Gamification for climate change engagement: review of corpus and future agenda - Fernández Galeote, Daniel; Rajanen, Mikko; Rajanen, Dorina; Legaki, Nikoletta-Zampeta; Langley, David J; Hamari, Juho (Environmental Research Letters, 2021)
Abstract Both bottom-up and top-down initiatives are essential for addressing climate change effectively. These include initiatives aiming to achieve widespread behavioral change towards reduction of greenhouse gas emissions as well as pursuing education regarding adaptation measures. While awareness of the issue of climate change is now pervasive, and actions are being taken at all levels of society, there is still much to do if international goals are to be met. Games and gamification offer one approach to foster both behavioral change and education. In this paper, we investigate the state-of-the-art of game-based climate change engagement through a systematic literature review of 64 research outputs comprising 56 different gamified approaches. Our analysis of the literature reveals a trend of promising findings in this nascent and growing area of research, suggesting the potential to impact multiple engagement dimensions simultaneously, as well as create an engaging gameful experience. Overall, the corpus appears to offer a fruitful balance in foci between climate science, mitigation, and adaptation, as well as a variety of formats in game-based approaches (i.e. digital, analog, and hybrid). However, shortcomings were also observed, such as geographic and demographic imbalances and the short duration of interventions. The reviewed studies yield a large number of results indicating climate change engagement through gamification, especially in the form of cognitive engagement, affect towards climate change-related topics, and in-game behavioral engagement with others. Nevertheless, heterogeneity in terms of contexts, designs, outcomes, and methods, as well as limited rigor in research designs and reporting, hinders drawing overall conclusions. Based on our review, we provide guidelines regarding contexts, interventions, results, and research quality and internal validity for advancing the space of game-based interventions for climate change engagement.

Impact of Educational Technology on Teacher Stress and Anxiety: A Literature Review - Fernández-Batanero, José-María; Román-Graván, Pedro; Reyes-Rebollo, Miguel-María; Montenegro-Rueda, Marta (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021)
Educational technology has become an increasingly important element for improving the teaching and learning process of students. To achieve these goals, it is essential that teachers have the skills they need to be able to introduce technology into their teaching practice. However, this is often overwhelming and stressful for many of them. The aim of this review was to find out how research on teacher stress and anxiety associated with the use of educational technology was proceeding. A systematic review was conducted using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines through the following bibliographic databases: PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus. Sixteen articles were found from the review. The main findings show that teachers present high levels of anxiety or stress due to their use of educational technology in the classroom. Among the conclusions, the need for research on different strategies to prevent the emergence of these anxiety and stress symptoms in teachers stands out.
Keywords: Final_citation; anxiety disorders; anystyle; cited; educational technology; existing; mental health; review; teacher burnout

Knowledge mobilization plan - Ferguson, Nathan
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World Yearbook of Education 2014: Governing Knowledge: Comparison, Knowledge-Based Technologies and Expertise in the Regulation of Education - Fenwick, Tara; Mangez, Eric; Ozga, Jenny (Routledge, 2014)
This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on a major and highly significant development in the governing of education across the globe: the use of knowledge-based technologies as key policy sources. A combination of factors has produced this shift: first, the massive expansion of technological capacity signalled by the arrival of ‘big data’ that allows for the collection, circulation and processing of extensive system knowledge. The rise of data has been observed and discussed extensively, but its role in governing and the rise of comparison as a basis for action is now a determining practice in the field of education. Comparison provides the justification for ‘modernising’ policy in education, both in the developed and developing world, as national policy makers (selectively) seek templates of success from the high performers and demand solutions to apparent underperformance through the adoption of the policies favoured by the likes of Singapore, Finland and Korea. In parallel, the growth of particular forms of expertise: the rise and rise of educational consultancy, the growth of private (for profit) involvement in provision of educational goods and services and the increasing consolidation of networks of influence in the promotion of ‘best practice’ are affecting policy decisions. Through these developments, the nature of knowledge is altered, along with the relationship between knowledge and politics. Knowledge in this context is co-constructed: it is not disciplinary knowledge, but knowledge that emerges in the sharing of experience. This book provides a global snapshot of a changing educational world by giving detailed examples of a fundamental shift in the governing and practice of education learning by: • Assessing approaches to the changing nature of comparative knowledge and information • Tracking the translation and mobilisation of these knowledges in the governing of education/learning; • Identification of the key experts and knowledge producers/circulators/translators and analysis of how best to understand their influence; • Mapping of the global production of these knowledges in terms of their range and reach the interrelationships of actors and their effects in different national settings. Drawing on material from around the world, the book brings together scholars from different backgrounds who provide a tapestry of examples of the global production and national reception and mediation of these knowledges and who show how change enters different national spaces and consider their effects in different national settings.
Keywords: Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General; Education / General; Education / Higher

Education and Disability in the Global South: New Perspectives from Africa and Asia - Fennell, Shailaja (Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2020)

The learning circle experience: Findings from the P2PU participant survey - Fellows, Michelle (University of Washington Information School, 2018)

Cognitive Load and Classroom Teaching: The Double-Edged Sword of Automaticity - Feldon, David F. (Educational Psychologist, 2007)

The role of professional learning communities to support teacher development: A social practice theory perspective - Feldman, Jennifer (South African Journal of Education, 2020)

4. What are the effects of education on health? - Feinstein, Leon; Sabates, Ricardo; Anderson, Tashweka M; Sorhaindo, Annik; Hammond, Cathie (2006)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

A MODEL OF THE INTER-GENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS - Feinstein, Leon; Duckworth, Kathryn; Sabates, Ricardo
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: Passing Success Across the Generations - Feinstein, Leon; Duckworth, Kathryn; Sabates, Ricardo (Routledge, 2008)
Why it is that success, deprivation or disadvantage are so often passed down intergenerationally? What part does education play? The educational achievement of parents is often reflected in that of their children and there are many underlying causes for such a relationship. Education and the Family argues that government policy has an important role to play in addressing this inequality even though many of the causes lie within the home. Although each child should be supported to achieve his or her objectives, differences in the willingness or capabilities of families to take advantage of educational opportunities exacerbate social class differences and limit actual equality of opportunity for many. Understanding the causes of this transmission is key to tackling both social class inequality and to expanding the skill base of the economy. By providing an overview of academic and policy thinking in relation to the role of the family, this book explores the educational success of children. It focuses on the education of the parents but also considers how the family - compared to wider, external influences such as schools - is a driver of differences in educational outcomes. It concludes with a consideration of what policy-makers are attempting to do about this key issue and why, and how this will impact on schools and teachers. This book will interest researchers and academics in education and social policy, as well as teachers and other education and social policy practitioners.

Dietary patterns related to attainment in school: the importance of early eating patterns - Feinstein, L.; Sabates, R.; Sorhaindo, A.; Rogers, I.; Herrick, D.; Northstone, K.; Emmett, P. (Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 2008)
Objectives: To empirically test the impact of dietary intake at several time points in childhood on children’s school attainment and to investigate whether any differences in school attainment between children who ate packed lunches or school meals was due to who these children were, their pre-school dietary patterns, or to what they ate at school. Design: Using longitudinal data available in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), multivariate linear regression was used to assess the relative importance of diet at different ages for school attainment. Main outcome measures: Three indicators of school attainment were used: at ages 4–5 entry assessments to school, at ages 6–7 Key Stage 1 national tests and at ages 10–11 Key Stage 2 national tests. These outcome variables were measured in levels as well as in changes from the previous educational stage. Results: The key finding at age 3 was that “junk food” dietary pattern had a negative association with the level of school attainment. A weak association remained after controlling for the impact of other dietary patterns at age 3, dietary patterns at ages 4 and 7 and other confounding factors. The authors did not find evidence that eating packed lunches or eating school meals affected children’s attainment, once the impact of junk food dietary pattern at age 3 was accounted for in the model. Conclusions: Early eating patterns have implications for attainment that appear to persist over time, regardless of subsequent changes in diet.

From preparation to practice: Designing a continuum to strengthen and sustain teaching - Feiman-Nemser, Sharon (The Teachers College Record, 2001)

The global digital skills gap: Current trends and future directions - Feijao, Carolina; Flanagan, Isabel; Van Stolk, Christian; Gunashekar, Salil (Rand Corporation, 2021)
The overarching aim of the research was to carry out a scoping study to examine the evidence associated with various aspects of the current digital skills landscape, focusing on the digital skills gap. We sought to better understand whether and why the digital skills gap is widening, as well as its implications for digital and social inequalities, and what various stakeholders are doing in response.

The effectiveness of inputs in primary education: Insights from recent student surveys for sub-Saharan Africa - Fehrler, S.; Michaelowa, K.; Wechtler, A. (The Journal of Development Studies, 2009)

Challenges and burden of the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic for child and adolescent mental health: a narrative review to highlight clinical and research needs in the acute phase and the long return to normality - Fegert, Jörg M.; Vitiello, Benedetto; Plener, Paul L.; Clemens, Vera (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2020)
Background:  The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is profoundly affecting life around the globe. Isolation, contact restrictions and economic shutdown impose a complete change to the psychosocial environment in affected countries. These measures have the potential to threaten the mental health of children and adolescents significantly. Even though the current crisis can bring with it opportunities for personal growth and family cohesion, disadvantages may outweigh these benefits. Anxiety, lack of peer contact and reduced opportunities for stress regulation are main concerns. Another main threat is an increased risk for parental mental illness, domestic violence and child maltreatment. Especially for children and adolescents with special needs or disadvantages, such as disabilities, trauma experiences, already existing mental health problems, migrant background and low socioeconomic status, this may be a particularly challenging time. To maintain regular and emergency child and adolescent psychiatric treatment during the pandemic is a major challenge but is necessary for limiting long-term consequences for the mental health of children and adolescents. Urgent research questions comprise understanding the mental health effects of social distancing and economic pressure, identifying risk and resilience factors, and preventing long-term consequences, including—but not restricted to—child maltreatment. The efficacy of telepsychiatry is another highly relevant issue is to evaluate the efficacy of telehealth and perfect its applications to child and adolescent psychiatry. Conclusion:  There are numerous mental health threats associated with the current pandemic and subsequent restrictions. Child and adolescent psychiatrists must ensure continuity of care during all phases of the pandemic. COVID-19-associated mental health risks will disproportionately hit children and adolescents who are already disadvantaged and marginalized. Research is needed to assess the implications of policies enacted to contain the pandemic on mental health of children and adolescents, and to estimate the risk/benefit ratio of measures such as home schooling, in order to be better prepared for future developments.
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Large Learning Gains in Pockets of Extreme Poverty: Experimental Evidence from Guinea Bissau - Fazzio, Ila; Eble, Alex; Lumsdaine, Robin; Boone, Peter; Bouy, Baboucarr; Hsieh, Pei-Tseng Jenny; Jayanty, Chitra; Johnson, Simon; Silva, Ana Filipa (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020)
Children in many extremely poor, remote regions are growing up illiterate and innumerate despite high reported school enrollment ratios. Possible explanations for such poor outcomes include demand – for example, low perceived returns to education compared to opportunity cost; and supply – poor state provision and inability of parents to coordinate and finance better schooling. We conducted a cluster-randomized trial in rural Guinea Bissau to understand the effectiveness and cost of concerted supply-based interventions in such contexts. Our intervention created simple schools offering four years of education to primary-school aged children in lieu of the government. At endline, children receiving the intervention scored 58.1 percentage points better than controls on early grade reading and math tests, demonstrating that the intervention taught children to read and perform basic arithmetic, from a counterfactual condition of very high illiteracy. Our results provide evidence that particularly needy areas may require more concerted, dramatic interventions in education than those usually considered, but that such interventions hold great potential for increasing education levels among the world’s poorest people.

