Conceptualization of competency based curricula in pre-service nursing and midwifery education: A grounded theory approach - Muraraneza, Claudine; Mtshali, Gloria Ntombifikile (Nurse Education in Practice, 2018)
In health professional education, the competency-based curriculum concept has been an important driver of reform in the training of competent graduates for the 21st century. In African countries, although there has been implementing it in pre-service nursing and midwifery education and the literature reports a lack of understanding of what is it on the part of the implementers. This article explores the meaning of competency based curriculum in pre-service nursing and midwifery education in Rwanda. A grounded theory approach, following Corbin and Strauss, was used. Following ethical clearance by the university ethical committee, data was collected from 17 participants through in-depth individual interviews of staff. Four categories emerged: (a) transformation, (b) tool for primary health care philosophy, (c) technological approach to education, (d) and modular system. Competency-based curriculum is confirmed as an appropriate educational tool in producing competent graduates for today and the future.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; C:Rwanda; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:R; CT:T; F:curriculum; F:leadership; F:learning; P:health; P:health professionals; P:media; P:nurse; P:services; P:technology; R:grounded theory; R:interview; R:qualitative; T:TVET; T:Training; Z:Approaches; Z:Clinical competence; Z:Competency based learning; Z:Core curriculum; Z:Curriculum; Z:Curriculum development; Z:Data collection; Z:Education reform; Z:Grounded theory; Z:Health professionals; Z:Leadership; Z:Learning; Z:Meaning; Z:Medical education; Z:Medical ethics; Z:Midwifery; Z:Midwifery education; Z:Nursing; Z:Nursing education; Z:Primary health care; Z:Professional competence; Z:Qualitative research; Z:Students; Z:Transformation; publicImportV1

Developing teacher-led professional learning in a Tanzanian secondary school: a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education at Massey University, Manawatū, New Zealand - Mwakabenga, Rehema Japhet (Massey University, 2018)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Belgium BEL; _C:Bhutan BTN; _C:Botswana BWA; _C:Cambodia KHM; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Central African Republic CAF; _C:China CHN; _C:Czech Republic CZE; _C:Egypt EGY; _C:Ethiopia ETH; _C:Finland FIN; _C:France FRA; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Iceland ISL; _C:India IND; _C:Iran IRN; _C:Ireland IRL; _C:Israel ISR; _C:Italy ITA; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Korea, Republic KOR; _C:Lithuania LTU; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Namibia NAM; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:New Zealand NZL; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Russian Federation RUS; _C:Saudi Arabia SAU; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Spain ESP; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Viet Nam VNM; _C:Zambia ZMB; _C:Zimbabwe ZWE; _C:eSwatini SWZ; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

The influence of effective use of mobile devices for learning outside the classroom: case study of secondary school students in Tanzania and South Africa - Mwapwele, Samwel Dick (University of Cape Town, 2018)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:China CHN; _C:Dominican Republic DOM; _C:Eritrea ERI; _C:France FRA; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Namibia NAM; _C:Nepal NPL; _C:New Zealand NZL; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Portugal PRT; _C:Rwanda RWA; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Thailand THA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Is farmer-to-farmer extension effective? The impact of training on technology adoption and rice farming productivity in Tanzania - Nakano, Yuko; Tsusaka, Takuji W.; Aida, Takeshi; Pede, Valerien O. (World Development, 2018)
Abstract Agricultural training is a potentially effective method to diffuse relevant new technologies to increase productivity and alleviate rural poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, since it is prohibitively expensive to provide direct training to all the farmers in SSA, it is critically important to examine the extent to which technologies taught to a small number of farmers disseminate to non-trained farmers. This paper investigates the technology dissemination pathways among smallholder rice producers within a rural irrigation scheme in Tanzania. As an innovative feature, we compare the performance of three categories of farmers: key farmers, who receive intensive pre-season training at a local training center; intermediate farmers, who are trained by the key farmers; and other ordinary farmers. By collecting and analyzing a unique five-year household-level panel data set, we estimate difference-in-differences models to assess how the gap in performance evolve as the technologies spill over from the trained farmers to the ordinary farmers. To disentangle the technology spillover process, we also examine the extent to which social and geographical network with the key and intermediate farmers influences the adoption of technologies by the ordinary farmers, by incorporating social relationship variables into spatial econometric models. We found that the ordinary farmers who were a relative or residential neighbor of a key or intermediate farmer were more likely to adopt new technologies than those who were not. As a result, while the key farmers’ technology adoption rates rose immediately after the training, those of the non-trained ordinary farmers caught up belatedly. As the technologies disseminated, the paddy yield of the key farmers increased from 3.1 to 5.3 tons per hectare, while the yield of the ordinary farmers increased from 2.6 to 3.7 tons per hectare. Our results suggest the effectiveness and practical potential of farmer-to-farmer extension programs for smallholders in SSA as a cost effective alternative to the conventional farmer training approach.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:Tanzania; CA:AandC; CCZ:Tanzania; CL:en; CL:pt; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:R; CT:T; F:learning; P:agricultural; P:economy; P:measurement; P:social; P:technology; R:impact; T:Training; T:trainee; Z:Agricultural training; Z:Rice cultivation; Z:Social learning; Z:Sub-Saharan Africa; Z:Technology adoption; publicImportV1

A Framework for Evaluating Tablet-based Educational Applications for Primary School Levels in Thailand - Nang, Hsu Mon Pyae; Harfield, Antony (International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), 2018)
Keywords: _C:Denmark DNK; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Thailand THA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

The Importance of Educating Girls in the Newly Merged Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan: Policy Paper - Naveed, Sumbal (Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2018)
The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan, named the Newly Merged Districts (NMDs) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in July 2018, have begun rebuilding after years of Talibanization and military operations. This policy paper focuses on how the government-led education activities can be best aligned to make education possible for the districts' girls, who have long been excluded from education due to conflict and war. Based on stakeholder perceptions, the paper identifies some barriers missed by the FATA's Education Sector Plan (ESP) and points out the opportunities within communities to accelerate the efforts to improve the girls' participation in schools. The results of the study propose to use a gender lens for planning and implementing the activities that can improve access to quality education, to prepare the girls for a better and more productive life.
Keywords: Access to Education; Attitude Change; Barriers; Community Involvement; Cultural Influences; Educational Finance; Educational Planning; Educational Quality; Equal Education; Equal Opportunities (Jobs); Females; Foreign Countries; Gender Bias; Governance; Government Role; Males; Political Issues; Single Sex Schools; Social Attitudes; Teacher Competencies; Transportation; War; Women Faculty

Themes in mathematics teacher professional learning research in South Africa: A review of the period 2006–2015 - Ndlovu, Mdutshekelwa (Springer, Cham, 2018)

Towards an inclusive digital literacy framework for digital India - Nedungandi, Prema; Menon, Rajani; Gutjahr, Georg; Erickson, Lynnea; Raman, Raghu (Emerald Publishing, 2018)

Impact Evaluation of Tayari School Readiness Program in Kenya. - Ngware, Moses W.; Hungi, Njora; Wekulo, Patricia; Mutisya, Maurice; Njagi, Joan; Muhia, Nelson; Wambiya, Elvis; Donfouet, Hermann; Gathoni, Grace; Mambe, Shem (African Population and Health Research Center, RTI International, 2018)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Barns och lärares aktiviteter med datorplattor och appar i förskolan - Nilsen, Malin (2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Recursos educativos abiertos: oportunidades y barreras - Nincehelser, García; Elena, María (2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Lagu Nusantara: Android Role Playing Game for Elementary School Music Learning - Nugraha, R. Gita Ardhy; Florentinus, Totok Sumaryanto; Utomo, Kamsidjo Budi (Journal of Primary Education, 2018)
Keywords: _C:Indonesia IDN; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:United Kingdom GBR; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Developing Android Role Playing Game for Elementary Music Learning - Nugraha, R. Gita Ardhy; Sumaryanto, Totok; Utomo, Kamsijo Budi (Harmonia: Journal of Arts Research and Education, 2018)
Keywords: _C:Indonesia IDN; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Entrepreneurship education in Ghana – the case of the KNUST entrepreneurship clinic - Nyadu-Addo, Ralph; Mensah, Mavis Serwah Benneh (Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 2018)
© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Entrepreneurship education thrives on the pillars of experiential education. Using the case of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, the purpose of this paper is to examine the entrepreneurship clinic (EC) as a viable pedagogy for the promotion of experiential education in entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach: The paper relies on insider action research to analyse, within Joplin’s five-step model, the case of the EC at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. Findings: The analysis showed that the KNUST clinic comprises five main activities including preparation, orientation, selection and matching, coaching and monitoring and evaluation. In relation to Joplin’s five-step model, the first three stages of the clinic provide focus for the clinic while the remaining two stages – coaching and monitoring and evaluation – entail activities that are geared towards action, support, feedback and debrief. Through the clinic, thousands of tertiary students have been trained in entrepreneurship and new venture creation; some selected participants have been coached while others have had the opportunity to qualify for business incubation. Research limitations/implications: Although the paper discusses some achievements of the clinic in relation to enrolment and fundraising, it does not assess the impact of the clinic on the entrepreneurial competencies, intentions and initiatives of participants, hence, these issues are recommended for future research. Practical implications: The paper demonstrates that it is feasible to implement the EC methodology, irrespective of the cost and time implications that are often associated with experiential educational methodologies. However, support from university management, funding raising from internal and external sources and technical support from industry and government agencies are key to the sustainability of clinics. Originality/value: The paper adds novelty to the entrepreneurship education literature by bringing to the fore how a university in an emerging African economy is implementing and managing the EC pedagogy.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; CA:AandC; CL:en; CL:pt; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:R; CT:T; F:achievement; F:pedagogy; P:economy; P:measurement; P:technology; R:evaluation; R:impact; T:entrepreneurship education; T:trainee; Z:Clinic; Z:Development; Z:Education; Z:Entrepreneurship; Z:Experiential; _C:Ghana GHA; publicImportV1

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

Re-visioning Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for the Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Prospects and Promises Within the Framework of the Ubuntu Paradigm - Ogwo, Benjamin A. (Re-Visioning Education in Africa: Ubuntu-Inspired Education for Humanity, 2018)
Ogwo explains the concept of Ubuntu paradigm and analyses how its precepts could be adopted in designing and implementing technical vocational education and training (TVET) programmes that can enhance the attainment of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in sub-Saharan African countries. The chapter adopts the conceptual approach of using the Ubuntu lens to re-vision technical vocational education and training (TVET), which is the fundamental means for technically acculturating the youth who will steer the sustainable development goals (SDGs) programmes towards eradicating poverty, enhancing food security, encouraging gender empowerment, improving quality of life, and sustainable progress of sub-Saharan Africa. It also examines Ubuntu-based soft skills, affective competencies, and ethical re-engineering of TVET programmes for environmentally friendly, justice-driven, people oriented and communally derived sustainable development of sub-Saharan Africa.

Yearbook of Educational Data - Oliveira, Andre Correa de (State Department of Education of Minas Gerais, 2018)
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

Contract of Apprenticeship and Employment Generation in Nigeria - Olulu, Robinson Monday; Udeorah, Sylvester Alor F. (International Journal of Scientific Research in Education, 2018)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

What would make Global Skills Partnerships work in practice? - Organization for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD) (OECD Paris, 2018)

New product development process: The case of selected technical and vocational colleges in Nigeria - Oyebola, Abiodun Isaac; Olaposi, Titilayo Olubunmi; Adejuwon, Olawale Oladapo; Akarakiri, Joshua Babatunde (African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 2018)
© 2017 African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development. An examination of the literature reveals that studies on new product development processes have been carried out mostly in western contexts using sequential models. This study was conducted using the innovation systems approach and a sequential model to analyze new product development processes in selected technical and vocational colleges in Nigeria. Using a questionnaire survey method, the sequential model revealed that most of the respondents (91%) conceived of their products through job experience and only 4.9% conceived of product ideas through R&D, showing a weakness in science-based enquiries in the invention stages. In addition, 73.9% developed prototypes while 82.2%, 80.4%, and 69.2% conducted feasibly studies, business analyses and market surveys, respectively. These results imply capability in the commercialization stages of the sequential model. The systems of innovation approach however revealed very weak linkages with universities and R&D institutes which could have complemented lack of R&D activities in the technical and vocational colleges. While some useful and beneficial technological products have been developed in the colleges, we conclude that the use of sequential models and systems of innovation approach may bring a fresh perspective to the product development process.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; C:Nigeria; CA:AandC; CL:en; CL:pt; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:P; CT:R; CT:T; P:measurement; P:technology; R:questionnaire; R:survey; T:TVET; T:vocational college; Z:innovation; Z:process; Z:product development; Z:technical and vocational education; Z:technological products; publicImportV1

Looking back, moving forward: Impact and measurability of the use of educational technology - Pachler, Norbert; Turvey, Keith (Second Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education, 2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Practical considerations informing teachers’ technology integration decisions: the case of tablet PCs - Pareja Roblin, Natalie; Tondeur, Jo; Voogt, Joke; Bruggeman, Bram; Mathieu, Griet; van Braak, Johan (Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Scaling Up Successfully: Lessons from Kenya’s Tusome National Literacy Program. - Piper, B.; Destefano, J.; Kinyanjui, E.M. (Journal of Educational Change, 2018)

