Google Scholar as a source for scholarly evaluation: a bibliographic review of database errors - Orduña Malea, Enrique; Martín-Martín, Alberto; Delgado-López-Cózar, Emilio (Revista española de documentación científica, 2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Do ResearchGate Scores create ghost academic reputations? - Orduna-Malea, Enrique; Martín-Martín, Alberto; Thelwall, Mike; López-Cózar, Emilio Delgado (Scientometrics, 2017)

Effectiveness of an iPad Intervention to Support Development of Maths Skills in Foundation Year Children - Outhwaite, Laura (2017)

Closing the gap: efficacy of a tablet intervention to support the development of early mathematical skills in UK primary school children - Outhwaite, Laura A.; Gulliford, Anthea; Pitchford, Nicola J. (Computers & Education, 2017)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Access and use of clinical informatics among medical doctors in selected teaching hospitals in Nigeria and South Africa - Owolabi, Kehinde Aboyami (University of Zululand, 2017)
Keywords: _C:Angola AGO; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Austria AUT; _C:Belgium BEL; _C:Benin BEN; _C:Bhutan BTN; _C:Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH; _C:Botswana BWA; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:Burkina Faso BFA; _C:Canada CAN; _C:China CHN; _C:Colombia COL; _C:Congo XCO; _C:Cuba CUB; _C:Denmark DNK; _C:Egypt EGY; _C:Ethiopia ETH; _C:Finland FIN; _C:France FRA; _C:Gambia GMB; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Greece GRC; _C:India IND; _C:Indonesia IDN; _C:Iran IRN; _C:Ireland IRL; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Kuwait KWT; _C:Liberia LBR; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Mali MLI; _C:Mexico MEX; _C:Morocco MAR; _C:Namibia NAM; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:New Zealand NZL; _C:Niger NER; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Philippines PHL; _C:Portugal PRT; _C:Qatar QAT; _C:Romania ROU; _C:Saudi Arabia SAU; _C:Senegal SEN; _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Spain ESP; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Switzerland CHE; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Thailand THA; _C:Togo TGO; _C:Tunisia TUN; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Zambia ZMB; _C:Zimbabwe ZWE; _C:eSwatini SWZ; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

MOOCs for in-service teachers: the case of Uganda and lessons for Africa - Oyo, B.; Kalema, B. M.; Byabazaire, J. (Revista Española de Pedagogía, 2017)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

MOOCs for in-service teachers: the case of Uganda and lessons for Africa - Oyo, B.; Kalema, B.M.; Byabazaire, J. (Revista Española de Pedagogía, 2017)
In recent times, computers and internet have penetrated secondary schools in Africa but with greater attention to students’ computer literacy than teachers. At the same time, previous studies on digital literacy of teachers are unsustainable and mainly skewed on pre-service teachers than in-service teachers. These realities point to the need to investigate and implement effective and sustainable initiatives for improving digital literacy and online life-long learning for in-service teachers in Africa. This paper therefore presents a specialised MOOC platform known as TEP (Teachers’ E-learning Portal) for digital literacy and online life-long learning for in-service teachers in Uganda. TEP is built for environments with inadequate access to computers, internet and technical assistance. As such, TEP is accessible online or offline, managed by accredited local universities in collaboration with beneficiary secondary schools, and runs on existing resources in schools (technical personnel, computers and internet). Results from initial implementation of a computer literacy MOOC through TEP indicate that irrespective of age, when teachers are adequately supported internally by their schools and externally by a university, can improve their digital literacy and subsequently engage in online life-long learning. In addition, the results both in terms of high percentage of teacher participants’ completions (89%) and high volume of educational e-content generated, confirm TEP as an effective, attractive, and self-sustainable MOOC platform for in-service teachers’ in resource constraint environments. The paper finishes with an analysis of the relevance of TEP to Africa.
Keywords: _Source:Intuitive; _THEME: Education management; _THEME: Teacher Professional Development; __:import:03; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2426079; __finaldtb

A comparative study of TVET in 5 African Countries with a specific focus on TVET Teacher Education - Papier, Joy (2017)
This article describes a five country (Cameroun, Egypt, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania) study of ‘TVET Teacher Education in Africa’ that was commissioned in terms of an EU-South African collaboration in 2013. While the focus was on vocational teacher education, the contextual realities of each country‘s vocational systems was studied as this would impact on every aspect of vocational teacher development, for instance, what teachers would have to teach, who the students might be, how students would be expected to learn, available funding for Vocational Education and so on. Comparisons were therefore made over a range of elements that included the systems in place for vocational training, systems of vocational teacher education, and the modalities for training of VET teachers.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; CLL:en; _C:Denmark DNK; _C:Egypt EGY; _C:Finland FIN; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Ireland IRL; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Tanzania TZA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Fundamentals... Session 1 - Vocational Education and Training: basics for teaching and research in Vocational Education and Training at universities - Papier, Joy; Hartmann, Martin D.; Ogwo, Benjamin A.; Ezekoye, Benadeth N.; Gessler, Michael (W. Bertelsmann Verlag, 2017)
This session highlights the basics of Vocational Education and Training (VET). Each university has its own characteristics. The contributions seek to encourage various forms of VET. Challenges for universities and other institutions are emphasised. The contributions help draw conclusions for the Further structuring of VET in Sub-Saharan Africa. Other country-specific articles from the session concentrate on the characteristics and orientation of VET systems, thereby helping create an overall picture of the status of VET in all participating countries. The participants endeavored to analyze the current situation of VET in Sub-Saharan Africa by exploring the character and individual design of the current VET systems in the participating countries. Contributions by: Duncan Ken Downing Jillian D'Oliveira Singo Brígida Papier Joy Hartmann Martin D. Ogwo Benjamin A. Ezekoye Benadeth N. Gessler Michael
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:Cameroon; C:Ghana; C:South Africa; C:Tanzania; CA:AandC; CL:de; CL:en; CL:fr; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:T; F:access; F:pedagogy; F:policy; F:qualification; F:teaching; P:construction; P:culture; P:economy; P:teacher education; Q:ICT; Q:degree; Q:e-learning; Q:flexible; Q:masters; T:Ausbildung; T:Educação profissionalizante; T:Lehrlingsausbildung; T:TVET; T:dual TVET; T:in-service TVET; T:occupational education; T:trainee; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Nutiseadmete kasutamise profiilid loodusainete ja matemaatika õppimise kontekstis - Pedaste, Margus; Must, Olev; Leijen, Äli; Mäeots, Mario; Siiman, Leo; Kori, Külli; Adov, Liina (Eesti Haridusteaduste Ajakiri, 2017)
Keywords: _C:Estonia EST; _C:Luxembourg LUX; _C:United Kingdom GBR; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Creating Research Practice Partnerships in Education. - Penuel, William R.; Gallagher, Daniel J. (ERIC, 2017)
Keywords: Final_citation

Assistive technology interventions for adolescents and adults with learning disabilities: An evidence-based systematic review and meta-analysis - Perelmutter, Bogi; McGregor, Karla K.; Gordon, Katherine R. (Computers & education, 2017)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; literature / systematic review

Diferencias por Género y Contexto Socioeconómico del Impacto de la Plataforma Adaptativa de Matemática. - Perera, Marcelo; Aboal, Diego (CINVE., 2017)

Evaluación del Impacto de la Plataforma Adaptativa de Matemática en los Resultados de los Aprendizajes - Perera, Marcelo; Aboal, Diego (Centro de Investigaciones Económicas, 2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Implementing large-scale instructional technology in Kenya: Changing instructional practice and developing accountability in a national education system - Piper, Benjamin; Oyanga, Arbogast; Mejia, Jessica; Pouezevara, Sarah (International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2017)
Previous large-scale education technology interventions have shown only modest impacts on student achievement. Building on results from an earlier randomized controlled trial of three different applications of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on primary education in Kenya, the Tusome Early Grade Reading Activity developed the National Tablets Program. The National Tablets Program is integrated into the Tusome activity by providing tablets to each of more than 1,200 instructional coaches in the country to use when they visit teachers. This enables a national database of classroom instructional quality, which is used by the education system to monitor overall education quality. The tools provided on the tablets are designed to help coaches increase the quality of their instructional support to teachers, and deepen the shallow accountability structures in Kenya’s education system. Using results of a national survey, we investigated the ability of the National Tablets Program to increase the number of classroom observations done by coaches and to improve student learning outcomes. Survey results showed high levels of tablet program utilization, increased accountability, and improvements in learning outcomes. We share recommendations regarding large-scale ICT interventions and literacy programs.
Keywords: C:Kenya; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:Catalan Republic XCATA; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Guinea GIN; _C:Honduras HND; _C:India IND; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Korea, Republic KOR; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Niger NER; _C:Peru PER; _C:Portugal PRT; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Uruguay URY; _C:Zambia ZMB; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

