urban morphology visible in building footprint data extracted from very high resolution imagery. The work uses a Gaussian mixture modelling approach to select and hierarchically merge components into clusters. The results are maps classifying settlement types on a high spatial resolution (100 m) grid. The approach is applied in Kaduna, Nigeria; Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo; and Maputo, Mozambique and demonstrates the potential of computational methods to take advantage of large spatial datasets and extract meaningful information to support monitoring of urban areas. The model-based approach produces a hierarchy of potential clustering solutions, and we suggest that this can be used in partnership with local knowledge of the context when creating settlement typologies.
Keywords: Urban morphology; classification; land use; spatial analysis; urban analytics

Tools for mapping multi-scale settlement patterns of building footprints: An introduction to the R package foot - Jochem, Warren C.; Tatem, Andrew J. (PLOS ONE, 2021)
Spatial datasets of building footprint polygons are becoming more widely available and accessible for many areas in the world. These datasets are important inputs for a range of different analyses, such as understanding the development of cities, identifying areas at risk of disasters, and mapping the distribution of populations. The growth of high spatial resolution imagery and computing power is enabling automated procedures to extract and map building footprints for whole countries. These advances are enabling coverage of building footprint datasets for low and middle income countries which might lack other data on urban land uses. While spatially detailed, many building footprints lack information on structure type, local zoning, or land use, limiting their application. However, morphology metrics can be used to describe characteristics of size, shape, spacing, orientation and patterns of the structures and extract additional information which can be correlated with different structure and settlement types or neighbourhoods. We introduce the foot package, a new set of open-source tools in a flexible R package for calculating morphology metrics for building footprints and summarising them in different spatial scales and spatial representations. In particular our tools can create gridded (or raster) representations of morphology summary metrics which have not been widely supported previously. We demonstrate the tools by creating gridded morphology metrics from all building footprints in England, Scotland and Wales, and then use those layers in an unsupervised cluster analysis to derive a pattern-based settlement typology. We compare our mapped settlement types with two existing settlement classifications. The results suggest that building patterns can help distinguish different urban and rural types. However, intra-urban differences were not well-predicted by building morphology alone. More broadly, though, this case study demonstrates the potential of mapping settlement patterns in the absence of a housing census or other urban planning data.
Keywords: Cities; Open data; Radii; Rural areas; Settlement patterns; Software tools; Urban areas; Urban environments

Measuring the Information Society Report 2018 - Johannes Bauer; Benavente, Daniela; Gillet, Josh; Helsper, Ellen; Van Deursen, Alexander (International Telecommunication Union, 2018)

InfoInternet for Education in the Global South: A Study of Applications Enabled by Free Information-only Internet Access in Technologically Disadvantaged Areas (authors' version) - Johansen, Johanna; Johansen, Christian; Noll, Josef (arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.09496, 2018)
Keywords: _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Congo, Democratic Republic COD; _C:Congo, Republic COG; _C:Finland FIN; _C:Germany DEU; _C:India IND; _C:Namibia NAM; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Peru PER; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Thailand THA; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Uruguay URY; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Open peer-review platform for COVID-19 preprints - Johansson, Michael A.; Saderi, Daniela (Nature, 2020)
Illustration of paper under a magnifying glass
Keywords: _genre:PR-primary_research

Essential Elements for Costed Implementation Plans - Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (2019)

The Automation of Management and Business Science - Johnson, C.D.; Bauer, BC; Niederman, F. (Academy of Management Perspectives, 2019)
Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024

A longitudinal study of learning, progression, and personal growth in Sierra Leone - Johnson, David; Hsieh, Jenny (University of Oxford, 2019)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

A longitudinal study of learning, progression, and personal growth in Sierra Leone: Final report - Johnson, David; Hsieh, Pei-Tseng Jenny (University of Oxford, 2019)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Implementing a one-to-one iPad program in a secondary school - Johnson, Donald P (UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA, 2014)

NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Library Edition - Johnson, L.; Adams Becker, S.; Estrada, V.; Freeman, A. (Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium, 2014)