Identifying the essential ingredients to literacy and numeracy improvement: Teacher professional development and coaching, student textbooks, and structured teachers’ guides - Piper, Benjamin; Simmons Zuilkowski, Stephanie; Dubeck, Margaret; Jepkemei, Evelyn; King, Simon J. (World Development, 2018)
Several rigorously evaluated programs have recently shown positive effects on early literacy and numeracy outcomes in developing countries. However, these programs have not been designed to evaluate which ingredients of the interventions are most essential to improve literacy outcomes. Policy makers therefore lack evidence as to whether program ingredients such as teacher professional development (PD), instructional coaching, learner materials, teachers’ guides, community support, or technology are required for program impact. The Kenya Primary Math and Reading Initiative was a randomized controlled trial that compared three treatment groups with speciﬁc ingredients and a control group. Using literacy and numeracy outcome measures for grades 1 and 2, we evaluated the beneﬁts of the following ingredients: (1) teacher PD and teacher instructional support and coaching; (2) revised student books in literacy and numeracy, at a 1:1 ratio, added to PD and instructional support; and (3) structured teacher lesson plans added to student books, PD, and instructional support. We found that two of the three combinations of ingredients had statistically signiﬁcant positive impacts on learning outcomes. The results showed that the third combination—PD, teacher instructional support and coaching, 1:1 student books, and structured teacher lesson plans—was most effective. A cost-effectiveness analysis on the ingredients showed that the option of PD and instructional support, 1:1 revised books, and teachers’ guides was the most expensive, but that the additional impact on learning made this the most cost-effective intervention. This study rigorously analyzes which ingredients for literacy and numeracy improvement would be most effective for overall impact, and suggests to policy makers that careful decisions regarding program ingredients will lead to more effectively designed and implemented interventions to improve learning in developing countries.
Keywords: Africa; C:Kenya; Literacy; Numeracy; Program Evaluation; Program evaluation; Quantitative; Randomized controlled trial; Reading; Teacher Professional Development; __C:filed:1; ___duplicate_item; ___working_potential_duplicate; _genre:PR-primary_research; _yl:a; interesting; numeracy; randomized control trial

Interactive apps promote learning of basic mathematics in children with special educational needs and disabilities - Pitchford, Nicola J.; Kamchedzera, Elizabeth; Hubber, Paula J.; Chigeda, Antonie L. (Frontiers in psychology, 2018)
Keywords: _C:Italy ITA; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Spain ESP; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:Zambia ZMB; _C:Zimbabwe ZWE; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Global Landscape of Teacher Professional Development Programs: The Gap between Evidence and Practice - Popova, Anna; Evans, David K.; Breeding, Mary E.; Arancibia, Violeta (Population and Development Review, 2018)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Reducing classroom temperature in a tropical climate improved the thermal comfort and the performance of elementary school pupils - Porras-Salazar, Jose Ali; Wyon, David P.; Piderit-Moreno, Beatriz; Contreras-Espinoza, Sergio; Wargocki, Pawel (Indoor Air, 2018)
A two-week-long intervention study was performed in two classrooms in an elementary school in Costa Rica. Split-cooling air-conditioning (AC) units were installed in both classrooms. During the first week, the air temperature was reduced in one classroom while in the other (placebo) classroom the fans were operated but no cooling was provided. During the second week, the conditions were exchanged to create a 2 × 2 crossover design in which each pupil was their own control. A total of 37 children performed tasks similar to school work and completed questionnaires reporting their thermal sensation and perceptions. Operating the AC units reduced classroom temperature by about 5 K, from about 30 to 25°C. Thermal sensations changed from hot to neutral and slightly cold, and the percentage of children rating the thermal conditions as acceptable increased significantly. Neutral temperature was estimated to be about 27°C. The 11-year-old children performed the language and logical- thinking tasks significantly better in terms of speed at the lower temperature, while the less able pupils performed better on all tasks at the lower temperature. There were no significant effects on accuracy. These results confirm published findings from moderate climates and extend their validity to the tropics. They indicate that acclimatization can increase the optimal temperature for learning.
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; children; performance; school; thermal environment; tropical climates

Teachers’ professional development in school: A review study - Postholm, May Britt (Cogent education, 2018)
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Globalization, Mass Education and Technical and Vocational Education and Training: the influence of UNESCO in Botswana and Namibia - Preckler Galguera, Miriam (2018)

The Risks of Dangerous Dashboards in Basic Education - Pritchett, Lant (Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), 2018)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

A Qualitative Study: Perception of Preschool Teachers Use of Technology in Preparing for School Readiness - Ramsey, Lesley C. (Northcentral University, 2018)
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A shift from traditional pedagogy in Nepali rural primary schools? Rural teachers' capacity to reflect ICT policy in their practice - Rana, Karna; Greenwood, Janinka; Fox-Turnbull, Wendy; Wise, Stuart (International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2018)
Policy by the government of Nepal emphasises the need to develop ICT competencies and suggests the use of ICT will transform traditional models of teaching to ones that are student-centred. This article reports a study of primary teachers' experiences of using digital technologies in rural primary schools in Nepal, and investigates their perceptions of how the availability and use of ICT in their schools has transformed traditional teaching models. It further examines the resources they can access and the training they received. Teachers' accounts of their experiences indicated that the integration of available digital technologies in instructional activities changed their role in the classroom to some extent, created a learner-friendly learning environment and improved aspects of their teaching. The study also found that there was often insufficient access to ICT in and outside the school premises, and that pre-service teacher education, as well as government-provided in-service training, does not cover the use of ICT in instructional activities. Rather provision of infrastructures and training in the use of digital devices is carried out by non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The article argues that for policy to be realised in practice, more sustainable and comprehensive systems need to be developed to train teachers in ICT use and to provide them with necessary facilities.
Keywords: Computer Uses in Education; Conventional Instruction; Curricula; ERIC, Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Education; Educational Change; Educational technology; Elementary Education; Elementary School Teachers; Elementary Schools; Elementary schools; Foreign Countries; Learning; Nepal; Pedagogy; Rural Schools; Rural areas; Rural schools; School environment; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher education; Teaching; Teaching Experience; Technology Integration; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2095916; __finaldtb; ⛔ No DOI found

The struggle of translating science into action: foundational concepts of implementation science - Rapport, Frances; Clay-Williams, Robyn; Churruca, Kate; Shih, Patti; Hogden, Anne; Braithwaite, Jeffrey (Journal of evaluation in clinical practice, 2018)

Teacher practices during Y ear 4 of a one-to-one mobile learning initiative - Reichert, Michael; Mouza, Chrystalla (Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2018)
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Issues and challenges related to digital equity: an overview - Resta, P.; Laferriere, T.; McLaughlin, R.; Kouraogo, A. (Second handbook of information technology in primary and secondary education, 2018)

Leveraging the 1: 1 iPad approach for enhanced learning in the classroom - Retalis, Symeon; Paraskeva, Fotini; Alexiou, Aikaterini; Litou, Zoi; Sbrini, Theofili; Limperaki, Youla (Educational Media International, 2018)
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Teachers of Refugees: A Review of the Literature - Richardson, Emily (Education Development Trust, 2018)
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that 65.6 million people are forcibly displaced, having either crossed national borders or become internally displaced within their own countries. Of this estimate, over 22.5 million are refugees. Over half of the world's refugees are children. With an average length of displacement of approximately 20 years, the majority of these children will spend their entire childhoods away from home. Refugee children have limited access to basic social services like healthcare and education. Given the length of their displacement, generations of refugee children throughout the world could miss out on education altogether. Numerous studies show that the teacher is the most important in-school factor affecting the quality of education, particularly in refugee contexts, where the teacher is sometimes the only resource available to students. In refugee contexts where infrastructure and resources are limited, the role of the teacher is particularly important to the quality of education. However few studies to date have examined the role of teachers in refugee contexts. With more literature focusing on refugee children and youth, little is known about who the teachers of refugees are and how they are recruited, trained, retained, compensated and managed in their contexts. Importantly, there is little research on national teachers who are teaching refugee children; rather, much of the available literature focuses on refugee teachers -- that is, teachers who are also refugees. In addition, this lack of literature on teachers of refugees hinders our understanding not only of their needs but also of 'how refugees can contribute to education in their host countries and (eventually) to their home countries'. The purpose of this literature review is to survey policies, practices and debates that governments and their partners must navigate to provide education for refugee populations, and the strategies they have used to select and manage teaching forces. The review analyses findings from the main literature on teachers of refugees according to the following themes: (1) recruitment, certification and selection of teachers; (2) teacher preparation and development; (3) teacher remuneration and incentives; and (4) teacher retention. In addition, for each of these themes, this review highlights the salient gaps in the research and suggests an agenda for further research. [Co-written with Leonora MacEwen and Ruth Naylor.]
Keywords: Access to Education; Civil Rights; Compensation (Remuneration); Faculty Development; Financial Support; Foreign Countries; Incentives; Refugees; Research Needs; Teacher Certification; Teacher Education; Teacher Persistence; Teacher Recruitment; Teacher Role; Teacher Selection; _C:Afghanistan AFG; _C:Algeria DZA; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Bhutan BTN; _C:Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH; _C:Burkina Faso BFA; _C:Cameroon CMR; _C:Chad TCD; _C:Congo XCO; _C:Croatia HRV; _C:Egypt EGY; _C:Ethiopia ETH; _C:Greece GRC; _C:Guinea GIN; _C:Iraq IRQ; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Lebanon LBN; _C:Liberia LBR; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Nepal NPL; _C:Niger NER; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Rwanda RWA; _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _C:Somalia SOM; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:South Sudan SSD; _C:State of Palestine PSE; _C:Sudan SDN; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Syrian Arab Republic SYR; _C:Thailand THA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Viet Nam VNM; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Teachers of Refugees: A Review of the Literature. - Richardson, Emily (ERIC, 2018)

Tablet u školskom i obiteljskom okruženju - Ricoy, María-Carmen; Sánchez-Martínez, Cristina; Feliz-Murias, Tiberio (Croatian Journal of Education: Hrvatski časopis za odgoj i obrazovanje, 2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

The meaning of “capacity building” for the nurse workforce in sub-Saharan Africa: An integrative review - Ridge, Laura Jean; Klar, Robin Toft; Stimpfel, Amy Witkoski; Squires, Allison (International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2018)
Background: “Capacity building” is an international development strategy which receives billions of dollars of investment annually and is utilized by major development agencies globally. However, there is a lack of consensus around what “capacity building” or even “capacity” itself, means. Nurses are the frequent target of capacity building programming in sub-Saharan Africa as they provide the majority of healthcare in that region. Objectives: This study explored how “capacity” was conceptualized and operationalized by capacity building practitioners working in sub-Saharan Africa to develop its nursing workforce, and to assess Hilderband and Grindle's (1996) “Dimensions of Capacity” model was for fit with “capacity's” definition in the field. Design: An integrative review of the literature using systematic search criteria. Data sources searched included: PubMed, the Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature Plus, the Excerpt Medica Database, and Web of Science. Review methods: This review utilized conventional content analysis to assess how capacity building practitioners working in sub-Saharan Africa utilize the term “capacity” in the nursing context. Content analysis was conducted separately for how capacity building practitioners described “capacity” versus how their programs operationalized it. Identified themes were then assessed for fit with Hilderband and Grindle's (1996) “Dimensions of Capacity” model. Results: Analysis showed primary themes for conceptualization of capacity building of nurses by practitioners included: human resources for health, particularly pre- and post- nursing licensure training, and human (nursing) resource retention. Other themes included: management, health expenditure, and physical resources. There are several commonly used metrics for human resources for health, and a few for health expenditures, but none for management or physical resources. Overlapping themes of operationalization include: number of healthcare workers, post-licensure training, and physical resources. The Hilderband and Grindle (1996) model was a strong fit with how capacity is defined by practitioners working on nursing workforce issues in sub-Saharan Africa. If overall significant differences between conceptualization and operationalization emerged, as the reader I want to know what these differences were. Conclusions: This review indicates there is significant informal consensus on the definition of “capacity” and that the Hilderbrand and Grindle (1996) framework is a good representation of that consensus. This framework could be utilized by capacity building practitioners and researchers as those groups plan, execute, and evaluate nursing capacity building programming.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; AAZ:Africa South of the Sahara; C:Rwanda; C:South Africa; CA:AandC; CCZ:Rwanda; CCZ:South Africa; CCZ:Uganda; CL:de; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:D; CT:P; CT:T; D:developing country; P:health; P:media; P:nurse; T:Training; Z:Capacity building/methods; Z:Developing countries; Z:Education; Z:Health manpower; Z:Nursing; Z:Staff; _C:Uganda UGA; publicImportV1

An examination of the digital divide and its dividing factors in formal educational settings - Ritzhaupt, Albert D.; Hohlfeld, Tina N. (Crossing the bridge of the digital divide: A walk with global leaders, 2018)
Keywords: Final_citation; ⛔ No DOI found

Annual Report - Roger Federer Foundation (Roger Federer Foundation -, 2018)

Launch of the African Education Research Database - Rose, Pauline; Mitchell, Rafael; Asare, Samuel (2018)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Identifying Disability In Household Surveys: Evidence On Education Access And Learning For Children With Disabilities In Pakistan - Rose, Pauline; Singal, Nidhi; Bari, Faisal; Malik, Rabea; Kamran, Sahar (REAL Centre, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, 2018)
This policy brief presents key findings from data on education of children with disabilities in Pakistan with respect to both access and learning. It draws on data from on-going research as part of the ESRC-DFID funded Teaching Effectively All Children (TEACh) project, along with data from ASER Pakistan.
Keywords: _zenodoOTHER

The political economy of teacher management reform in Indonesia - Rosser, Andrew; Fahmi, Mohamad (International Journal of Educational Development, 2018)
Indonesia faces serious problems in the number, cost, quality and distribution of teachers. In recent years, its central government has introduced a range of reforms to address these problems but they have produced modest results. This paper suggests that this outcome reﬂects the way in which predatory political and bureaucratic elites have used the school system for decades to accumulate resources, distribute patronage, mobilize political support, and exercise political control rather than promote improved learning outcomes. Eﬀorts to reduce teacher numbers, enhance teacher quality, and improve teacher distribution have accordingly constituted an assault on the interests of these elites, provoking powerful, if often subterranean, resistance. Broadly, reform has only occurred where the central government has employed policy instruments that have disciplined local governments and maintained a commitment to these instruments in the face of resistance. The paper concludes by assessing the implications for Indonesian education.
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Indonesia IDN; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:Thailand THA; _C:United States USA; _C:Viet Nam VNM; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Automated vulnerability detection in source code using deep representation learning - Russell, Rebecca; Kim, Louis; Hamilton, Lei; Lazovich, Tomo; Harer, Jacob; Ozdemir, Onur; Ellingwood, Paul; McConley, Marc (IEEE, 2018)
Keywords: Final_citation

The educational perception on artificial intelligence by elementary school teachers - Ryu, Miyoung; Han, Seonkwan (Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education, 2018)

Cost-effectiveness with equity: Raising learning for marginalised girls through Camfed's programme in Tanzania - Sabates, Ricardo; Rose, Pauline; Delprato, Marcos; Alcott, Benjamin (Policy Paper No. 18/2 (REAL Centre, University of Cambridge, 2018), 2018)
This policy paper provides a cost-effectiveness analysis of Camfed’s programme in Tanzania. Camfed’s programme adopts a multidimensional approach that is aimed at reaching marginalised girls at risk of dropping out from secondary schools by using interventions that are aimed at both increasing their chances of staying in school and learning.