A Quasi-Experimental Study of the Classroom Practices of English Language Teachers and the English Language Proficiency of Students, in Primary and Secondary Schools in Bangladesh - Power, Tom; McCormick, Robert; Asbeek-Brusse, Elsbeth (2017)
English in Action (EIA) is an English language teacher development project based in Bangladesh that was intended to run from 2008 to 2017, but which was extended at the request of the Government of Bangladesh, with additional funding from UKAID, for a further year to 2018. By the time of the design of this study (2014-2015) EIA was drawing to the end of upscaling (phase III, 2011-2014) and entering institutionalisation and sustainability (phase IV, 2014-17, extended 2018). Successive prior studies had indicated substantial success in improving both teachers’ classroom practices and student learning outcomes, over the pre-project baseline (e.g. EIA 2011, 2012). The 2014 Annual Review of EIA recommended that in the final phase, EIA should explore whether it would be possible to carry out a study that compared a ‘counterfactual’ or control-group of teachers and students, to the ‘EIA’ or treatment schools: i.e. a Randomised Control Trial or Quasi-Experimental study. A proposal for a Quasi-Experimental study was developed in collaboration with DFID’s South Asia Research Hub (SARH), which also provided the additional funding necessary to implement such a study. The teachers and students who were the subject of this study, were the fourth cohort to participate in English in Action (together with teachers from ‘control’ schools, in the same Upazilas). This fourth EIA cohort included Schools, Teachers and Students from approximately 200 Upazilas (of approximately 500 in total) across Bangladesh, including some of the most disadvantaged areas (with reference to UNICEF deprivation index), such as Char, Hoar and Monga districts. Teachers took part in a school-based teacher development Programme, learning communicative language teaching approaches through carrying out new classroom activities, guided by teacher development videos that showed teachers, students and schools similar to those across the country. Teachers also had classroom audio resources for use with students. All digital materials were available offline, on teachers own mobile phones, so there is no dilution of the Programmes core messages about teaching and learning, by some intermediary coming between the teacher and the materials. Teachers were supported through these activities, by other teachers in their schools, by their head teachers and by local education officers. Some teachers from each area were also given additional support and guidance from divisional EIA staff, to act as Teacher Facilitators, helping teachers work through activities and share their experiences at local cluster meetings. Whereas previous cohorts of teachers had attended eight local teacher development meetings over their participation in the project, for Cohort Four, this was reduced to four meetings, with a greater emphasis being placed on support in school by head teachers, as well as support from local education officers. This change was part of the move towards institutionalisation and sustainability of project activities within and through government systems and local officers. The purpose of this study was both to provide the evaluation evidence required for the final phase of the EIA project and to contribute to the international body of research evidence on effective practices in teacher development in low-to-middle income country contexts.
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Mobiles Lernen. Auch zu Hause? - Prasse, Doreen; Egger, Nives; Honegger, Beat Döbeli (Tablets in Schule und Unterricht, 2017)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Girls’ Schooling and Women’s Literacy: Schooling targets alone won’t reach learning goals (CGD Policy Paper 104) - Pritchett, Lant; Sandefur, Justin (Washington, DC: Center for Global Development, 2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Terminology for dissemination and implementation research - Rabin, Borsika A.; Brownson, Ross C. (Dissemination and implementation research in health: Translating science to practice, 2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Neural sequence learning models for word sense disambiguation - Raganato, A.; Bovi, CD; Navigli, R. (2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Empowering Students to Improve the World in Sixty Lessons. Version 1.0 - Reimers, Fernando (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017)

P for Platform. Architectures of large-scale participatory design - Roland, Lars Kristian; Sanner, Terje Aksel (2017)
Participatory Design (PD) has traditionally been committed to extensive interaction between developers and situated users to mitigate the disempowering consequences of computerization, such as the deskilling of labour workers. However, the widespread adoption of off-the-shelf software and the emergence of complex information system architectures with interdependencies across user groups and organizations challenge the applicability of traditional custom PD. Pressure is put on PD to scale with initiatives that span an increasing number and distribution of heterogeneous settings, developers, users and uses over time. In this article, we follow a PD project that started out in post-apartheid South Africa more than two decades ago. The project, which centres on the development of a software product for decentralised public health care management, has since grown into a venture with a significant footprint in the Global South. In order to problematise the scaling of key aspects of PD, such as the politics of design, the nature of participation and participatory design techniques, we first review extant literature and develop a classification of four different types of PD with respect to scale. We then apply the typology to our empirical case to discuss PD in relation to architectural traits at different stages of project scale. We contribute to PD literature by addressing the exploratory research question: What role does architecture play in large scale PD? Specifically, the study highlights how an emergent platform architecture and its surrounding ecosystem co-constitute a platform for participation in design.

Un modèle dédié à la conception et l’analyse de ressources numériques visant leur appropriation par les élèves - Rosillo, Taïma del Carmen Pérez (Université de Lyon, 2017)
Keywords: _C:Argentina ARG; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:Canada CAN; _C:France FRA; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United Kingdom GBR; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

WAYZ: a co-designed touch-ready game for children with special needs to assess and improve visual perception skills - Rougnant, Alexis; Gelsomini, Mirko; Garzotto, Franca (IEEE, 2017)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

A conceptual framework to understand teachers’ Professional Dispositions and Orientation towards tablet technology in secondary schools - Sackstein, Suzanne; Slonimsky, Lynne (South African Computer Journal, 2017)
Keywords: _C:Cuba CUB; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:United Kingdom GBR; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Co-creation of OER by teachers and teacher educators in Colombia - Sáenz Rodríguez, María del Pilar; Pino, Ulises Hernandez; Hernández, Yoli Marcela (Adoption and impact of OER in the Global South, 2017)
This chapter, based on research conducted by members of the Collaborative CoCreation of Open Educational Resources by Teachers and Teacher Educators in Colombia (coKREA) project, assesses whether and how a contextually based, bottomup approach to the promotion and advocacy of Open Educational Resources (OER) – in which teachers are encouraged to collaboratively co-create resources – supports the adoption of OER in Colombian schools. The study, conducted with public school teachers in southwestern Colombia, used a Participatory Action Research approach, in which the object of study is not external to the researchers, as the social practices under study are performed by the same subjects who are conducting the investigation. This allows teachers to identify possibilities of OER in their own educational practices, as well as the conditions required for their adoption, based on collective thinking processes immersed in their own sociocultural contexts. A call for research participation was issued to teachers who were experienced in using information and communication technologies (ICT) in their teaching. The data collection process was undertaken through administration of a series of online questionnaires (completed by 19 teachers), a survey (completed by 248 teachers), webinars (in which 28 teachers connected and 14 participated actively), unstructured telephone interviews (with 30 teachers) and a series of focus group discussions (with a cohort of 49 teacher educators, teachers and students). A face-to-face workshop was also conducted with teachers to provide an introduction to OER, after which they identified challenges to incorporating OER into their pedagogical practices and discussed their own OER-related activities.
Keywords: __:import:02; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:3123702; __finaldtb

Understanding elementary teachers' experiences and views using interactive whiteboards for pedagogical practices - Samsonova, Olga (2017)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Cyprus CYP; _C:Egypt EGY; _C:Iran IRN; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Lithuania LTU; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:North Cyprus XNCYP; _C:Spain ESP; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Digital media and youth: A primer for school psychologists - Savina, Elena; Mills, Jennifer L.; Atwood, Kelly; Cha, Jason (Contemporary School Psychology, 2017)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Praxishandbuch Wirtschaft in Afrika - Schmidt, Thomas; Pfaffenberger, Kay; Liebing, Stefan (Springer Gabler, 2017)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; CLL:de; publicImportV1

How to Construct a Mixed Methods Research Design - Schoonenboom, Judith; Johnson, R. Burke (Kolner Zeitschrift Fur Soziologie Und Sozialpsychologie, 2017)
This article provides researchers with knowledge of how to design a high quality mixed methods research study. To design a mixed study, researchers must understand and carefully consider each of the dimensions of mixed methods design, and always keep an eye on the issue of validity. We explain the seven major design dimensions: purpose, theoretical drive, timing (simultaneity and dependency), point of integration, typological versus interactive design approaches, planned versus emergent design, and design complexity. There also are multiple secondary dimensions that need to be considered during the design process. We explain ten secondary dimensions of design to be considered for each research study. We also provide two case studies showing how the mixed designs were constructed.

Left to their own devices: the everyday realities of one-to-one classrooms - Selwyn, Neil; Nemorin, Selena; Bulfin, Scott; Johnson, Nicola F. (Oxford Review of Education, 2017)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

The Contribution of Digital Technologies to Service Delivery: An Evidence Review - Sharmin, Shumona; Faith, Becky; Prieto Martín, P.; Ramalingam, Ben (IDS, 2017)
Keywords: _C:Afghanistan AFG; _C:Armenia ARM; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Azerbaijan AZE; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Bhutan BTN; _C:Bolivia BOL; _C:Botswana BWA; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:Burkina Faso BFA; _C:Cambodia KHM; _C:Cameroon CMR; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Cape Verde CPV; _C:Catalan Republic XCATA; _C:China CHN; _C:Colombia COL; _C:Comoros COM; _C:Congo XCO; _C:Costa Rica CRI; _C:Cuba CUB; _C:Dominican Republic DOM; _C:Ecuador ECU; _C:Egypt EGY; _C:El Salvador SLV; _C:Ethiopia ETH; _C:Gambia GMB; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Guatemala GTM; _C:Guinea GIN; _C:Guyana GUY; _C:Honduras HND; _C:India IND; _C:Indonesia IDN; _C:Iran IRN; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Kyrgyzstan KGZ; _C:Lesotho LSO; _C:Madagascar MDG; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Maldives MDV; _C:Mexico MEX; _C:Myanmar MMR; _C:Nepal NPL; _C:New Zealand NZL; _C:Niger NER; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Oman OMN; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Panama PAN; _C:Paraguay PRY; _C:Peru PER; _C:Philippines PHL; _C:Qatar QAT; _C:Romania ROU; _C:Rwanda RWA; _C:Samoa WSM; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:Solomon Islands SLB; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Sri Lanka LKA; _C:State of Palestine PSE; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Thailand THA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Uruguay URY; _C:Venezuela VEN; _C:Viet Nam VNM; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; literature / systematic review