How Useful Are They? - Fawcett, Liz (2016)
Keywords: _C:Canada CAN; _C:Ireland IRL; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Nepal NPL; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

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

Examining the Practices and Challenges of Distance Education of PhD Candidates in the Context of COVID-19 - Fast, Olha; Semenog, Olena; Vovk, Myroslava; Buhaichuk, Nazar; Golya, Galyna (Journal of Learning for Development, 2022)
The distance education system is actively developing in the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The sharp transition of PhD candidates to distance education caused difficulties in organising the educational process. The aim of this study was to analyse the methods of distance education for postgraduate students in the context of a COVID-19 pandemic. A survey of graduate students was conducted through specially- designed and semi-standardised interviews of focus groups of producers and consumers of educational services. The study showed that the process of adaptation of postgraduate students majoring in Physical Culture and Sports and Biology was much more difficult than in the major Educational, Pedagogical Sciences and Philology. The reasons for the problems of distance education of PhD candidates included the complexity of creating educational and methodological materials for distance learning; lack of a centralised system of certification and accreditation of electronic courses; insufficient motivation of teachers; shortage of teachers who could competently develop distance learning courses in higher education. The study identified opportunities to implement promising areas of online learning in the system of training of academic and teaching staff: retraining of a large proportion of the teaching staff, implementation of a system approach to the development of the online environment of educational institutions, development of skills and abilities to use educational content. Prospects for further research include the study of problems of violation of academic integrity by postgraduate students in the course of distance learning.
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Distance Education/Learning; Health and Recreational Technologies; Online Learning Technologies; Training of PhD Candidates; ⛔ No DOI found

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

Using repeated visual exposure, rewards and modelling in a mobile application to increase vegetable acceptance in children - Farrow, Claire; Belcher, Esme; Coulthard, Helen; Thomas, Jason M.; Lumsden, Joanna; Hakobyan, Lilit; Haycraft, Emma (Appetite, 2019)
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A study of online English language teacher education programmes in distance education context in Pakistan - Farooq, Muhammad U.; Al Asmari, AbdulRahman; Javid, Choudhary Z. (English Language Teaching, 2012)
Technology-based initiatives have transformed the process of teaching and learning activities at formal institutions generally and distance education institutions particularly. Distance education is at the heart of the digital age making maximum use of the emerging technologies. Researchers have favoured computer mediated communications (CMC) for improving the quality of teacher education in developing countries by providing access to more and better educational resources. The researchers designed a CMC-ELT blended model and offered online English language teacher education courses at post-graduate level. A group of students enrolled in MA TEFL programme of Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) Islamabad Pakistan, was selected randomly and was guided through CMC-ELT blended model. The results of the study showed that the online support in distance education enhanced students' performance in terms of access, interaction and cost. The effective use of online support in distance education can improve the quality of English language teaching programmes in Pakistan.
Keywords: Access to Education; Blended Learning; Computer Mediated Communication; Control Groups; Costs; Distance Education; ERIC, Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Educational Quality; English (Second Language); Experimental Groups; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Language Teachers; Masters Programs; Online Courses; Open Universities; Pakistan; Postsecondary Education; Pretests Posttests; Program Improvement; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Statistical Analysis; Student Attitudes; Student Characteristics; Teacher Education Programs; Teaching Methods; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2096524; __finaldtb

An assessment of the implementation and enforcement of the Rights of children with disabilities in Uganda, a case study of Kampala district - Faridah, Nanyondo (2019)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

SemOpenAlex: The Scientific Landscape in 26 Billion RDF Triples - Färber, Michael; Lamprecht, David; Krause, Johan; Aung, Linn; Haase, Peter (2023)
Abstract We present SemOpenAlex , an extensive RDF knowledge graph that contains over 26 billion triples about scientific publications and their associated entities, such as authors, institutions, journals, and concepts. SemOpenAlex is licensed under CC0, providing free and open access to the data. We offer the data through multiple channels, including RDF dump files, a SPARQL endpoint, and as a data source in the Linked Open Data cloud, complete with resolvable URIs and links to other data sources. Moreover, we provide embeddings for knowledge graph entities using high-performance computing. SemOpenAlex enables a broad range of use-case scenarios, such as exploratory semantic search via our website, large-scale scientific impact quantification, and other forms of scholarly big data analytics within and across scientific disciplines. Additionally, it enables academic recommender systems, such as recommending collaborators, publications, and venues, including explainability capabilities. Finally, SemOpenAlex can serve for RDF query optimization benchmarks, creating scholarly knowledge-guided language models, and as a hub for semantic scientific publishing. Data and Services: https://semopenalex.org https://w3id.org/SemOpenAlex Code: https://github.com/metaphacts/semopenalex/ Data License: Creative Commons Zero (CC0) Code License: MIT License

The wretched of the earth - Fanon, Frantz (MacGibbon & Kee, 1961)
Keywords: Africa; Algeria; DEVELOPING countries; History; Imperialism; National liberation movements; Politics and government; Politics and governments; Revolution, 1954-1962

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

Teaching in Distress An assessment of the impact of protracted violence due to insurgence on the Primary School teaching workforce in Borno State - Famuyiwa-Alaka, Motunrayo; Powell, Matthew; Akogun, Oladele B; Musa, Hadiza; Mohammed, Abba Jimme; Njobi.2018, Sani

Exploring young students’ talk in iPad-supported collaborative learning environments - Falloon, Garry; Khoo, Elaine (Computers & Education, 2014)

iPads in the Primary School: Emerging Research - Falloon, Garry (ACEC 2014, 2014)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Promoting teachers’ implementation of culturally and contextually relevant class-wide behavior plans - Fallon, Lindsay M.; Cathcart, Sadie C.; DeFouw, Emily R.; O'Keeffe, Breda V.; Sugai, George (Psychology in the Schools, 2018)
Disproportionality in disciplinary actions for certain racial groups has been well documented for several decades. In an effort to support all students, specifically those who are culturally and linguistically diverse, many have called for adopting a multitiered system of support framework that is considerate of student culture and school context. This framework applies to supporting students’ learning and behavior across settings, particularly in the classroom. To bridge existing gaps between theory and practice, this empirical study sought to evaluate whether teachers who self-assessed their own use of culturally and contextually relevant practices would implement a class-wide behavior plan with high levels of implementation fidelity. Results indicated that teachers who engaged in self-assessment and training did implement the plan with high levels of implementation fidelity, particularly when given performance feedback. Additionally, students tended to display slightly higher rates of academic engagement upon consistent implementation of the plan.
Keywords: diverse learners; implementation fidelity; single-case design

Incentivizing Textbooks for Self-Study: Experimental Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo - Falisse, Jean-Benoit; Huysentruyt, Marieke; Olofsgård, Anders (2019)
We use a randomized field experiment to test whether a new self-study routine, designed to encourage the use of textbooks at home, can improve student achievement. In treatment schools, students and teachers were incentivized to adopt the routine through, respectively, a public display of stars (one for each time they took home books) and financial incentives (to compensate for potential loss or damage of textbooks). French language test scores improved in the treatment schools by 0.319σ relative to the control group, but no impact on math test scores was found. The intervention also raised the average likelihood of a student taking the high-stake end of the year national exam by 10 percentage points, without a negative impact on average exam results. The routine increased students’ job and secondary school aspirations and their perceptions of the usefulness of textbooks, likely pathways for the main results. The low-cost routine relied on a more efficient usage of existing basic educational material, making it feasible also in a very resource constrained and fragile setting. Our findings highlight the critical role of self-learning to promote student achievement and suggest that a simple ‘textbook at home’ routine may compensate for lower quality teaching in class.
Keywords: AOM Annual Meeting Proceedings 2020

Incentivizing Textbooks for Self-Study: Experimental Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo - Falisse, Jean-Benoit; Huysentruyt, Marieke; Olofsgård, Anders (Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020)
We use a randomized field experiment to study the impact of a simple “textbooks for self-study” incentive scheme targeting primary school students in South Kivu. Students in the treatment schools scored 0.320s higher in French but did no better in math. They were more likely to take the high-stakes end-of-6th-grade national exam and to aspire to a non-manual profession.. The largest positive impact was found in schools with lower-quality teaching performance and for lower-ability students. Our results demonstrate that programs designed to intensify and diversify students’ use of existing school resources can sharply improve student achievement and career aspirations.
Keywords: AOM Annual Meeting Proceedings 2020

Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement Among Schoolchildren. - Fairlie, Robert W.; Robinson, Jonathan (American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013)

Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls? - Fairlie, Robert W. (The BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2016)
Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed “the Boy Crisis.” An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these disparities exist across family resources and race. Focusing on disadvantaged schoolchildren, I then examine whether time investments made by boys and girls related to computer use contribute to the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for schoolwork and are more likely to use computers for playing games, but are less likely to use computers for social networking and email than are girls. Using data from a large field experiment randomly providing free personal computers to schoolchildren for home use, I also test whether these differential patterns of computer use displace homework time and ultimately translate into worse educational outcomes among boys. No evidence is found indicating that personal computers crowd out homework time and effort for disadvantaged boys relative to girls. Home computers also do not have negative effects on educational outcomes such as grades, test scores, courses completed, and tardies for disadvantaged boys relative to girls.

Digital technology and the futures of education: Towards ‘Non-Stupid’optimism - Facer, Keri; Selwyn, Neil (Paper commissioned for the UNESCO Futures of Education report, 2021)
Keywords: Final_citation; ⛔ No DOI found

Broadcasting education: The long-term effects of Mexico’s telesecundarias - Fabregas, Raissa (Working Paper, 2019)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Climate, Enviroment and Education - Presentation for the Tanzania Education Donors-Partners working group - Fab Inc; Laterite; Open Development and Education (Tanzania Education Donors-Partners working group, 2023)
Presentation for the Tanzania Education Donors-Partners working group – session on Education, Climate and Environment.

Learning from Experience: A post-Covid-19 data architecture for a resilient education data ecosystem in Sierra Leone - Fab Inc. (EdTech Hub, 2021)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _DOILIVE; _r:AddedByZotZen; _zenodo:submitted

Paradigms for Networking Universities and Vocational Education and Training (VET) Institutions on Competency-Based Further Education in Sub-Saharan Africa - Ezekoye, Benadeth N (2017)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; A:Africa; CLL:en; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Capacity Building For Entrepreneurship Education: The Challenge For The Developing Nations - Eze, John F.; Nwali, Anthony C. (American Journal of Business Education (AJBE), 2012)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; C:Nigeria; CA:AandC; CL:en; CL:fr; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:D; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:T; Capacity Building; D:developing country; D:developing nation; D:developing world; Economic Development; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship Education; F:curriculum; F:inclusion; F:learning; F:policy; P:economy; P:service industry; P:social; Q:certificate; Q:degree; Q:diploma; Q:higher education; T:Ausbildung; T:entrepreneurship education; Z:Business education; Z:Business schools; Z:Curriculum development; Z:Developing countries--LDCs; Z:Economic development; Z:Entrepreneurship; Z:Higher education; Z:Studies; publicImportV1

International Aid and the Making of a Better World: Reflexive Practice - Eyben, Rosalind (Routledge, 2014)
How can international aid professionals manage to deal with the daily dilemmas of working for the wellbeing of people in countries other than their own? A scholar-activist and lifelong development practitioner seeks to answer that question in a book that provides a vivid and accessible insight into the world of aid – its people, ideas and values against the backdrop of a broader historical analysis of the contested ideals and politics of aid operations from the 1960s to the present day. Moving between aid-recipient countries, head office and global policy spaces, Rosalind Eyben critically examines her own behaviour to explore what happens when trying to improve people’s lives in far-away countries and warns how self-deception may construct obstacles to the very change desired, considering the challenge to traditional aid practices posed by new donors like Brazil who speak of history and relationships. The book proposes that to help make this a better world, individuals and organisations working in international development must respond self-critically to the dilemmas of power and knowledge that shape aid’s messy relations. Written in an accessible way with vignettes, stories and dialogue, this critical history of aid provides practical tools and methodology for students in development studies, anthropology and international studies and for development practitioners to adopt the habit of reflexivity when helping to make a better world.
Keywords: Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development; Business & Economics / Development / Sustainable Development; Business & Economics / Environmental Economics; Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy; Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries

& - Eyal, Woolard (Burns, 2014)

Cash transfers and teen education: evidence from South Africa - Eyal, Katherine; Woolard, Ingrid; Burns, Justine (Report, unpublished, 2014)