PDIA toolkit: A DIY Approach to Solving Complex Problems - Samji, Salimah; Andrews, Matt; Pritchett, Lant; Woolcock, Michael (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2018)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

PDIA toolkit: A DIY Approach to Solving Complex Problems - Samji, Salimah; Andrews, Matt; Pritchett, Lant; Woolcock, Michael (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2018)

Elementary Teachers’ Uses and Perceptions of Interactive Whiteboards for Instruction - Samsonova, Olga (International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, 2018)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Belgium BEL; _C:Canada CAN; _C:France FRA; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:North Cyprus XNCYP; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United Kingdom GBR; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Actividades y dinámicas implementadas con la tableta en un centro de educación básica de España - Sánchez-Martínez, Cristina; Ricoy, María-Carmen; Feliz-Murias, Tiberio (Educação e Pesquisa, 2018)
The permanent evolution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) goes hand in hand with the generalization, relocation and globalization of the worldwide movement, as well as in favor of using these resources in different areas, including education. However, the development of experiences and researches about the use of tablets in classroom continues to be scarce in contexts where, in addition to other factors, there are difficulties to access or obtain the technology. Therefore, this case study aims to know the typology of activities related to the use of tablets, in the context of Elementary School and the resulting dynamics with the pupils of three classes of 1st, 3rd, and 5th grades (aged 6 through 11 years old) of an educational center located in Northwest Spain. This work is part of a qualitative research based on ethnographic-narrative approach; data collection utilized the observation technique and discussion groups. The results and conclusions show that the practices with tablets are episodic and influenced by the activities associated with traditional teaching. However, the researchers were able to detect some innovative dynamics based on the very tools provided by such devices, originating different indagating, ludic activities. On the other hand, the results point to small group work pattern (mainly in pairs) as the one mostly used when tablets are employed in the classroom.
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Activities and dynamics with tablets in an Elementary School in Spain - SÁNCHEZ-MARTÍNEZ, Cristina; RICOY, María-Carmen; FELIZ-MURIAS, Tiberio (Educação e Pesquisa, 2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Enseñar y aprender con eScholarium: un estudio de caso sobre la implementación del proyecto en un CEIP de Comunidad de Extremadura - Sánchez Miranda, Sofía; Torres Carvalho, José Luis (2018)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Austria AUT; _C:Cuba CUB; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Israel ISR; _C:Portugal PRT; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Design and Implementation of a Chatbot in Online Higher Education Settings. - Sandoval, Zoroayka V. (Issues in Information Systems, 2018)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Zoom Around the World: Using Videoconferencing Technology for International Trainings - Scanga, Lauren Hrncirik; Deen, Mary Katherine Y.; Smith, Suzanne R.; Wright, Kevin (Journal of Extension, 2018)
This article describes an innovative model of educational programming used by our team of U.S. Extension educators for an international development project in Burundi, Africa. Our team designed a model to provide ongoing professional development trainings at a distance using Zoom, a videoconferencing platform. Over a 2-year period, we conducted 18 Zoom trainings with Burundian educators. On the basis of participant evaluation data and the literature, we present key principles for using distance technology in international development projects. Given the current economy and budget cuts in Extension, videoconferencing provides an opportunity for Extension to remain engaged internationally.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; AA:Africa; C:Burundi; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:P; CT:R; CT:T; P:economy; P:technology; R:evaluation; T:Ausbildung; Z:international development; Z:professional development; Z:school gardens; Z:videoconferencing; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Schools in the Digital Age: How might things be otherwise? - Selwyn, Neil; Nemorin, Selena; Bulfin, Scott; Johnson, Nicola F. (Everyday Schooling in the Digital Age: High School, High Tech?, 2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Design of telegram bots for campus information sharing - Setiaji, Hari; Paputungan, Irving V. (IOP Publishing, 2018)

Middle Eastern post-conflict futures in education: Iraq, Syria and Yemen - Sherif, Yasmine (International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 2018)

Characteristics of effective teacher professional development: what we know, what we don’t, how we can find out - Sims, Sam; Fletcher-Wood, Harry (2018)
Several influential reviews and one meta-review have converged on the position that teacher professional development (PD) is more effective when it is: sustained, collaborative, subjectspecific, draws on external expertise, has buy-in from teachers and is practice-based. This consensus view has now been incorporated in government policy and official guidance in several countries. Despite this, several recent PD programmes incorporating these characteristics have failed to have any detectable impact on pupil attainment. This article reviews the evidence underpinning the consensus, arguing that the reviews on which it based are methodologically flawed because they employ inappropriate exclusion criteria and depend on an invalid inference method. The consensus view is therefore likely to be inaccurate. Researchers would make more progress on identifying characteristics of effective professional development by looking for alignment between evidence from basic research on human skill acquisition and features of rigorously-evaluated PD interventions.
Keywords: C:International; __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Short message service (SMS)–based remote support and teacher retention of training gains in Malawi - Slade, Timothy S.; Kipp, Scott; Cummings, Stirling; Nyirongo, Kondwani; Pouezevara, Sarah (Cultivating dynamic educators: case studies in teacher behavior change in Africa and Asia, 2018)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

The Sphere Handbook: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response - Sphere (Sphere, 2018)

Preverovaní vedomostí žiakov vo vybranom učive predmetu technika pomocou PC - Stadtrucker, Roman (2018)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Luxembourg LUX; _C:Mali MLI; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:Slovenia SVN; _C:United Kingdom GBR; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Sierra Leone Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2017 - Statistics Sierra Leone (Statistics Sierra Leone, 2018)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

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

Digital literacies for international teacher education: a Ghanaian perspective - Taner, Lisa (The Open University, 2018)
Teacher education in Sub Saharan Africa has been highlighted as key in helping to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education across the continent. Digital technologies that support new modes of teacher education can improve access and quality in developing regions (Moon and Villet, 2017a, b; Moon, 2007; Power, 2013), however little is known about how teachers develop digital literacies to enable them to effectively use these new resources, nor the ways in which student teachers are introduced to the technologies they need to support their professional development. Given the scarcity of research in this area and with teacher support and preparation having been the least examined topics in mobile learning research, this project investigated the ways in which student teachers in one College of Education in Ghana participate in learning experiences that develop their digital literacies to support their professional development throughout the college course, both on campus and in school placements. Using ethnographic approaches within a sociocultural theoretical rationale, the aim of this research was to address the gap in literature by examining the ways in which student teachers participate in learning experiences that develop their digital literacies during their training at a College of Education in Ghana. In view of the slow pace of ICT infrastructure advancement in Ghanaian schools, tutors at one college of education are encouraging the use of student teachers’ personal devices such as mobile phones to support their professional learning, both on campus and in the absence of other equipment in school placements. Smartphone use was found to be an enabling tool for students, whose formal and informal use of communication tools such as WhatsApp supported their developing professionalism and gave them access to new ways to locate and use materials for teaching and their wider professional development, including the academic requirements of their courses.
Keywords: _Source:Intuitive; _THEME: Curriculum and resources; _THEME: Education management; _THEME: Open systems; _THEME: School management; _THEME: Teacher Professional Development; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2426091; ___working_potential_duplicate; __finaldtb

EdTech for Learning in Emergencies and Displaced Settings: A rigorous review and narrative synthesis - Tauson and Stannard (Resource Centre, 2018)

EdTech for learning in emergencies and displaced settings: a rigorous review and narrative synthesis​ - Tauson, M.; Stannard, L. (Save the Children, 2018)

EdTech for learning in emergencies and displaced settings - Tauson, Michaelle; Stannard, Luke (London: Save the Children UK, 2018)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Belgium BEL; _C:Botswana BWA; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:China CHN; _C:Egypt EGY; _C:Ethiopia ETH; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Greece GRC; _C:Holy See VAT; _C:Honduras HND; _C:India IND; _C:Indonesia IDN; _C:Israel ISR; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Lebanon LBN; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Mexico MEX; _C:Namibia NAM; _C:Nepal NPL; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Oman OMN; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Papua New Guinea PNG; _C:Qatar QAT; _C:Seychelles SYC; _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:South Sudan SSD; _C:Sri Lanka LKA; _C:State of Palestine PSE; _C:Sudan SDN; _C:Syrian Arab Republic SYR; _C:Thailand THA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United States USA; _C:Uruguay URY; _C:Yemen YEM; _C:Zimbabwe ZWE; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

EdTech for Learning in Emergencies and Displaced Settings: A rigorous review and narrative synthesis - Tauson, Michaelle; Stannard, Luke (Save The Children, 2018)

EdTech for learning in emergencies and displaced settings — a rigorous review and narrative synthesis - Tauson, Michaelle; Stannard, Luke (Save the Children, 2018)
Keywords: IMPORT_FROM_DFID_RITE; Important; Read; _THEME: Teacher Professional Development; ___working_potential_duplicate

Digital learning innovations for Syrian refugees and host communities external evaluation report - Tawileh, Anas (2018)

Responsibility Report 2018 - The LEGO Group (2018)
Keywords: Final_citation; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

World Development Report 2018: Learning to realize education’s promise - The World Bank (2018)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Distance to School and the educational consequences - Theunynck, Serge (World Bank, 2018)

School buildings and indoor environmental quality in Nigerian elementary schools and their potential health effects on students - Toyinbo, Oluyemi (Itä-Suomen yliopisto, 2018)
Keywords: BE:LMIC; BE:RELEVANT

The effects of the quantification of faculty productivity: perspectives from the design science research community - Tremblay, M.C.; Meer, D; Beck, R. (Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2018)

ASSESSMENT-AS-LEARNING FOR COGNITIVE ACTIVATION. ISSUES FOR EFFECTIVE USE OF LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CLASSROOM - Trinchero, Roberto (Italian Journal of Educational Technology, 2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Valutazione formante per l’attivazione cognitiva. Spunti per un uso efficace delle tecnologie per apprendere in classe - Trinchero, Roberto (Italian Journal of Educational Technology, 2018)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Italy ITA; _C:New Zealand NZL; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Mapping of Lineaments for Sustainable Groundwater Prospecting In Kano Metropolis, Kano State Nigeria - Tudnwada, I.Y.; Badamasi, M.M.; Atakpa, A. (Techno Science Africana Journal, 2018)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Farmers’ Characteristics and Cropping Diversity in Smallholder Farms in a Rural Community of Kano Close – Settled Zone, Nigeria - Tudunwada, I.Y.; Momale, S.B.Badamasi; M.M., Jibrin; J.M.; Ajeigbe, H.A. (The Nigerian Journal of Agricultural Extension, 2018)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Tablet devices in education-beyond face value - Turvey, Keith; Pachler, Norbert (2018)
Keywords: _C:Germany DEU; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Teacher Professional Development at a Tsunami-Affected School in Banda Aceh - Ubit, Fadliadi; Bartholomaeus, Pam (International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2018)
The 2004 tsunami in Aceh resulted in significant post-disaster problems which extended far beyond the loss of possessions and infrastructure destruction. In addition to having to deal with their own problems as a consequence of the tsunami, teachers were faced with the additional problems arising from working with children who had been exposed to the traumatic event. Teacher professional development was regarded as an important support mechanism to help teachers in this period. Findings from a qualitative study conducted in one school affected by the tsunami in Banda Aceh provided evidence that teachers indeed needed professional development that went beyond enhancing their knowledge and skills to teach their subjects to working with young people affected by the traumatic event. This paper discusses teacher professional development, focusing on the five criteria for effective professional development proposed by Desimone.
Keywords: Case Studies; Evaluation Criteria; Faculty Development; Foreign Countries; Interviews; Junior High School Students; Junior High Schools; Natural Disasters; Program Effectiveness; Public School Teachers; Qualitative Research; Secondary School Teachers; Trauma; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:India IND; _C:Indonesia IDN; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Maldives MDV; _C:Myanmar MMR; _C:Seychelles SYC; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:Somalia SOM; _C:Sri Lanka LKA; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Thailand THA; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

UIS Statistics | Percentage of Qualified Teachers by Education Level - UIS (2018)

A lifeline to learning? Leveraging technology to support education for refugees - UNESCO (UNESCO, 2018)

GEM Report summary on disabilities and education - UNESCO (2018)

International technical guidance on sexuality education - UNESCO (2018)

Report of the Southern Africa Regional Workshop on Work-based Learning - UNESCO (UNESCO, 2018)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; CC:Botswana; CC:Lesotho; CC:Malawi; CC:Mozambique; CC:Namibia; CC:South Africa; CC:Zambia; CC:Zimbabwe; CC:eSwatini (Swaziland); CLL:en; publicImportV1

Situational analysis on the status of sexual and reproductive health of students and gender-based violence in technical and vocational colleges in Malawi - UNESCO (UNESCO, 2018)

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

A lifeline to learning: leveraging technology to support education for refugees - UNESCO, Education Sector (2018)

Acceso, uso y actitud de la tecnología en las escuelas de Educación Primaria - Ventura, Raúl Céspedes; Pagán, Javier Ballesta (Aula Abierta, 2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ❓ Multiple DOI