Establishment of a VET-system with focus on Further Education: presentation of ideas on the motivation and establishment of a Further Education system, especially in universities in sub-Saharan Africa - Shindi, Alpheas (2017)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; C:Namibia; CLL:en; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

EDUCATION IN POST-FEDERATION MONTSERRAT: REFLECTIONS, INTROSPECTIONS AND PROPOSITIONS - SHOTTE, GERTRUDE (The Caribbean in a Changing World: Surveying the Past, Mapping the Future, Volume 2, 2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Curriculum re-engineering and development in Zambia: the sociology of education in the face of globalisation. - Simamuna, Mubita Likando; Mulenga, Innocent Mutale (The University of Zambia Press, 2017)

The Relationship Between School Distance And Academic Achievement Of Primary School Pupils In Ovia North-East Lga, Edo State, Nigeria. - Stanley, Udoka; Emmanuel, Nelly; Igboh, Benedict (2017)
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between school distance and academic achievement of primary school pupils in Ovia North-East LGA. As a guide to this study, four research questions as well as three hypotheses were tested the correlational research design was adopted for this study. The population of the study comprised all primary schools in Ovia North-East LGA. There are one hundred and one primary schools out of which twenty schools (20%) were sampled using the random sampling technique and one hundred teachers were used as sample for the study. The research instrument was a structured questionnaire on relationship between school distance and academic achievement of primary school pupils (S.D.A.A.Q). The reliability of the instrument was established through the use of test re-test method. The collected data were analyzed using simple percentage and Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) statistic was used in testing the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The instrument was trial tested in Uselu primary school, Egor Local Government Area in Edo State using 20 teachers. The reliability coefficient was 0.86. The findings of the study revealed that: pupils in Ovia North-East LGA covered long distance to school; there is significant relationship between school distance and academic achievement of primary school pupils; there is a relationship between school distance and academic achievement of male primary school pupils While for the female, there is no significant relationship between school distance and academic achievement. It was thus recommended that primary schools should be located in different strategic locations in the Local Government Area to reduce the distance covered by the pupils. Alternatively, school buses should be made available to convey the pupils to and from schools to overcome the problem of late coming and tiredness on the part of the pupils thereby by enhancing their academic achievement. Parents and guardians should locate schools closer to their place of residence so as to prevent the pupils from walking long distance to schools which may reduce the level of their academic achievement. Furthermore, the Government should ensure that the available primary schools are made conducive for effective learning so as to improve the academic achievement of the pupils. Again, pupils should be motivated as well as reinforced on regular basis to encourage them to attend school regularly.

Integrating deep linguistic features in factuality prediction over unified datasets - Stanovsky, G.; Eckle-Kohler, J.; Puzikov, Y. (2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Sierra Leone 2015 population and housing census: Thematic report on poverty and durables - Statistics Sierra Leone (Statistics Sierra Leone, 2017)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

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

Midline survey: Transforming teacher education and learning - T-TEL (2017)
Keywords: _C:Ghana GHA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

The Digital Divide in Language and Literacy Education - Tate, Tamara; Warschauer, Mark (Language, Education and Technology, 2017)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

How to do your research project: a guide for students in education and applied social sciences - Thomas, Gary (SAGE Publications, 2017)

Living systematic reviews: 2 - Thomas, J.; Noel-Storr, A.; Marshall, I. (Combining human and machine effort. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2017)

Teacher education in the 21st century digitalization: Open access, digital health and wellness: Colloquium presentation at the Aga Khan-IED Conference Oct 23-25, 2017, Hotel Africana, Kampala, Uganda - Tibenderana, Prisca Dr; Sumil, Novembrieta Dr; Busingye, Janice Dr; Mayende, Kiwelu Jackline; Osamai, Moses Odeke; Bounty, Kirabo Joseph Dr (2017)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Understanding the relationship between teachers’ pedagogical beliefs and technology use in education: a systematic review of qualitative evidence - Tondeur, Jo; Van Braak, Johan; Ertmer, Peggy A.; Ottenbreit-Leftwich, Anne (Educational Technology Research and Development, 2017)
Keywords: Final_citation

Influencing appraisals of emotional valence with spatial touchscreen interactions: An embodied approach to Positive Technology - Torres, Sergio Cervera (2017)
Keywords: _C:Canada CAN; _C:China CHN; _C:France FRA; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Italy ITA; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Switzerland CHE; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Indoor environmental quality, pupils' health and academic performance - Toyinbo, Oluyemi Olagoke (Itä-Suomen yliopisto, 2017)
Basic elementary school is compulsory for students in most countries of the world. Therefore, children spend a considerable amount of their time in school studying. Subsequently, exposure to substances in their school indoor environment can affect their studies and health. In addition , children are more susceptible to indoor pollutants because their organ systems are immature. In general, there has been more research on the impact of offices and industrial environments on adult occupants than research on school environments involving pupils. The aim of this thesis is to assess elementary schools’ indoor environmental quality, and its associations with pupils’ health and learning outcomes. Data were collected from three countries (samples including all elementary schools in Finland, seventy elementary schools in United States of America and five elementary schools in Nigeria). This included measuring classroom indoor and outdoor temperature, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and relative humidity. Ventilation rates were also assessed as well as cleaning effectiveness. A walkthrough was done to evaluate school building characteristics while students and school principals were asked questions about health and school environmental conditions respectively. Data were also recovered from registries. The results from Finland showed that noise and poor air quality in classrooms were the most prevalent indoor environmental (IEQ) factors causing discomfort, while headache, fatigue and stuffy nose were the most prevalent health problems reported by students. Where students reported poor air quality in classrooms, it was associated with high measured mean temperature and low ventilation rates in those classrooms. Respiratory symptoms increased with thermal discomfort, inadequate ventilation and moisture damage. Missed school days as a result of respiratory symptoms was more common in schools with inadequate ventilation. Inadequate ventilation was associated with learning outcomes. Ventilation rate was dependent on the type of the ventilation system. Upgraded systems were found to provide more adequate ventilation and thermal comfort in schools. A negative significant correlation was also found between the number of students in the classroom and ventilation rate per student. In the US study, academic performance such as passing mathematical and reading tests was related to ventilation rates and indoor temperature in classrooms. Inadequate ventilation was associated with increased visits to school nurses due to respiratory symptoms while biological contamination of high contact surfaces was related to increased visits due to gastro-intestinal symptoms. In the Nigerian study, thermal discomfort was observed in classrooms especially in the afternoon even though most classrooms were adequately ventilated judging by indoor carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration. There was lack of functioning bathrooms in most schools studied and biological contamination of student desk was moderately high based on adenosine triphosphate (ATP) testing. It was considered important that activities that emit or produce hazardous materials are not present or near school buildings, as this will ultimately affect the IEQ of classrooms. There is a need to constantly and continuously evaluate school buildings, so that the best possible indoo r environment can be provided for students at all times.
Keywords: BE:LMIC; BE:RELEVANT

Building and Sustaining National Educational Technology Agencies : Lessons, Models and Case Studies from Around the World - Trucano, Michael; Dykes, Gavin (World Bank Education, 2017)
National ICT/education agencies (and their functional equivalents) play important roles in the implementation and oversight of large scale initiatives related to the use of information and communication technologies in education in many countries. That said, little is known at a global level about the way these organizations operate, how they are structured, and how they typically evolve over time. Through an examination of lessons from the development and history of a set of representative ICT/education agencies in East Asia, and, to better understand East Asian experience, other countries around the work, this paper seeks to identify common challenges and issues and potential relevance to leaders of such institutions.

A GIS Based Biophysical Analysis of the Karfi Sector in Kano River Irrigation Project, Kano State, Nigeria - Tudunwada, I.Y.; Khalifa, S.S. (Soil Science Society of Nigeria. ATBU Bauchi, 2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Lineament Mapping for Groundwater Exploration in Kano State, Nigeria - Tudunwada, I.Y.; Maina, M.M. (2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

The Influences of Emotion on Learning and Memory - Tyng, Chai M; Amin, Hafeez U; Saad, Mohamad N; Malik, Aamir S (Frontiers in Psychology, 2017)
Emotion has a substantial influence on the cognitive processes in humans, including perception, attention, learning, memory, reasoning, and problem solving. Emotion has a particularly strong influence on attention, especially modulating the selectivity of attention as well as motivating action and behavior. This attentional and executive control is intimately linked to learning processes, as intrinsically limited attentional capacities are better focused on relevant information. Emotion also facilitates encoding and helps retrieval of information efficiently. However, the effects of emotion on learning and memory are not always univalent, as studies have reported that emotion either enhances or impairs learning and long-term memory (LTM) retention, depending on a range of factors. Recent neuroimaging findings have indicated that the amygdala and prefrontal cortex cooperate with the medial temporal lobe in an integrated manner that affords (i) the amygdala modulating memory consolidation; (ii) the prefrontal cortex mediating memory encoding and formation; and (iii) the hippocampus for successful learning and LTM retention. We also review the nested hierarchies of circular emotional control and cognitive regulation (bottom-up and top-down influences) within the brain to achieve optimal integration of emotional and cognitive processing. This review highlights a basic evolutionary approach to emotion to understand the effects of emotion on learning and memory and the functional roles played by various brain regions and their mutual interactions in relation to emotional processing. We also summarize the current state of knowledge on the impact of emotion on memory and map implications for educational settings. In addition to elucidating the memory-enhancing effects of emotion, neuroimaging findings extend our understanding of emotional influences on learning and memory processes; this knowledge may be useful for the design of effective educational curricula to provide a conducive learning environment for both traditional “live” learning in classrooms and “virtual” learning through online-based educational technologies.