ChatGPT has entered the classroom: how LLMs could transform education - Extance, Andy (Nature, 2023)
Researchers, educators and companies are experimenting with ways to turn flawed but famous large language models into trustworthy, accurate ‘thought partners’ for learning.
Keywords: Computer science; Education; Machine learning; Mathematics and computing

Notes from the Field: 'Nurses International' Uses OER to Support Nurse Educators - Ewing, Helen; Chickering, Miriam; Burner, Lindsay; Keating, Stacen A.; Berland, Alex; Frank, Erica (Journal of Learning for Development, 2020)
Educating nurses in developing countries is challenging due to limited resources. Nurses International advances nursing education through the use of Open Educational Resources which provides a unique model to teach and mentor nurse educators globally. Using current resources and materials that are free online and teacher-facing, an innovative program has been established that can be employed to scale up education of the healthcare workforce through teaching the teachers and enhancing the education of nurses.
Keywords: Open Educational Resources; educator development; nurse education; ⛔ No DOI found

Computationally Intensive Methods - Ewens, Warren J.; Grant, Gregory R. (Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics: An Introduction, 2001)
An important trend in statistical inference over the last twenty years has been the introduction of computationally intensive methods. These have been made possible by the availability of convenient and greatly increased computing power, and these methods are useful in bioinformatics and computational biology. Aspects of some computationally intensive methods used for both estimation and hypothesis testing are outlined in this chapter. Computationally intensive methods arise in both classical and Bayesian inference: We concentrate here on computationally intensive methods in classical inference.
Keywords: Bootstrap Estimate; Bootstrap Procedure; Bootstrap Sample; Final_citation; Null Hypothesis; Permutation Procedure; cited; existing

ADHD symptoms and the teacher–student relationship: a systematic literature review - Ewe, Linda Plantin (Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, 2019)
This systematic review integrates the existing literature regarding relationships that students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have with their teachers, in mainstream inclusive primary, secondary and high school settings. Theoretical approaches and methodical choices were considered in understanding the literature and considering possible research areas. The methods used in the reviewed literature show that investigations in this research field have predominantly used quantitative surveys. Several theoretical approaches have been used, with attachment theory the most-prominent. The findings indicate students with ADHD generally feel less close to their teacher than do their non-ADHD peers, which agrees with the teachers’ perceptions. Thus, teachers experience less emotional closeness, less co-operation and more conflicts in their relations with their students with ADHD than with other students. Teachers’ rejection of ADHD students poses a risk factor for not only school failure, but also peer exclusion and rejection, leading to low self-esteem and loneliness.
Keywords: ADHD; school settings; systematic review; teacher–student relationship

Knowledge Production in the Knowledge Economy: Higher Education Institutions and the Application of Innovations in ICT for Capacity Development in Africa - Evoh, CJ; Mugimu, Christopher; Chavula, Hopestone (2014)
[FRGMNT] … 16.7 101.6 34.1 6 6.1 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 Pre-primary Primary secondary TVET Tertiary Fig. 1. Education Access in Sub-Saharan Africa (% GER), 2011. Sources: Nsapato, Limbani (2012). Knowledge Production in the Knowledge Economy 295 Page 12 … [...]… RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Data for the study was gathered through qualitative research method, and theory-driven multiple case study approach was adopted (Yin, 2004) to examine the higher education system in Kenya and Uganda (East Africa) … [...]… Data for the study was gathered through qualitative research method, and theory-driven multiple case study approach was adopted (Yin, 2004) to examine the higher education system in Kenya and Uganda (East Africa) … 120 Pre-primary Primary secondary TVET Tertiary Fig …
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:LOW; A:Africa; A:East Africa; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:Kenya; CA:AandC; CL:de; CL:en; CL:pt; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:R; CT:T; F:access; P:economy; P:measurement; P:production; Q:ICT; Q:higher education; R:case study; R:qualitative; R:research method; T:TVET; _C:Uganda UGA; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Taming the youth bulge in africa: Rethinking the world bank's policy on technical and vocational education for disadvantaged youth in the knowledge economy - Evoh, Chijioke J. (International Perspectives on Education and Society, 2012)
This study presents an innovative approach to Information and communication technology (ICT) skill training and employment generation for out-of-school and disadvantaged youths in Africa. With technical and policy assistance from the World Bank, ICTs can be used to revitalize technical and vocational training to meet skill and employment needs of disadvantaged youths in the region. The deplorable conditions of out-ofschool youth and the state of secondary education in Africa underscore the urgency to engage disadvantaged youth in productive economic activities. An ICT-enhanced technical and vocational training program in Africa provides both private and social gains: it provides economic prospects for disadvantaged youth and; it adds to the development of the knowledge economy in Africa. The NairoBits Digital Design School in Kenya is presented as a model of a vocational and training school that uses ICTs to improve skill formation among disadvantaged youths in informal settlements in urban Africa. Meeting the objectives of an ICTbased training and employment generation program for underprivileged youth in Africa require strong regulatory frameworks and contributions from the World Bank. The involvement of the bank, particularly through private sector grants for ICT skill train in Africa will help to revitalize technical and vocational education and training in the region. Above all, the collaboration of government agencies, private businesses, other international development agencies and civil society groups in ICT skill training will help to meaningfully engage African youths in the development of their communities in the emerging knowledge economy. © 2012 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:T; F:policy; P:economy; P:social; Q:ICT; Q:secondary education; T:TVET; T:Training; publicImportV1

What Happens When AI is Used to Set Grades? - Evgeniou, Theodoros; Hardoon, David R.; Ovchinnikov, Anton (Harvard Business Review, 2020)
In 2020, with high school exams canceled in many countries, the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) deployed an AI to determine final grades based on current and historical data. When the results came in, many scores did not correlate with grades that had been predicted, as had been the case in previous years, prompting many people to appeal their grades. Unfortunately, the appeals system for grades had not been changed from previous years, which was assumed that students would write examination papers. Since university place offers in many countries are contingent on students achieving predicted grades, many students have been denied places at their universities of choice, which has resulted in a great deal of anger. This experience highlights the risks of delegating life-altering decisions to AI without considering how apparently anomalous decisions can be appealed and, if necessary, changed.
Keywords: Business education; Final_citation; Technology and analytics; anystyle; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

Addressing the challenge of scholarship and industry currency in vocational education: a pilot - Everingham, Nancy; McLean, David; Mancini, Jane; Mitton, Amber; Williams, Melanie (International Journal of Training Research, 2018)
This paper explores a pilot project in which three VET teachers in an Australian dual-sector university trialled a scholarship framework by undertaking a small ethnographic inquiry into current practices in their respective industries. The framework defined a method for engaging with industry while simultaneously developing VET teacher capability in scholarly practice. The teachers were asked to reflect on their experience of engaging in a scholarly project and how new knowledge has been incorporated into their teaching and curriculum design. The reflections were analysed using the indicators of scholarly quality from the self-same framework, and the key enabling factors and benefits were identified. The claimed success of the pilot is traced primarily to having a framework that provided a logical guide for the planning and execution of the projects and institutional support in the form of mentoring and paid time release.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; C:Australia; CLL:en; Vocational currency; industry currency; publicImportV1; scholarly practice; scholarship

Promoting the development of teacher professional knowledge: Integrating content and pedagogy in teacher education - Evens, Marie; Elen, Jan; Larmuseau, Charlotte; Depaepe, Fien (Teaching and Teacher Education, 2018)
The study investigates the explicit and integrated presentation of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), pedagogical knowledge (PK), and content knowledge (CK) in teacher education. We compare learning environments to study whether only presenting PK and CK is sufficient for PCK development, whether only presenting PCK is sufficient for PK and CK development, and whether PCK development is affected by integrating PCK, PK and CK. We find that only presenting two knowledge domains to students is insufficient to develop the third one, and integrating knowledge domains does not impact PCK development.
Keywords: Digital learning environment; Instructional design; Knowledge integration; Pedagogical content knowledge; Teacher professional knowledge

From Modernisation, Dependency and Soft Power Toward a Commonwealth of Learning - Evans, Terry; Jakupec, Victor (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
This article reflects on some influential theories, concepts and institutions that have shaped the nature and substance of international development since the mid-20th century. In particular, theories of modernisation and dependency are deployed to reflect on the ways in which the International Financial Institutions, such as, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank have adopted a ‘Washington Consensus’ concerning the social and economic development of ‘developing’ nations. ‘Soft power’ national agencies, such as, the British Council and USAID are brought into consideration, especially, for their interests and influences over matters of learning for development. The multi-national Commonwealth of Learning’s particular contribution to learning for development is discussed with suggestions made for developing member nations’ capacities to produce new local knowledge and to bring their existing local knowledge to the fore to share as part of a (Lockean) ‘commonwealth of learning’.
Keywords: dependency theory; learning for development; modernisation theory; soft power; the Washington Consensus.; ‘commonwealth of learning’; ⛔ No DOI found

Metaknowledge - Evans, JA; Foster, JG (Science, 2011)

How big are effect sizes in international education studies? - Evans, David; Yuan, Fei (Center for Global Development, 2020)
In recent years, a growing literature has measured the impact of education interventions in low- and middle-income countries on both access and learning outcomes. But interpretation of those effect sizes as large or small tends to rely on benchmarks developed by a psychologist in the United States in the 1960s. In this paper, we demonstrate the distribution of standardized effect sizes on learning and access from hundreds of studies from low- and middle-income countries.

Gender gaps in education: The long view - Evans, David; Akmal, Maryam; Jakiela, Pamela (Centre for Global Development, 2020)
Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries between 1960 and 2010, we document four facts. First, women are more educated today than fifty years ago in every country in the world. Second, they remain less educated than men in the vast majority of countries. Third, in many countries with low levels of education for both men and women in 1960, gender gaps widened as more boys went to school, then narrowed as girls enrolled; thus, gender gaps got worse before they got better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys are attaining high levels of education. Most countries with large, current gender gaps have low levels of male educational attainment. Many also perform poorly on other measures of development such as life expectancy and GDP per capita. Improving girls’ education is an important goal in its own right, but closing gender gaps in education will not be sufficient to close critical gaps in adult life outcomes.

Education in Africa: What Are We Learning? [preprint] - Evans, David; Acosta, Amina Mendez (2020)
Countries across Africa continue to face major challenges in education. In this review, we examine 145 recent empirical studies (from 2014 onward) on how to increase access to and improve the quality of education across the continent, specifically examining how these studies update previous research findings. We find that 64 percent of the studies evaluate government implemented programs, 36 percent include detailed cost analysis, and 35 percent evaluate multiple treatment arms. We identify several areas where new studies provide rigorous evidence on topics that do not figure prominently in earlier evidence syntheses. New evidence shows promising impacts of structured pedagogy interventions (which typically provide a variety of inputs, such as lesson plans and training for teachers together with new materials for students) and of mother tongue instruction interventions, as well as from a range of teacher programs, including both remunerative (pay-for-performance of various designs) and non-remunerative (coaching and certain types of training) programs. School feeding delivers gains in both access and learning. New studies also show long-term positive impacts of eliminating school fees for primary school and positive impacts of eliminating fees in secondary school. Education technology interventions have decidedly mixed impacts, as do school grant programs and programs providing individual learning inputs (e.g., uniforms or textbooks).
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Studies of COVID-19 and Education in LMICs - Evans, David; Acosta, Amina
Sheet1 Authors,Title,Country,Level,Outcome,Region,Date,Product,Provenance,In twitter thread Angrist N, Bergman P, Brewster C, Matsheng M,Stemming Learning Loss During the Pandemic: A Rapid Randomized Trial of a Low-Tech In...

