Supranational Political Economy: the Globalisation of the State-Market Relationship. - Montani, Guido (Routledge, 2018)
With the ending of the Cold War and the rise of a nationalistic 'America First' strategy, the post-war liberal international order, based upon the hegemonic power of the USA, is fading away. In its place, a multipolar world is emerging which, while offering some the hope of a better future, is also open to disorder and instability. This book offers an insight into the relationship between politics and economics in this new era. As an alternative, this volume argues for a form of global governance that will offer a better balance between politics and economics, based on a supranational approach. A supranational approach in which world powers and UN member states can work in agreement would follow the principle on which European political and economic integration was built. The system put forward here is based on a Keynesian world clearing union and a reform of the World Trade Organization and a United Nations budget, which would accelerate the convergence of rich and poor countries in the aim of a more sustainable global system. This book demonstrates that globalisations and today's ecological challenges are both a cause of social discontent and an opportunity. Supranational institutions can greatly increase our ability to address global risks, and this book shows how a 'supranational' world order could reduce the uncertainty of the transition from the post-war order to the future multipolar order. The supranational principle enables us to view globalisation, world capitalism and the ecological crisis not only as causes of inequality, poverty and social instability, but also as processes that can be governed. Wise politicians and political parties cannot let the future of humanity be decided by the precarious equilibrium of the Westphalia system. In post-war Europe a group of nation states, once fierce enemies, embarked on a process of integration which led to the abolition of inter-European national borders. With supranational global governance, the same could be achieved in the global system.

The didactical use of tablets: a balancing act between teacher-centred and learner-centred education - Montrieux, Hannelore; Schellens, Tammy (2018)
Keywords: _C:Belgium BEL; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Investigating Students' and Teachers' Perceptions of Using the iPad in an Italian English as a Foreign Language Classroom - Morgana, Valentina; Shrestha, Prithvi N. (International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT), 2018)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Canada CAN; _C:China CHN; _C:Cuba CUB; _C:France FRA; _C:Italy ITA; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Le renforcement de la formation technique et l’industrialisation en Afrique subsaharienne : le cas du Gabon - Moussone, Emmanuel; Metougue Nang, Prosper (Marché et organisations, 2018)
The objective of this article is to analyze the relationship between the technical training, the skills and the setting up or development of various industries in a developing country by focussing on Gabon. The issues addressed are diverse and varied and more particularly, they relate to the contribution of technical training to the progress of industry and techniques, to the conditions of and needs for economic and social development and finally to innovation, a thread by which all those elements are interconnected. The study shows that the post-colonial economic processes of income and cooperation set up since the independences did not allow for a long time to further on the one hand true skills transfers and one the other hand the setting up of industries. Now, in the face of the current changes in the international environment, the technical training appears as a sufficient condition for acquiring skills essential to the appropriation of innovations and the setting up of industries.
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From teacher oriented to student centered learning, developing an ICT supported learning approach at the Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique - Muianga, Xavier; Klomsri, Tina; Tedre, Matti; Mutimucuio, Inocente (TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2018)
Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) is in the process of modernizing its teaching and learning approaches. As one of the pedagogical reform projects, student-centred learning (SCL) in combination with web 2.0 tools was introduced as a pilot in the course ‘ICT in Environmental Education’ in the Faculty of Education. This study explored - using action research strategy - to what extent the new pedagogical approach contributed to students’ competency development. Twenty-nine students were involved in the course, eight semi-structured interviews with students were combined with sixteen classroom observations and 8 weeks how students used the Learning Management System (LMS) and web 2.0 tools. Results showed that collaborative E-learning supported the development of students’ information management and problem solving skills as well as their metacognitive strategies for self-regulated learning. ICT supported problem based learning contributed to an increased intrinsic motivation. However, not all students were ready to adopt an active role. At the start they looked upon teaching as a one-way knowledge transfer. This study recommends that E-learning initiatives in Mozambique should always go together with an ICT literacy course and training in 21st-century learning skills.
Keywords: Action Research; Action research; Classroom communication; College Students; College students; Colleges & universities; Content Analysis; Content analysis; Cooperative Learning; Cooperative learning; Distance learning; ERIC, Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Education; Education--Teaching Methods And Curriculum; Educational Change; Electronic Learning; Environmental Education; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Independent Study; Information Management; Information Technology; Information management; Information technology; Integrated Learning Systems; Interviews; Knowledge management; Learning; Learning Strategies; Literacy; Management Systems; Metacognition; Modernization; Motivation; Mozambique; Observation; Online instruction; Outcomes of Education; Pedagogy; Pilot Projects; Problem Solving; Problem based learning; Problem solving; Semi Structured Interviews; Skill Development; Skills; Student Attitudes; Student Centered Learning; Student Motivation; Students; Teachers; Teaching; Teaching Methods; Teaching methods; Technological Literacy; Universities; Web 2.0; Web 2.0 Technologies; Webs; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2097827; __finaldtb; ⛔ No DOI found

