Planning for School Reopening and Recovery After COVID-19 - Carvalho, Shelby; Rossiter, Jack; Angrist, Noam; Hares, Susannah; Silverman, Rachel (Centre for Global Development, 2020)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Planning maize hybrids adaptation to future climate change by integrating crop modelling with machine learning - Zhang, Liangliang; Zhang, Zhao; Tao, Fulu; Luo, Yuchuan; Cao, Juan; Li, Ziyue; Xie, Ruizhi; Li, Shaokun (Environmental Research Letters, 2021)
Keywords: _z:no_pdf

Planning Tool - Haßler, Björn; Regis, Callista; Khalayleh, Abdullah; McBurnie, Chris; Megha-Bongnkar, Ghislaine; Blower, Tom (Open Development & Education, 2021)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; _yl:r1; _zenodo:submitted; _zenodoETH:submitted

Play and Child Development - Frost, Joe L; Wortham, Sue C; Reifel, Stuart (Pearson, 2012)

Play and self-regulation: Lessons from Vygotsky - Bodrova, Elena; Germeroth, Carrie; Leong, Deborah (American Journal of Play, 2013)
The authors consider the analysis of the literature on play research by Lillard and others in the January 2013 Psychological Bulletin, an analysis that questioned the prevailing assumption of a causal relationship between play and child development, especially in the areas of creativity, reasoning, executive function, and regulation of emotions. The authors regard these connections as critical for teachers in early-childhood classrooms and for other advocates of child play. They claim that the conclusions of Lillard and her coauthors place these professionals in a difficult position because they already face sharp pressure to replace play with academic activities. The authors suggest that the difficulty researchers have in linking play to development partly results from a failure to account for both cognitive and non cognitive developments across a complex trajectory. To help see the problem more clearly, they argue for a return to the Vygotskian and post-Vygotskian theories that differentiate between immature and mature play. The authors then describe their creation, an observational tool based on such theories, that helps researchers and practitioners judge the quality of pretend play. Key words: Lev Vygotsky; mature play; Mature Play Observation Tool; play and child development; self-regulation
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Play in Crisis: support for parents and carers - Casey, Theresa (International Play Association, 2020)

Playing around in School: Implications for Learning and Edu-cational Policy - Fisher, Kelly R; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Golinkoff, Roberta M; Singer, Dorothy G; Berk, Laura E (The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Play, 2011)