6 out of 10 children and adolescents are not learning a minimum in reading and math - UIS (News, Sustainable Development Goals, 2017)
New data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics show that 617 million children and adolescents worldwide are not achieving minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics. The figure signals “a learning crisis” according to the UIS, which could threaten progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....

The world is off track in achieving the global education goal, SDG 4 - UNESCO Digital Library - UNESCO (2017)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Unpacking Sustainable Development Goal 4: Education 2030 - UNESCO (UNESCO, 2017)

Greening Technical and Vocational Education and Training: A Practical Guide for Institutions - UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (Germany) (UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training. UN Campus, Hermann-Ehlers-Strasse 10, 53113 Bonn, Germany. Tel: +49-228-8150-100; Fax: +49-228-8150-199; e-mail: info@unevoc.unesco.org; Web site: https://unevoc.unesco.org/go.php?q=UNEVOC%20Publications, 2017)
This "Guide" describes the macro need for [technical and vocational education and training] (TVET) reform in conformity with the Sustainable Development Goals, the Global Action Programme (GAP) on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and other United Nations, UNESCO and national initiatives. The "Guide" also provides specific practical help for institutional greening transition teams to plan and carry out the changes that are deemed necessary. It is essential that all such greening undertakings have a clear vision, are known to all those concerned, follow a strategic plan, set targets and milestones, and include a monitoring/assessment tool. The concept of shared vision and team reformation combined with the support of senior leaders is evident throughout this "Guide." A major goal is that greening will grow into an ongoing process which is eventually infused into the culture of each institution. Specifically included in this "Guide" is a rubric or framework designed for most TVET institutions. The rubric/framework is designed as both an assessment tool and a learning instrument, as it contains clear descriptions of possible goals and destinations. Since TVET institutions and programmes are so varied, these suggested assessment goals are also designed for discussion and adaptation to the specific situation on each site, while modifications are encouraged. The central theme is Greening the Institution, while also embracing the broader concept of education for sustainable development (ESD). In particular the focus is on the role of TVET in delivering a crucial element of the GAP. By having local teams of leaders, faculty, students and community experts working in concert and infusing the concepts of related educational initiatives, the institution will transition itself into an even more effective and meaningful greening agent for its graduates, its communities and all who are associated with the institution.

Sierra Leone Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey - UNICEF (2017)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

SiTan St. Lucia - UNICEF (UNICEF Office for the Eastern Caribbean Area, 2017)

Situation Analysis of Children: Commonwealth of Dominica - UNICEF (2017)

Situation Analysis of Children in Grenada - UNICEF (UNICEF Office for the Eastern Caribbean Area, 2017)

Situation Analysis of Children in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - UNICEF (UNICEF Office for the Eastern Caribbean Area, 2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

The Future of Learning and Technology in Deprived Contexts - Unwin, Tim; Weber, Mark; Brugha, Meaghan; Hollow, David (2017)

Competence and TVET Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Rwanda - van Halsema, Wybe (Competence-based Vocational and Professional Education: Bridging the Worlds of Work and Education, 2017)
In many African countries, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is considered a means to stimulate strategic economic growth. In order to render TVET more in line with market demands, governments increasingly promote the competence-based education (CBE) approach. In this chapter, the Central African country Rwanda is studied as an exemplary case for sub-Saharan Africa in how they apply CBE. Through competence-based curriculum development and teacher training, a centralised form of workforce planning is envisaged that would shape the TVET reform in the Central African country.In Rwanda, the Belgian Technical Cooperation (BTC) follows a systems approach to implement CBE in TVET. Having done so over the past 4 years, it becomes apparent that in the transitional phases of the systems, there is much ‘transitional noise’ that hampers implementation. This fact challenges the centralist view on CBE and its scope for national workforce planning. However, some positive features emerge from CBE implementation in that it stimulates practical learning and creativity in TVET.It is argued that by adapting the concept of competence to a more decentralised, intrinsic and generic form of TVET, a more capable, innovative and employable workforce can be formed. Government should thereby not just focus on formal employment but follow a diversified and inclusive approach of TVET for youth employment in all segments of the economy.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:Rwanda; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:T; Competence Development; Competency Statement; Informal Sector; Master Trainer; Pilot School; T:TVET; publicImportV1

Partnering with the private sector in the post-2015 era? The main political and social implications in the educational arena - VERGER, ANTONI; MOSCHETTI, MAURO (Progressive Lab for Sustainable Development, 2017)
Keywords: Final_citation; ⛔ No DOI found

Indoor environmental quality of classrooms and occupants' comfort in a special education school in Slovak Republic - Vilcekova, Silvia; Meciarova, Ludmila; Burdova, Eva Kridlova; Katunska, Jana; Kosicanova, Danica; Doroudiani, Saeed (Building and Environment, 2017)
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT

The different ways that teachers can influence the socio-emotional development of their students: A literature review - Villaseñor, Paula (2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Tablet-based cross-curricular maths vs. traditional maths classroom practice for higher-order learning outcomes - Volk, Marina; Cotič, Mara; Zajc, Matej; Starcic, Andreja Istenic (Computers & Education, 2017)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Putting SDG4 into practice: professional learning communities in education | Unesco IIEP Learning Portal - VVOB (VVOB, 2017)
Inclusive and equitable education provides all learners with the capabilities to become economically productive, develop sustainable livelihoods, contribute to peaceful and democratic societies, and enhance individual wellbeing. This technical brief describes how professional learning communities (PLCs) matter for quality education, as they play an important role in the professional development and motivation of teachers and school leaders. The experiences of VVOB demonstrate how reinforcing the capacities of national and local education authorities to establish and support PLCs is of crucial importance to the success of these communities.

Refugee Education: is technology the solution? - Wagner, E. (Save the Children, 2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Violence against children perpetrated by peers: A cross-sectional school-based survey in Uganda - Wandera, Stephen Ojiambo; Clarke, Kelly; Knight, Louise; Allen, Elizabeth; Walakira, Eddy; Namy, Sophie; Naker, Dipak; Devries, Karen (Child Abuse & Neglect, 2017)

Examining the perceived impact of technology on teacher-student math discussions in early elementary classrooms - Weisel, Derek (University of California, Los Angeles, 2017)
Keywords: _C:Canada CAN; _C:Cuba CUB; _C:Dominican Republic DOM; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Education and the electrification of rural schools - Welland, Alicia (2017)
Keywords: Final_citation; ⛔ No DOI found

The Theoretical and Empirical Basis of Teacher Leadership: A Review of the Literature - Wenner, Julianne A.; Campbell, Todd (Review of Educational Research, 2017)
In the current review, we examined teacher leadership research completed since York-Barr and Duke published the seminal review on teacher leadership in 2004. The review was undertaken to examine how teacher leadership is defined, how teacher leaders are prepared, their impact, and those factors that facilitate or inhibit teacher leaders’ work. Beyond this, the review considered theories informing teacher leadership, teacher leadership within disciplinary contexts, and the roles of teacher leaders in social justice and equity issues. The most salient findings were (a) teacher leadership, although rarely defined, focused on roles beyond the classroom, supporting the professional learning of peers, influencing policy/decision making, and ultimately targeting student learning; (b) the research is not always theoretically grounded; (c) principals, school structures, and norms are important in empowering or marginalizing teacher leaders; and (d) very little teacher leadership research examines issues of social justice and equity.
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Israel ISR; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

The_Beginner_s_Guide_to_PEA.pdf - Whaites, A. (UKAID, 2017)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Physical, psychological, sexual, and systemic abuse of children with disabilities in East Africa: Mapping the evidence - Winters, Niall; Langer, Laurenz; Geniets, Anne (PloS one, 2017)

Mobile learning in schools: Key issues, opportunities and ideas for practice - Wishart, Jocelyn (Routledge, 2017)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Austria AUT; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Brunei Darussalam BRN; _C:Canada CAN; _C:China CHN; _C:Denmark DNK; _C:Finland FIN; _C:France FRA; _C:India IND; _C:Italy ITA; _C:Jamaica JAM; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Lebanon LBN; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Nepal NPL; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:New Zealand NZL; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Portugal PRT; _C:Qatar QAT; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:Slovenia SVN; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Sri Lanka LKA; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Switzerland CHE; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Thailand THA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Zambia ZMB; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Moving towards more participatory practice with Open Educational Resources (OER): TESS-India Academic Review - Wolfenden, Freda; Adinolfi, Lina; Cross, Simon; Lee, Clare; Paranjpe, Sandhya; Safford, Kimberly (The Open University, 2017)
Keywords: C: India; _C:India IND; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