The body in the mind: The bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason - Johnson, Mark (The body in the mind: The bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason, 1987)
"The Body in the Mind" explores the ways that meaning, understanding, and rationality arise from and are conditioned by the patterns of our bodily experience. In emphasizing the role of the body, Mark Johnson offers a corrective to dominant theories of meaning in Western philosophy, which have maintained a strictly abstract, propositional account of meaning detached from persons or experience. Expanding on his work with George Llakoff in the pathbreaking book "Metaphors We Live By," Johnson presents here an extended philosophical account, exposing the inadequacies of the objectivist philosophical tradition in its rigid separation of mind from body, cognition from emotion, and reason from imagination. He develops a constructive theory of the ways in which imagination links cognitive and bodily structures. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Body Image; Cognitive Processes; Imagination; Meaning; Reasoning; Theory Formulation

Reducing Inequality Through Dynamic Complementarity: Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending. - Johnson, R.C.; Jackson, C.K. (American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019)

Can cost-effectiveness analysis integrate concerns for equity? Systematic review - Johri, Mira; Norheim, Ole Frithjof (International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 2012)
Objectives: The aim of this study was to promote approaches to health technology assessment (HTA) that are both evidence-based and values-based. We conducted a systematic review of published studies describing formal methods to consider equity in the context of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA).Methods: Candidate studies were identified through an unrestricted search of the Pub Med and EMBASE databases. The search closed on January 20, 2011. We identified additional studies by consulting experts and checking article bibliographies. Two authors independently reviewed each candidate study to determine inclusion and extracted data from studies retained for review. In addition to documenting methods, data extraction identified implicit and explicit notions of fairness. Data were synthesized in narrative form. Study quality was not assessed.Results: Of the 695 candidate articles, 51 were retained for review. We identified three broad methods to facilitate quantitative consideration of equity concerns in economic evaluation: integration of distributional concerns through equity weights and social welfare functions, exploration of the opportunity costs of alternative policy options through mathematical programming, and multi-criteria decision analysis.Conclusions: Several viable techniques to integrate equity concerns within CEA now exist, ranging from descriptive approaches to the quantitative methods studied in this review. Two obstacles at the normative level have impeded their use in decision making to date: the multiplicity of concepts and values discussed under the rubric of equity, and the lack of a widely accepted normative source on which to ground controversial value choices. Clarification of equity concepts and attention to procedural fairness may strengthen use of these techniques in HTA decision making.
Keywords: Cost-benefit analysis; Health care; Quality-adjusted life-years; Resource allocation; equity; health priorities; rationing

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

Evaluating Constructivistic Learning - Jonassen, David H. (Educational Technology, 1991)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

How do we address the reproducibility crisis in artificial intelligence? Forbes - Jones, M. (2018)

Automating data extraction in systematic reviews: a systematic review - Jonnalagadda, Siddhartha R.; Goyal, Pawan; Huffman, Mark D. (Systematic Reviews, 2015)
Automation of the parts of systematic review process, specifically the data extraction step, may be an important strategy to reduce the time necessary to complete a systematic review. However, the state of the science of automatically extracting data elements from full texts has not been well described. This paper performs a systematic review of published and unpublished methods to automate data extraction for systematic reviews.
Keywords: Conditional Random Field; Data Element; PubMed Abstract; Support Vector Machine; Systematic Review Process; _Added-ailr-2024

Covid-19 School Closures in Low- and Middle-income Countries: Emergent Perspectives on the Role of Educational Technology - Jordan, Katy (Journal of Learning for Development, 2020)
The Covid-19 pandemic ushered in school closures at an unprecedented scale and prompted educational systems to find alternative teaching models at short notice. The role for educational technology in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has recently become the focus of much discussion. While prompted by the pandemic, the discussions surface latent issues in educational systems, and the perspectives and ambitions of organisations in relation to educational technology and LMICs. The influence of the discussions during this period is likely to extend beyond the initial crisis, and warrants investigation. This paper presents a thematic analysis, using a grounded theory approach, of documents published online between February and April 2020. Five themes emerge, in relation to access, responses, support from carers, teachers and communities, educational quality and the future.
Keywords: COVID-19; digital divide; education in emergencies. education systems; educational technology; ⛔ No DOI found