Students' acceptance of tablet PCs in Italian high schools: Profiles and differences - Villani, Daniela; Morganti, Laura; Carissoli, Claudia; Gatti, Elena; Bonanomi, Andrea; Cacciamani, Stefano; Confalonieri, Emanuela; Riva, Giuseppe (British Journal of Educational Technology, 2018)
Keywords: _C:France FRA; _C:Italy ITA; _C:Spain ESP; _C:United Kingdom GBR; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES FOR OER: A CASE STUDY OF BRAZILIAN FUNDAMENTAL EDUCATION PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS - Vladimirschi, Viviane (2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Second handbook of information technology in primary and secondary education - Voogt, Joke (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2018)
Keywords: _C:Afghanistan AFG; _C:Albania ALB; _C:Algeria DZA; _C:Andorra AND; _C:Angola AGO; _C:Argentina ARG; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Austria AUT; _C:Bahrain BHR; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Belarus BLR; _C:Belgium BEL; _C:Benin BEN; _C:Bhutan BTN; _C:Bolivia BOL; _C:Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH; _C:Botswana BWA; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:Brunei Darussalam BRN; _C:Bulgaria BGR; _C:Burkina Faso BFA; _C:Burundi BDI; _C:Cambodia KHM; _C:Cameroon CMR; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Chad TCD; _C:Chile CHL; _C:China CHN; _C:Colombia COL; _C:Comoros COM; _C:Congo XCO; _C:Congo, Democratic Republic COD; _C:Costa Rica CRI; _C:Croatia HRV; _C:Cuba CUB; _C:Cyprus CYP; _C:Czech Republic CZE; _C:Denmark DNK; _C:Djibouti DJI; _C:Dominica DMA; _C:Dominican Republic DOM; _C:Ecuador ECU; _C:Egypt EGY; _C:El Salvador SLV; _C:Equatorial Guinea GNQ; _C:Eritrea ERI; _C:Estonia EST; _C:Ethiopia ETH; _C:Fiji FJI; _C:Finland FIN; _C:France FRA; _C:Gabon GAB; _C:Gambia GMB; _C:Georgia GEO; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Greece GRC; _C:Guatemala GTM; _C:Guinea GIN; _C:Holy See VAT; _C:Honduras HND; _C:Hungary HUN; _C:Iceland ISL; _C:India IND; _C:Indonesia IDN; _C:Iran IRN; _C:Iraq IRQ; _C:Ireland IRL; _C:Israel ISR; _C:Italy ITA; _C:Jamaica JAM; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Kiribati KIR; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Korea, Democratic People's Republic PRK; _C:Korea, Republic KOR; _C:Kosovo XKSVO; _C:Kuwait KWT; _C:Laos LAO; _C:Latvia LVA; _C:Lebanon LBN; _C:Lesotho LSO; _C:Liberia LBR; _C:Libya LBY; _C:Lithuania LTU; _C:Luxembourg LUX; _C:Madagascar MDG; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Maldives MDV; _C:Mali MLI; _C:Malta MLT; _C:Mauritania MRT; _C:Mauritius MUS; _C:Mexico MEX; _C:Monaco MCO; _C:Mongolia MNG; _C:Montenegro MNE

The Teacher Scheme for Educational Dialogue Analysis (T-SEDA): Developing a research-based observation tool for supporting teacher inquiry into pupils' participation in classroom dialogue - Vrikki, M.; Kershner, R.; Calcagni, E.; Hennessy, S.; Lee, L.; Hernández, F.; Estrada, N.; Ahmed, F. (International Journal of Research and Methods in Education, 2018)
In this paper we examine two systematic observation methods intended to be used by pre-service and in-service teachers to help increase their awareness of children's participation in productive classroom dialogue. We identify the affordances of these methods for supporting teachers' reflective practice, focusing in this case on students' equitable participation in science groupwork activities. This involves the use of Teacher-SEDA (T-SEDA), a sub-scheme of SEDA (Cam-UNAM Scheme for Educational Dialogue Analysis), which was empirically trialled by a mixed group of researchers and teachers, using video-recordings from primary science classrooms in the UK and Mexico. The T-SEDA trials reported in this paper compare a 'simulated live' approach based on time-sampling techniques, with a 'follow-up analysis' approach, which uses audio-recordings and transcripts. The findings suggest that using either technique regularly can aid teachers in noticing classroom events and adjusting teaching accordingly. The 'live' coding approach appears to be the more practical method that teachers could use to audit the development of classroom equitable participation. However, the follow-up analysis emerged as a more informative approach, shedding light on more ambiguous cases of relative participation.
Keywords: Analytic tool; CitedIn:eCubed; Classroom observation; Done:ReferenceFixed; Education; Teachers; classroom observation; eCubed; educational dialogue; equitable participation; reflective practice; teacher inquiry

A process pattern model for tackling and improving big data quality - Wahyudi, A.; Kuk, G; Janssen, M. (Information Systems Frontiers, 2018)

A Critical Investigation into How Year 8 Students’ Narrative Writing Skills are Developed Through the Medium of Oral Storytelling - Walker, Hannah (Journal of Classics Teaching, 2018)
This research project seeks to examine, using approaches drawn from a case study, how oral storytelling within the classroom can influence various aspects of narrative writing. Therefore, certain teaching strategies and oral activities were implemented in a sequence of lessons which aimed to develop the style and content base of students’ narrative writing.
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

Evaluating the impact of a tablet-based intervention on the mathematics attainment, receptive language and approaches to learning of preschool children - Walton, Jodie M. (University of Nottingham, 2018)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:China CHN; _C:France FRA; _C:India IND; _C:Ireland IRL; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Korea, Republic KOR; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Mexico MEX; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:Spain ESP; _C:Sudan SDN; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Uruguay URY; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for Professional Teacher and Teacher Educator Development: A Case of TESSA MOOC in Kenya. - Wambugu, Patriciah W. (Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018)
Keywords: _C:China CHN; _C:Kenya KEN; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

MOOCs as an alternative for teacher professional development: examining learner persistence in one Chinese MOOC - Wang, Qiong; Chen, Bodong; Fan, Yizhou; Zhang, Guogang (Peking University, 2018)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

MOOCs as an alternative for teacher professional development: examining learner persistence in one Chinese MOOC - Wang, Qiong; Chen, Bodong; Fan, Yizhou; Zhang, Guogang (Peking University, 2018)
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have developed into a significant international movement, showing great promise in addressing equity, quality, and efficiency issues in global education. To date, many MOOCs have been developed specifically for teacher professional development (TPD). In this regard, an important empirical question remains to be addressed: How and to what extent can MOOCs support equity, quality, and efficiency in teacher professional development? To help fill this knowledge gap, this study, conducted from 2014 to 2016, focused on persistent teacher-learners in a TPD MOOC that was offered for seven consecutive rounds by the X-Learning Center of Peking University. The study found that more than 15% of the 105,383 teachers who enrolled in this MOOC were persistent teacher-learners, defined as learners who enrolled in multiple rounds. Data analysis showed that these persistent teacher-learners had diverse motivations for re-enrollment, including refreshing conceptual understanding, achieving higher scores, earning course certification, and discussing practical problems. The study also found that the persistent teacher-learners developed self-regulated learning skills in the course of multiple rounds of the MOOC and showed significantly higher learning achievement than one-time enrollees. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of both clicklog data and interview data revealed additional insights into the persistent teacher-learners’ learning within the MOOC and their real-world teaching practice beyond the MOOC. Overall, this study contributes to an improved understanding of the potential of MOOCs as an alternative TPD delivery mode in developing countries and sheds light on the future design of effective TPD through MOOCs.
Keywords: __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2425977; __finaldtb; tpdsysrev_potential_duplicate; ⛔ No DOI found

Can the Kenyan Jua Kali Mechanic be Trusted in Servicing the New Technology Rich Vehicles? | African Journal of Education,Science and Technology - Wanyeki, Paul; Kitainge, Kisilu; Ferej, A (African Journal of Education,Science and Technology, 2018)
Mechanics in automotive garages need to keep pace with the ever evolving technological changes in the industry in order to provide relevant service to their clients. The formal garage mechanics have their training provided by vehicle suppliers on every critical technological innovation introduced in their automobiles. But the Jua Kali mechanics on the other hand do not have this symbiotic connection with suppliers. This paper tries to answer the question:  can the jua kali mechanic be trusted in servicing the new technology rich vehicles? The study used a descriptive survey research design. The study population consisted of Jua Kali practitioners who deal with repairs and servicing of automobiles within Eldoret town. Data was analyzed using the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) software and content analysis techniques. The study found that the Jua Kali mechanics cannot be trusted in handling the new technology rich vehicle as they mostly relied on trial and error which more often than not leads to more damages.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Long-term impacts of alternative approaches to increase schooling : evidence from a scholarship program in Cambodia (English) - Washington, D.; Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Barros, Andreas De; Filmer, Deon P. (World Bank Group, 2018)

The Research Capacity Strengthening Strategy For Evidence-Based Education Policy and Practice in Northern Nigeria: Year Two Report - Watts, Michael; Akogun, Oladele B (Education Data, Research and Evaluation in Nigeria (EDOREN, 2018)

Teaching the science of learning - Weinstein, Yana; Madan, Christopher R.; Sumeracki, Megan A. (Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2018)
The science of learning has made a considerable contribution to our understanding of effective teaching and learning strategies. However, few instructors outside of the field are privy to this research. In this tutorial review, we focus on six specific cognitive strategies that have received robust support from decades of research: spaced practice, interleaving, retrieval practice, elaboration, concrete examples, and dual coding. We describe the basic research behind each strategy and relevant applied research, present examples of existing and suggested implementation, and make recommendations for further research that would broaden the reach of these strategies.
Keywords: Education; Learning; Memory; Teaching

Listening to Children with Disabilities: Voices from Uganda and Malawi - Wickenden, Mary (Education and Disability in the Global South: New Perspectives from Africa and Asia, 2018)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Outcome Harvesting: Principles, Steps, and Evaluation Applications - Wilson-Grau, Ricardo (2018)
Keywords: Final_citation

Primary Teacher Education in Rural Cameroon: Can Informal Learning Compensate for the Deficiencies in Formal Training? - Wohlfahrt, Melanie U (Africa Education Review, 2018)
The objective of the research on which this article reports was to evaluate the training conditions of primary school teachers in rural Cameroon, so as to identify alternative paths towards their qualification through informal learning in the workplace and outside. Following Denzin's (2009) between-methods triangulation approach, quantitative techniques, including statistical analyses and standardised questionnaires, were applied in addition to qualitative techniques, such as face-to-face interviews and observations of practising teachers and experts. The article presents the most common learning strategies of teachers in rural areas of Cameroon and recommends seminal solutions for teacher education. It can be concluded that informal learning in the workplace corresponds to traditional ways of learning in collectivist-oriented, oral societies in rural areas. Therefore, the combination of informal methods with formal structures of teacher education could improve the current educational system of many African countries, and provide a solution to meet the high demand for qualified staff within restricted budgets.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; C:Cameroon; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:R; CT:T; F:attitude; F:learning; F:qualification; F:standards; F:teaching; F:teaching method; P:media; P:school teacher; P:teacher education; P:teachers; Q:informal learning; R:interview; R:observation; R:qualitative; R:quantitative; R:questionnaire; R:trial; T:Ausbildung; T:Training; T:workplace education; Z:Elementary school teachers; Z:Learning; Z:Rural areas; Z:Rural schools; Z:Teacher education; publicImportV1

Impacts of Pre-Service Training and Coaching on Kindergarten Quality and Student Learning Outcomes in Ghana - Wolf, Sharon (Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2018)
Using a randomized-control trial, this study evaluates a program designed to support Ghanaian kindergarten student-teachers during pre-service training through mentorship and in-classroom training. Several potential barriers to improved teaching quality and learning outcomes are examined. Findings show that the program improved knowledge and implementation of the national curriculum for individuals both when they were student-teachers and, the following year, when they became newly qualified teachers (NQTs). There were mixed impacts on professional well-being, increasing personal accomplishment and motivation but decreasing job satisfaction for NQTs. There were mixed impacts on teaching quality, with increases in child-led learning but decreases in some other aspects of quality. There were no impacts on NQTs’ student learning outcomes. The findings highlight system level challenges with both the posting of NQTs and the absence of support in their first teaching year. Implications for global early childhood education policy and teacher education are discussed.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; CA:AandC; CCZ:Ghana; CL:en; CL:pt; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:R; CT:T; F:curriculum; F:learning; F:motivation; F:outcomes; F:policy; F:teaching; P:measurement; P:services; P:teacher education; P:teacher training; P:teachers; R:impact; R:trial; T:Training; Z:early childhood education; Z:kindergarten; Z:pre-service training; Z:sub-Saharan Africa; Z:teacher training; _C:Ghana GHA; publicImportV1

Measuring and predicting process quality in Ghanaian pre-primary classrooms using the Teacher Instructional Practices and Processes System (TIPPS) - Wolf, Sharon; Raza, Mahjabeen; Kim, Sharon; Aber, J. Lawrence; Behrman, Jere; Seidman, Edward (Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2018)
© 2018 Elsevier Inc. In recent years, there has been an increase in the demand for and supply of early childhood education (ECE) in low- and middle-income countries. There is also growing awareness that unless ECE is of high quality, children may attend school but not learn. There is a large literature on the conceptualization and measurement of ECE quality in the United States that focuses on the nature of teacher-child interactions. Efforts to expand access to high quality ECE in low- and middle-income countries will require similar measurement efforts that are theoretically-grounded and culturally-adapted. This paper assesses the factor structure and concurrent validity of an observational classroom quality tool to assess teacher-child interactions—the Teacher Instructional Practices and Processes System©(TIPPS; Seidman et al., 2013)—in Ghanaian pre-primary classrooms. We find evidence of three conceptually distinct but empirically correlated domains of quality: Facilitating Deeper Learning (FDL), Supporting Student Expression (SSE), and Emotional Support and Behavior Management (ESBM). Teachers’ schooling level, training in early childhood development, and professional well-being positively predict the three quality domains in different ways. SSE and ESBM predict classroom end-of-the-school-year academic outcomes, and SSE predicts classroom end-of-the-school-year social-emotional outcomes. Implications for the field of international education and global ECE policy and research are discussed.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:LOW; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:D; CT:F; CT:P; CT:R; CT:T; D:middle-income country; F:access; F:learning; F:outcomes; F:policy; P:culture; P:measurement; P:nature; P:social; P:teacher education; P:teachers; R:observation; T:Training; Z:Pre-primary school; Z:Process quality; Z:School readiness; Z:Sub-Saharan Africa; Z:Teacher education; Z:Teacher-child interactions; _C:Ghana GHA; publicImportV1