Conceptualization and Definition of a Curriculum - Mulenga, Innocent Mutale (Journal of Lexicography and Terminology (Online ISSN 2664-0899. Print ISSN 2517-9306)., 2018)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Policy and practice: roles of the guidance and counseling teachers in the implementation of the girls’ reentry policy in selected schools in Lusaka, Zambia. - Mulenga, Innocent Mutale; Mukaba, Brenda (2018)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

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

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

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

Is farmer-to-farmer extension effective? The impact of training on technology adoption and rice farming productivity in Tanzania - Nakano, Yuko; Tsusaka, Takuji W.; Aida, Takeshi; Pede, Valerien O. (World Development, 2018)
Abstract Agricultural training is a potentially effective method to diffuse relevant new technologies to increase productivity and alleviate rural poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, since it is prohibitively expensive to provide direct training to all the farmers in SSA, it is critically important to examine the extent to which technologies taught to a small number of farmers disseminate to non-trained farmers. This paper investigates the technology dissemination pathways among smallholder rice producers within a rural irrigation scheme in Tanzania. As an innovative feature, we compare the performance of three categories of farmers: key farmers, who receive intensive pre-season training at a local training center; intermediate farmers, who are trained by the key farmers; and other ordinary farmers. By collecting and analyzing a unique five-year household-level panel data set, we estimate difference-in-differences models to assess how the gap in performance evolve as the technologies spill over from the trained farmers to the ordinary farmers. To disentangle the technology spillover process, we also examine the extent to which social and geographical network with the key and intermediate farmers influences the adoption of technologies by the ordinary farmers, by incorporating social relationship variables into spatial econometric models. We found that the ordinary farmers who were a relative or residential neighbor of a key or intermediate farmer were more likely to adopt new technologies than those who were not. As a result, while the key farmers’ technology adoption rates rose immediately after the training, those of the non-trained ordinary farmers caught up belatedly. As the technologies disseminated, the paddy yield of the key farmers increased from 3.1 to 5.3 tons per hectare, while the yield of the ordinary farmers increased from 2.6 to 3.7 tons per hectare. Our results suggest the effectiveness and practical potential of farmer-to-farmer extension programs for smallholders in SSA as a cost effective alternative to the conventional farmer training approach.
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A Framework for Evaluating Tablet-based Educational Applications for Primary School Levels in Thailand - Nang, Hsu Mon Pyae; Harfield, Antony (International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), 2018)
Keywords: _C:Denmark DNK; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Thailand THA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Entrepreneurship education in Ghana – the case of the KNUST entrepreneurship clinic - Nyadu-Addo, Ralph; Mensah, Mavis Serwah Benneh (Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 2018)
© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Entrepreneurship education thrives on the pillars of experiential education. Using the case of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, the purpose of this paper is to examine the entrepreneurship clinic (EC) as a viable pedagogy for the promotion of experiential education in entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach: The paper relies on insider action research to analyse, within Joplin’s five-step model, the case of the EC at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. Findings: The analysis showed that the KNUST clinic comprises five main activities including preparation, orientation, selection and matching, coaching and monitoring and evaluation. In relation to Joplin’s five-step model, the first three stages of the clinic provide focus for the clinic while the remaining two stages – coaching and monitoring and evaluation – entail activities that are geared towards action, support, feedback and debrief. Through the clinic, thousands of tertiary students have been trained in entrepreneurship and new venture creation; some selected participants have been coached while others have had the opportunity to qualify for business incubation. Research limitations/implications: Although the paper discusses some achievements of the clinic in relation to enrolment and fundraising, it does not assess the impact of the clinic on the entrepreneurial competencies, intentions and initiatives of participants, hence, these issues are recommended for future research. Practical implications: The paper demonstrates that it is feasible to implement the EC methodology, irrespective of the cost and time implications that are often associated with experiential educational methodologies. However, support from university management, funding raising from internal and external sources and technical support from industry and government agencies are key to the sustainability of clinics. Originality/value: The paper adds novelty to the entrepreneurship education literature by bringing to the fore how a university in an emerging African economy is implementing and managing the EC pedagogy.
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Using Machine Learning to Parameterize Moist Convection: Potential for Modeling of Climate, Climate Change, and Extreme Events - O'Gorman, Paul A.; Dwyer, John G. (Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2018)
Abstract The parameterization of moist convection contributes to uncertainty in climate modeling and numerical weather prediction. Machine learning (ML) can be used to learn new parameterizations directly from high‐resolution model output, but it remains poorly understood how such parameterizations behave when fully coupled in a general circulation model (GCM) and whether they are useful for simulations of climate change or extreme events. Here we focus on these issues using idealized tests in which an ML‐based parameterization is trained on output from a conventional parameterization and its performance is assessed in simulations with a GCM. We use an ensemble of decision trees (random forest) as the ML algorithm, and this has the advantage that it automatically ensures conservation of energy and nonnegativity of surface precipitation. The GCM with the ML convective parameterization runs stably and accurately captures important climate statistics including precipitation extremes without the need for special training on extremes. Climate change between a control climate and a warm climate is not captured if the ML parameterization is only trained on the control climate, but it is captured if the training includes samples from both climates. Remarkably, climate change is also captured when training only on the warm climate, and this is because the extratropics of the warm climate provides training samples for the tropics of the control climate. In addition to being potentially useful for the simulation of climate, we show that ML parameterizations can be interrogated to provide diagnostics of the interaction between convection and the large‐scale environment. , Plain Language Summary Small‐scale features such as clouds are typically represented in climate models by simplified physical models, and these simplified models introduce errors and uncertainties. A promising alternative approach is to use machine learning to train a statistical model to represent small‐scale processes based on output from expensive physics‐based models that better represent the small‐scale processes. Here we use idealized tests to explore the implications of incorporating a machine‐learning model of atmospheric convection in a climate model. We find that such an approach can give accurate simulations of mean climate and heavy rainfall events. The machine‐learning model does not work well for global warming if it is only trained on the current climate. However, it does work well for global warming if trained on both the current and warmer climates, and it works surprisingly well if only trained on the warmer climate. We also show that the machine‐learning model can be used to better understand the underlying physical processes. , Key Points Random‐forest parameterization of convection gives accurate GCM simulations of climate and precipitation extremes in idealized tests Climate change captured when trained on control and warm climate, or only on warm climate, but not when trained only on control climate Machine‐learning parameterizations can also be interrogated to generate diagnostics of interaction of convection with the environment