Reviewing the research literature in educational technology for development: Balancing rigour and inclusivity - Jordan, Katy (EdTech Hub, 2019)
Keywords: LP: English; R:Literature review, systematic review; _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _zenodoETH

Education during the COVID-19: crisis Opportunities and constraints of using EdTech in low-income countries - Jordan, Katy; David, Raluca; Phillips, Toby; Pellini, Arnaldo (Revista de Educación a Distancia (RED), 2021)
Keywords: Final_citation

Education during the COVID-19 crisis Opportunities and constraints of using EdTech in low-income countries - Jordan, Katy; David, Raluca; Phillips, Toby; Pellini, Arnaldo (Revista de Educación a Distancia (RED), 2021)
Keywords: _EdTechHub_Output

Messaging Apps, SMS, and Social Media: A Rapid Evidence Review - Jordan, Katy; Mitchell, Joel (EdTech Hub, 2020)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Gender differential effects of technical and vocational training: Empirical evidence for Tanzania - Joseph, Cornel; Leyaro, Vincent (CREDIT Research Paper, 2019)
This paper investigates the gender differential effect of technical and vocational educational and training (TVET) in Tanzania using data from the 2014 Integrated Labour Force Survey (ILFS). The multinomial logit model results for employment mobility show that TVET training significantly improves males as well as females chances of entering into formal employment while at the same reduces their probability of working in informal, agriculture or being unemployed. The effects are much higher for females relatively to males almost for all categories of education and training. The results further show that though the TVET training increases males as well as females earnings significantly, though the returns to TVET are substantially higher and statistically significant for females than males. The decomposed gender earnings gap using Oaxaca and Blinder (1973) decomposition technique reveal there is a significant gender earning gap in Tanzania, where males tends to earn significantly higher income by 58 percent than females. Clearly, two implications come out here: one, as TVET and general education increases the probability of females more than males to be in the formal employment, investing in girls skills training and education will address the problem of rising youth unemployment and formalize the economy. Two, as returns to TVET and general education is substantially high for females than males, investing in girls' skills skills training and education will address the problem of rising inequality and by extension the higher level of poverty rate in the country.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Reports from the Field: Primary School in Brazil Using Finnish Innovation Pedagogy to Create Meaningful Online Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Joshi, Marjo; Scheinin, Minna; Miranda, Luis; Piispa, Juliana (Journal of Learning for Development, 2020)
ISO Colegío in Paraiba, Brazil, implemented Finnish innovation pedagogy from Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) as a pedagogical strategy in their new primary school in early 2020. The implementation started in class teaching but due to the pandemic, it was transferred online, still using the new pedagogical approaches. Experiences by teachers and pupils have so far been mostly positive. Management has been satisfied with the overall success and plan to continue with innovation pedagogy as a strategy.
Keywords: Brazil; Finland; online learning; pedagogy; ⛔ No DOI found

Open Government Case Study: Costing Sierra Leone’s Open Data Program - Joswiak, Naomi (Results for Development, 2017)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE; ___working_potential_duplicate

Open Government Case Study: Costing Sierra Leone’s Open Data Program - Joswiak, Naomi (Results for Development, 2017)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE; ___working_potential_duplicate

Exploring the Perspectives of Participants of Two Mathematics Professional Development Courses in South Africa: Personal, Professional and Community Outcomes - Joubert M.; Kenny S. (African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2018)