Incidence of malaria (per 1,000 population at risk) - Sierra Leone, Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) | Data - World Bank (2018)

OECS-Systematic-Regional-Diagnostic-P165001-1.pdf - World Bank (2018)

Sierra Leone: Human Capital Index - World Bank (2018)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

World Development Report 2018: Learning to Realize Education's Promise - World Bank (World Development Report, 2018)
World Development Report 2018: LEARNING to Realize Education’s Promise
Keywords: C:Low- and middle-income countries; CitedIn:PhD_Thesis; EDUCATION; EDUCATION SYSTEMS; HUMAN CAPITAL; LEARNING CRISIS; PRIMARY EDUCATION; SCHOOL MANAGEMENT; SECONDARY EDUCATION; SHARED PROSPERITY; SKILLS GAP; SOCIAL COHESION; SOCIOEMOTIONAL SKILLS

Assistive Technology in the African Region: Results of an Online Rapid Assistive Technology Capacity Survey - World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (2018)

Sierra Leone population 2020 - WorldPop (2018)
RF-based gridded population distribution datasets produced in the framework of the Global Project - Funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1134076)
Keywords: Population distribution, Population, Dasymetric disaggregation; _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Can Touchscreen Devices be Used to Facilitate Young Children’s Learning? A Meta-Analysis of Touchscreen Learning Effect - Xie, Heping; Zhou, Zongkui; Peng, Ji; Qin, Mengyuan; Huang, Xuzhe; Tian, Fei (Frontiers in psychology, 2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Educational Resource Management System Based on JSP Technology - Xu, Qin; Zhou, Zhongli; Yang, Dexiang (Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice, 2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Disclosable Restructuring Paper-Support to Implementation of the Regional Education Strategy-P158836 - Yang, Hongyu (The World Bank, 2018)

Thinking Critically in Space: Toward a Mixed-Methods Geospatial Approach to Education Policy Analysis - Yoon, Ee-Seul; Lubienski, Christopher (Educational Researcher, 2018)
Keywords: Lebanon_event_2021; _C:Canada CAN; _C:China CHN; _C:New Zealand NZL; _C:Russian Federation RUS; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Mode of tele-communication and software used by children with hearing impairment - Zahra, Arjamand; Khan, Sikander Ghayas; Butt, Ayesha Kamal; Noreen, Hafsa; Saeed, Muhammad Imtiaz; Iftikhar, Nayab (Biomedical Research, 2018)
Objective: The study is being conducted to find out mode of tele-communication and software used by children with hearing impairment. Methodology: This cross-sectional study was done at special education centers and schools in Lahore and Sheikhupura. Data was collected from children with hearing impairment by using a questionnaire of 11 items about the modes of tele-communication and software used by children with hearing impairment. Sample size was 362 which was calculated by using online sample size calculator. The population includes male and female children with mild, moderate, severe and profound hearing impairment studying in special education schools of Lahore and Sheikhupura. All these children use hearing aid and have congenital bilateral hearing loss. Results: This study shows that almost 80% population of children with hearing impairment know about computer and mobile. They also have awareness about the use of computer, Facebook, e-mail etc. In addition, 40 to 50% children with hearing impairment use Skype, Facebook and e-mail as a communication tool. Conclusion: The conclusion from this study is that most of the children use computer and mobile on daily basis in schools and homes for communication. Mild to moderate hearing loss children benefit from these devices between the ages of 10 to 20 y.

A Systematic Review of Learning and Teaching with Tablets. - Zhang, Lechen; Nouri, Jalal (International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; literature / systematic review; ⛔ No DOI found

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

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

스마트폰을 이용한 한국 간호대학생 대상 간호교육의 통합적 고찰 - 신혜원; 이정민; 김신정 (한국간호교육학회지, 2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Meta-analysis of action video game impact on perceptual, attentional, and cognitive skills. - Bediou, Benoit; Adams, Deanne M.; Mayer, Richard E.; Tipton, Elizabeth; Green, C. Shawn; Bavelier, Daphne (Psychological Bulletin, 2018)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

The Effectiveness of Digital Game-Based Vocabulary Learning: A Framework-Based View of Meta-Analysis - Chen, Meng-Hua; Tseng, Wen-Ta; Hsiao, Tsung-Yuan (British Journal of Educational Technology, 2018)
This study presents the results of a meta-analytic study about the effects of digital game-based learning (DGBL) on vocabulary. The results of the study showed that the effects of DGBL on vocabulary learning may vary with game design features (Q = 5.857, df = 1, p = 0.016), but not with learners' age (Q = 0.906, df = 1, p = 0.341) or linguistic background (Q = 0.0001, df = 1, p = 0.994). In light of the research findings, Csikszentmihalyi's (1990) Flow Theory was adopted to theorize the role of game design in DGBL. It is proposed that a hierarchy should exist on the "challenge" axis in the Flow Theory, with adventure-oriented games above non-adventure-based games along the "challenge" axis. The theoretical underpinning is that the dynamic equilibrium between challenge and abilities can function independently of the effects of learners' age and linguistic background.
Keywords: Age Differences; Computer Games; Design; Instructional Effectiveness; Meta Analysis; Native Language; Role; Statistical Analysis; Theories; Vocabulary Development

Building an online community: student teachers' perceptions on the advantages of using social networking services in a teacher education program - Habibi, Akhmad; Mukinin, Amirul; Riyanto, Yatim; Prasohjo, Lantip Diat; Sulistiyo, Urip; Sofwan, Muhammad; Saudagar, Ferdiaz (Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2018)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Building an online community: student teachers' perceptions on the advantages of using social networking services in a teacher education program - Habibi, Akhmad; Mukinin, Amirul; Riyanto, Yatim; Prasohjo, Lantip Diat; Sulistiyo, Urip; Sofwan, Muhammad; Saudagar, Ferdiaz (Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2018)
This inquiry examined student teachers' perceptions on the advantages of using Social Networking Services (SNS) in an English teacher education program at a public university in Jambi, Indonesia to ease the communication, supervision, discussion, and report submissions between supervisors and student teachers. The networking types included in the program are Whatsapp, Telegram, Email, and Google Form. The method of the research was qualitative through using focus group discussions as the technique of collecting data involving forty-two student teachers. We organized our analysis and discussion around their perceptions and the contexts in which the advantages they perceived emerge. The analyses of the texts revealed that two salient themes with their sub-themes related to the advantages of using Social Networking Services (SNS) in a teacher education program were social interaction (peer discussion and platform to interact with supervisors or lecturers) and learning motivation and experience supports (self-directed learning, promotes critical thinking, content engagement). Some pedagogical and social implications are also discussed.
Keywords: Case Studies; College Students; Computer Mediated Communication; Critical Thinking; Data Analysis; ERIC, Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Educational Benefits; Focus Groups; Foreign Countries; Group Discussion; Higher Education; Independent Study; Indonesia; Interpersonal Communication; Learner Engagement; Learning Motivation; Practicums; Preservice Teacher Education; Qualitative Research; Social Networks; Student Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Education Programs; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2097353; __finaldtb

Improving educational outcomes & reducing absenteeism at remote villages with mobile technology and WhatsApp: findings from rural India - Nedungadi, Prema; Mulki, Karunya; Raman, Raghu (Education and Information Technologies, 2018)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Improving educational outcomes & reducing absenteeism at remote villages with mobile technology and WhatsApp: findings from rural India - Nedungadi, Prema; Mulki, Karunya; Raman, Raghu (Education and Information Technologies, 2018)
Reduction of teacher and student absenteeism, together with consistent teacher support and training, are critical factors in improving the quality of education in rural India. As part of an ongoing project involving schools and educational centers in rural areas spread across 21 Indian states, this study investigated how implementation of two simple, accessible technologies could not only reduce absenteeism but also increase teachers' effectiveness and improve student performance. In addition to students and teachers, key stakeholders included educational coordinators who provided support and monitoring regarding use of WhatsApp and two additional apps designed specifically to support simple educational improvements. In our study we coded and analyzed nine months of messages (n = 8968), both photographs and texts, posted by 26 participants. The number of text messages related to attendance was strongly positively correlated with frequency of interactions between coordinators and teachers. Our approach resulted in increased teacher and student attendance, as well as improvements in lessons and other planned educational activities. This model functions well in rural settings where there is poor internet connectivity and lack of supporting infrastructure. Remote schools can easily adopt this tablet-based model to reduce teacher absenteeism, improve teaching techniques, improve educational resources, and increase student performance.
Keywords: Absenteeism; Academic Achievement; Attendance; Attendance Patterns; Computer Oriented Programs; Computers--Information Science And Information Theory; ERIC, Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Educational Opportunities; Educational Quality; Educational technology; Foreign Countries; ICT; India; Monitoring; Quality of education; Rural Areas; Rural areas; Rural education; School education; Software; Students; Teacher Effectiveness; Teacher absence; Teacher monitoring; Teachers; Tele-education; WhatsApp; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2097863; __finaldtb

The effectiveness of integrating mobile devices with inquiry-based learning on students' learning achievements: a meta-analysis - Zheng, Lanqin; Li, Xin; Tian, Lu; Cui, Panpan (International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation, 2018)
Mobile devices are gaining more and more popularity in recent years. Researchers and practitioners took advantages of mobile devices to facilitate inquiry-based learning in the past decade. Although there were many studies that using mobile devices in inquiry-based learning, the systematic review of the effectiveness of integrating mobile devices with inquiry-based learning remained lacking. This meta-analysis examined 34 empirical studies with 2316 participants on integrating mobile devices with inquiry-based learning from 2007 to 2016. The results indicated that there was a high effect size of 0.91 for the application of mobile devices in improving students' learning achievements. The features of moderator variables were also deeply analysed and synthesised based on the content analysis of all studies. The results together with the implications for practices and research were also discussed in detail.
Keywords: inquiry-based learning; learning achievement; meta-analysis; mobile devices

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

What have we learned after ten years of systematic reviews in international development? - Waddington, Hugh; Masset, Edoardo; Jimenez, Emmanuel (Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2018)
The paper discusses the role of systematic evidence in helping make better decisions to reach global development targets. Coming at the end of the ﬁrst decade of serious funding and support for systematic evidence generation in development economics and development studies, the paper presents opportunities and challenges for the continued development of systematic review methodologies. It concludes by introducing the papers collected in the issue, which make and demonstrate the case for theory-based approaches to evidence synthesis.

Theory-based systematic reviews - White, Howard (Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2018)
It has been common to say that studies should address not just the question of what works, but also how, where, for whom and at what cost? A unifying framework for such an approach is the theory of change. This paper lays out an approach for using such a theory-based approach to systematic reviews, discussing issues which arise in mixed-methods causal chain analysis. I illustrate the funnel of attrition which is a heuristic device to understand why effect sizes are lower at the higher reaches of the causal chain, including why participation is less than usually expected. Examples are given from the international development sector.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; CLL:en; Systematic reviews; causal chain analysis; impact evaluation; publicImportV1; theory-based approach

Education Sector Plan, 2018-2020: Getting It Right – Service Delivery, Integrity and Learning in Sierra Leone - Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (Government of Sierra Leone, 2018)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Assessing organizational implementation context in the education sector: confirmatory factor analysis of measures of implementation leadership, climate, and citizenship - Lyon, Aaron R.; Cook, Clayton R.; Brown, Eric C.; Locke, Jill; Davis, Chayna; Ehrhart, Mark; Aarons, Gregory A. (Implementation Science, 2018)
A substantial literature has established the role of the inner organizational setting on the implementation of evidence-based practices in community contexts, but very little of this research has been extended to the education sector, one of the most common settings for the delivery of mental and behavioral health services to children and adolescents. The current study examined the factor structure, psychometric properties, and interrelations of an adapted set of pragmatic organizational instruments measuring key aspects of the organizational implementation context in schools: (1) strategic implementation leadership, (2) strategic implementation climate, and (3) implementation citizenship behavior.
Keywords: Education; Implementation citizenship; Implementation climate; Implementation leadership; Reliability; Schools; Structural validity

Moving toward the automation of the systematic review process: a summary of discussions at the second meeting of International Collaboration for the Automation of Systematic Reviews (ICASR) - O’Connor, Annette M.; Tsafnat, Guy; Gilbert, Stephen B.; Thayer, Kristina A.; Wolfe, Mary S. (Systematic Reviews, 2018)
The second meeting of the International Collaboration for Automation of Systematic Reviews (ICASR) was held 3–4 October 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. ICASR is an interdisciplinary group whose aim is to maximize the use of technology for conducting rapid, accurate, and efficient systematic reviews of scientific evidence. Having automated tools for systematic review should enable more transparent and timely review, maximizing the potential for identifying and translating research findings to practical application. The meeting brought together multiple stakeholder groups including users of summarized research, methodologists who explore production processes and systematic review quality, and technologists such as software developers, statisticians, and vendors. This diversity of participants was intended to ensure effective communication with numerous stakeholders about progress toward automation of systematic reviews and stimulate discussion about potential solutions to identified challenges. The meeting highlighted challenges, both simple and complex, and raised awareness among participants about ongoing efforts by various stakeholders. An outcome of this forum was to identify several short-term projects that participants felt would advance the automation of tasks in the systematic review workflow including (1) fostering better understanding about available tools, (2) developing validated datasets for testing new tools, (3) determining a standard method to facilitate interoperability of tools such as through an application programming interface or API, and (4) establishing criteria to evaluate the quality of tools’ output. ICASR 2016 provided a beneficial forum to foster focused discussion about tool development and resources and reconfirm ICASR members’ commitment toward systematic reviews’ automation.
Keywords: Automation; Data abstraction; Data extraction; Evidence synthesis; Priority ranking; Systematic review; Tools

What is global citizenship education? - UNESCO (UNESCO, 2018)
Global Citizenship Education (GCED) aims to empower learners of all ages to assume active roles, both locally and globally, in building more peaceful, tolerant, inclusive and secure societies. GCED is based on the three domains of learning - cognitive, socio-emotional and behavioural. Cognitive: knowledge and thinking skills necessary to better understand the world and its complexities. Socio-emotional: values, attitudes and social skills that enable learners to develop affectively, psychosocially, and physically and to enable them to live together with others respectfully and peacefully.