MOOC adaptation and translation to improve equity in participation - Wolfenden, Freda; Cross, Simon; Henry, Fiona (Journal of Learning for Development, 2017)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

MOOC adaptation and translation to improve equity in participation - Wolfenden, Freda; Cross, Simon; Henry, Fiona (Journal of Learning for Development, 2017)
There is an urgent need to improve elementary and secondary school classroom practices across India and the scale of this challenge is argued to demand new approaches to teacher professional learning. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) represent one such approach and one that, in the context of this study, is considered to provide a means by which to transcend traditional training processes and disrupt conventional pedagogic practices. This paper offers a critical review of a large-scale MOOC deployed in English, and then in Hindi, to support targeted sustainable capacity building within an education development initiative (TESS-India) across seven states in India. The study draws on multiple sources of participant data to identify and examine features, which stimulated a buzz around the MOOCs, leading to over 40,000 registrations and a completion rate of approximately 50% for each of the two MOOCs.
Keywords: Access to Computers; Access to Education; Attitude Measures; ERIC, Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Educational Technology; Equal Education; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; India; International Programs; Large Group Instruction; Online Courses; Partnerships in Education; Postsecondary Education; Pretests Posttests; Program Implementation; Questionnaires; Surveys; Teacher Education Programs; Teacher Educators; Technology Uses in Education; United Kingdom; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2096064; ___working_potential_duplicate; __finaldtb; ⛔ No DOI found

The Informal Apprenticeship Miracle: A Case for Mbare-Magaba Informal Industry, Zimbabwe - Wonder, M; Tenson, M (Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review, 2017)
The economic turbulences faced by Zimbabwe in the first decade of the 21st century culminated in almost total demise of the formal industry. Concomitantly, this resulted in the emergence and proliferation of the informal industry as an alternative solution. This study explored the training strategies and approaches employed in the informal manufacturing industry. The study adopted the qualitative research paradigm to collect, present and analyse data. Findings from the study point to the efficacy of the informal apprenticeship in terms of human capital development and hence this skills training approach becomes the main trajectory to economic recovery for Zimbabwe.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:Zimbabwe; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:P; CT:T; P:artist; P:manufacture; P:social; T:Lehrlingsausbildung; T:apprenticeship training; publicImportV1

Sierra Leone - Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2017 - World Bank (2017)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Indoor temperatures in patient waiting rooms in eight rural primary health care centers in northern South Africa and the related potential risks to human health and wellbeing - Wright, Caradee Y.; Street, Renée A.; Cele, Nokulunga; Kunene, Zamantimande; Balakrishna, Yusentha; Albers, Patricia N.; Mathee, Angela (International journal of environmental research and public health, 2017)
Keywords: BE:LMIC; BE:RELEVANT

Accelerated learning method using edmodo to increase students' mathematical connection and self-regulated learning - Yaniawati, R. Poppy; Kartasasmita, Bana G.; Kariadinata, Rahayu; Sari, Evi (the 2017 International Conference, 2017)
This study aims to analyze implementation of accelerated elearning method using edmodo media to increase mathematical connection ability and self-regulated learning of students. The research method employed was mixed method research with embedded design. Subjects of the study were eleventh grade students of a vocational secondary school in Tasikmalaya, Indonesia. Research instruments used were test for mathematical connection ability, questionnaire of students’ self-regulated learning, observation and interview guidelines. Statistical analysis were t-test, mann-whitney test, and two-way anova. results of this study showed that (1) mathematical connection abillity of high and low clasification students who studied used accelerated learning with edmodo was better than that of students who studied with conventional learning; (2) no differences were found in selfregulated learning of high and low classification students who studied used accelerated learning with edmodo was better than that of students who studied with conventional learning; (3) a positive correlation was found between mathematical connection ability and self-regulated learning students.
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Accelerated learning method using edmodo to increase students' mathematical connection and self-regulated learning - Yaniawati, R. Poppy; Kartasasmita, Bana G.; Kariadinata, Rahayu; Sari, Evi (the 2017 International Conference, 2017)
This study aims to analyze implementation of accelerated elearning method using edmodo media to increase mathematical connection ability and self-regulated learning of students. The research method employed was mixed method research with embedded design. Subjects of the study were eleventh grade students of a vocational secondary school in Tasikmalaya, Indonesia. Research instruments used were test for mathematical connection ability, questionnaire of students’ self-regulated learning, observation and interview guidelines. Statistical analysis were t-test, mann-whitney test, and two-way anova. results of this study showed that (1) mathematical connection abillity of high and low clasification students who studied used accelerated learning with edmodo was better than that of students who studied with conventional learning; (2) no differences were found in selfregulated learning of high and low classification students who studied used accelerated learning with edmodo was better than that of students who studied with conventional learning; (3) a positive correlation was found between mathematical connection ability and self-regulated learning students.
Keywords: _AcademicRecoveryOECS

Using Web 2.0 technologies to enhance learning and teaching - Younie, Sarah; Williams, Lawrence; Cych, Leon (Debates in Computing and ICT Education, 2017)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

LDA*: a robust and large-scale topic modeling system - Yut, Lele; Zhang, Ce; Shao, Yingxia; Cui, Bin (Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2017)
We present LDA*, a system that has been deployed in one of the largest Internet companies to fulfil their requirements of "topic modeling as an internal service" ---relying on thousands of machines, engineers in different sectors submit their data, some are as large as 1.8TB, to LDA* and get results back in hours. LDA* is motivated by the observation that none of the existing topic modeling systems is robust enough ---Each of these existing systems is designed for a specific point in the tradeoff space that can be sub-optimal, sometimes by up to 10×, across workloads. Our first contribution is a systematic study of all recently proposed samplers: AliasLDA, F+LDA, LightLDA, and WarpLDA. We discovered a novel system tradeoff among these samplers. Each sampler has different sampling complexity and performs differently, sometimes by 5×, on documents with different lengths. Based on this tradeoff, we further developed a hybrid sampler that uses different samplers for different types of documents. This hybrid approach works across a wide range of workloads and outperforms the fastest sampler by up to 2x. We then focused on distributed environments in which thousands of workers, each with different performance (due to virtualization and resource sharing), coordinate to train a topic model. Our second contribution is an asymmetric parameter server architecture that pushes some computation to the parameter server side. This architecture is motivated by the skew of the word frequency distribution and a novel tradeoff we discovered between communication and computation. With this architecture, we outperform the traditional, symmetric architecture by up to 2×. With these two contributions, together with a carefully engineered implementation, our system is able to outperform existing systems by up to 10× and has already been running to provide topic modeling services for more than six months.

Dark matter in galaxies - Zasov, Anatolii Vladimirovich; Saburova, Ann S.; Khoperskov, Alexander Valentinovich; Khoperskov, Sergey A. (Physics-Uspekhi, 2017)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Bright and Early: How financing pre-primary education gives every child a fair start in life - Zubairi, Asma; Rose, Pauline (University of Cambridge, 2017)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Instructional coaching in Kenya: Supporting teachers to improve literacy outcomes - Zuilkowski, S.S.; Piper, B. (The Routledge international handbook on teacher quality and policy, 2017)

Тёмная материя в галактиках - Засов, Анатолий Владимирович; Сабурова, Анна Станиславовна; Хоперсков, Александр Валентинович; Хоперсков, Сергей Александрович (Успехи физических наук, 2017)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

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

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

Professional Development Framework for Digital Learning (South Africa) - SchoolNet South Africa (schoolnet, 2017)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quality Improvement Approaches: Implementation Science (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2017)
The implementation science approach to improvement in education centers on how to accommodate local school variables and other contextual factors that can impede successful implementation

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

Gender Norms in the Western Balkans - Browne, Evie (2017)
The Western Balkans remains a region dominated by patriarchal gender norms. The biggest challenge for improving gender equality is changing the mentality of women and men towards traditional gender roles (Petričević, 2012). The literature consistently identifies social attitudes as a barrier to increasing gender equality. Many people are not aware of women’s rights or gender non-discrimination laws (Petričević, 2012). In several areas of gender equality, legal provisions are adequate and conform to UN and international norms. However, these are not always implemented or adhered to in practice, due to lack of capacity, knowledge, resources or social barriers. Standard indicators of gender equality include: female/male school enrolment; literacy rate; unemployment; maternal mortality; life expectancy; adolescent fertility rate; proportion of women in parliament1. Others include violence against women and girls; gender equality policy and legislation. Much of the literature recognises the need to include men and raise men’s awareness about gender issues. Most of the literature on the Western Balkans looks at interpersonal and household gender norms, such as girls’ access to school, women’s work and household decision making. There is also a strong literature on women’s political participation and violence against women and girls. This report provides a brief summary of the main gender issues in the region, as reported in the literature. It is not a comprehensive literature review, but a collection of resources which highlight the key points to consider on gender. Each country has a large selection of resources on its specific gendered issues, which can provide more detail. There is a companion piece to this report which focuses on the relationship between gender and conflict in the Western Balkans2. This report sketches the main parameters of gender in the region.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

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

Can We Afford Free Textbooks - Haßler, Björn (2017)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

What are the elements that need to go into the design of OER that enable them to have the potential for teacher professional development? - Haßler, Björn (Teachers Upfront, 2017)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