Journal of Vocational, Adult and Continuing Education and Training - JOVACET

An Overview of Evidence Regarding the Impact of Impact Bonds as Innovative Financing Mechanisms for Education in Development Contexts - Joynes, Chris (2019)
This report provides a summary overview of the evidence regarding the impact of impact bonds (including Social Impact Bonds and Development Impact Bonds) in their application as innovative financing mechanisms for supporting education in development contexts. Within the education sector, impact bonds have emerged over the last 4-5 years as one innovative financing mechanism that uses private investment to support social development. From a developmental perspective, this emerging model encompasses two recent and clearly-defined global trends: firstly, an increased focus on programmes that deliver results and, secondly, an increased drive to support collaboration between the public and private sector (Innovative Financing Initiative 2014: v). Evidence suggests that there has been a significant growth in the application of impact bonds in a range of global settings, including for education in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). These mechanisms are seen to be particularly valuable when operating in complex, fluid contexts (REACH 2017), and, with appropriate design, can also contribute towards the development of wider systemic capacity.
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An Overview of Innovative Financing Mechanisms for Education in Development Contexts - Joynes, Chris (2019)
Traditionally, financing for social development in development settings has utilised bonds and guarantees. These mechanisms focused primarily on resource mobilization by leveraging the balance sheets of international finance institutions to make loans. However, since the mid-2000s, innovative financing has encouraged alternative models where private sector actors share the risks and rewards. This report reviews evidence on the use of Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) and Development Impact Bonds (DIBs) in India or other LMICs to deliver results in primary and secondary education. Evidence suggests that, in recent years, there has been a significant growth in the application of impact bonds in a range of global settings, including for education in LMICs. These mechanisms are seen to be particularly valuable when operating in complex, fluid contexts (REACH 2017), and, with appropriate design, can also contribute towards the development of wider systemic capacity.
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Approaches to Managing Public Sector Basic Education Systems for Delivery of School and Classroom-Focused Results - Joynes, Chris (2018)
This report provides a summary of global evidence on effective approaches to improving and reforming public sector basic education systems with a particular focus on delivery of school and classroom-focused results. In keeping with the request, the scope of the report focusses primarily on emerging practices associated with financial management, HR Management, and the use of data-gathering and evidence to inform decision-making at all levels of the system.
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Overview of emerging country-level response to providing educational continuity under COVID-19: What’s working? What isn’t? - Joynes, Chris; Gibbs, Emma; Sims, Kate (2020)
Keywords: COV:COVID and reopening of schools; LP: English; _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _cover:other:ok; _zenodoETH; ⛔ No DOI found