What is the impact of #COVID19 on children and youth’s access to learning opportunities and on their actual learning in low- and middle-income countries? - Evans, David; Acosta, Amina

'Economic Returns to Interventions that Increase Learning ', Policy Research Working Paper, The World Bank - Evans, David K.; Yuan, Fei (2019)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

How Big Are Effect Sizes in International Education Studies? - Evans, David K.; Yuan, Fei (Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2022)
A growing literature measures the impact of education interventions in low- and middle-income countries on both access and learning outcomes. But how should one contextualize the size of impacts? This article provides the distribution of standardized effect sizes on learning and access from 234 studies in low- and middle-income countries. We identify a median effect size of 0.10 standard deviations on learning and 0.07 standard deviations on access among randomized controlled trials. Effect sizes are similar for quasi-experimental studies. Effects are larger and demonstrate higher variance for small-scale studies than for large-scale studies. The distribution of existing effects can help researchers and policymakers to situate new findings within current knowledge and design new studies with sufficient statistical power to identify effects.
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

How Big Are Effect Sizes in International Education Studies? - Evans, David K.; Yuan, Fei (Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2022)
A growing literature measures the impact of education interventions in low- and middle-income countries on both access and learning outcomes. But how should one contextualize the size of impacts? This article provides the distribution of standardized effect sizes on learning and access from 234 studies in low- and middle-income countries. We identify a median effect size of 0.10 standard deviations on learning and 0.07 standard deviations on access among randomized controlled trials. Effect sizes are similar for quasi-experimental studies. Effects are larger and demonstrate higher variance for small-scale studies than for large-scale studies. The distribution of existing effects can help researchers and policymakers to situate new findings within current knowledge and design new studies with sufficient statistical power to identify effects.

What We Learn About Girls’ Education from Interventions that Do Not Focus on Girls. - Evans, David K.; Yuan, Fei (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, 2019)
Keywords: _genre:LR-literature_review; ⛔ No DOI found

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

What Really Works to Improve Learning in Developing Countries? An Analysis of Divergent Findings in Systematic Reviews - Evans, David K.; Popova, Anna (The World Bank Research Observer, 2016)
Over the course of just two years, at least six reviews have examined interventions that seek to improve learning outcomes in developing countries. Although the reviews ostensibly have the same objective, they reach sometimes starkly different conclusions. The first objective of this paper is to identify why reviews diverge in their conclusions and how future reviews can be more effective. The second objective is to identify areas of overlap in the recommendations of existing reviews of what works to improve learning. This paper demonstrates that divergence in the recommendations of learning reviews is largely driven by differences in the samples of research incorporated in each review. Of 229 studies with student learning results, the most inclusive review incorporates less than half of the total studies. Across the reviews, two classes of programs are recommended with some consistency. Pedagogical interventions that tailor teaching to student learning levels—either teacher-led or facilitated by adaptive learning software—are effective at improving student test scores, as are individualized, repeated teacher training interventions often associated with a specific task or tool. Future reviews will be most useful if they combine narrative review with meta-analysis, conduct more exhaustive searches, and maintain low aggregation of intervention categories.

What Really Works to Improve Learning in Developing Countries? An Analysis of Divergent Findings in Systematic Reviews [report] - Evans, David K; Popova, Anna (Policy Research Working Paper, 2015)
Keywords: *Topic:Curriculum and resources; _Source:Intuitive; _THEME: Education management; _THEME: Learning assessments; _THEME: Teacher Professional Development; _proposed-for: Scoping review; ❓ Multiple DOI

What Really Works to Improve Learning in Developing Countries? An Analysis of Divergent Findings in Systematic Reviews [World Bank Research Observer] - Evans, David K.; Popova, Anna (The World Bank Research Observer, 2016)
Keywords: C:Low- and middle-income countries; STC-TLC; __C:filed:1; ___duplicate_item; _genre:LR-literature_review

Education in Africa: What Are We Learning? [journal paper] - Evans, David K; Mendez Acosta, Amina (Journal of African Economies, 2021)
Countries across Africa continue to face major challenges in education. In this review, we examine 145 recent empirical studies (from 2014 onward) on how to increase access to and improve the quality of education across the continent, specifically examining how these studies update previous research findings. We find that 64% of the studies evaluate government-implemented programs, 36% include detailed cost analysis and 35% evaluate multiple treatment arms. We identify several areas where new studies provide rigorous evidence on topics that do not figure prominently in earlier evidence syntheses. New evidence shows promising impacts of structured pedagogy interventions (which typically provide a variety of inputs, such as lesson plans and training for teachers together with new materials for students) and of mother tongue instruction interventions, as well as from a range of teacher programs, including both remunerative (pay-for-performance of various designs) and non-remunerative (coaching and certain types of training) programs. School feeding delivers gains in both access and learning. New studies also show long-term positive impacts of eliminating school fees for primary school and positive impacts of eliminating fees in secondary school. Education technology interventions have decidedly mixed impacts, as do school grant programs and programs providing individual learning inputs (e.g., uniforms or textbooks).
Keywords: _genre:LR-literature_review

Education Technology for Effective Teachers - Evans, David K. (2021)

Cost Analysis for Education Projects: Resources and Reflections - Evans, David (Center for Global Development | Ideas to Action)
You’ve got an education program, and you’re confident that it’s having an impact. But is it worth the cost? How can you know, and how can you compare it to other education programs? Cost-effectiveness analysis tells you how much you pay for a given increase in student learning or student school participation, but most evaluations don’t include it (for various reasons).

How to Write the Introduction of Your Development Economics Paper - Evans, David (Center for Global Development | Ideas to Action)
You win or lose your readers with the introduction of your economics paper. Your title and your abstract should convince people to read your introduction. Research shows that economics papers with more readable introductions get cited more. The introduction is your opportunity to lay out your research question, your empirical strategy, your findings, and why it matters. Succinctly.

The Power of a Label: Merit Scholarships vs Needs-Based Scholarships? - Evans, David (World Bank Blog, 2018)

Virtual Teacher Coaching May Not Be the Solution We Hoped For - Evans, David (Center For Global Development, 2020)
How can we help teachers to upgrade their pedagogical skills? Teacher coaching is a promising and increasingly popular candidate. Teacher coaching means teachers receive feedback in their place of work on specific things they can do better, not some general theory of pedagogy that’s completely disconnected from their day-to-day practice.

What really works to improve learning in developing countries? An analysis of divergent findings in systematic reviews [World Bank Group eLibrary] - Evans, D.K.; Popova, A. (World Bank Group, 2015)
In the past two years alone, at least six systematic reviews or meta-analyses have examined the interventions that improve learning outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. However, these reviews have sometimes reached starkly different conclusions: reviews, in turn, recommend information technology, interventions that provide information about school quality, or even basic infrastructure (such as desks) to achieve the greatest improvements in student learning. This paper demonstrates that these divergent conclusions are largely driven by differences in the samples of research incorporated by each review. The top recommendations in a given review are often driven by the results of evaluations not included in other reviews. Of 227 studies with student learning results, the most inclusive review incorporates less than half of the total studies. Variance in classification also plays a role. Across the reviews, the three classes of programs that are recommended with some consistency (albeit under different names) are pedagogical interventions (including computer-assisted learning) that tailor teaching to student skills; repeated teacher training interventions, often linked to another pedagogical intervention; and improving accountability through contracts or performance incentives, at least in certain contexts. Future reviews will be most useful if they combine narrative review with meta-analysis, conduct more exhaustive searches, and maintain low aggregation of intervention categories.

What really works to improve learning in developing countries? An analysis of divergent findings in systematic reviews. World Bank Research Observer - Evans, D.K.; Popova, A. (Statistical Methods for Research Workers, 2016)
Keywords: ___duplicate_item

The influence of mobile technologies on preschool and elementary children’s literacy achievement: a systematic review spanning 2007–2019 - Eutsler, L.; Mitchell, C.; Stamm, B.; Kogut, A. (Educational Technology Research and Development, 2020)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Public-private partnerships for skills development: a governance perspective. Volume II, Case studies. - European Training Foundation. (Publications Office, 2020)
Keywords: Final_citation

The impact of Artificial Intelligence on learning, teaching, and education. - European Commission. Joint Research Centre. (Publications Office, 2018)
This report describes the current state of the art in artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential impact for learning, teaching, and education. It provides conceptual foundations for well-informed policy-oriented work, research, and forward-looking activities that address the opportunities and challenges created by recent developments in AI. The report is aimed for policy developers, but it also makes contributions that are of interest for AI technology developers and researchers studying the impact of AI on economy, society, and the future of education and learning.

The likely impact of COVID-19 on education: reflections based on the existing literature and recent international datasets. - European Commission. Joint Research Centre. (Publications Office, 2020)

Berufsausbildung in einer Einwanderungsgesellschaft - Euler, Dieter; Eckart, Severing (2016)

Das duale System in Deutschland – Vorbild für einen Transfer ins Ausland? - Euler, Dieter (Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2013)

Who Needs Global Citizenship Education? A Review of the Literature on Teacher Education - Estellés, Marta; Fischman, Gustavo E. (Journal of Teacher Education, 2021)
Given the seemingly ever-increasing scholarly production about the ideas and ideals of global citizenship education (GCE), it is not surprising those discussions started to gain influence in teacher education (TE) debates. In this study, we examine the discourses that tacitly shape the meanings of GCE within the contemporary academic literature on TE. After analyzing the peer-reviewed scholarship published from 2003 to 2018, we identified patterns in how GCE for TE was described and defended, beyond the differences in their conceptual frameworks. The dominant trend found is to frame GCE as a redemptive educational solution to global problems. This framing requires teachers to embrace a redemptive narrative following a model of rationality based on altruistic, hyperrationalized and overly romanticized ideals. Ultimately, TE literature contributes to the configuration of an excessively naïve discourse that tends to ignore the neoliberal context in which both GCE and TE take place today.
Keywords: civic education discourses; global citizenship education; literature review; teacher education

Higher Education Students' Ownership and Usage of Smart Phones and Tablets: The Case of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). - Essel, Harry Barton; Nunoo, Francis Kofi Nimo; Tachie-Menson, Akosua; Amankwa, John Opuni (International Journal of Educational Technology, 2018)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Ireland IRL; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Spain ESP; _C:United Kingdom GBR; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Supervised Machine Learning Approaches for Predicting Key Pollutants and for the Sustainable Enhancement of Urban Air Quality: A Systematic Review - Essamlali, Ismail; Nhaila, Hasna; Khaïli, Mohamed El (Sustainability, 2024)
Urban air pollution is a pressing global issue driven by factors such as swift urbanization, population expansion, and heightened industrial activities. To address this challenge, the integration of Machine Learning (ML) into smart cities presents a promising avenue. Our article offers comprehensive insights into recent advancements in air quality research, employing the PRISMA method as a cornerstone for the reviewing process, while simultaneously exploring the application of frequently employed ML methodologies. Focusing on supervised learning algorithms, the study meticulously analyzes air quality data, elucidating their unique benefits and challenges. These frequently employed ML techniques, including LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory), RF (Random Forest), ANN (Artificial Neural Networks), and SVR (Support Vector Regression), are instrumental in our quest for cleaner, healthier urban environments. By accurately predicting key pollutants such as particulate matter (PM), nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), and ozone (O3), these methods offer tangible solutions for society. They enable informed decision-making for urban planners and policymakers, leading to proactive, sustainable strategies to combat urban air pollution. As a result, the well-being and health of urban populations are significantly improved. In this revised abstract, the importance of frequently employed ML methods in the context of air quality is explicitly emphasized, underlining their role in improving urban environments and enhancing the well-being of urban populations.
Keywords: openalex:citedBy; openalex:import; selected_for:effects of climate ch...on learning...LMICs 2024; tagged

Learning for all? Second-level education in Ireland during COVID-19 - ESRI; Mohan, Gretta; McCoy, Selina; ESRI; Carroll, Eamonn; ESRI; Mihut, Georgiana; ESRI; Lyons, Seán; ESRI; Mac Domhnaill, Ciarán; ESRI (ESRI, 2020)