Playing with the Multiple Intelligences: How Play Helps Them Grow - Eberle, Scott G (American Journal of Play, 2011)
Howard Gardner first posited a list of "multiple intelligences" as a liberating alternative to the assumptions underlying traditional IQ testing in his widely read study "Frames of Mind" (1983). Play has appeared only in passing in Gardner's thinking about intelligence, however, even though play instructs and trains the verbal, interpersonal, intrapersonal, logical, spatial, musical, and bodily intelligences that Gardner regards as original human endowments. Playing out of doors also enhances and exercises the faculty that Gardner later marked as the naturalist intelligence. As recess dwindles in American schools, and as free play shrinks in the childhood experience, this article finds fresh cause to inspect the merits of multiple-intelligence theory through the lens of play.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Policies and interventions to remove gender-related barriers to girls' school participation and learning in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review of the evidence - Psaki, Stephanie; Haberland, Nicole; Mensch, Barbara; Woyczynski, Lauren; Chuang, Erica (Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2022)
Background Gender disparities in education continue to undermine girls' opportunities, despite enormous strides in recent years to improve primary enrolment and attainment for girls in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). At the regional, country and subnational levels gender gaps remain, with girls in many settings less likely to complete primary school, less likely to complete secondary, and often less likely to be literate than boys. The academic and policy literatures on the topic of gender-related barriers to girls' education are both extensive. However, there remain gaps in knowledge regarding which interventions are most likely to work in contexts with different combinations of barriers. Objectives This systematic review identified and assessed the strength of the evidence of interventions and exposures addressing gender-related barriers to schooling for girls in LMICs. Search Methods The AEA RCT Registry, Africa Bibliography, African Education Research Database, African Journals Online, DEC USAID, Dissertation Abstracts, EconLit, ELDIS, Evidence Hub, Global Index Medicus, IDEAS-Repec, Intl Clinical Trials Registry, NBER, OpenGrey, Open Knowledge Repository, POPLINE, PsychINFO, PubMed, Research for Development Outputs, ScienceDirect, Sociological Abstracts, Web of Science, as well as relevant organization websites were searched electronically in March and April of 2019. Further searches were conducted through review of bibliographies as well as through inquiries to authors of included studies, relevant researchers and relevant organizations, and completed in March 2020. Selection Criteria We included randomized controlled trials as well as quasi-experimental studies that used quantitative models that attempted to control for endogeneity. Manuscripts could be either published, peer-reviewed articles or grey literature such as working papers, reports and dissertations. Studies must have been published on or after 2000, employed an intervention or exposure that attempted to address a gender-related barrier to schooling, analyzed the effects of the intervention/exposure on at least one of our primary outcomes of interest, and utilized data from LMICs to be included. Data Collection and Analysis A team of reviewers was grouped into pairs to independently screen articles for relevance, extract data and assess risk of bias for each included study. A third reviewer assisted in resolving any disputes. Risk of bias was assessed either through the RoB 2 tool for experimental studies or the ROBINS-I tool for quasi-experimental studies. Due to the heterogeneity of study characteristics and reported outcome measures between studies, we applied the GRADE (Grading of Recommendation, Assessment, Development and Evaluation) approach adapted for situations where a meta-analysis is not possible to synthesize the research. Results Interventions rated as effective exist for three gender-related barriers: inability to afford tuition and fees, lack of adequate food, and insufficient academic support. Promising interventions exist for three gender-related barriers: inadequate school access, inability to afford school materials, and lack of water and sanitation. More research is needed for the remaining 12 gender-related barriers: lack of support for girls' education, child marriage and adolescent pregnancy, lack of information on returns to education/alternative roles for women, school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV), lack of safe spaces and social connections, inadequate sports programs for girls, inadequate health and childcare services, inadequate life skills, inadequate menstrual hygiene management (MHM), poor policy/legal environment, lack of teaching materials and supplies, and gender-insensitive school environment. We find substantial gaps in the evidence. Several gender-related barriers to girls' schooling are under-examined. For nine of these barriers we found fewer than 10 relevant evaluations, and for five of the barriers—child marriage and adolescent pregnancy, SRGBV, inadequate sports programs for girls, inadequate health and childcare services, and inadequate MHM—we found fewer than five relevant evaluations; thus, more research is needed to understand the most effective interventions to address many of those barriers. Also, nearly half of programs evaluated in the included studies were multi-component, and most evaluations were not designed to tease out the effects of individual components. As a result, even when interventions were effective overall, it is often difficult to identify how much, if any, of the impact is attributable to a given program component. The combination of components varies between studies, with few comparable interventions, further limiting our ability to identify packages of interventions that work well. Finally, the context-specific nature of these barriers—whether a barrier exists in a setting and how it manifests and operates—means that a program that is effective in one setting may not be effective in another. Authors' Conclusions While some effective and promising approaches exist to address gender-related barriers to education for girls, evidence gaps exist on more than half of our hypothesized gender-related barriers to education, including lack of support for girls' education, SRGBV, lack of safe spaces and social connections, inadequate life skills, and inadequate MHM, among others. In some cases, despite numerous studies examining interventions addressing a specific barrier, studies either did not disaggregate results by sex, or they were not designed to isolate the effects of each intervention component. Differences in context and in implementation, such as the number of program components, curricula content, and duration of interventions, also make it difficult to compare interventions to one another. Finally, few studies looked at pathways between interventions and education outcomes, so the reasons for differences in outcomes largely remain unclear.

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

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

Policy Implications for Teaching during the Health Emergency - Rudder, Roderick (SDG-Education 2030 Webinar Series for Latin America and the Caribbean: Leaving no one behind in times of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020)
Keywords: _Added to LR; _T:reviewed

Policy Learning with Adaptively Collected Data - Zhan, Ruohan; Zhimei, Ren; Athey, Susan; Zhou, Zhengyuan (2021)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

Policy Linking for Measuring Global Learning Outcomes - USAID; World Bank; Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office; Australian Council for Education Research; MSI (2021)
Check out the policy linking video below , Express Interest in an Upcoming Training , USAID has worked closely with global partners including with the World Bank, UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)

Policy Makers and Girls’ Education in Emergencies in Kenya - Megha-Bongnkar, Ghislaine; Gichuhi, Loise; Khalayleh, Abdullah (2021)

Policy Makers and Girls' Education in Emergencies in Kenya: Initial findings from first round of interviews - Megha-Bongnkar, Ghislaine; Gichuhi, Loise; Khalayleh, Abdullah (2021)