The Impact of Teacher Effectiveness on Student Learning in Africa - Buhl-Wiggers, Julie; Kerwin, Jason; Smith, Jeffrey; Thornton, Rebecca (Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), 2017)
Teaching quality is known to be critical for students’ education and life prospects in developed countries. However, little is known about how teacher quality affects student learning in Africa. This paper presents the first estimates of teacher value-added from an African country, using data from a school-based RCT in northern Uganda. Exploiting the random assignment of students to classrooms within schools, we estimate a lower bound on teacher effects. A 1-SD increase in teacher quality leads to at least a 0.14 SD improvement in student performance on a reading test at the end of the year. Shifting teachers from the 10th to the 90th percentile of quality increases performance by 0.36 SDs –comparable to the most effective education interventions conducted in Africa. Our results also suggest that an increase in teacher quality can make other education interventions more efficient.
Keywords: C:Uganda; NULP; _C:Ecuador ECU; _C:India IND; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; _genre:PR-primary_research; interesting

GraphoGame Teacher Training Service: evaluation report - School-to-School International (STS) (Agora Center, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 2017)
Keywords: __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2425917; ___working_potential_duplicate; __finaldtb

Implementation in Education - Findings from a Scoping Review - Albers, Bianca; Pattuwage, Loyal (2017)

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

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

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

The Impact of School Health Programmes - Grant, Catherine (2017)
This report focuses on the impact of school health programmes. School health programmes can cover both the prevention and treatment of disease and malnutrition in a school setting (Snilstveit et al 2016). These services are designed to promote students' physical, cognitive, and social development. Effective school health programmes are broadly considered to be cost-effective. They build on existing health infrastructure and community partnerships, as well as a skilled workforce in schools (UNICEF 2000). This report focuses on four main areas of impact: enrolment (section 2); retention/dropout of students (section 3); learning outcomes (section 4), and health and nutritional benefits of students, families and communities (section 5). The report is divided into impacts at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels where this information was available, but a lot of the literature focused on schools in general. There was more evidence on school health programmes in primary schools than in secondary schools and very little literature found on the impact of health programmes in tertiary education.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

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

Effectivity of E-Learning through Whatsapp as a Teaching Learning Tool - Gon, Sonia; Rawekar, Alka (MVP Journal of Medical Sciences, 2017)
Introduction: WhatsApp is a free messenger application that works across multiple platform and is being widely used among undergraduate students to send multimedia messages like photos, videos, audios along with simple text messages. Aims and Objectives: To assess the affectivity of social media like WhatsApp in delivering knowledge to 4th semester MBBS students and to compare the improvement of knowledge gain through e-learning and didactic lecture. Simultaneously, perception of learners about e-learning via WhatsApp will also be collated. Material and Methods: This prospective analytical interventional study was conducted in the department of Pathology from 01.02.2015 to 31.06.2015, on 4th semester MBBS students. Two groups of students were taught the same topics by two different T-L activities i.e., through WhatsApp and via didactic lectures. Assessment of knowledge was done by giving pre and post-test questionnaire of 20 marks for each topic. Perception of e-learning through WhatsApp was done by feedback form. Observation and Results: The post test results revealed that the learners with WhatsApp as a learning tool scored in the range of 5-20 marks while those with didactic lecture scored in the range of 3-17.5 marks and had an average of 11.6 and 11.9 score respectively. The two tailed t value between the two groups is 0.635 which is not statistically significant. Technical, educational and instructional advantages of teaching learning activity via WhatsApp out pars disadvantages. Facilitator’s availability and Learning anytime anywhere were top two advantages of learning through WhatsApp with 86.72% and 86.55% students agreeing to it. Message flooding, time consuming and eye strain were the other technical disadvantages observed in the present study with 63.23%, 75.28% and 68.53 students agreeing to it. Conclusion: Constant availability of facilitator and learning anytime anywhere has made WhatsApp a new and convenient tool for teaching learning activity. Though there is no significant difference between gain of knowledge from WhatsApp or didactic lectures, advantages (technical, educational or instructional) out pars the disadvantages. A few disadvantages, like message flooding and eyestrain can be overruled by making small groups and using mobiles with bigger screen. Enabling a Wi-Fi in the college campus can make its use cost effective.
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing; ⚠️ Invalid DOI

Violence in Schools - Bolton, Laura (2017)
This rapid literature review sets out to identify evidence on approaches to measuring the prevalence of violence in schools across low and middle income countries and the data available based on these measurement approaches. The review includes a list of key sources of evidence on measurements and a review of statistical data on the the prevalence of violence in schools for low and middle income countries globally.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Strategy for South African public libraries to bridge the digital divide - Mphidi, Hamilton Hamilton (University of Pretoria, 2017)
This thesis reports on a study that investigated the role of public libraries in addressing the digital divide in South Africa. The study started in 2006. This study addressed the main research question: "How should a theoretical model look for South African public libraries to contribute to bridging the digital divide?" The central research problem was further addressed by asking the following questions: • What are the scope and implications of the digital divide? (These include the meaning of the concept, the dimensions and the factors leading to the digital divide.) • What has been reported on the role of libraries (including information services) in bridging the digital divide? • What have libraries in South Africa done to address the digital divide, and which possibilities are foreseen? • How can South African libraries be positioned to contribute to bridging the digital divide? The study followed a survey method using interviews with directors of Provincial Library Services (or their representatives), which are the controlling bodies of public libraries in South Africa, questionnaires distributed to representative staff members of participating public libraries in Gauteng, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal and individual interviews with selected heads/representatives of public libraries in Gauteng, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal. Data collected through the questionnaires were both quantitative and qualitative. Data was collected between 2011 and 2012. Quantitative data were analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), while qualitative data from interviews were analysed by content analysis and thematic categorising of information. In October 2015 a follow-up study of limited scope was conducted with three representatives from the three provincial library services to establish developments since the first round of data collections. Seven out of nine directors of Provincial Library Services in South Africa participated in the study. Furthermore, 247 public libraries from Gauteng, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal out of 463 public libraries and 18 heads/representatives of public libraries participated in this study. Findings on the opinions expressed on the role of public libraries in bridging the digital divide include the following: providing access to information and communication technologies (ICTs), offering information literacy and ICT literacy training, providing information to reduce the gap between "haves" and "have-nots", providing communities with equal, free access, reaching out and spreading ICTs to those who may not have online access and support and facilitating and promoting information exchange and communication between citizens and the government. The overall findings from the study were that although provincial library services have documents containing information on their mission and vision, their mission and vision statements do not address the digital divide or shed any light in this regard. The study found that provincial library services aimed to support public libraries to provide information resources, services to communities and access to information through ICT via targeted fund transfers to municipalities. None of the provincial library services included in the study had an explicit policy and strategies aligned to its vision and mission to guide and enable it in addressing the digital divide. Although all provincial library services included in the study had access to computer facilities in their headquarters, there were still disparities in the number of computer facilities available. It was also found that none of the provincial library services had its own website at the time of the study. They depended on the websites of their parent organisations. The study found that very few provincial library services had information technology (IT) units/departments charged with the responsibility of taking care of ICT facilities. They depended on external ICT service providers or the IT departments of their parent organisations to maintain the library's ICT infrastructure.

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

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

Engaging parents in their children’s education - Carter, Becky (2017)
In general systematic and rigorous reviews find limited (and little robust) evidence on the effectiveness of interventions to engage parents in their children’s learning in resource-constrained countries – when looking at parental participation in their children’s literacy development and parental engagement with schools. Effects tend to be mixed, with scarce evidence making it hard to come to firm conclusions on findings, including on the effects of the way parents engage in supporting their children’s learning. Reviews report more, and more consistent, evidence showing significant benefits from interventions supporting parental engagement with their children’s early childhood development (ECD). There are recommendations in the literature on the way parents are engaged in ECD interventions. In general the literature tends not to provide gender analysis, presumably because many interventions do not incorporate a gender focus (although some do). This rapid review has found limited evidence on the impact of interventions supporting parent engagement specifically for girls or for children with disabilities in resource constrained countries.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

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

bjohas/OSM-Wikipedia-Monkey - Haßler, Björn (2017)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World - Paris, Django; Alim, H. Samy (Teachers' College Press, 2017)

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

Mapping in Education and International Development - Haßler, Björn (Missing Maps Cambridge, 2017)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

ICT in Education Policy and Strategy for Saint Lucia 2017–2020 - Ministry of Education (2017)

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

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

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

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

Physical education and arts programme approaches in conflict settings - Boateng, Pearl (2017)
This helpdesk report is the concluding report in the query addressing psycho-social interventions in protracted crises with reference to Syria and its neighbouring countries as well as from other fragile and conflict affected states (FACS). This report specifically addresses sports/physical education programmes in and around Syria and its impact
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

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

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

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

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

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

Did the shift to computer-based testing in PISA 2015 affect reading scores? A View from East Asia - Komatsu, Hikaru; Rappleye, Jeremy (Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017)