School Leaders’ Preferences on School Location in Sierra Leone: An individual and school-level study - Espinoza-Revollo, Patricia; Ramirez, Ana; Atherton, Paul; Mackintosh, Alasdair (EdTech Hub, 2022)
Attracting qualified teachers to remote areas is a challenge in Sierra Leone. The pupil-to-qualified-teacher ratio in rural areas is 76:1, rising to 83:1 for schools located more than 15 km away from urban centres — well above the national target of 40:1. As equitable teacher deployment is crucial to ensure high-quality education, the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) aims to increase the deployment of qualified teachers to the most remote areas of the country. This paper describes a quantitative survey of school leaders’ perceptions of what shapes school location preferences and what factors need to be in place (i.e., incentives) to address the imbalanced distribution of qualified teachers in the country. We used data from a text message survey sent to school leaders around the country. This paper accompanies a qualitative inquiry on the same topic: What Matters Most for Teacher Deployment? A case study on teacher school choice preferences in Sierra Leone. Together with the qualitative study, our findings aim to address a gap in empirical evidence on teacher school preferences in Sierra Leone and contribute to a growing literature on teachers’ preferences in low- and middle-income countries. An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _r:AddedByZotZen

School-to-School Mobility Patterns and Retention Rates of Payroll Teachers in Sierra Leone - Espinoza-Revollo, Patricia; Ali, Yusuf; Garrod, Oliver; Atherton, Paul; Mackintosh, Alasdair; Beoku-Betts, Iman; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2023)
This report is one of several on the research project on the Impact of GIS-Supported Teacher Allocation in Sierra Leone. Recent studies from this series have shown that being put on the government payroll can incentivise teachers to relocate to remote areas of the country. There is a concern, however, that being put on the payroll does not necessarily ensure the retention of teachers in these areas and that teachers will soon move to locations they consider more favourable. As there is no data on teacher mobility patterns and schools’ teacher retention rates, policies tend to be based on anecdotal evidence. This paper aims to fill this evidence gap by exploring teachers’ school-to-school mobility trends and retention rates using the Annual School Census (ASC) data from 2015 to 2021. Using data on teachers’ individual characteristics, as well as geospatial location data of each school, the paper explores whether mobility patterns vary by teachers’ gender or qualifications and whether the teaching workforce is urbanising. While studies have looked at teacher retention, this study is the first in a low-income country to use school census data to create a panel dataset to study teachers’ movements and school retention rates over time. Keywords: teacher mobility; teacher retention rates; mobility patterns; teacher deployment; Sierra Leone; education An output of the EdTech Hub https://edtechhub.org

School-to-school mobility patterns and retention rates of payroll teachers in Sierra Leone - Espinoza-Revollo, Patricia; Ali, Yusuf; Garrod, Oliver; Atherton, Paul; Beoku-Betts, Iman; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2022)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _r:AddedByZotZen

Analyzing the Impact of COVID-19 on Education Professionals. Toward a Paradigm Shift: ICT and Neuroeducation as a Binomial of Action - Espino-Díaz, Luis; Fernandez-Caminero, Gemma; Hernandez-Lloret, Carmen-Maria; Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Hugo; Alvarez-Castillo, Jose-Luis (Sustainability, 2020)
This study analyzed the current situation of education in the context of the pandemic caused by COVID-19. The worldwide health emergency situation has caused the confinement of people and with it, the closure of centers and the transfer of face-to-face education to online education. Faced with these facts, teachers have had to adapt at a dizzying pace not only to new methodological approaches, but also to their own confinement, presenting high levels of stress. The purpose of this study is to offer a proposal that optimizes the work of education professionals in the current context of a pandemic through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) under the novel approach of the contributions of neuroeducation in the field of managing emotions and motivational processes, contributing to meaningful learning in students. The symbiosis of ICT and neuroeducation can make a great contribution to the paradigm shift that is taking place today.
Keywords: COVID-19; ICT; __C:filed:1; neuroeducation; stress; teachers

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

Thermal energy storage enhanced windcatcher system for hybrid cooling and ventilation in buildings - Eso, Olamide (2023)
Keywords: _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes

Education Technology: An Evidence-Based Review - Escueta, Maya; Quan, Vincent; Nickow, Andre Joshua; Oreopoulos, Philip (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2017)
In recent years, there has been widespread excitement around the potential for technology to transform learning. As investments in education technology continue to grow, students, parents, and teachers face a seemingly endless array of education technologies from which to choose—from digital personalized learning platforms to educational games to online courses. Amidst the excitement, it is important to step back and understand how technology can help—or in some cases hinder—how students learn. This review paper synthesizes and discusses experimental evidence on the effectiveness of technology-based approaches in education and outlines areas for future inquiry. In particular, we examine RCTs across the following categories of education technology: (1) access to technology, (2) computer-assisted learning, (3) technology-enabled behavioral interventions in education, and (4) online learning. While this review focuses on literature from developed countries, it also draws upon extensive research from developing countries. We hope this literature review will advance the knowledge base of how technology can be used to support education, outline key areas for new experimental research, and help drive improvements to the policies, programs, and structures that contribute to successful teaching and learning.
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Education Technology: An Evidence-Based Review. - Escueta, Maya; Quan, Vincent; Nickow, Andre Joshua; Oreopoulos, Philip (NBER Working Paper, 2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Education Technology: An Evidence-Based Review - Escueta, Maya; Quan, Vincent; Nickow, Andre Joshua; Oreopoulos, Philip (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2017)
In recent years, there has been widespread excitement around the potential for technology to transform learning. As investments in education technology continue to grow, students, parents, and teachers face a seemingly endless array of education technologies from which to choose—from digital personalized learning platforms to educational games to online courses. Amidst the excitement, it is important to step back and understand how technology can help—or in some cases hinder—how students learn. This review paper synthesizes and discusses experimental evidence on the effectiveness of technology-based approaches in education and outlines areas for future inquiry. In particular, we examine RCTs across the following categories of education technology: (1) access to technology, (2) computer-assisted learning, (3) technology-enabled behavioral interventions in education, and (4) online learning. While this review focuses on literature from developed countries, it also draws upon extensive research from developing countries. We hope this literature review will advance the knowledge base of how technology can be used to support education, outline key areas for new experimental research, and help drive improvements to the policies, programs, and structures that contribute to successful teaching and learning.

Family matters: Impacts of family background on educational attainments - Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco (Economica, 2001)

Rethinking A Framework for Contextualising and Collaborating in MOOCs by Higher Education Institutions in Africa - Erkkie, Haipinge; Kadhila, Ngepathimo (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are online courses that are open to anyone with Internet access. Pioneered in North America, they were developed for contexts with broader access to technology and wider access to the Internet. As globally networked learning environments (GNLEs), MOOCs foster collaborative communities and learning in ways not conceived as feasible until recently. The affordances of MOOCs, such as the ability to access learning beyond one’s immediacy, exemplify their benefits for open and distance learning, especially in developing countries that continue to consume rather than produce online courses. However, the globality of MOOCs and their delivery mode pose a challenge of contextualising learning content to the local needs of educational institutions or individual students that choose to use the courses. This theoretical paper used a desk-research approach by revising literature to investigate and propose ways of contextualising MOOCs to the African higher education setting. It applied the principles of reuse and repurposing learning content, while suggesting the use of mobile learning as a technological delivery solution that is relevant to the local context. The paper also suggests a framework for inter-institutional collaboration for higher education institutions to guide future efforts in the creation and sharing of credit-bearing MOOCs.
Keywords: MOOCs; Sub-Saharan Africa; connectivism; contextualisation; higher education; online learning; ⛔ No DOI found

Makerspace in school: considerations from a large-scale national testbed - Eriksson, Eva; Heath, Carl; Ljungstrand, Peter; Parnes, Peter (International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 2018)
Keywords: Stefanie

A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Parental Involvement on Students’ Academic Achievement - Erdem, Cahit; Kaya, Metin (Journal of Learning for Development, 2020)
This study aims to examine the effect of parental involvement on students’ academic achievement at pre-school, elementary and secondary levels by using the meta-analysis method with respect to home-based and school-based parental involvement strategies. Data consisted of 55 independent research studies in English published between 2010 and 2019, and accessed through ERIC, Academic Search Complete, Science Direct, Wiley Online Library, and PsycNet databases. Findings revealed that the effect of parental involvement on academic achievement was positive but small. Parental expectations had the biggest effect on academic achievement and parental control had a negative and small effect. The mean effect of parental involvement on students’ academic achievement does not differ significantly according to moderator variables of education level, measurement type or measurement area but differs by developmental level of the country. The results are discussed using available related meta-analysis studies in the literature.
Keywords: academic achievement; developing countries; education level; meta-analysis; parental involvement; ⛔ No DOI found

Sınıf Öğretmenlerinin Eğitimde Teknoloji Kullanımı, Tersine Çevrilmiş Sınıf ve İşbirlikli Öğrenme Hakkındaki Görüşleri (Primary Teachers’ Views on Using Technology in Education, Flipped Classroom and Cooperative Learning) - Erbil, Deniz Gökçe; Kocabaş, Ayfer (İlköğretim Online, 2019)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Hungary HUN; _C:Spain ESP; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Core Keywording Strategy - EPPI Centre (2003)

EPPI-Centre Core Keywording Strategy - EPPI-Centre (2001)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; publicImportV1

EPPI-Centre Guidelines for extracting data and quality assessing primary studies in educational research - EPPI-Centre (2003)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; publicImportV1

The Classroom Practices of Primary and Secondary School Teachers Participating in English in Action - English in Action (2011)

Strategies for Reducing Inequalities and Improving Developmental Outcomes for Young Children in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries. - Engle, Patrice L; Fernald, Lia CH; Alderman, Harold; Behrman, Jere; O'Gara, Chloe; Yousafzai, Aisha; de Mello, Meena Cabral; Hidrobo, Melissa; Ulkuer, Nurper; Ertem, Ilgi; Iltus, Selim (The Lancet, 2011)

Secondary Vocational Education in South Africa: Can We Learn From Portugal? - Engelbrecht, Mardine; Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa; Tome, Eduardo; Spencer, John (2019)
The economy of Europe, and Portugal in particular, is doing well, with tourism as the driver! The same tourism-phenomenon took place in South Africa after the end of apartheid in 1994. However, despite tourism programmes being accredited in both countries, there exists a perceived problem in South Africa, not shared in Portugal, that the vocational programmes do not meet the specific needs on the tourism industry. Therefore, by introducing vocational tourism education, both Portugal and South Africa needed to use this specific system to respond to identified shortages of occupational skills within the Portuguese, and definitely the South African, labour markets. The National Certificate Vocational (NCV) tourism programme was introduced in 2007 at Technical, Vocational Education, and Training colleges (TVET) in South Africa. This study specifically chose Portugal because the secondary vocational system, reintroduced in that country in 1983 after almost completely disappearing for a decade and a half (after the abolition of technical education), is proving to be a viable alternative to "formal' education, certainly in combating unemployment in the tourism sector. The secondary education curriculum in Portugal was reformed in 2004, creating technological courses, which facilitated integration into the employment market. The initial South African research (2014-2017) compared vocational education in South Africa to other European countries (specifically Switzerland and Germany), identifying the need for a properly administered and controlled dual vocational education system in South Africa, as is currently followed in Portugal. This paper focuses on how the present NCV tourism programme in TVET colleges in South Africa may be improved by following the present Portuguese vocational education model. The NCV tourism programme was designed to provide both theoretical and practical knowledge of the tourism industry in South Africa, aiming to improve the employment possibilities for NCV tourism in graduates in the wider tourism labour market in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. This paper also supports the notion that an updated NCV tourism programme could learn from the Portuguese system on how to apply vocational tourism education, by including more practical and structured industry exposure. A literature review established that Portugal's secondary vocational education is thriving and their primary goal is the development of young employees' vocational training, which allows the development of specific skills indispensable to an occupation, such as tourism, as can be seen in the breakdown of the programmes discussed in the 'results' section. The original research on the NCV tourism programme was conducted in the Western Cape in the form of an empirical survey to gather information using research questionnaires, and this paper proposes the use of both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, to also include a comparison on the guidelines, investments and results on the Portuguese and the South African experience on the last years.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Evidence for Soft Power Created Via Scholarship Schemes - Enfield, Sue (2019)
While there is widespread endorsement of a view that scholarships are effective tools in promoting and enhancing a country’s soft power, investing in future leaders, providing access and equity, and increasing research excellence in a nation’s academic institutions it is at least possible that in part this derives in past from positive reinforcing trends amongst those delivering and receiving scholarships (for example Wilton Park conference attendees, 2016). Published, stand-alone evaluations of specific country scholarship programmes were not easily located, although there are references in the academic literature to several such studies. The most comprehensive commentary on evaluation research published between 2006 and 2016 (Mawer, 2018) is, therefore, an important summative document. This notes that the quality of evidence and the methods used to assess scholarship programmes vary enormously and that there is lack of evidence to substantiate the link that is claimed for such programmes and any soft power created.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Integrating scientific research: Theory and design of discovering similar constructs - Endicott, J.; Larsen, K.; Lukyanenko, R. (2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

An Assessment of the Transition to Virtual Learning in the OECS - Emmanuel, Royston; Anthony, Germain (2020)
This assessment of the transition to Virtual Learning in the OECS is an initial step of a series of programmed activities that will help strengthen both the capacity and resilience of education systems in the region, particularly with respect to Online Learning. The context described here outlines some of the major challenges associated with regional efforts to successfully integrate ICTs in education. There appears to be consensus that Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) can well support ambitions for improving equity of access to education, the quality and the relevance of education. What this assessment reveals, is that there is wide disparity in the region with respect to approaches to adopting and adapting to VLEs.