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

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

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

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

New product development process: The case of selected technical and vocational colleges in Nigeria - Oyebola, Abiodun Isaac; Olaposi, Titilayo Olubunmi; Adejuwon, Olawale Oladapo; Akarakiri, Joshua Babatunde (African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 2018)
© 2017 African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development. An examination of the literature reveals that studies on new product development processes have been carried out mostly in western contexts using sequential models. This study was conducted using the innovation systems approach and a sequential model to analyze new product development processes in selected technical and vocational colleges in Nigeria. Using a questionnaire survey method, the sequential model revealed that most of the respondents (91%) conceived of their products through job experience and only 4.9% conceived of product ideas through R&D, showing a weakness in science-based enquiries in the invention stages. In addition, 73.9% developed prototypes while 82.2%, 80.4%, and 69.2% conducted feasibly studies, business analyses and market surveys, respectively. These results imply capability in the commercialization stages of the sequential model. The systems of innovation approach however revealed very weak linkages with universities and R&D institutes which could have complemented lack of R&D activities in the technical and vocational colleges. While some useful and beneficial technological products have been developed in the colleges, we conclude that the use of sequential models and systems of innovation approach may bring a fresh perspective to the product development process.
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Looking back, moving forward: Impact and measurability of the use of educational technology - Pachler, Norbert; Turvey, Keith (Second Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education, 2018)
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Practical considerations informing teachers’ technology integration decisions: the case of tablet PCs - Pareja Roblin, Natalie; Tondeur, Jo; Voogt, Joke; Bruggeman, Bram; Mathieu, Griet; van Braak, Johan (Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Qualitative Study: Perception of Preschool Teachers Use of Technology in Preparing for School Readiness - Ramsey, Lesley C. (Northcentral University, 2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

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

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

Teacher practices during Y ear 4 of a one-to-one mobile learning initiative - Reichert, Michael; Mouza, Chrystalla (Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Issues and challenges related to digital equity: an overview - Resta, P.; Laferriere, T.; McLaughlin, R.; Kouraogo, A. (Second handbook of information technology in primary and secondary education, 2018)

Leveraging the 1: 1 iPad approach for enhanced learning in the classroom - Retalis, Symeon; Paraskeva, Fotini; Alexiou, Aikaterini; Litou, Zoi; Sbrini, Theofili; Limperaki, Youla (Educational Media International, 2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

International technical guidance on sexuality education - UNESCO (2018)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

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

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

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.

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

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)

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.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

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

Information and Communication Technology for Development - Heeks, Richard (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.

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)

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

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

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.

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.
Keywords: Education / Experimental Methods; Education / General; Education / Research

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

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.

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

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)....

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

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)

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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)

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

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.

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

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)

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

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.

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.