Evaluating Indoor Environmental Performance of Laboratories in a Northern Nigerian University - Ali, S.M.; Martinson, D.B.; Al-Maiyah, S. (2017)
Poor environmental comfort in learning spaces can have an impact on the learning capacities of students. It is not unusual to find learning spaces in Nigerian higher institutions in which the indoor environmental qualities do not meet the occupants’ requirements. Despite being in the tropics, where solar radiation is in abundance, Nigerian building industry professionals pay little attention to passive energy utilization. Knowing how buildings perform in the country may appeal to their consciousness in reconsidering this situation. This paper is part of an ongoing study on comfort in higher education facilities involving lecture theatres and laboratories in Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. Objective and subjective assessments were undertaken during the wet-warm season of August 2016. It reports the assessment conducted on two laboratories, with a view to finding how they perform environmentally in comparison to occupants’ preferences and international comfort standards. Although some of the measured and calculated physical parameters, have not met the thresholds specified by ASHRAE-55 and EN 15251, the respondents expressed their acceptance of the laboratories’ situations subjectively. This is not surprising as these standards are often based on experiments implemented in developed countries, where the severity of the climatic conditions and the culture are dissimilar to sub Saharan Africa.
Keywords: IEQ; Kano; Nigeria; Predicted Mean Vote; Predicted Percentage of Dissatisfied; ⛔ No DOI found

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

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

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

Big Data in Climate: Opportunities and Challenges for Machine Learning - Karpatne, Anuj; Kumar, Vipin (KDD '17: The 23rd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2017)

Non-state education provision; access and quality for the marginalised - Aslam, Monazza (2017)
This report undertakes a rapid review of some recent, high quality syntheses and reports to summarise the evidence on the effectiveness of different types of non-state schools in reaching the marginalised and providing quality education to them. Non-state provision has risen dramatically over the last few decades especially across South and West Asia and the Latin America and Caribbean region and provides opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere. The all-encompassing term ‘non-state’ constitutes a spectrum of providers with different characteristics, scope and scale. Overall, the evidence is indicative of potential improvements in learning outcomes in certain types of non-state provision but this is caveated by the very low overall learning outcomes across education systems, as well as by the extent to which non-state provision is aligned with human rights. There is evidence of certain types of non-state providers being able to reach the marginalised and disadvantaged more effectively but questions exist with regards to their sustainability. Whilst different types of arrangements may work in different contexts, the critical factor remains the governments’ ability to both foster an enabling environment but also combine it with effective legislation, monitoring and regulation to ensure quality education provision.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

INEE Guidance Notes on Teacher Compensation in Fragile States, Situations of Displacement and Post-Crisis Recovery (Resource Centre, 2017)
This Guidance Note provides a suggested framework for compensating teachers in fragile states, situations of displacement, and post-crisis recovery—situations where teachers are often underpaid or not paid at all. The note focuses on how to develop coordinating polices regarding teacher compensation, how to develop appropriate systems for managing the financial aspects of teacher payment, and how to provide complementary forms of teacher motivation and support to ensure teacher well-being.

Repositories of Open Educational Resources: An Assessment of Reuse and Educational Aspects - Santos-Hermosa, Gema; Ferran-Ferrer, Núria; Abadal, Ernest (The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017)
Keywords: OER; evaluation; higher education; open educational resources; repositories; reuse

Factors shaping lecturers’ adoption of OER at three South African universities - Cox, Glenda; Trotter, Henry (2017)
The research presented here focuses on understanding the obstacles, opportunities and practices associated with Open Educational Resources (OER) adoption at three South African universities. It addresses the question: Why do South African lecturers adopt – or not adopt – OER? In trying to answer this, the authors also attempt to identify which factors shape lecturers’ OER adoption decisions, and how lecturers’ institutional cultures influence their OER use and creation choices. This study employed a qualitative research approach through in-depth personal interviews with 18 respondents at three different universities which together broadly represent the characteristics of South Africa’s university sector. Unique analytical tools – the OER adoption pyramid and OER adoption readiness tables – were developed to help with analysing and synthesising the data. Findings indicate that whether and how OER adoption takes place at an institution is shaped by a layered sequence of factors – infrastructural access, legal permission, conceptual awareness, technical capacity, material availability, and individual or institutional volition – which are further influenced by prevailing cultural and social variables. This study has value and application for researchers and institutions pursuing an OER agenda, policy-makers seeking tools to assess OER readiness in institutional contexts, and funding agencies aiming to boost institutional OER engagement. The dataset arising from this study can be accessed at: https://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/dataportal/index.php/catalog/555
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Higher education, developmental leadership and good governance - Fontana, Giuditta (2017)
The last decade has witnessed renewed interest in the social benefits of higher education, with recent research suggesting that universities have a role in nurturing developmental leaders who enable positive change and better governance in low-income and conflict-affected countries (Brannelly et al, 2011b). This review summarises available evidence on the relationship between higher education, developmental leadership and good governance in developing and conflict-affected countries. It draws on examples from a variety of countries, including Ghana, the Philippines, Oman, Lebanon, Cote d’Ivoire and Botswana among others. Most of the literature considered in this report is academic. A large proportion was produced by the Developmental Leadership Programme (DLP) based at the University of Birmingham, which is currently in the process of publishing a summary report.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Guidance on Conducting a Systematic Literature Review - Xiao, Yu; Watson, Maria (Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2017)
Literature reviews establish the foundation of academic inquires. However, in the planning field, we lack rigorous systematic reviews. In this article, through a systematic search on the methodology of literature review, we categorize a typology of literature reviews, discuss steps in conducting a systematic literature review, and provide suggestions on how to enhance rigor in literature reviews in planning education and research.
Keywords: CitedIn:BIBBTVET

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

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

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

Members of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities - UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (2017)

6 Out of 10 Children and Adolescents Are Not Learning a Minimum in Reading and Math (2017)
New data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics show that 617 million children and adolescents worldwide are not achieving minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics. The figure signals “a learning crisis” according to the UIS, which could threaten progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Survey of ICT Capacity in Ghana's Public Colleges of Education (Transforming Teacher Education and Learning, 2017)
The survey of ICT capacity at 40 colleges of education (CoEs) reflects a considerable amount of work, by many people. The National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) acknowledges with thanks, Consumer Insights Consult (CiC) research team, Cyprian Ekor, Elvis Akpabli, Emmanuel Mireku, George Asare, Kennedy Amedume, Daniel Amewuda, Philemon Opoku. NCTE staff, Jacob T. Akunor, Anthony Dzidzornu, Emmanuel Attey Yebuah, Ebenezer Osei Adu, Nicholas Ameyaw and Kwaku Gyampoh. Transforming Teaching and Learning in Ghana (T-TEL) staff, Dr. Björn Haßler, Dr. Rosie Lugg, Mr. Charlie Gordon, Ms. Beryl Opong-Agyei, Dr. Rich Tobin and Ms. Caroline Jordan. Particular thanks is extended to Jacob Tetteh Akunor, who led this exercise on behalf of the NCTE and to the Senior managers, ICT tutors, ICT technicians and student teacher participants at all 40 CoE that participated, and gave so generously of their time and expertise.
Keywords: Author:Haßler; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _zenodoODE; docs.opendeved.net

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

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

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

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

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

Vision for SLR tooling infrastructure: Prioritizing value-added requirements - Al-Zubidy, Ahmed; Carver, Jeffrey C.; Hale, David P.; Hassler, Edgar E. (Information and Software Technology, 2017)
Context Even with the increasing use of Systematic Literature Reviews (SLR) in software engineering (SE), there are still a number of barriers faced by SLR authors. These barriers increase the cost of conducting SLRs. Objective For many of these barriers, appropriate tool support could reduce their impact. In this paper, we use interactions with the SLR community in SE to identify and prioritize a set of requirements for SLR tooling infrastructure. Method This paper analyzes and combines the results from three studies on SLR process barriers and SLR tool requirements to produce a prioritized list of functional requirements for SLR tool support. Using this list of requirements, we perform a feature analysis of the current SLR support tools to identify requirements that are supported as well as identify the need for additional tooling infrastructure. Results The analysis resulted in a list 112 detailed requirements (consolidated into a set of composite requirements) that SE community desires in SLR support tools. The requirements span all the phases of the SLR process. The results show that, while recent tools cover more of the requirements, there are a number of high-priority requirements that are not yet fully covered by any of the existing tools. Conclusion The existing set of SLR tools do not cover all the requirements posed by the community. The list of requirements in this paper is useful for tool developers and researchers wishing to provide support to the SLR community with SE.
Keywords: Empirical software engineering; Systematic literature review; Tooling infrastructure; _Added-ailr-2024