MOOCs taken by educated few - Emanuel, Ezekiel J. (Nature, 2013)
Remarkably, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 infects macrophages — immune cells that are equipped to detect pathogens and mediate innate immune responses — without stimulating innate immunity. Greg Towers and colleagues now show that this depends on the recruitment to the HIV-1 capsid of specific cofactors that are involved in orchestrating nuclear entry and targeting. When these capsid–cofactor interactions are prevented either by virus mutation, cofactor depletion or pharmacological inhibition of cofactor recruitment, viral DNA can be detected by innate immune sensors, including cyclic GMP-AMP synthase.
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Scopus AI: Trusted content. Powered by responsible AI. - Elsevier Products (www.elsevier.com)
Scopus AI combines generative artificial intelligence with Scopus’ trusted content and data to help researchers accelerate their research.

Launch of Scopus AI to Help Researchers Navigate the World of Research - Elsevier (www.elsevier.com)
Developed and tested with the research community, Scopus AI combines the world’s largest database of curated scientific literature with responsible AI

Backward mapping: Implementation research and policy decisions - Elmore, Richard F. (Political science quarterly, 1979)

The eLearning Africa Report 2014 - Elletson, H; MacKinnon,, A (ICWE, 2014)

The emergence of a digital underclass: digital policies in the UK and evidence for inclusion - Ellen, Helsper (Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK, 2011)
New evidence shows that a digital underclass is forming in Britain. Although there is some improvement in access, skills and use of the internet among those who have lower education levels and no employment, these groups remain far behind other groups. As the government plans to make public services ‘digital by default’ these individuals will be unable to access them, not because of a lack of infrastructure but because of a lack of (effective) take up of the available connections. Exclusion of these most vulnerable groups has become entrenched. Gaps based on education and employment persist independent of age or other characteristics. They therefore represent a problem that is unlikely to go away even with better infrastructure or as younger generations grow up. These individuals are those that rely most on the government services that are now becoming ‘digital by default’ and will continue to do so. Those who need access to services most, from where the biggest cost savings through the digitisation of services are supposed to come, are the least likely to take these up even when access is available.

School bus routing problem: Contemporary trends and research directions - Ellegood, William A.; Solomon, Stanislaus; North, Jeremy; Campbell, James F. (Omega, 2020)
The school bus routing problem (SBRP) is a challenging operations research problem that has been studied by researchers for almost 50 years. SBRP publications address one or more operational sub-problems, including: bus stop selection, bus route generation, bus route scheduling, school bell time adjustment, and strategic transportation policy issues. This paper reviews 64 new SBRP research publications and analyzes them by sub-problem type, problem characteristics and solution approach. The impact of key SBRP characteristics (number of schools, mixed load, fleet mix, service environment, objective and constraints) are discussed and the different solution approaches to the SBRP are summarized by sub-problem type and methodology. We found in recent years, SBRP researchers are examining more complex real-world problem settings, adopting both evolutionary-based and trajectory-based metaheuristic solution approaches, and considering ridership and travel time uncertainty. This review documents recent trends in SBRP research and highlights research gaps and promising opportunities for future SBRP research.

The university in the twenty-first century: teaching the new enlightenment in the digital age - Elkana, Yehuda; Kl??pper, Hannes; Lazerson, Marvin (2016)

Elimu Scholarship Programme 2021 - Elimu Centre (Elimu Centre, 2020)
Elimu scholarship programme is sponsored by Kenya government, Equity Bank and World Bank. The programme benefits students from poor background

Achieving Net Zero within the NHS: System-wide transition to greener, sustainable care - Eldridge-Thomas, B.; Carden, S.; Bücker, C.; Davies, B.; Ajadi, S.B.; Coffey, C.; Fauconberg, A. (2021)

Mobile Learning for English Language Acquisition: Taxonomy, Challenges, and Recommendations - Elaish, Monther M.; Shuib, Liyana; Ghani, Norjihan Abdul; Yadegaridehkordi, Elaheh; Alaa, Musaab (IEEE Access, 2017)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Dark halo shapes and the fate of stellar bars - El-Zant, Amr; Shlosman, Isaac (The Astrophysical Journal, 2002)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Dissipative motion in galaxies with non-axisymmetric potentials - El-Zant, Amr (Physics reports, 1999)

Dynamics of galaxies with triaxial haloes - El-Zant, A. A.; Haßler, Björn (New Astronomy, 1998)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _bjoern_cv; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Evolution of galaxies with triaxial haloes - El-Zant, A. A. (Astrophysics and Space Science, 2001)

KS-TVET Life Skills Course: Process Report - El-Serafy, Yomna; Macharia, Grace; Klune, Christopher (Open Development & Education, 2023)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://opendeved.net/

KS-TVET Life Skills Course: Process Report - El-Serafy, Yomna; Macharia, Grace; Klune, Christopher (Open Development & Education, 2023)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://opendeved.net/
Keywords: _comingsoon; _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence

KS-TVET Life Skills Course: Needs Analysis Report - El-Serafy, Yomna; Klune, Christopher (Open Development & Education, 2023)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://.opendeved.net/
Keywords: _comingsoon; _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence

KS-TVET Life Skills Course Progress Report - El-Serafy, Yomna; Klune, Christopher (Open Development & Education, 2023)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://.opendeved.net/

KS-TVET Life Skills Course Progress Report - El-Serafy, Yomna; Klune, Christopher (Open Development & Education, 2023)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://.opendeved.net/
Keywords: _comingsoon; _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence

KS-TVET Life Skills Course: Validation Report - El-Serafy, Yomna; Klune, Christopher (Open Development & Education, 2023)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://.opendeved.net/

KS-TVET Life Skills Course: Validation Report - El-Serafy, Yomna; Klune, Christopher (Open Development & Education, 2023)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://.opendeved.net/
Keywords: _comingsoon; _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence

Strategy for Tanzania — Focus Area: TCPD in primary schools - El-Serafy, Yomna; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Carter, Alice; Haßler, Björn; Proctor, Jamie; Adam, Taskeen (EdTech Hub, 2021)
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

The effectiveness of technology-supported teacher professional learning communities in emergency settings. Future-Proofing Teacher Education: Voices from South Africa and Beyond - El-Serafy, Yomna; Adam, Taskeen; Haßler, Björn (Future-Proofing Teacher Education: Voices from South Africa and Beyond, 2022)
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; _forthcoming

A portrait of hope: Experiences of a visually-impaired refugee with education in Lebanon - El-Serafy, Yomna (University of Cambridge, 2020)
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

The effectiveness of technology-supported teacher professional learning communities in emergency settings. Future-Proofing Teacher Education: Voices from South Africa and Beyond [open access] - El-Sefary, Yomna; Adam, Taskeen; Haßler, Björn
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

Human Firewall: Cyber Awareness using WhatApp AI Chatbot - El Hajal, Georges; Daou, Roy Abi Zeid; Ducq, Yves (IEEE, 2021)

Students' Acceptance of Tablet PCs and Implications for Educational Institutions. - El-Gayar, Omar F; Moran, Mark; Hawkes, Mark (Educational Technology & Society, 2011)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Mobile phone images and video in science teaching and learning - Ekanayake, Sakunthala; Wishart, Jocelyn (Learning Media and Technology, 2014)

Moving in circles along a straight path: The elusiveness of inclusive education in early childhood development in Uganda - Ejuu, G. (Journal of Childhood & Developmental Disorders, 2016)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Networked shaping–a perspective for international vocational education and further education of vocational educators - Eicker, Friedhelm; Fiedler, Kai-Arne; Haseloff, Gesine (2017)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; CLL:en; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Fundamentals of the development of Vocational Education and Further Education of VET pedagogues in Sub-Saharan Africa - Eicker, Friedhelm (2017)
For many years, the University of Rostock/Technical Education has supported three universities from Mozambique, Ethiopia and South Africa in their effort to establish a modern educational and further educational programme for VET pedagogues. A Further Education network was established in the first steps. If more German universities support it, this network can expand to various other Sub-Saharan African countries. This still poses the essential question which scientific approach will be the basic position. Furthermore the question is how the Further Education network of universities, vocational schools and other VET institutions should be developed locally in Sub-Saharan Africa. A constructivist approach, which is positioned between academic discipline and vocational science, will be proposed here. In the first place, university lecturers and selected teachers will be able to acquire shaping competence. A “Train the Trainer Further Education System” will be proposed.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:Ethiopia; C:Mozambique; C:South Africa; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:T; F:pedagogy; T:TVET; T:in-service TVET; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Vocational education and training in Sub-Saharan Africa: current situation and development - Eicker, F; Haseloff, G; Lennartz, B (Vocational Education and Development Symposium, 2017)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; A:East Africa; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:Namibia; CA:AandC; CL:de; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:T; F:learning; P:economy; P:teachers; Q:higher education; T:Educação profissionalizante; T:TVET; T:in-service TVET; publicImportV1

A Roadmap to Vocational Education and Training Systems Around the World - Eichhorst, Werner; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Schmidl, Ricarda; Zimmermann, Klaus F (Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), 2012)
With young people among the big losers of the recent financial crisis, vocational education and training (VET) is often seen as the silver bullet to the problem of youth joblessness. This paper provides a better understanding of VET around the world, dealing with three types of vocational systems: school-based education, a dual system in which school-based education is combined with firm-based training, and informal training. We first explore the motivation for these different types of training, before summarizing the institutional evidence, highlighting the key elements of each training system and discussing its main implementation strengths and challenges. We subsequently review the evidence on the effectiveness of VET versus general education and between the three VET systems. There are clear indications that VET is a valued alternative beyond the core of general education, while the dual system tends to be more effective than school-based VET. Informal training is effective, however relatively little is known of its relative strengths compared with other forms of vocational education.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:Botswana; C:South Africa; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:R; CT:T; P:social; Q:flexible; R:quantitative; T:Ausbildung; T:TVET; T:dual TVET; T:firm-based training; T:informal training; T:school-based VET; T:vocational school; _C:Ghana GHA; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

National Tutoring Programme: Nimble RCTs - EEF (EEF, 2021)
The EEF is an independent charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement.
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

The importance of context in implementation research - Edwards, Nancy; Barker, Pierre M. (JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2014)

The importance of context in implementation research - Edwards, Nancy; Barker, Pierre M. (JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2014)