Effectiveness of leadership capacity building in the health sector - Tull, Kerina (2018)
Although there are options available for building health workers’ and health policy makers’ capacity to become stronger leaders (i.e. as public health leaders or managers), there is little evidence that specific training or courses lead to sustainably better leadership and management skills. It is argued that the most effective types of capacity building processes to improve leadership skills in the health sector are monthly intensive training (e.g. ‘Global Nursing Policy Leadership Institute Programme’, GNPLI), or one-year fellowships with mentorship (e.g. ‘Improving Global Health through Learning Development’ programme, IGH) as part of UK-LIC/LMIC partnership programmes.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

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

Teaching approaches and strategies that work; Keeping children engaged and achieving in mathematics - New Zealand Government (2018)
Keywords: C:New Zealand

A Comprehensive Situation Analysis of Teachers and the Teaching Profession in Sierra Leone: Final report presented to the Teaching Service Commission - Teaching Service Commission; Wright, Dr. Cream (Global Partnership for Education; World Bank, 2018)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Online tools supporting the conduct and reporting of systematic reviews and systematic maps: a case study on CADIMA and review of existing tools - Kohl, Christian; McIntosh, Emma J.; Unger, Stefan; Haddaway, Neal R.; Kecke, Steffen; Schiemann, Joachim; Wilhelm, Ralf (Environmental Evidence, 2018)
Systematic reviews and systematic maps represent powerful tools to identify, collect, evaluate and summarise primary research pertinent to a specific research question or topic in a highly standardised and reproducible manner. Even though they are seen as the “gold standard” when synthesising primary research, systematic reviews and maps are typically resource-intensive and complex activities. Thus, managing the conduct and reporting of such reviews can become a time consuming and challenging task. This paper introduces the open access online tool CADIMA, which was developed through a collaboration between the Julius Kühn-Institut and the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence, in order to increase the efficiency of the evidence synthesis process and facilitate reporting of all activities to maximise methodological rigour. Furthermore, we analyse how CADIMA compares with other available tools by providing a comprehensive summary of existing software designed for the purposes of systematic review management. We show that CADIMA is the only available open access tool that is designed to: (1) assist throughout the systematic review/map process; (2) be suited to reviews broader than medical sciences; (3) allow for offline data extraction; and, (4) support working as a review team.
Keywords: Evidence synthesis; Managing systems; Rapid review; Review management; Systematic review software; Text mining; Time management; _Added-ailr-2024

Implementation research: The unambiguous cornerstone of implementation science (R&E Search for Evidence, 2018)
By Theresa Hoke: This blog post defines implementation research and outlines why it makes for such a useful concept in development.

Synergies Between the Principles for Digital Development and Four Case Studies - Haßler, Björn; Broadbent, E.; Cunningham, A.; Chimombo, J.; Jamil, B. R.; Kauthria, R.; Lake, L.; Rose, P.; Sarfraz, S.; Szekely, M. (Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, 2018)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; Björn-CV-OECS; _bjoern_cv; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _yl:b

A tale of two communication tools: discussion-forum and mobile instant-messaging apps in collaborative learning - Sun, Zhong; Lin, Chin-Hsi; Wu, Minhua; Zhou, Jianshe; Luo, Liming (British Journal of Educational Technology, 2018)
Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) has shown considerable promise, but thus far the literature has tended to focus on individual technological tools, without due regard for how the choice of one such tool over another impacts CSCL, either in outline or in detail. The present study, therefore, directly compared the learning-related uses of an online discussion forum against such use of a mobile instant-messaging app by the same group of 78 upper-division undergraduate pre-service teachers in China. The participants were asked to use one of the two communication tools during the first of three learning activities, then to switch to the other during the second, and to choose their preferred tool for the third. Based on the results of content analysis, social-network analysis and a survey of the students' attitudes, it was found that while both tools facilitated collaborative learning, they appeared to have different affordances. Specifically, using the online discussion forum resulted in more communication aimed at knowledge construction, while using the mobile instant-messaging app resulted in more social interactions.
Keywords: Applications programs; China; Collaborative learning; Collaborative virtual environments; Communication; Computer Mediated Communication; Computer Software; Computer assisted instruction--CAI; Content Analysis; Content analysis; Cooperative Learning; ERIC, Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Education--Teaching Methods And Curriculum; Educational technology; Foreign Countries; Handheld Devices; Higher Education; Learning; Network Analysis; Network analysis; Preferences; Preservice Teachers; Social Networks; Social factors; Student Attitudes; Student Surveys; Synchronous Communication; Telecommunications; Tools; Undergraduate Students; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2096807; __finaldtb

Reducing Physical Violence Toward Primary School Students With Disabilities - Devries, Karen; Kuper, Hannah; Knight, Louise; Allen, Elizabeth; Kyegombe, Nambusi; Banks, Lena Morgon; Kelly, Susan; Naker, Dipak (Journal of Adolescent Health, 2018)
Purpose We tested whether the Good School Toolkit reduces physical violence from peers and school staff toward students with and without disabilities in Ugandan primary schools. Methods We conducted a cluster randomized controlled trial, with data collected via cross-sectional surveys in 2012 and 2014. Forty-two primary schools in Luwero District, Uganda, were randomly assigned to receive the Good School Toolkit for 18 months, or to a waitlisted control group. The primary outcome was past week physical violence from school staff, measured by primary 5, 6, and 7 students' (aged 11–14 years) self-reports using the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Child Abuse Screening Tool-Child Institutional. Disability was assessed through the six Short Set Washington Group questions on functioning. Analyses were by intention to treat. Results At endline, 53% of control group students with no functional difficulties reported violence from peers or school staff, versus 84% of students with a disability. Prevalence of past week physical violence from school staff was lower in intervention schools than in the control schools after the intervention, in students with no functional difficulties (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = .41, 95% confidence interval [CI .26–.65]), students with some functional difficulties (aOR = .36, 95% CI .21–.63), and students with disabilities (aOR = .29, 95% CI .14–.59). The intervention also reduced violence from peers in young adolescents, with no evidence of a difference in effect by disability status. Conclusions The Good School Toolkit is an effective intervention to reduce violence perpetrated by peers and school staff against young adolescents with disabilities in Ugandan primary schools.
Keywords: Adolescents; Children; Disabilities; Physical abuse; School-based interventions; Uganda; Violence

Resolving the “Cost-Effective but Unaffordable” Paradox: Estimating the Health Opportunity Costs of Nonmarginal Budget Impacts - Lomas, James; Claxton, Karl; Martin, Stephen; Soares, Marta (Value in Health, 2018)

An overview of e-learning in China: History, challenges and opportunities - Wang, Yan; Liu, Xuan; Zhang, Zhenhong (Research in Comparative and International Education, 2018)
The Chinese government has attached great importance to the development of e-learning since its emergence in the 1990s. As a consequence of the implementation of a series of policies, China has made significant achievements in the e-learning arena with respect to infrastructure construction, production of resources, academic education, non-academic training, and education for disadvantaged groups. However, due to the constraints of China’s traditional culture, information literacy, and educational mechanisms, challenges have emerged in the implementation of e-learning that need urgently to be addressed. As e-learning in China continues to grow, major research areas such as students’ and teachers’ perspectives on developments in e-learning, teachers’ pedagogical capacity and ongoing professional development in e-learning settings, and the production of more convenient and useful e-learning resources, are likely to be topics of continuing research interest.
Keywords: Challenges; China; ICT in education; e-learning; professional development; successes

The Politics of Learning: Directions for Future Research - Pritchett, Lant (Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), 2018)

Global Public Goods: Example document for licensing and publishing documents - Haßler, Björn (2018)
This is an example document to illustrate licensing and publishing, including upload to Zenodo.
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _yl:d; ⛔ No DOI found

Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South - Chapter summaries - Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl (2018)
Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution and against which use of OER might be evaluated. These challenges include: unequal access to education; variable quality of educational resources, teaching and student performance; and increasing cost and concern about the sustainability of education. The Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project was a four-year research initiative to investigate in what ways and under what circumstances the adoption of OER could address the increasing demand for accessible, relevant, high quality and affordable education in the Global South. The project was comprised of 18 sub-projects, the findings from which are captured as chapters in the edited volume, Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South. The summaries presented here provide an overview of chapters’ study contexts, methodological approaches, key findings and recommendations, as well as links to accompanying open datasets. Of the total 16 chapters, 12 are based on sub-project findings and four are synthesis and overview chapters. The chapters are organised into five main sections: Overview, South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and Conclusion. Within these broader sections, chapters are presented in sequence according to whether the research addresses basic or higher education.
Keywords: adoption and impact of OER in the global south; global south; oep; oer; open educational practices; open educational resources; summaries

Sustaining and Scaling Pedagogic Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Grounded Insights For Teacher Professional Development - Haßler, Bjoern; Hennessy, Sara; Hofmann, Riikka (Journal of Learning for Development, 2018)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

ClassBeacons: Designing Distributed Visualization of Teachers' Physical Proximity in the Classroom - An, Pengcheng; Bakker, Saskia; Ordanovski, Sara; Taconis, Ruurd; Eggen, Berry (Association for Computing Machinery, 2018)
As necessary for creating a learner-centered environment, nowadays teachers are expected to be more mindful about their proximity distribution: how to spend time in different locations of the classroom with individual learners. However feedback on this is only given to teachers by experts after classroom observation. In this paper we present the design and evaluation of ClassBeacons, a novel ambient information system that visualizes teachers' physical proximity through tangible devices distributed over the classroom. An expert review and a field evaluation with eight secondary school teachers were conducted to explore potential values of such a system and gather user experiences. Results revealed rich insights into how the system could influence teaching and learning, as well as how a distributed display can be seamlessly integrated into teachers' routines.
Keywords: ambient information system; classroom; distributed display; learner-centered education; teacher proximity

Donor Organizations and the Principles for Digital Development: A Landscape Assessment and Gap Analysis - Haßler, Björn; Brugha, Meaghan; Muyoya, Chisenga; Mitchell, Joel; Hollow, David; Jackson, Alan (Digital Impact Alliance, 2018)
Donor Organizations & the Principles for Digital Development: A Landscape Assessment and Gap Analysis. (Principles for Digital Development — Resource Development Program Asset No. 1)   Also available at https://digitalprinciples.org/resource/donor-organizations-the-principles-for-digital-development-a-landscape-assessment-and-gap-analysis/, https://digitalprinciples.org/wp-content/uploads/PDD2018_interactive.pdf
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; Björn-CV-OECS; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Belgium BEL; _C:Cambodia KHM; _C:Canada CAN; _C:China CHN; _C:Finland FIN; _C:France FRA; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Liberia LBR; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Philippines PHL; _C:Portugal PRT; _C:Rwanda RWA; _C:Spain ESP; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:Zambia ZMB; _C:Zimbabwe ZWE; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; _bjoern_cv; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _yl:c; docs.opendeved.net

Classroom dialogue and digital technologies: A scoping review - Major, L.; Warwick, P.; Rasmussen, I.; Ludvigsen, S.; Cook, V. (Education and Information Technologies, 2018)
This article presents a systematic scoping review of the literature focusing on interactions between classroom dialogue and digital technology. The first review of its type in this area, it both maps extant research and, through a process of thematic synthesis, investigates the role of technology in supporting classroom dialogue. In total, 72 studies (published 2000–2016) are analysed to establish the characteristics of existing evidence and to identify themes. The central intention is to enable researchers and others to access an extensive base of studies, thematically analysed, when developing insights and interpretations in a rapidly changing field of study. The discussion illustrates the interconnectedness of key themes, placing the studies in a methodological and theoretical context and examining challenges for the future.
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Denmark DNK; _C:Finland FIN; _C:France FRA; _C:Greece GRC; _C:Israel ISR; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Mexico MEX; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:New Zealand NZL; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Spain ESP; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; literature / systematic review

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

Mathematical modelling in teacher education: dealing with institutional constraints - Barquero, Berta; Bosch, Marianna; Romo, Avenilde (ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2018)
Considering the general problem of integrating mathematical modelling into current educational systems, this paper focuses on the "ecological dimension" of this problem--the institutional constraints that hinder the development of mathematical modelling as a normalised teaching activity--and the inevitable step of the professional development of teachers. Within the framework of the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic, this step is approached using the "study and research paths for teacher education" (SRP-TE), an inquiry-based process combining practical and theoretical questioning of school mathematical activities. We present a research study focusing on the design and analysis of an online and distance-learning course for in-service mathematics teachers based on the SRP-TE methodology. This course starts from the initial question of how to analyse, adapt and integrate a learning process related to mathematical modelling and how to sustain its long-term development. Our analysis is based on a case study consisting in four successive editions of a course for Latin American in-service mathematics teachers held at the Centre for Applied Research in Advanced Science and Technology in Mexico. The starting point is a modelling activity about forecasting the number of Facebook users, which includes functional modelling and regression. The results show how the course represents a valuable instrument to help teachers progress in the critical issue of identifying institutional constraints--most of them beyond the scope of action of teachers and students and not approached by previous research--hindering the integration of mathematical modelling in current secondary schools.
Keywords: Barriers; Case Studies; Distance Education; ERIC, Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Ecological Factors; Foreign Countries; Inservice Teacher Education; Instructional Design; Mathematical Models; Mathematics Teachers; Mexico; Online Courses; Prediction; Regression (Statistics); Social Media; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2095891; __finaldtb

Digital game-based learning for K-12 mathematics education: A meta-analysis - Byun, JaeHwan; Joung, Eunmi (School Science and Mathematics, 2018)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Investigating effects of using digital video in teacher training in Cambodia - Lok, Leandra; Schellings, Gonny; Brouwer, Niels; Brok, Perry Den (Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2018)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