An Overview of ICT for Education of Refugees and IDPs - Joynes, Chris; James, Zoe (2018)
This rapid review examined examples of ICT approaches to address the education needs of those living in IDP and refugee camps and lessons learned from these experiences. Although ICT is considered a good system to fulfil the education needs within refugee settings, many studies conclude that access to ICTs in schools or at home is not sufficient to improve learning outcomes. It is due to the role of a mentor or tutor figure is seen as key to productive learner engagement with technology, and the effectiveness of ICT-based education is reliant on appropriate teacher training to ensure successful up-take at the classroom level (Tauson & Stannard 2018: 47, 62; UNESCO 2018: 74; Carlson 2013: 30). Secondly, in terms of content, ICTs for education should provide content that is responsive or adaptable to the learners’ level, is implemented in line with the local curriculum and also is relevant to the learners’ context (Tauson & Stannard 2018: 36-38, 61). Despite this potential for ICTs, there remains a broad lack of evidence related to education in refugee settings (Burde et al. 2015; Tauson & Stannard 2018; World Bank 2016). In particular, more information is needed on pedagogic design, on the effective use of ICTs for learning, on the role of ICTs in ensuring continuity of and linkages between learning in formal and non-formal settings, on the role of ICTs in educational data-gathering, and on the cost-effectiveness of ICT-led interventions (Burde et al 2015; Tausin & Stannard 2018; Carlson 2013). In light of the availability of evidence, some of the studies cited here instead supplement their findings by drawing on observational studies, and on studies on effective ICT usage from learners in non-refugee contexts (Burde et al. 2015; Tauson & Stannard 2018).
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The Systems Approach to Child Protection - Joynes, Chris; Mattingly, Jacqui (2018)
This purpose of this review is to identify the outcomes of taking a systems approach to child protection by basing on six days of desk-based research. There are four basic principles of design reflectedin the system-based approaches to child protection services in a development context. First, organising all systems components around a common goal or vision in order to provide the strategic direction for system implementation (Delaney et al. 2014: 13; Wulczyn et al. 2010: 2, 11). Second, defining the activities of each system on the basis of a specific set of functions, structures and capacities that interact and influence each other (Wulczyn et al 2010: 2, 12-13; Delaney et al. 2014: 13), while also establishing clear systemic boundaries, roles and responsibilities in order to ensure accountability and good governance (Delaney et al. 2014: 14). Third, involving a wide range of different actors as part of the system, including across and within sectors in horizontal and vertical networks (Delaney et al. 2014: 13; Wulczyn et al. 2010: 10). And fourth, ensuring that the shape, functions and actions of the system should always be grounded in the context in which it operates, and make sense to the communities who are the end users (Wulczyn et al. 2010: 2, 11). There is limited evidence of the impact of a systems approach to child protection in a development context. Across many contexts and national settings, the consensus is that the necessary legal and policy frameworks for child protection are in place at national level, but programme implementation and service delivery still lags far behind (Stuckenbruck 2018: 12). This review noted that there is a significant gap in the availability of evidence, making an assessment of the impact of a systems approach extremely difficult (Krueger et al. 2014; Krueger 2014: 30; Stuckenbruck 2018). Additionally, much of the research and monitoring and evaluation focuses on systems-development programmes delivered by international agencies, rather than on national state-led child protection systems. Within the time available, the review was only able to identify limited examples where overviews of child protection systems development inputs are accompanied by evidence of impact on child protection, rather than just outcomes in terms of targets associated with systems strengthening.
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Aid Agency Approaches to the Design and Delivery of Basic Education Programmes - Joynes, Chris; Plunkett, Roisin (2018)
This report provides a global selection of case studies providing evidence of approaches to the design of basic education interventions by aid agencies. In keeping with the request, the scope of the report focusses as far as possible on outcome-driven approaches, and includes an analysis of any evidence of programmatic responsiveness to need and context.
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21st Century Skills: Evidence of Issues in Definition, Demand and Delivery for Development Contexts - Joynes, Chris; Rossignoli, Serena; Amonoo-Kuofi, Esi Fenyiwa (2019)
The purpose of this study is to provide a summary of the evidence related to issues associated with the definition, demand, and delivery of 21st Century Skills, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In looking at definitions of ‘21st Century Skills’, Section 2 of this study finds that there is a broad range of available literature discussing 21st Century Skills, including a number of key synthesis studies. Within the examined literature, there is general agreement across the commentators on the need for new forms of learning to tackle global challenges. However, despite this consensus, there is no unique and single approach to the definition of ‘21st Century Skills’. In looking at the levels of demand for 21st Century Skills, evidence gathered in Section 3 suggests that the need for 21st Century Skills at the global level is dictated by a combination of factors including the change in societies resulting from the rapid spread of technology; increasing globalisation and internationalisation; and the shift from industrial social economies to information and knowledge-based social economies (Voogt & Roblin, 2010). Accordingly, evidence of demand at regional rather than the global level suggests a significant diversity in demand based on differences in developmental context. Findings presented in Section 4 suggest that approaches to the delivery of 21st Century Skills are currently impacted by ongoing discussions over the definition and understanding of 21st Century Skills (Care, Anderson & Kim, 2016). On this basis, while there is a broad range of documented interventions from around the world, many commentators conclude that it is currently little or no substantial evidence available on the most effective tools and approaches to delivering those skills. Section 5 concludes with a number of recommendations for proposed action in the development of regional and national programming for 21st Century Skills, and future research designed to strengthen the evidence base associated with levels of demand and approaches to the delivery of 21st Century Skills, particularly in LMICs.
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An Overview of ICT for Education of Refugees and IDPs​ - Joynes, D.; James, Z, (Department for International Development, 2018)

Book Review: Dede & Richards, Eds., The 60-Year Curriculum: New Models for Lifelong Learning in the Digital Economy - Jr, Don Olcott (Journal of Learning for Development, 2022)
Keywords: digital economy; lifelong learning; ⛔ No DOI found