Policy Response, Social Media and Science Journalism for the Sustainability of the Public Health System Amid the COVID-19 Outbreak: The Vietnam Lessons - La, Viet-Phuong; Pham, Thanh-Hang; Ho, Manh-Toan; Nguyen, Minh-Hoang; P. Nguyen, Khanh-Linh; Vuong, Thu-Trang; Nguyen, Hong-Kong T.; Tran, Trung; Khuc, Quy; Ho, Manh-Tung; Vuong, Quan-Hoang (Sustainability, 2020)
Having geographical proximity and a high volume of trade with China, the first country to record an outbreak of the new Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Vietnam was expected to have a high risk of transmission. However, as of 4 April 2020, in comparison to attempts to containing the disease around the world, responses from Vietnam are seen as prompt and effective in protecting the interests of its citizens, with 239 confirmed cases and no fatalities. This study analyzes the situation in terms of Vietnam’s policy response, social media and science journalism. A self-made web crawl engine was used to scan and collect official media news related to COVID-19 between the beginning of January and April 4, yielding a comprehensive dataset of 14,952 news items. The findings shed light on how Vietnam—despite being under-resourced—has demonstrated political readiness to combat the emerging pandemic since the earliest days. Timely communication on any developments of the outbreak from the government and the media, combined with up-to-date research on the new virus by the Vietnamese science community, have altogether provided reliable sources of information. By emphasizing the need for immediate and genuine cooperation between government, civil society and private individuals, the case study offers valuable lessons for other nations concerning not only the concurrent fight against the COVID-19 pandemic but also the overall responses to a public health crisis.
Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Vietnam; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Belgium BEL; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:China CHN; _C:France FRA; _C:Germany DEU; _C:India IND; _C:Iran IRN; _C:Italy ITA; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Korea, Republic KOR; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Switzerland CHE; _C:Thailand THA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Viet Nam VNM; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; coronavirus; pandemic; policy response; public health system; science journalism; social media

Policy Review on Adult Learning: The Adult Non-formal Education Policy of Mali, West Africa - Gadio, Moussa (Adult Learning, 2011)
The shift to democracy was manifested in a constitution voted in 1992 that declared education a fundamental civil right and granted citizens the freedom of organizing themselves around their own needs. [...]new actors emerged in the education sector like the civil society and the private sector. Rapid changes in all societies today are creating new needs in relation with lifelong learning that the policy document doesn't cover sufficiently. [...]the policy document should be amended and completed with enforcement laws to provide adult education professionals and practitioners with instruments that would help to effectively recognize and reorganize the field to adapt it to the changing needs of modern Mali.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:West Africa; C:Mali; CA:AandC; CL:de; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:T; F:learning; F:policy; Q:adult education; Q:lifelong learning; T:continuing education; Z:Adult education; Z:Adult learning; Z:Continuing education; Z:Decentralization; Z:Democracy; Z:Education policy; Z:Lifelong learning; publicImportV1

'Political vandalism': DfID and Foreign Office merger met with anger by UK charities - Ford, Liz (The Guardian, 2020)
Unicef, Save the Children and Christian Aid among organisations warning move will harm those most in need and reduce UK’s power overseas
Keywords: Aid; Boris Johnson; Department for International Development (DfID); Global development; Politics; Society; UK news; World news

Políticas públicas em educação: um apanhado histórico - Cá, Lourenço Ocuni; Ocuni Cá, Cristina Mandu (2015)
Este trabalho pretende documentar e analisar as estruturas educacionais da Guiné-Bissau, a falta de infraestrutura deixada pelo colonialismo português e a implementação do novo sistema educacional pelo Partido Africano para Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (PAIGC). A análise é feita por meio de avaliação do desempenho de sucessivos períodos que fizeram parte da história educacional do país. Nesta análise, destaca-se, em primeiro momento, a ausência de instituições escolares na sociedade linhageira africana, não que isto significasse a inexistência de ensino-aprendizagem, pois se tratava de uma cultura oral que veio a ser sobreposta pela cultura escrita europeia. Nesse sentido, no ensino colonial, a Igreja Católica desempenhou o papel fundamental na docilização dos guineenses. A igreja não só ajudou na implantação da política educacional, como também participou na legitimação do colonialismo português, sancionando e santificando a missão civilizadora e função histórica de Portugal. Paralelamente a essa educação, o movimento de libertação nacional da Guiné e Cabo Verde (PAIGC) idealizou e instaurou a educação nas Zonas Libertadas (1963-1973) esta educação era mais aberta e mais dinâmica em relação ao mundo exterior. Ela não tinha mais como objetivo principal produzir uma situação de equilíbrio e de estagnação e sim procurava apoiar-se e favorecer o processo geral da luta de libertação nacional em que se inseria.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; C:Cape Verde; C:Guinea; C:Guinea-Bissau; CA:AandC; CL:en; CL:fr; CL:pt; CLL:pt; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:P; CT:T; P:culture; P:health; T:apprenticeship; publicImportV1

Pollution from Tanning Industries in Challawa Industrial Estate, Kano - Tudunwada, I.Y. (Bayero Journal of Biological and Environmental Studies. Department of Biological, 2007)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Polytechnic Law - Government of Ghana (2007)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; CC:Ghana; publicImportV1

Poor diet: Children 20cm shorter as a result, analysis says (BBC News, 2020)
A global analysis suggests that on average the world's tallest teenagers live in the Netherlands.