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

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

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

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

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

Open Education and the Sustainable Development Goals: Making Change Happen - Lane, Andy (Journal of Learning for Development - JL4D, 2017)
Education for All has been a concept at the heart of international development since 1990 and has found its latest instantiation within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as SDG 4, ‘Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all’. Open education, in the form of resources and practices are both seen as contributors to SDG4 as evidenced by the recent 2nd World Open Educational Resources Congress. The ambition for open education to contribute to the SDGs is clear from this and other gatherings but the means to make it happen are not as clear, and many have claimed that little has happened since the SDGs were launched in 2015. To help address this apparent gap, this paper: (1) sets out the scale and scope of the SDGs; (2) reviews the potential contribution of open educational resources and practices to support the SDGs, and (3) uses a framing of power and systems thinking to review the way open education activities might be fostered within tertiary education in all local, national and regional contexts in order to support the SDGs, and not just SDG 4. It will also tentatively propose a theory of change that brings together power relationships, systems thinking and open education as key components and provide a case study of how this might work in practice through a newly funded project proposal. It is hoped that this theory of change and proposal will be a starting point for wider debate and discussion on how to make change happen in this important arena.
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A Bayesian Network Meta-Analysis to Synthesize the Influence of Contexts of Scaffolding Use on Cognitive Outcomes in STEM Education - Belland, Brian R.; Walker, Andrew E.; Kim, Nam Ju (Review of Educational Research, 2017)
Computer-based scaffolding provides temporary support that enables students to participate in and become more proficient at complex skills like problem solving, argumentation, and evaluation. While meta-analyses have addressed between-subject differences on cognitive outcomes resulting from scaffolding, none has addressed within-subject gains. This leaves much quantitative scaffolding literature not covered by existing meta-analyses. To address this gap, this study used Bayesian network meta-analysis to synthesize within-subjects (pre-post) differences resulting from scaffolding in 56 studies. We generated the posterior distribution using 20,000 Markov Chain Monte Carlo samples. Scaffolding has a consistently strong effect across student populations, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines, and assessment levels, and a strong effect when used with most problem-centered instructional models (exception: inquiry-based learning and modeling visualization) and educational levels (exception: secondary education). Results also indicate some promising areas for future scaffolding research, including scaffolding among students with learning disabilities, for whom the effect size was particularly large (ḡ = 3.13).
Keywords: Bayesian network meta-analysis; STEM; cognitive tutor; intelligent tutoring systems; problem-centered instruction; scaffold

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

Tool: Assessing the Quality of Education Evaluations - USAID Office of Education (2017)

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

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

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

Overview of UK development education landscape with a focus on partnerships between UK schools and those overseas - Bourn, Douglas; Blum, Nicole; Ndaruhutse, Suzy; Mattingly, Jacqui (2017)
This rapid review provides an overview of the UK development education landscape with a focus on what else apart from the British Council’s Connecting Classrooms Programme is going on to build partnerships between schools in the UK and schools overseas? How many children/schools are part of something like this? These questions are related to a second query covered in a separate helpdesk report that examines childhood development stages; specifically, when is the best time to influence children’s and young people’s thinking on global issues? These helpdesk reports are designed to help inform a business case and guide DFID’s thinking for a new approach to delivering development education in the UK when the current phases of Connecting Classrooms and the Global Learning Programme (GLP) ends.
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Childhood development stages and learning on global issues - Bourn, Douglas; Hunt, Frances; Hassan, Ahmed (2017)
This helpdesk report provides a summary of available literature and evidence relating to childhood development stages; specifically, when is the best time to influence children’s thinking on global issues. This question is related to a second query covered in a separate helpdesk report that examines the development education landscape in the UK: specifically, what else apart from British Council’s Connecting Classrooms Programme is going on to build partnerships between schools in the UK and schools overseas? How many children/schools are part of something like this? These helpdesk reports are designed to help inform a business case and guide DFID’s thinking for a new approach to delivering development education in the UK when the current phases of Connecting Classrooms and the Global Learning Programme (GLP) ends. Key definitions and terminology can be found in Annex 1.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

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

Digital accesibility toolkit (Christian Blind Mission, 2018)
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Early Years Toolkit (2018)

IAP2 Spectrum for Public Participation (International Association for Public Participation, 2018)

Séminaire sur l’employabilité des diplômés organisé par la CITEF (AUF, 2018)

Teaching & Learning Toolkit (English/Arabic) (2018)
Keywords: _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; ⛔ No DOI found

Toward the 2020 goal of soil-transmitted helminthiasis control and elimination (2018)

Young Persons with Disabilities: Global Study on Ending Gender-Based Violence, and Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (2018)

Perinteisistä oppimisympäristöistä villeihin: Sitoutuneisuuden taso viidesluokkalaisilla oppilailla perinteisessä oppikirjaympäristössä ja digitaalisessa ViLLE-oppimisympäristössä matematiikan oppitunneilla - Aaltonen, Antti; Hotanen, Valtteri (2018)
Keywords: _C:Myanmar MMR; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:United Kingdom GBR; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Women's access to agricultural technologies in rice production and processing hubs: A comparative analysis of Ethiopia, Madagascar and Tanzania - Achandi, Esther L.; Mujawamariya, Gaudiose; Agboh-Noameshie, Afiavi R.; Gebremariam, Shewaye; Rahalivavololona, Njaka; Rodenburg, Jonne; Rahalivavololona, Njaka; Rodenburg, Jonne; Rodenburg, Jonne (Journal of Rural Studies, 2018)
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd This study presents results from a farmer survey conducted with 560 rice farmers from 27 villages spread over five hubs (concentration areas of rice production and processing) in three different countries in Eastern Africa (Ethiopia, Tanzania and Madagascar). The main research objective was to assess women's access to rice technologies and constraints to adoption of technologies. Constraints were analyzed over five different categories: (1) institutional (2) access to agricultural inputs, (3) technology-contextual, (4) household and socio-cultural and (5) extension. Key providers of extension were public (government), Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and international organizations. Our study identifies that the overarching constraints to technology adoption are institutional and cultural impediments and related to the mode of delivery of extension services. Furthermore, the Focus Group Discussions (FGD) with the women, revealed that empowerment of women in decision making at the household level can enhance women's access and engagement in better farming practices suggested under extension advisory services. This is specifically true where women are able to overcome the hurdles of acquisition of extension training and access to the improved technologies.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:eastern Africa; C:Ethiopia; C:Madagascar; C:Tanzania; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:R; CT:T; F:access; F:women; P:agricultural; P:culture; P:production; P:services; P:technology; R:focus groups; R:survey; T:Training; __C:filed:1; publicImportV1

Interaction with Children with Visual Impairments in the Classroom for All - Acheampong, Daniel Yaw (2018)

Assessment of Perceived Ease of Use and Instructional Use of ICT by Lecturers in Technical Training Institutions in Kenya - Agufana, PB; Too, JK; Mukwa, CW (African Journal of Education, Science and Technology, 2018)
In the past ten years, Information Communication Technology (ICT) has become an essential part of our learning and development in education. The rapid development of these new technologies coupled with the worldwide challenge to educate all children has led to a global reform and development of teacher education and motivated educational Institutions to redesign and restructure their teaching methods to enable students equip themselves for the future. The main purpose of this study therefore was to explore the relationship between Perceived Ease of Use and instructional use of ICT by Lecturers in Technical Training Institutions in Kenya. The study adopted the quantitative research design. A sample size of 629 respondents was drawn from a total population of 2909 Lecturers in Technical Training Institutions in Kenya. Data were collected using questionnaires. The quantitative data obtained from the administrated questionnaires were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The findings indicated that use of ICT by lecturers’ is perceived to greatly improve instruction. The study recommends that lecturers be encouraged to use ICT for instructional purposes because it greatly improves the passage of instruction.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:East Africa; C:Kenya; C:Rwanda; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:T; F:assessment; F:attitude; P:culture; P:school teacher; Q:ICT; Q:lifelong learning; Q:open learning; T:TVET; __C:filed:1; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Perspectives on Elections and the Challenges for Democracy in Nigeria - Aisha Abdu-Ismail (2018)

Challenges Experienced in Implementing School-based Continuing Professional Teacher Development in Fort Beaufort Education District in South Africa - Ajibade, Benedicta A.; Rembe, Symphorosa (Anthropologist, 2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Teachers in North-West Nigeria A situation analysis of teacher gaps, effectiveness, and recruitment and deployment processes - Akogun, Oladele B; Adesina, Adedoyin; Iluobi, Ifeatu (Education Data, Research and Evaluation in Nigeria (EDOREN, 2018)

The role of existing evidence in developing teacher recruitment and deployment policies in North-Western Nigeria - Akogun, Oladele B; Adesina, Adedoyin; Iluobi, Ifeatu (EDOREN Project Thematic Research Study. Education Data, Research and Evaluation in Nigeria (EDOREN, 2018)

The EDOREN Model: Reflections and implications for other DFID programmes - Akogun, Oladele B; Friedrich, Florian; Macauslan, Ian; Packer, Steve; Rai, Shefali (Education Data, Research and Evaluation in Nigeria (EDOREN, 2018)

A study of the management and Implementation of the policy on special education needs and disability for improving access of persons with Disabilities to Nigeria’s basic education - Akogun, Oladele B; Njobdi, Sani; Adebukola, Adebayo (2018)

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Primary School Site Selection in Al-Mahaweel district Using GIS Technique - Ali, Khalid Ahmed (2018)
Site selection is the process of finding sites that meet the requirements set by the selection criteria. The long-term and success sustainability of planning school, finding the appropriate school locations is challenging and an important. This study aims to develop a primary school site selection model using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) integrated new approach. It was carried out by Geographic Information Systems and multi-criteria evaluation model (MCEM). Different criteria were used to suggest a number of potential primary school sites using a spatial analysis, which is the new school should be away from existing schools and the major roads, a new site should also be reliably flat land and on certain types of land use. The population factor of the age group less than 14 years was included as a factor to choose the suitable location. As a result, the final suitability map indicates that 18 % of the study area is suitable for a primary school site, 73% moderately suitable, and 9% of the study area under unsuitable.

Effects of ceiling fans on the thermal comfort of students in learning environments of Bayero University - Ali, S.M.; Martinson, D.B.; Al-Maiyah, S.; Mark, C.E. (2018)
Keywords: Africa; Ceiling fans; overheating; thermal comfort; tropics