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The impact of child-to-child reading on reading skills and motivation - Jukes, M.C.H.; Dubeck, M.M.; Adelman, E.; Sheppard, M.; Jasti, C.; Turner, E. (2016)
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Improving literacy instruction in Kenya through teacher professional development and text messages support: A cluster randomized trial - Jukes, M.C.H.; Turner, E.L.; Dubeck, M.M.; Halliday, K.E.; Inyega, H.N.; Wolf, S.; Brooker, S.J. (Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017)
We evaluated a program to improve literacy instruction on the Kenyan coast using training workshops, semiscripted lesson plans, and weekly text-message support for teachers to understand its impact on students’ literacy outcomes and on the classroom practices leading to those outcomes. The evaluation ran from the beginning of Grade 1 to the end of Grade 2 in 51 government primary schools chosen at random, with 50 schools acting as controls. The intervention had an impact on classroom practices with effect sizes from 0.57 to 1.15. There was more instruction with written text and more focus on letters and sounds. There was a positive impact on three of four primary measures of children’s literacy after two years, with effect sizes up to 0.64, and school dropout reduced from 5.3% to 2.1%. This approach to literacy instruction is sustainable, and affordable and a similar approach has subsequently been adopted nationally in Kenya.
Keywords: Africa; Classroom Observation Techniques; Dropout Rate; ERIC, Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Early Childhood Education; Effect Size; Elementary Education; Elementary School Students; Elementary School Teachers; Faculty Development; Foreign Countries; Grade 1; Grade 2; Handheld Devices; Improving Learning in Sub-Saharan Africa Using Rigorous Research Designs; Intelligence Tests; Intervention; Interviews; Kenya; Literacy Education; Maximum Likelihood Statistics; Pretests Posttests; Primary Education; Program Effectiveness; Promising Interventions Are Great, but Are They Enough?; Questionnaires; RCT; Randomized Controlled Trials; Raven Progressive Matrices; Rural Schools; Statistical Analysis; Teacher Improvement; Teaching Methods; Telecommunications; What We Are Learning About Early Education in Sub-Saharan Africa; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2096051; ___working_potential_duplicate; __finaldtb; early grade reading; literacy instruction

Improving literacy instruction in Kenya through teacher professional development and text messages support: a cluster randomized trial - Jukes, Matthew CH; Turner, Elizabeth L.; Dubeck, Margaret M.; Halliday, Katherine E.; Inyega, Hellen N.; Wolf, Sharon; Zuilkowski, Stephanie Simmons; Brooker, Simon J. (Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Rethinking education for the Caribbean: A radical approach - Jules, Didacus (Comparative Education, 2008)