Interplay between Literacy and Health Services Access: The Case of Elderly Exemption Beneficiaries in Tanzania - Edward, Joshua (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
Over the last two decades research has indicated an unpleasant experience for the elderly with exemptions. An important question for this paper is whether the unpleasant exempted experience for the elderly in accessing health services is linked to illiteracy. Since illiteracy can affect how services are used and its results, the answer to this paper’s question could affect how health services are accessed and their associated outcomes. Policy implementors are operating without a solid knowledge of this relationship. The study used a mixed methods approach. Purposive random sampling was applied to select  879 elderly and was guided by research assistants in filling in the questionnaires. Also, purposive sampling was used to recruit 23 key informants. Results indicates a significant relationship between illiteracy and selected indicators of health service access: awareness, acceptability and adequacy. This paper argues for more training opportunities through non-formal programs among adults and communication capacity building among health providers based on the results of implementing the elderly exemption policy in Ubungo and Mbarali districts in Tanzania.
Keywords: exemption policy; health services access and elderly; literacy; ⛔ No DOI found

Innovative Education Workforce Analysis for More Equitable Education: Sierra Leone - Education Workforce Initiative (Education Commission, 2020)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Keeping children engaged and achieving in mathematics - Education Review Office (2018)

Sierra Leone - Education Partnerships Group (Education Partnerships Group)
After a number of years of political instability, Cote d’Ivoire now aims to achieve emerging economy status by 2020.
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Reaching The Marginalized - Education For All (Global Monitoring Report, 2010)

EEF Evidence Database Coding Guide – Effect Size Data Extraction - Education Endowment Foundation; Durham University (2022)
Keywords: _yt:b

EEF Evidence Database Coding Guide – Main Data Extraction - Education Endowment Foundation; Durham University (2022)
Keywords: _yt:a

Cost evaluation guidance for EEF evaluations - Education Endowment Foundation (2019)

Early Years Toolkit - Education Endowment Foundation (Education Endowment Foundation, 2018)

Early Years Toolkit - Education Endowment Foundation (2021)
An accessible summary of educational research for early years teaching

EEF Toolkit - Education Endowment Foundation (2014)

Putting evidence to work: A school's guide to implementation - Education Endowment Foundation (2019)

Reducing class size - Education Endowment Foundation (Education Endowment Foundation, 2018)

Teaching & Learning Toolkit - Education Endowment Foundation (Education Endowment Foundation, 2018)

Learning in the Time of Ebola - Education Development Center (2014)

Education Workforce Initiative: Sierra Leone - Education Commission (2020)

Innovative Education Workforce Analysis for More Equitable Education: Sierra Leone - Education Commission (Education Workforce Initiative, 2020)

Transforming the Education Workforce: Learning Teams for a Learning Generation - Education Commission (Education Commission, 2019)
Keywords: C: International

Transforming the education workforce: Learning teams for a learning generation - Education Commission (2019)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Common Types of SEN - Best SEN Schools - special educational needs schools in the UK - Education Advisers (2018)

Standards - EdTech Tulna - EdTech Tulna (2021)
The EdTech Tulna standards define a set of expectations for the design of EdTech products

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

The Impact of GIS-Supported Teacher Allocation in Sierra Leone - EdTech Hub; Education Commission; Fab Inc. (EdTech Hub, 2022)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Curated Tools for Teacher Continuous Professional Development - EdTech Hub (EdTech Hub, 2021)
EdTech Hub has created curated lists of teacher professional development (TPD) tools along with evidenced-based advice on how to effectively use them. Because, of course, it’s not only which tool you choose, but how you use it that will determine whether it will lead to better teaching and learning.

How the Government of Sierra Leone is improving its Education Data Hub - EdTech Hub (EdTech Hub, 2020)
Sierra Leone’s Education Data Hub, is designed to make school-level data more useful in decision making. Nine months into its launch, MBSSE and DSTI were keen to understand who was using the Data Hub, the kinds of decisions it informed, and where improvements were needed to ensure that non-technical users, including policymakers, teachers, parents, and […]
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; _zenodoETH

Implementing a telephone helpline to supplement TV, radio and learning packets in Afghanistan 🇦🇫 - EdTech Hub (EdTech Hub)
Telephone Helpline in Afghanistan 🇦🇫 📅 May 2020 – Ongoing Key Sandbox Question: We know effective teacher presence in the classroom improves learning outcomes. How might this be replicated when students are learning at home? Subject:  #literacy #numeracy Age:  #secondary Place:  #Afghanistan #rural People:  #student_male #student_female #teacher #caregiver Product:  #radio #TV #feature_phone Business Model:  #donor #replication #government The Problem The…

Sandbox Handbook V.2.0 - EdTech Hub (EdTech Hub, 2022)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Sandbox Handbook V.2.0 - EdTech Hub (EdTech Hub, 2022)

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

Students' potential abilities as correlates of self-employment start-up intentions: Evidence from private sector-led technical and vocational education institutions in Nigeria - Edokpolor, James Edomwonyi; Abusomwan, Vero Iyalekhue (International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, 2019)
© 2019 Society for Research and Knowledge Management. All rights reserved. The current study examines the correlation between technical and vocational education and training (TVET) students' potential abilities and self-employment start-up intentions. The participants of the survey were 209 students of TVET institutions in Nigeria. Using a Bivariate Pearson Correlation Matrix and Simple Linear Regression tests of relationships, the results revealed a significant relationship between TVET students' potential abilities and self-employment start-up intentions. More specifically, the results revealed significant correlations among potential abilities (e.g., creativity and innovation skills, ICT functional literacy and numeracy skills, communication and collaboration skills, critical thinking and problem solving skills) and the intentions of TVET students to venture into self-employment upon graduation. The results also revealed significant correlations among potential abilities (e.g., managerial and leadership skills, flexibility and adaptability skills, lifelong learning and self-direction skills) and the intentions of TVET students to venture into self-employment upon graduation. Contrarily, the results revealed that there is no significant correlations among potential abilities (e.g., social and cross-cultural skills, desirability and feasibility skills) and the intentions of TVET students to venture into self-employment upon graduation. Implications, limitations and logical conclusions were spotted out in the study.

You get what you pay for: Schooling incentives and child labor - Edmonds, Eric V.; Shrestha, Maheshwor (Journal of Development Economics, 2014)

Government of St Lucia deprives 8,000 students ‘one-laptop-per child programme’ - Editorma (Caribbean News Global, 2020)

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

An implementation research agenda - Eccles, Martin P.; Armstrong, David; Baker, Richard; Cleary, Kevin; Davies, Huw; Davies, Stephen; Glasziou, Paul; Ilott, Irene; Kinmonth, Ann-Louise; Leng, Gillian (BioMed Central, 2009)

An implementation research agenda - Eccles, Martin P.; Armstrong, David; Baker, Richard; Cleary, Kevin; Davies, Huw; Davies, Stephen; Glasziou, Paul; Ilott, Irene; Kinmonth, Ann-Louise; Leng, Gillian (BioMed Central, 2009)

How much can we remedy very low learning levels in rural parts of low-income countries? Impact and generalizability of a multi-pronged para-teacher intervention from a cluster-randomized trial in The Gambia - Eble, Alex; Frost, Chris; Camara, Alpha; Bouy, Baboucarr; Bah, Momodou; Sivaraman, Maitri; Hsieh, Pei-Tseng Jenny; Jayanty, Chitra; Brady, Tony; Gawron, Piotr (Journal of Development Economics, 2021)

Playing with the Multiple Intelligences: How Play Helps Them Grow - Eberle, Scott G (American Journal of Play, 2011)
Howard Gardner first posited a list of "multiple intelligences" as a liberating alternative to the assumptions underlying traditional IQ testing in his widely read study "Frames of Mind" (1983). Play has appeared only in passing in Gardner's thinking about intelligence, however, even though play instructs and trains the verbal, interpersonal, intrapersonal, logical, spatial, musical, and bodily intelligences that Gardner regards as original human endowments. Playing out of doors also enhances and exercises the faculty that Gardner later marked as the naturalist intelligence. As recess dwindles in American schools, and as free play shrinks in the childhood experience, this article finds fresh cause to inspect the merits of multiple-intelligence theory through the lens of play.
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The Elements of Play: Towards a Philosophy and Definition of Play - Eberle, Scott G (American Journal of Play, 2014)
Scholars conventionally find play difficult to define because the concept is complex and ambiguous. The author proffers a definition of play that takes into consideration its dynamic character, posits six basic elements of play (anticipation, surprise, pleasure, understanding, strength, and poise), and explores some of their emotional, physical, and intellectual dimensions. He argues for a play ethos that recognizes play is evolution based and developmentally beneficial. He insists, however, that, at its most elemental, play always promises fun. In this context, any activity that lacks these six elements, he contends, will not fully qualify as play.
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Traditional eye medicine practice in Benin-City, Nigeria - Ebeigbe, JA (Southern African Optometrist, 2013)
The use of traditional eye medicines as a form of eye care in Africa is very common. However, there is concern about the harmful effects of some traditional medicines on the eyes. This study was a cross-sectional survey conducted in Benin-City, Edo state, Nigeria. Sixty-eight traditional medicine practitioners (TMPs) who treated eye conditions participated in this study. Most (87%) were males and 13% were females. Their age ranged between 25 to 65 years with a mean age of 42.25 ± 2.14 years. Information was obtained through one-on-one oral interviews and a structured questionnaire consisting of open-ended questions. The most common method of training (46%) was by father-to-son tutelage. Conjunctivitis, itching and poor vision were the most common conditions treated by all practitioners. The majority of the TMPs (62%), practiced full time while 38% practiced part time. Forty six percent considered patients’ case histories as more important than physical examination of the eye while 54% felt both history and examination were equally important. Thirty-six percent of practitioners reported inverting the upper eyelids as part of their examination. Couching of cataracts was done by 38%. While 49% had referred ‘difficult’ or ‘stubborn’ cases to orthodox hospitals, 51% had never referred a case. Traditional healers are well accepted in their communities and will continue to be consulted by the people. Health education programs with emphasis on safe eye care practices need to be established for traditional healers. Working with healers and training them to recognize cases needing urgent referral and encouraging the use of non-harmful practices may provide a more sustainable health care structure in the community. Cooperation between these two aspects of medicine is extremely important for the provision of primary eye care services in rural Africa.
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Children's travel to school—the interaction of individual, neighbourhood and school factors - Easton, Sue; Ferrari, Ed (Transport Policy, 2015)
The increase in average distance from home to secondary school over recent decades has been accompanied by a significant growth in the proportion of pupils travelling to school by motorized means as opposed to walking or cycling. More recently this switch in travel mode has received considerable attention as declining levels of physical activity, growing car dependence and the childhood obesity “crisis” have pushed concerns about the health of future generations up the public health agenda, particularly in the U.S., but also in the UK and Europe. This has led to a proliferation of international studies researching a variety of individual, school and spatial characteristics associated with children's active travel to school which has been targeted by some governments as a potential silver bullet to reverse the trend. However, to date national pupil census data, which comprises annual data on all English pupils, including a mode of travel to school variable, has been under-utilised in the analysis of how pupils commute to school. Furthermore, methodologically, the grouped nature of the data with pupils clustered within both schools and residential neighbourhoods has often been ignored - an omission which can have considerable consequences for the statistical estimation of the model. The research presented here seeks to address both of these points by analysing pupil census data on all 26,709 secondary pupils (aged 11–16) who attended schools in Sheffield, UK during the 2009–10 school year. Individual pupil data is grouped within school, and neighbourhood, within a cross-classified multilevel model of active versus motorised modes of commuting to school. The results support the findings of other research that distance to school is key, but suggest that sociospatial clustering within neighbourhoods and schools is also critical. A further finding is that distance to school varies significantly by ethnicity, with white British pupils travelling the shortest distance of all ethnic groups. The implications of these findings for education and transport policy are discussed.
Keywords: Active transport; Mode of travel; Motorised transport; Multilevel model; Pupils; Secondary; Sociospatial; Travel to school