Investigating effects of using digital video in teacher training in Cambodia - Lok, Leandra; Schellings, Gonny; Brouwer, Niels; Den Brok, Perry (Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2018)
While research has shown that video can be an effective tool in the professional learning of teachers in industrialized countries, it is unknown whether this is also true for other countries with distinctive cultural, political, and historical contexts, such as Cambodia. This paper presents results from a study which examined the effectiveness of using video to introduce student-centered teaching to teachers in Cambodia. The training consisted of collaboratively watching and discussing videos of teaching practices. A 2x2 design was used, varying group conditions (team versus pair) and relevance of the material (model video versus action video). The findings indicated that although it was not possible to determine if there had been changes in teacher behavior, using video had led to an increase in teachers' perceived knowledge of student-centered teaching, especially for the team and the model video conditions.
Keywords: Active Learning; Behavior Change; Cambodia; Cultural Context; ERIC, Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Education--Computer Applications; Faculty Development; Foreign Countries; Instructional Effectiveness; Knowledge Base for Teaching; Learning; Mixed Methods Research; Questionnaires; Student Centered Learning; Studies; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Behavior; Teacher education; Teachers; Teaching; Teaching Methods; Training; Video; Video Technology; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2095890; __finaldtb; ⛔ No DOI found

Student Perceptions of the Creation and Reuse of Digital Educational Resources in a Community Development-Oriented Organisation - Paskevicius, Michael; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl (http://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/253/284, 2018)
This case study explores students’ perceptions of the creation and reuse of digital teaching and learning resources in their work as tutors as part of a volunteer community development organisation at a large South African University. Through a series of semi-structured interviews, student-tutors reflect on their use and reuse of digital educational resources, and identify the challenges they experience in curating, adapting, and reusing educational resources for use in their teaching activities. The data is analysed qualitatively within the framework of an activity system (Engeström, 1987) to surface the primary systemic tensions that student-tutors face in the reuse of resources found online as well as open educational resources (OER). This study found that student-tutors sourced and used educational materials from the Internet, largely irrespective of their licensing conditions, while also creating and remixing a substantial number of educational materials to make them suitable for use in their context. We conclude that greater awareness of the availability of OER and explicit open licencing for works sourced and created within community development organisations could enhance sharing, collaboration, and help sustain high impact resources.
Keywords: _C:Canada CAN; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Spain ESP; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Zambia ZMB; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Nigeria - University, Kano; S.M. Ali (2018)

Drone Delivery Start-Up Zipline Beats Amazon, UPS And FedEx To The Punch - CNBC (2018)

A computational literature review of the field of System Dynamics from 1974 to 2017 - Kunc, Martin; Mortenson, Michael J.; Vidgen, Richard (Journal of Simulation, 2018)
System Dynamics celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2017. While there have been numerous special issues in diverse journals that bring together work by System Dynamics scholars who share similar research interests, there have been no systematic reviews of scholarly activity across the broad field. This paper presents a computational literature review of the field from 1974 to 2017. A CLR automates the analysis of research articles with analysis of content (topic modelling of abstracts) to identify emergent themes in the literature. We performed a broad review of the field by initially searching using the term “System Dynamics” with more than 8000 articles. However, the results obtained were not satisfactory so we decided to restrict our sample to less than 800 articles from recognised journals and proceedings. After evaluation of the results obtained from topic modelling, we decided to use 51 topics covering most of the articles in our sample. A list of 51 topics provides enough granularity to identify relevant patterns of activity within the community of System Dynamics scholars. For each of these 51 topics, we present a commentary on the key insights obtained.
Keywords: System Dynamics; computational literature review; healthcare; methodology; supply chain

Spatially disaggregated population estimates in the absence of national population and housing census data - Wardrop, N. A.; Jochem, W. C.; Bird, T. J.; Chamberlain, H. R.; Clarke, D.; Kerr, D.; Bengtsson, L.; Juran, S.; Seaman, V.; Tatem, A. J. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018)
Population numbers at local levels are fundamental data for many applications, including the delivery and planning of services, election preparation, and response to disasters. In resource-poor settings, recent and reliable demographic data at subnational scales can often be lacking. National population and housing census data can be outdated, inaccurate, or missing key groups or areas, while registry data are generally lacking or incomplete. Moreover, at local scales accurate boundary data are often limited, and high rates of migration and urban growth make existing data quickly outdated. Here we review past and ongoing work aimed at producing spatially disaggregated local-scale population estimates, and discuss how new technologies are now enabling robust and cost-effective solutions. Recent advances in the availability of detailed satellite imagery, geopositioning tools for field surveys, statistical methods, and computational power are enabling the development and application of approaches that can estimate population distributions at fine spatial scales across entire countries in the absence of census data. We outline the potential of such approaches as well as their limitations, emphasizing the political and operational hurdles for acceptance and sustainable implementation of new approaches, and the continued importance of traditional sources of national statistical data.
Keywords: census; geostatistics; population; remote sensing; surveys

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

Design and evaluation of a web-based decision support tool for district-level disease surveillance in a low-resource setting - Pore, Meenal; Sengeh, David M.; Mugambi, Purity; Purswani, Nuri V.; Sesay, Tom; Arnold, Anna Lena; Tran, Anh-Minh A.; Myers, Ralph (AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2018)
During the 2014 West African Ebola Virus outbreak it became apparent that the initial response to the outbreak was hampered by limitations in the collection, aggregation, analysis and use of data for intervention planning. As part of the post-Ebola recovery phase, IBM Research Africa partnered with the Port Loko District Health Management Team (DHMT) in Sierra Leone and GOAL Global, to design, implement and deploy a web-based decision support tool for district-level disease surveillance. This paper discusses the design process and the functionality of the first version of the system. The paper presents evaluation results prior to a pilot deployment and identifies features for future iterations. A qualitative assessment of the tool prior to pilot deployment indicates that it improves the timeliness and ease of using data for making decisions at the DHMT level.
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Approaches to Managing Public Sector Basic Education Systems for Delivery of School and Classroom-Focused Results - Joynes, Chris (2018)
This report provides a summary of global evidence on effective approaches to improving and reforming public sector basic education systems with a particular focus on delivery of school and classroom-focused results. In keeping with the request, the scope of the report focusses primarily on emerging practices associated with financial management, HR Management, and the use of data-gathering and evidence to inform decision-making at all levels of the system.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Effective Learning Strategies to Improve Basic Education Outcomes - Bolton, Laura (2018)
Improving basic education outcomes is a very broad research area. The time constraints of the helpdesk review directed focus on large-scale reviews of learning strategies in low- and middle-income countries. This was supplemented by rapid searching to see what research could be identified within the limitations of this report that focussed on outcomes on highly marginalised, conflict affected children, or those from federal states. Broader scope strategies to improve learning for other important marginalised groups for example, girls and indigenous populations, are also included.Different systematic reviews emphasise different conclusions. Bashir et al. (2018) highlight a focus on teaching to improve learning. They recommend focus on teacher knowledge, teaching practice, and instructional time.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Aid Agency Approaches to the Design and Delivery of Basic Education Programmes - Joynes, Chris; Plunkett, Roisin (2018)
This report provides a global selection of case studies providing evidence of approaches to the design of basic education interventions by aid agencies. In keeping with the request, the scope of the report focusses as far as possible on outcome-driven approaches, and includes an analysis of any evidence of programmatic responsiveness to need and context.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Should We Treat Data as Labor? Moving beyond "Free" - Arrieta-Ibarra, Imanol; Goff, Leonard; Jiménez-Hernández, Diego; Lanier, Jaron; Weyl, E. Glen (AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018)
In the digital economy, user data is typically treated as capital created by corporations observing willing individuals. This neglects users' roles in creating data, reducing incentives for users, distributing the gains from the data economy unequally, and stoking fears of automation. Instead, treating data (at least partially) as labor could help resolve these issues and restore a functioning market for user contributions, but may run against the near-term interests of dominant data monopsonists who have benefited from data being treated as "free." Countervailing power, in the form of competition, a data labor movement, and/or thoughtful regulation could help restore balance.
Keywords: Computer Programs: General, Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement, Monopsony; Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Final_citation; Segmented Labor Markets

OER Awareness and Use: The Affinity Between Higher Education and K-12 - Blomgren, Constance (The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018)
Educators within Higher Education (HE) and K-12 share in the need for high quality educational resources to assist in the pursuit of teaching and learning. Although there are numerous differences between the two levels of education, there are commonalties in the perceptions of the purpose, practical uses, and challenges that abide in the use of Open Educational Resources (OER). Observations made while producing podcasts and videos for OER awareness, use, and championing, form an exposition of the merits of OER for HE and K-12. Benefits include cost-savings in acquiring resources for teaching and learning as well as user-generated content, instructor creativity, and contextualized and responsively timely learning opportunities. Additionally, the teaching culture of K-12 has historically supported the sharing of learning activities and learning resources. At all levels of education, OER awareness requires a deeper understanding of the changes to teaching and learning borne by open educational practices.
Keywords: Final_citation; HE OER; K-12 OER; OER awareness; OER benefits; cited; existing; open educational practices; open pedagogy

Hackathons as a means of accelerating scientific discoveries and knowledge transfer - Ghouila, Amel; Siwo, Geoffrey Henry; Entfellner, Jean-Baka Domelevo; Panji, Sumir; Button-Simons, Katrina A.; Davis, Sage Zenon; Fadlelmola, Faisal M.; Participants, The DREAM of Malaria Hackathon; Ferdig, Michael T.; Mulder, Nicola; Bensellak, Taoufik; Ghansah, Anita; et al. (Genome Research, 2018)
Scientific research plays a key role in the advancement of human knowledge and pursuit of solutions to important societal challenges. Typically, research occurs within specific institutions where data are generated and subsequently analyzed. Although collaborative science bringing together multiple institutions is now common, in such collaborations the analytical processing of the data is often performed by individual researchers within the team, with only limited internal oversight and critical analysis of the workflow prior to publication. Here, we show how hackathons can be a means of enhancing collaborative science by enabling peer review before results of analyses are published by cross-validating the design of studies or underlying data sets and by driving reproducibility of scientific analyses. Traditionally, in data analysis processes, data generators and bioinformaticians are divided and do not collaborate on analyzing the data. Hackathons are a good strategy to build bridges over the traditional divide and are potentially a great agile extension to the more structured collaborations between multiple investigators and institutions.

How international tests fail to inform policy: The unsolved mystery of Australia’s steady decline in PISA scores - Morsy, Leila; Khavenson, Tatiana; Carnoy, Martin (International Journal of Educational Development, 2018)
Keywords: Educational policies; International tests; Private education; Quality of education; Social class differences

Effectiveness of teachers' guides in the Global South: Scripting, learning outcomes, and classroom utilization - Piper, Benjamin; Sitabkhan, Yasmin; Mejia, Jessica; Betts, Kellie (Research Triangle Park, 2018)
This report presents the results of RTI International Education’s study on teachers' guides across 13 countries and 19 projects. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, we examine how teachers’ guides across the projects differ and find substantial variation in the design and structure of the documents. We develop a scripting index so that the scripting levels of the guides can be compared across projects.
Keywords: _genre:PR-primary_research; _yl:b

Effectiveness of Teachers’ Guides in the Global South: Scripting, Learning Outcomes, and Classroom Utilization - Piper, Benjamin; Sitabkhan, Yasmin; Mejia, Jessica; Betts, Kellie (RTI Press, 2018)
This report presents the results of RTI International Education’s study on teachers' guides across 13 countries and 19 projects. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, we examine how teachers’ guides across the projects differ and find substantial variation in the design and structure of the documents. We develop a scripting index so that the scripting levels of the guides can be compared across projects. The impact results of the programs that use teachers’ guides show significant impacts on learning outcomes, associated with approximately an additional half year of learning, showing that structured teachers’ guides contribute to improved learning outcomes. During observations, we find that teachers make a variety of changes in their classroom instruction from how the guides are written, showing that the utilization of structured teachers’ guides do not create robotic teachers unable to use their own professional skills to teach children. Unfortunately, many changes that teachers make reduce the amount of group work and interactivity that was described in the guides, suggesting that programs should encourage teachers to more heavily utilize the instructional routines designed in the guide. The report includes a set of research-based guidelines that material developers can use to develop teachers’ guides that will support effective instructional practices and help improve learning outcomes. The key takeaway from the report is that structured teachers' guides improve learning outcomes, but that overly scripted teachers' guides are somewhat less effective than simplified teachers' guides that give specific guidance to the teacher but are not written word for word for each lesson in the guide.

Migration Policy Debates - OECD-Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD, 2018)

Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society - Posner, Eric A.; Weyl, E. Glen (Radical Markets, 2018)
Revolutionary ideas on how to use markets to bring about fairness and prosperity for all Many blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the market, right? Radical Markets turns this thinking--and pretty much all conventional thinking about markets, both for and against—on its head. The book reveals bold new ways to organize markets for the good of everyone. It shows how the emancipatory force of genuinely open, free, and competitive markets can reawaken the dormant nineteenth-century spirit of liberal reform and lead to greater equality, prosperity, and cooperation. Eric Posner and Glen Weyl demonstrate why private property is inherently monopolistic, and how we would all be better off if private ownership were converted into a public auction for public benefit. They show how the principle of one person, one vote inhibits democracy, suggesting instead an ingenious way for voters to effectively influence the issues that matter most to them. They argue that every citizen of a host country should benefit from immigration—not just migrants and their capitalist employers. They propose leveraging antitrust laws to liberate markets from the grip of institutional investors and creating a data labor movement to force digital monopolies to compensate people for their electronic data. Only by radically expanding the scope of markets can we reduce inequality, restore robust economic growth, and resolve political conflicts. But to do that, we must replace our most sacred institutions with truly free and open competition— Radical Markets shows how.
Keywords: Final_citation

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

Is standardization the enemy of personalization? Not necessarily - Fisher, Julia Freeland (Christensen Institute, 2018)
A key difference between a system that standardizes to personalize and one that doesn’t is whether it starts with robust diagnostics that put precision first.
Keywords: Final_citation; existing

Human Capital in Iraq - Tull, Kerina (2018)
This rapid review has found that human capital is developing in Iraq after years of stagnation due to the 2003 war, where the health and education sectors were hit particularly strongly (OCHA, 2018:5). About 50% of Iraq’s population is under 19 years old, and youth unemployment is very high at 34.6% (World Bank, 2017). There is a strong need to invest in young people, to release their economic value at the individual, employer, and community levels. A number of plans and strategies to help build collective skills, knowledge, or other intangible assets of individuals are noted in this review. As there are regional differences in human capital development between areas in Iraq, the evidence is divided into regions or governorates, where appropriate.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Ninth Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers - Turabian, Kate L.; Booth, Wayne C.; Colomb, Gregory G.; Williams, Joseph M.; Bizup, Joseph (University of Chicago Press, 2018)