Development of a Caricom strategic plan for primary and secondary education services in the Caricom single market and economy (CSME) - Jules, Didacus; Council, Caribbean Examinations (Retrieved October, 2010)
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Developing inclusive education policy and practice in Zanzibar : collaborative action research - Juma, Said (Jyväskylä studies in education, psychology and social research, 2018)
This doctoral dissertation, which consists of three interrelated sub-studies and an overarching summary, explores the inclusive education development process in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The purpose of the research is to contribute to the development of inclusive policies and practices in order to increase the presence, participation and achievement of all learners. The overarching research question investigated in this research was as follows: How is inclusive education developed in Zanzibar, and how can it be better integrated into the education system? This question was divided into six sub-questions. Each of the three interrelated sub-studies in this dissertation focused on specific sub-questions. The data included several documents related to inclusive education development; interviews conducted with 20 teachers from two primary schools; these teachers’ reflective diaries, which were kept during their action research projects, and the researcher’s reflective diary. The data were analysed using qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis. The findings revealed that Zanzibar has taken several measures to make its education system more inclusive. These measures include acknowledging inclusive education in its 2006 education policy, drafting an inclusive education policy, introducing a re-entry policy for school girls who become pregnant, increasing the number of years of compulsory education from 10 to 12, removing school fees for both primary and secondary schools, providing in-service teacher training for inclusive education, recruiting inclusive education and life skills advisors and resource teachers, and introducing inclusive education courses in teacher training colleges. It is also worth noting that the teachers in this research experienced collaborative action research as valuable in developing their inclusive practices, despite the challenges they encounter in the course of conducting their projects. Despite its advantages, collaborative action research demands additional time from the teachers beyond their teaching responsibilities. The research participants found the teacher resource centres to be key in enhancing their professional development. This research shows the need to review the teaching methods and materials used in schools. Reforms in teacher education curricula are also needed in response to increasingly diverse learning needs and educational changes. In addition, this research emphasises the integration of inclusive education and collaborative action research into teacher education so that all teachers can teach inclusively. Both school-based organisational learning and school–community and school–university collaborations can foster collaborative school cultures and inclusive teacher education.
Keywords: _C:Argentina ARG; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Botswana BWA; _C:Cambodia KHM; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Central African Republic CAF; _C:China CHN; _C:Finland FIN; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:India IND; _C:Ireland IRL; _C:Italy ITA; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Lesotho LSO; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Mexico MEX; _C:Mongolia MNG; _C:Namibia NAM; _C:Nepal NPL; _C:New Zealand NZL; _C:North Macedonia MKD; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Oman OMN; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Russian Federation RUS; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Spain ESP; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Thailand THA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Viet Nam VNM; _C:Zambia ZMB; _C:Zimbabwe ZWE; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Developing inclusive pre-service and in-service teacher education : Insights from Zanzibar primary school teachers - Juma, Said; Lehtomäki, Elina; Naukkarinen, Aimo (International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2017)
Developing inclusive teacher education to improve learning and schooling for all children is attracting increasing interest worldwide. This study examined teachers’ insights into the development of inclusive teacher education by drawing on collaborative action research conducted by 20 primary school teachers in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and self-reflective journals kept by the teachers and the first author. The qualitative thematic content analysis revealed: (1) the need to embed inclusive education and action research into pre-service and in-service teacher education curricula and (2) both school-based organisational learning and school–community and school–university collaborations may foster collaborative school cultures and inclusive inservice teacher education. The study discusses the role of teachers’ voices in informing teacher education development for educational equity and inclusion.
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Central African Republic CAF; _C:Finland FIN; _C:India IND; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Namibia NAM; _C:North Macedonia MKD; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Thailand THA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Zambia ZMB; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Technology and Teacher Professional Development (TPD): the process and content of microlearning in a school-based integrated in-service teacher education (INSET) project - Junaid, Muhammad Ibn; Ogange, Betty; Allela, Melissa (2016)

Allostatic Load Model Associated with Indoor Environmental Quality and Sick Building Syndrome among Office Workers - Jung, Chien-Cheng; Liang, Hsiu-Hao; Lee, Hui-Ling; Hsu, Nai-Yun; Su, Huey-Jen (PLoS ONE, 2014)

Geospatial mapping of access to timely essential surgery in sub-Saharan Africa - Juran, Sabrina; Broer, P. Niclas; Klug, Stefanie J.; Snow, Rachel C.; Okiro, Emelda A.; Ouma, Paul O.; Snow, Robert W.; Tatem, Andrew J.; Meara, John G.; Alegana, Victor A. (BMJ Global Health, 2018)
Introduction Despite an estimated one-third of the global burden of disease being surgical, only limited estimates of accessibility to surgical treatment in sub-Saharan Africa exist and these remain spatially undefined. Geographical metrics of access to major hospitals were estimated based on travel time. Estimates were then used to assess need for surgery at country level. Methods Major district and regional hospitals were assumed to have capability to perform bellwether procedures. Geographical locations of hospitals in relation to the population in the 47 sub-Saharan countries were combined with spatial ancillary data on roads, elevation, land use or land cover to estimate travel-time metrics of 30 min, 1 hour and 2 hours. Hospital catchment was defined as population residing in areas less than 2 hours of travel time to the next major hospital. Travel-time metrics were combined with fine-scale population maps to define burden of surgery at hospital catchment level. Results Overall, the majority of the population (92.5%) in sub-Saharan Africa reside in areas within 2 hours of a major hospital catchment defined based on spatially defined travel times. The burden of surgery in all-age population was 257.8 million to 294.7 million people and was highest in high-population density countries and lowest in sparsely populated or smaller countries. The estimated burden in children <15 years was 115.3 million to 131.8 million and had similar spatial distribution to the all-age pattern. Conclusion The study provides an assessment of accessibility and burden of surgical disease in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet given the optimistic assumption of adequare surgical capability of major hospitals, the true burden of surgical disease is expected to be much greater. In-depth health facility assessments are needed to define infrastructure, personnel and medicine supply for delivering timely and safe affordable surgery to further inform the analysis.