The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor - Easterly, William (Hachette UK, 2013)
In this "bracingly iconoclastic” book (New York Times Book Review), a renowned economics scholar breaks down the fight to end global poverty and the rights that poor individuals have had taken away for generations.In The Tyranny of Experts, renowned economist William Easterly examines our failing efforts to fight global poverty, and argues that the "expert approved" top-down approach to development has not only made little lasting progress, but has proven a convenient rationale for decades of human rights violations perpetrated by colonialists, postcolonial dictators, and US and UK foreign policymakers seeking autocratic allies. Demonstrating how our traditional antipoverty tactics have both trampled the freedom of the world's poor and suppressed a vital debate about alternative approaches to solving poverty, Easterly presents a devastating critique of the blighted record of authoritarian development. In this masterful work, Easterly reveals the fundamental errors inherent in our traditional approach and offers new principles for Western agencies and developing countries alike: principles that, because they are predicated on respect for the rights of poor people, have the power to end global poverty once and for all.
Keywords: Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development; Business & Economics / Development / Sustainable Development; Developing countries; Economic aspects; Economic policy; Political Science / Political Economy; Poverty; Social aspects

Outcome mapping: building learning and reflection into development programs - Earl, Sarah; Carden, F.; Patton, Michael Quinn; Smutylo, Terry (International Development Research Centre, 2001)
Keywords: Assistance technique; Community development; Coopération internationale; Développement communautaire; Economic development projects; Evaluation; Evaluation research (Social action programs); International cooperation; Projets de développement économique; Technical assistance; Évaluation; Évaluation de programme

Entrepreneurship training and skills development in Africa: Evidence from Koforidua Technical University, Ghana - Dzisi, Smile; Odoom, Franklin Dodzi; Gligah, Bernice (International Journal of Economics and Business Research, 2018)
Copyright © 2018 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. The significant role entrepreneurial training plays in the success of entrepreneurs has been touted in the literature. This paper explores the idea of practical entrepreneurship training and skills development among African students. The primary objective is to establish the extent to which acquisition of practical entrepreneurial training in addition to the students’ course of study is beneficial to them. The findings revealed that practical entrepreneurial training is new to students in Ghana. The few students who are exposed to practical entrepreneurial training have acquired entrepreneurial skills and knowledge, and this enabled them to set up their own businesses. The findings of this study have implications on growth and development of the economies Africa by creating new and innovative jobs to subsequently and significantly decrease unemployment. The study recommends that tertiary institutions should have entrepreneurial centre for practical sessions.
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Online initial teacher education: a systematic review of the literature - Dyment, Janet E.; Downing, Jillian Jane (Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2020)
This paper presents a systematic review of the literature on online initial teacher education. This review is timely given the growing numbers of online students studying teacher education in Australia and beyond. The paper begins with a presentation of the search protocol including search terms, databases, and inclusion/exclusion criteria that resulted in 492 refereed articles being included in the review. Analysis of title and abstract of these articles allowed insight into a variety of factors and trends, including journal of publication, year of publication, research approach, and key focal areas. Two well-established research focal areas emerged: technological pedagogical innovations and student experiences of studying teacher education online. Two emerging research focal areas were teacher educator experiences of teaching online and online teacher education in traditionally experiential specialisations, such as drama and outdoor education. When all the articles are considered holistically, a fragmented and siloed research approach is revealed, evidenced by a large number of journals publishing articles on multiple focal areas, leading to considerable repetition among the evidences presented across the articles. As such, this paper highlights the need for a more coherent and organised approach to research in online teacher education and its dissemination to all stakeholders.
Keywords: Online; blended; initial teacher education; pre-service; systematic review; teacher education

A pilot of the use of short message service (SMS) as a training tool for anaesthesia nurses - Duys, R.; Duma, S.; Dyer, R. (Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia, 2017)
© 2017 The Author(s). Background: Anaesthesia nurses form a critical part of the team providing perioperative care to patients, but no accredited training exists for them in South Africa. In this setting, short in-service training interventions are a pragmatic attempt at improving nurse performance and patient outcomes. Traditional didactic teaching formats have limitations, and mLearning (the use of mobile telephones to facilitate education) has proved equivalent or superior to traditional teaching methods in several settings. Despite very high levels of mobile phone ownership amongst healthcare workers in Africa, this form of educational delivery has not been tested in the hospital-based nursing population. Methods: A telephonic true/false pre-test was performed with 12 nurses of varying levels of training, to assess their preexisting knowledge of anaesthesia. A pre-learning package was then delivered to them in the form of daily SMSs for a month, covering relevant anaesthesia content. A telephonic post-intervention test was performed to assess whether anaesthesia theory knowledge had improved. Results: Median test scores out of 30 were compared using a Wilcoxon signed rank test and were statistically higher in the postintervention test: 25 (IQR 20-26) vs. 21 (IQR 20-21.25) (p = 0.018). Conclusions: The results demonstrate an association between a cheap and widely available educational vehicle, and an increase in nurse knowledge scores. The use of mobile telephones in medical education in limited-resource settings should be explored further.
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Lessons Learned from Online PLCs of Rural STEM Teachers - Durr, Tony; Kampmann, Jennifer; Hales, Patrick; Browning, Larry (The Rural Educator, 2020)
This exploratory study of a Title II grant funded project analyzed the design and delivery of online professional learning communities (PLC) for rural STEM teachers. This research identified the frequency a video posting, the type of videos posted, and the style of reflection questions, as critical aspects to the engagement to participating teachers. Additionally, teachers showed an increase in teacher efficacy as a result of being part of the online PLCs and they indicated strong enjoyment and value in participation of the program.

Social Discourse Influencing Elementary Teachers' Cognition and Metacognition for Problem Solving in Open-Ended Professional Development. - Durley, Hui-Chen K.; Ge, Xun (New Waves-Educational Research and Development Journal, 2019)
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Co-design for a Competency Self-assessment Chatbot and Survey in Science Education - Durall, Eva; Kapros, Evangelos (Springer International Publishing, 2020)
This paper describes a co-design process for a formative assessment tool in the area of core competencies such as creativity, communication, collaboration, and critical thinking. This process has been carried out in the context of non-formal science education institutions in 19 countries in Europe and the Middle East. The results of the co-design have been influential in the design of a formative assessment chatbot and survey that supports learner competency and self-regulation. We also discuss some preliminary results from the use of the tool and introduce additional considerations with regard to inclusion, technical aspects, and ethics, towards a set of best practices in this area.
Keywords: Chatbots; Co-design; Competencies

The Ivory Tower Lost: How College Students Respond Differently than the General Public to the COVID-19 Pandemic - Duong, Viet; Pham, Phu; Yang, Tongyu; Wang, Yu; Luo, Jiebo (arXiv:2004.09968 [cs], 2020)
Recently, the pandemic of the novel Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) has presented governments with ultimate challenges. In the United States, the country with the highest confirmed COVID-19 infection cases, a nationwide social distancing protocol has been implemented by the President. For the first time in a hundred years since the 1918 flu pandemic, the US population is mandated to stay in their households and avoid public contact. As a result, the majority of public venues and services have ceased their operations. Following the closure of the University of Washington on March 7th, more than a thousand colleges and universities in the United States have cancelled in-person classes and campus activities, impacting millions of students. This paper aims to discover the social implications of this unprecedented disruption in our interactive society regarding both the general public and higher education populations by mining people's opinions on social media. We discover several topics embedded in a large number of COVID-19 tweets that represent the most central issues related to the pandemic, which are of great concerns for both college students and the general public. Moreover, we find significant differences between these two groups of Twitter users with respect to the sentiments they expressed towards the COVID-19 issues. To our best knowledge, this is the first social media-based study which focuses on the college student community's demographics and responses to prevalent social issues during a major crisis.
Keywords: Computer Science - Computation and Language; Computer Science - Machine Learning; Computer Science - Social and Information Networks; __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Metasynthesis of preservice professional preparation and teacher education research studies - Dunst, Carl J.; Hamby, Deborah W.; Howse, Robin B.; Wilkie, Helen; Annas, Kimberly (Education sciences, 2019)

Tablet vs. Paper: The Effect on Learners' Reading Performance. - Dundar, Hakan; Akcayir, Murat (International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2012)
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School readiness and later achievement - Duncan, Greg J; Dowsett, Chantelle J; Claessens, Amy; Magnuson, Katherine; Huston, Aletha C; Klebanov, Pamela; Pagani, Linda S; Feinstein, Leon; Engel, Mimi; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Sexton, Holly; Duckworth, Kathryn; et al. (Developmental Psychology, 2007)
Using 6 longitudinal data sets, the authors estimate links between three key elements of school readiness--school-entry academic, attention, and socioemotional skills--and later school reading and math achievement. In an effort to isolate the effects of these school-entry skills, the authors ensured that most of their regression models control for cognitive, attention, and socioemotional skills measured prior to school entry, as well as a host of family background measures. Across all 6 studies, the strongest predictors of later achievement are school-entry math, reading, and attention skills. A meta-analysis of the results shows that early math skills have the greatest predictive power, followed by reading and then attention skills. By contrast, measures of socioemotional behaviors, including internalizing and externalizing problems and social skills, were generally insignificant predictors of later academic performance, even among children with relatively high levels of problem behavior. Patterns of association were similar for boys and girls and for children from high and low socioeconomic backgrounds.

A description of the self-perceived educational needs of emergency nurses in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - Dulandas, Reka; Brysiewicz, Petra (African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2018)
© 2018 African Federation for Emergency Medicine Introduction: Emergency nurses are usually the first to interact with critically ill patients and victims of violence and injuries, and require advanced skills and knowledge to manage such patients. Inadequate training prevents nurses from providing optimal emergency care, and it is important to investigate if there are any skills and competencies lacking in these emergency nurses. We sought to describe the self-perceived educational needs of emergency nurses in Durban, South Africa. Methods: A descriptive quantitative survey was conducted with nurses working in four emergency centres (two state, and two privately funded hospitals) in Durban, South Africa. Results: The survey questionnaire was distributed with a response rate of 79% (n = 128). Almost half the respondents (48%, n = 61) scored less than the mean score of 29, thus indicating lower competency levels. The majority of respondents (67%, n = 85) perceived themselves as highly competent in basic skills (e.g. assess breathing, administer oxygen, assess circulation). Less than half the respondents (45%, n = 57) perceived themselves as highly competent in the intermediate skills (e.g. control haemorrhage, assist with endotracheal intubation, manage shock). A large number of respondents (46%, n = 59) perceived themselves as least competent in advanced skills (e.g. defibrillation/cardioversion, interpreting an echocardiogram [ECG]). The mean score obtained for educational need was 100, thus reflecting a high educational need, and more than half the respondents (62%, n = 79) scored higher than the mean score of 100 for educational needs. The lowest score was 41. Thirty percent (n = 38) of the respondents scored 117, indicating educational needs for all the competencies listed. Overall, 72% (n = 92) agreed that emergency education was a need. Discussion: The study emphasises the need for support systems for educational development of emergency nurses. Further training in specific skills and competencies may enhance emergency care provided. There is a growing need for ongoing educational development of emergency nurses in South Africa.
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A literature review of emotional intelligence and nursing education - Dugué, Manon; Sirost, Olivier; Dosseville, Fabrice (Nurse Education in Practice, 2021)
Aim The purpose of this study is to investigate the current state of knowledge about emotional intelligence (EI) in nursing education Background Human relationships and emotions are an integral part of nursing care and contribute to care quality. This part of the profession must be addressed in nursing education to prepare students and deal with their emotions and the patients’s. Research on emotional intelligence (EI) in nursing has been particularly developed recently. A broad understanding of many benefits of EI is crucial to include EI in this training program. Design Systematic literature review Methods Undertaken using electronic database (Cairn; PubMed; Science Direct; Wiley online library) and specific search terms. This research covered articles published in English and French between 2007 and 2021. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis guidelines (PRISMA) directed the systematic review process. Results 57 articles are included in this systematic review. The literature focuses on EI and nursing education. The findings categorized into four themes: EI and performances; EI and Physical and mental health; EI and Social Relationship; and EI program. Conclusions This literature review reveals that EI has many benefits in nursing students. Several training programs aimed at developing this concept have proven to be effective in nursing education. We believe that a synthesis of this knowledge will then allow us to better understand the benefits of EI for a further implementation in nursing education. Perspectives and recommendations will also be formulated to enable the implementation of emotional skill development programs in such training.
Keywords: Emotional intelligence; Health; Nursing education; Performances; Social relationships; Training