Making progress with the automation of systematic reviews: principles of the International Collaboration for the Automation of Systematic Reviews (ICASR) - Beller, Elaine; Clark, Justin; Tsafnat, Guy; Adams, Clive; Diehl, Heinz; Lund, Hans; Ouzzani, Mourad; Thayer, Kristina; Thomas, James; Turner, Tari; Xia, Jun; Robinson, Karen; et al. (Systematic Reviews, 2018)
Systematic reviews (SR) are vital to health care, but have become complicated and time-consuming, due to the rapid expansion of evidence to be synthesised. Fortunately, many tasks of systematic reviews have the potential to be automated or may be assisted by automation. Recent advances in natural language processing, text mining and machine learning have produced new algorithms that can accurately mimic human endeavour in systematic review activity, faster and more cheaply. Automation tools need to be able to work together, to exchange data and results. Therefore, we initiated the International Collaboration for the Automation of Systematic Reviews (ICASR), to successfully put all the parts of automation of systematic review production together. The first meeting was held in Vienna in October 2015. We established a set of principles to enable tools to be developed and integrated into toolkits.
Keywords: Automation; Collaboration; Systematic review; _TBC for use ailr-2024

Doing Research In and On the Digital: Research Methods across Fields of Inquiry - Costa, Cristina; Condie, Jenna (2018)

Meeting agenda matters: promoting reflective dialogue in teacher communities - Dogan, Selcuk; Yurtseven, Nihal; Tatık, Ramazan Şamil (Professional Development in Education, 2018)
(2018). Meeting agenda matters: promoting reflective dialogue in teacher communities. Professional Development in Education. Ahead of Print.
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Lebanon LBN; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Zambia ZMB; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Building capacity for professional development: the development of teachers as facilitators in Ghana - Perry, Emily; Bevins, Stuart (Professional Development in Education, 2018)
In low- and middle-income countries, cascade models of teacher professional development are often used as routes to educational reform. In these models, external agents deliver professional development, which is then disseminated by in-country facilitators. However, little is known about how to support facilitators of professional development, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. In this study, we report on a model of capacity building for professional development in Ghana. In the context of a large-scale programme of science teacher professional development, a group of Ghanaian teachers gradually assumed responsibility for professional development facilitation, working alongside experienced facilitators from the UK. Using interviews focussed on a storyline technique, we explore the experiences of the Ghanaian teachers as they reflected on their roles. We found the teachers’ epistemological beliefs about teaching were coherent with those of the programme and suggest that this may be an important factor in the success of cascade models of professional development. The teachers gained self-confidence and improved their knowledge and skills of teaching and of professional development facilitation. We propose that this is useful learning for all facilitators and that the model described here is one which is potentially useful for capacity building in other contexts.
Keywords: CPD; Ghana; Professional development; _C:Benin BEN; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:India IND; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Lesotho LSO; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:Somalia SOM; _C:Somaliland XSMLD; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Zambia ZMB; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; capacity building; facilitation; professional learning; science education

Measured and Perceived Conditions of Indoor Environmental Qualities (IEQ) of University Learning Environments in Semi-arid Tropics: a Field Study in Kano-Nigeria - Ali, Sani Muhammad (University of Portsmouth, 2018)
This study investigates the conditions and the levels of satisfaction with indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in naturally ventilated (NV) learning environments in Bayero University, Kano and compares the results to international comfort standards’ thresholds. It examines the thermal and visual comfort, acoustic quality as well as the indoor air quality of six learning environments in the University consisting of four lecture theatres and two laboratories. Researches in IEQ have shown that good quality indoor environment enhances occupants’ comfort, wellbeing, raises their productivity, and most importantly for this research, it raises students’ performances, reduces absenteeism, and reduces stress and fatigue among teachers. IEQ researches are mostly being undertaken in the four most advanced continents that are situated in the temperate regions of the world, but not in subSaharan Africa. Using both measurement and survey methods, internal and external physical parameters (air and radiant temperatures, air velocity, relative humidity, background noise, sound pressure level, horizontal and vertical illumination level, carbon dioxide concentration and particulate matter) were evaluated. The assessments were undertaken three times covering ten months, August 2016 to May 2017, which coincided with the three distinct seasons (warm and wet; cool and dry & hot and dry) in Kano. PMV model, as always, failed to predict the thermal conditions of the learning environments. Similarly some of the measured and calculated IEQ parameters, have not met the thresholds specified by the adaptive components of ASHRAE-55, but were in agreement with EN 15251, the respondents expressed their acceptance of their learning environments, subjectively. This is not surprising as these standards were often based on experiments implemented in developed countries, where the severity of the climatic conditions and the culture are dissimilar to sub Saharan Africa. The outcome of the research is hoped to raise awareness of IEQ potentialities among the academia, building industry professionals, building owners, university managers and other education policy makers in the region.
Keywords: C:Nigeria; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; openalex:n:0; ⛔ No DOI found

Closing the Attainment Gap: Collaboration between Schools in Sierra Leone - Mason, Miriam; Galloway, David; Joyce-Gibbons, Andrew (Educational & Child Psychology, 2018)
Background: UK government policy views collaboration with outstanding schools as a way of helping apparently less successful schools to close the attainment gap. However, there has been little debate about criteria for defining a school's success or failure. Moreover it is unclear which aspects of outstanding schools could readily transfer to other schools. These questions applied when EducAid, an NGO with schools for disadvantaged children in Sierra Leone, was asked to provide a programme of workshops for teachers in neighbouring schools. Aims: (i) To establish whether EducAid's results justified agreeing to the request; (ii) To identify key features of EducAid schools that could be transferable to neighbouring schools; (iii) To propose key features of an evaluation. Methods: Collection of national and local data and analysis of key features of EducAid schools that could, and could not, transfer to other schools. Findings: The limited available data supported a decision that EducAid schools should offer workshops for other schools. Key components of the programme are identified, with a design including an ambitious evaluation framework. Conclusions: To our knowledge, this is the first time that teachers in successful schools have been asked to provide a structured programme of workshops for teachers in neighbouring schools. Discussion focuses on the challenge of inter-school collaboration in a low-income country. This includes the tension between the models of pedagogy and interpersonal relations promoted in the CPD and the constraints imposed by the public examination system.
Keywords: Achievement Gap; Data Collection; Developing Nations; Disadvantaged Youth; Elementary School Teachers; Exit Examinations; Foreign Countries; Institutional Cooperation; Nongovernmental Organizations; Outcomes of Education; Professional Continuing Education; Program Design; Replication (Evaluation); School Closing; School Effectiveness; Workshops; ⛔ No DOI found

Teacher Professional Development and Student Literacy Growth: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis - Basma, Badriah; Savage, Robert (Educational Psychology Review, 2018)
This systematic review explores the impact of teacher professional development (PD) on student reading achievement. The first part of the literature evaluates all available existing systematic reviews and meta-analyses of PD intervention studies. No quality reviews of PD and reading specifically (distinct from ‘attainment’) were found. There was a little overlap of studies in existing reviews. The second part of the systematic review focuses on the most recent intervention studies exploring PD and student reading achievement. The results of a meta-analysis of all high-quality studies are presented in the third part of the paper. This analysis showed no strong evidence of publication bias and an effect size for PD on student literacy of g = 0.225. This effect was moderated by the number of hours of PD whereby studies with fewer than 30 h of PD was significant for student reading outcomes (g = 0.367, p < 0.001) but more than 30 PD hours was not significant (g = 0.143, p > .05). Following a Weight of Evidence assessment, analysis showed that nearly all high-quality articles involved shorter PD. Weight of Evidence was a significant moderator, (g = 0.408, p < 0.001 for high-quality studies, g = 0.077, p > 0.5, n.s., for medium quality studies). Our review suggests that only high-quality studies of short teacher PD currently provide evidence of impact on student’s reading achievement.
Keywords: C: International

Through the looking glass: can classroom observation and coaching improve teacher performance in Brazil? - Bruns, Barbara; Costa, Leandro; Cunha, Nina (Economics of Education Review, 2018)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

A Systematic Review On Education for Sustainable Development: Enhancing TVE Teacher Training Programme - Chinedu C.C.; Wan Mohamed W.A.; Ajah A.O. (Journal of Technical Education and Training, 2018)
As the call for the advancement of TVET deepens, and as skill requirement for vocations transcends traditional job requirements due to technological advancement and innovation. It becomes imperative that workers in the industrial and vocational ambits of nations develop the requisite skills and capacities for work in the 21st century that adheres to sustainable standards and meets market needs also. Thereby, contributing to societal wellbeing and community development. To achieve this goal, teachers in Technical and Vocational Education (TVE) have a crucial to play as they will be responsible for the training of workers and developing their skills and capacities for work necessary to improving societal well-being and community development. The challenge is that technical and vocational teachers are not being trained to develop capabilities for Sustainability. Using a systematic literature review, this paper critically examines the extant literature on education for sustainable development and provides a synthesis of the literature in identifying the shared message that SD and ESD models attempt to represent. Furthermore, the paper discusses the factors that foster societal well-being and community development through an ESD perspective. Conclusively emphasis is paid on the unique and significant role that technical and Vocational teachers can play in contributing towards the transition to sustainable development. Consequently, this paper culminates with an analysis of the various ways TVE can help contribute towards societal wellbeing and community development if SD is rightly integrated within TVE teacher training programs.
Keywords: _genre:LR-literature_review

Contrasting Screen-Time and Green-Time: A Case for Using Smart Technology and Nature to Optimize Learning Processes - Schilhab, Theresa S. S.; Stevenson, Matt P.; Bentsen, Peter (Frontiers in Psychology, 2018)
Keywords: _C:Denmark DNK; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Machine learning vs. Rules and out-of-the-box vs. retrained - Tkaczyk, D.; Collins, A.; Sheridan, P. (2018)

The future of work: Switzerland’s digital opportunity - Bughin, Jacques; Ziegler, Marco; Mischke, Jan; Wenger, Felix; Reich, Angelika; Läubli, Daniel; Schmidt, Minna (McKinsey, 2018)

ROER4D Project Activity Toolkit - Evaluation - Goodier, Sarah (Research on Open Educational Resources for Development project, 2018)
The Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project was a four-year (2013–2017), large-scale networked project which set out to contribute a Global South research perspective on how open educational resources can help to improve access, enhance quality and reduce the cost of education in the Global South. The project engaged a total of 103 researchers in 18 sub-projects across 21 countries from South America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, coordinated by Network Hub teams at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Wawasan Open University. This chapter forms part of a project activity toolkit, which is comprised of five documents outlining activities associated with each of the ROER4D UCT Network Hub pillars of project management activity: networking, evaluation, communications, research capacity building, and curation and dissemination. It is hoped that these chapters will be of practical use to other projects attempting to integrate any of these functions in their operational strategy. The focus of this chapter is on the evaluation activity which took place within the ROER4D project. Using a Utilization-Focused Evaluation (UFE) framework as a scaffold, it outlines and reflects on what evaluation activity was undertaken in the ROER4D project against the 12-step UFE process, why this was done and what was learned from the process. It also offers recommendations for other Global South, large-scale networked projects that may wish to implement an internal, use-focused evaluation process.
Keywords: Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South; CitedIn:eCubed; Done:ReferenceFixed; Evaluation; Global South; OEP; OER; Open Educational Resources; Utilization-Focused Evaluation; eCubed

ROER4D Project Activity Toolkit - Networking - Goodier, Sarah; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl (Research on Open Educational Resources for Development project, 2018)
The Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project was a four-year (2013–2017), large-scale networked project which set out to contribute a Global South research perspective on how open educational resources can help to improve access, enhance quality and reduce the cost of education in the Global South. The project engaged a total of 103 researchers in 18 sub-projects across 21 countries from South America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, coordinated by Network Hub teams at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Wawasan Open University. This chapter forms part of a project activity toolkit, which is comprised of five documents outlining activities associated with each of the ROER4D UCT Network Hub pillars of project management activity: networking, evaluation, communications, research capacity building, and curation and dissemination. It is hoped that these chapters will be of practical use to other projects attempting to integrate any of these functions in their operational strategy. The focus of this chapter is on the networking activities conducted within the ROER4D project. It explores the concept of networking in the ROER4D project context, outlines the project approach towards visualising and analysing the project network, identifies useful tools for network visualisation and offers insights into lessons learned. Overall, it highlights the value of positioning the networking function as a specific project objective in order to better engage current and prospective researchers, educators, publishers, other research projects, advocates and policy-makers.
Keywords: Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South; CitedIn:eCubed; Done:ReferenceFixed; Global South; Networking; OEP; OER; Open Educational Resources; eCubed

ROER4D Project Activity Toolkit - Curation and dissemination - Willmers, Michelle; King, Thomas (Research on Open Educational Resources for Development project, 2018)
The Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project was a four-year (2013–2017), large-scale networked project which set out to contribute a Global South research perspective on how open educational resources can help to improve access, enhance quality and reduce the cost of education in the Global South. The project engaged a total of 103 researchers in 18 sub-projects across 21 countries from South America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, coordinated by Network Hub teams at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Wawasan Open University. This chapter forms part of a project activity toolkit, which is comprised of five documents outlining activities associated with each of the ROER4D UCT Network Hub pillars of project management activity: networking, evaluation, communications, research capacity building, and curation and dissemination (C&D). It is hoped that these chapters will be of practical use to other projects attempting to integrate any of these activities in their operational strategies. While it has a particularly close link to the project’s research capacity building and communications functions, the processes entailed in C&D activity pertained to and supported all aspects of project activity in that they were designed to facilitate the secure storage and findability of content (both internally and externally) and promote collaboration. This document outlines the project’s strategic approach in terms of positioning itself as publisher in the context of an open research framework. It highlights the workflows and processes associated with two key aspects of its C&D activity: publication of a peer-reviewed edited volume and the project’s open data initiative.
Keywords: CitedIn:eCubed; Done:ReferenceFixed; Global South; ROER4D; curation; dissemination; eCubed; open licensing