Combining innovation systems and global value chains for development: Towards a research agenda - Jurowetzki, Roman; Lema, Rasmus; Lundvall, Bengt-Åke (The European Journal of Development Research, 2018)

Enhancing self-reliant of students in technical and vocational skills through work-based learning for 4th industrial revolution; Review of Nigerian higher institutions - Jwasshaka, Shirka Kassam; Mohd Amin, Nor Fadila (International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, 2019)
© BEIESP. Journal writing is a common practice for pre-service teachers to reflect on their learning and teaching experiences about the course in the campus. Dewey (1933) believed that thinking is natural but that reflective habits of mind needed to be taught. This study aims to investigate the use of written journal to promote reflective thinking by the pre-service teachers. The case study was conducted among the twenty pre-service teachers who carried out a micro-teaching session in a childrens literature course. A content analysis was carried out on the reflective journals written by the pre-service teachers. The findings indicated that the pre-service teachers employed five strategies of reflective thinking such as identifying, associating, analysing, assessing and decision-making in their written journals. It is recommended for teacher education to establish learning and teaching environment and promote a shared practice among the peers that facilitate reflective thinking.
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Combined life cycle assessment and artificial intelligence for prediction of output energy and environmental impacts of sugarcane production - Kaab, Ali; Sharifi, Mohammad; Mobli, Hossein; Nabavi-Pelesaraei, Ashkan; Chau, Kwok-wing (Science of the Total Environment, 2019)

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)

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

Assessing pre-service English language teachers' learning using e-portfolios: benefits, challenges and competencies gained - Kabilan, Muhammad Kamarul; Khan, Mahbub Ahsan (Computers & Education, 2012)
Assessment in learning is always of interest to practitioners, academics and researchers, and is always evolving with new implications. Alternative forms of assessment such as e-portfolios have gained recognition in documenting students' learning, as it is synchronous with both product and process. Vast amount of literature narrates the relative advantages of e-portfolios across disciplines, institutions, and applications. In Malaysia, such alternative assessment practices are less explored so far in teacher education. In this study, 55 pre-service TESOL teachers from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) are required to create and maintain a personal e-portfolio. The aim of the study is to ascertain the future teachers' practices with e-portfolios in their learning and to determine if these practices lead to teaching competencies. In addition, the study also aims to identify the benefits and challenges of using an e-portfolio as a tool for learning and self-assessment. Findings indicate that participants are appreciative of e-portfolios, as their performance and achievements are traced over time. It is also found that e-portfolios function as a monitoring tool, which helps the teachers recognize their learning and identify their strengths and weaknesses. Challenges are also noted, which include validity and reliability, interrupted Internet connection, negative attitudes participants, time constraints, workload and ethical issues. In terms of teacher competencies, it is found that six competencies emerge from the teachers' practices of e-portfolios--(1) developing understanding of an effective teacher's role; (2) developing teaching approaches/activities; (3) improving linguistic abilities; (4) comprehending content knowledge; (5) gaining ICT skills and; (6) the realization of the need to change mindsets. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.)
Keywords: Academic Achievement; Alternative Assessment; ERIC, Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Electronic Publishing; English (Second Language); Ethics; Evaluation; Faculty Workload; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Information Technology; Internet; Language Teachers; Malaysia; Negative Attitudes; Portfolios (Background Materials); Preservice Teachers; Reliability; Teacher Competencies; Teacher Education; Teaching Methods; Validity; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2097613; __finaldtb