Poor indoor climate: Its impact on health and life satisfaction, as well as its wider socio-economic costs - Phillips, William; Janta, Barbara; Gehrt, Daniel; Flemons, Lillian; Gkousis, Evangelos; Cole, Sam; Smith, Pamina; Hafner, Marco (2022)
Keywords: BE:Annotated; BE:RELEVANT

Popbots: Designing an artificial intelligence curriculum for early childhood education - Williams, Randi; Park, Hae Won; Oh, Lauren; Breazeal, Cynthia (2019)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Portability, Feasibility, Collaborativeness: Teachers’ Perception Of Tablet Use For Inclusive Education - Benigno, Vincenza; Caruso, Giovanni; Epifania, Marina Ottavia; Fante, Chiara; Ravicchio, Fabrizio; Trentin, Guglielmo (ICERI2017 Proceedings, 2017)
Tablet are characterized by features such as their ease of use, portability, feasibility and they are easily employable in collaborative learning (Schuck et al., 2013). Students themselves consider them as an effective tool for reflection, since it allows them to deepen their knowledge thanks to the possibility of on-line searching (Parmigiani et al., 2015). On the other side, teachers are aware of the fact that tablets can help in making lesson more interesting and varied (Heinrich, 2012), but their use also needs a rethinking of the pedagogical approach (Culé & Gasparini, 2012) since tablets allow a more students-centred learning (Ludwig et al., 2011). Further, Information and Communication Technologies in general are also used for the inclusion of the disabled children into class activities (Ifenthaler & Schweinbenz, 2013). We argue that tablets, thanks to their abovementioned features, may be particularly helpful in fostering the inclusion of children who are not disabled, but who cannot attend school for medical reasons. The socio-educational inclusion of these children was the main aim of the TRIS project (Tecnologie per l’Inclusione Socio-educativa [Technologies for socio-educational inclusion]), and Information and Communication Technologies, combined with new pedagogical methodologies, played a key role for the pursuing of this aim. During this project, we equipped a middle school classroom with one tablet for each teacher and student. In addition, after one year several activities were planned in collaboration with teachers to evaluate the use of tablets and some specific apps in different teaching area. The activity developed for chemistry involved the use of augmented reality software, and we were investigating its effect on students’ attitudes towards the subject. The one developed for Italian language was aimed to the investigation of whether the affordance of a specific app for the creation of mental app have helped the students in their creation in respect to paper and pencil. In this paper, we report the results regarding teachers’ perception of tablet use in everyday class activities, involving both their competencies and the frequency of use. We considered the impact of the tablet after six months and after one year and a half from their introduction. Furthermore, at the end of the specific activity, the teachers were interviewed in order to understand the potentiality of the tablet for the abovementioned subjects, for the inclusion of the homebound student, and the difficulty found in the planning and managing of the activities. All the teachers involved (n= 7) sustained the utility of the tablet for classes, mentioning its capacity to foster communication in collaborative working and to gain students’ attention. They mostly used the tablet for students’ individual work, on-line research, and for collaborative activities with the homebound student. Regarding the activities carried out with the teachers, they kept sustaining the tablet capacity to motivate students and to foster their active participation, but they also expressed several concerns regarding the high amount of time needed to plan and to implement the activities using the tablet.
Keywords: _C:Italy ITA; _C:Trinidad and Tobago TTO; _C:Zambia ZMB; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

'Portrait of Gani Odutokun' - Ajadi, S.B. (2010)

Positioning large language model artificial intelligence tools within discourse analysis: Opportunities, challenges and ethical considerations - Anand, Pranit; Li, Dongmei; Keen, Joel; Henrickson, Leah (ASCILITE Publications, 2023)

Positive Lobbying: A Tool for Youth Empowerment in a Democracy - Umar, B.A.; A., Yusuf M.; Dandago, K.A.; Aisha Abdu-Ismail (Issues in Youth Development: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, 2010)

Possible Retrofit Interventions for Classrooms (Infographic) - Toyinbo, Oluyemi; Villavicencio Peralta, Xuzel Ana; Megogo Bokamba, Tania Elena (Open Development & Education, 2023)
The infographic presents different options explored so far for possible modifications that could be implemented in classrooms in Tanzania. The interventions chosen will depend on the conditions of each classroom studied in the ‘Improving Learning Conditions through Classroom Experience’ programme.

Post‐abyssal ethics in education research in settings of conflict and crisis: Stories from the field - Cremin, Hilary; Aryoubi, Hogai; Hajir, Basma; Kurian, Nomisha; Salem, Hiba (British Educational Research Journal, 2021)

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

Post-primary agricultural education and training in sub-Saharan Africa: Adapting supply to changing demand - Vandenbosch, T (2006)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:Benin; C:Burkina Faso; C:Ethiopia; CA:AandC; CL:de; CL:en; CL:fr; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:R; CT:T; F:learning; F:ministry; P:agricultural; P:agriculture; P:economy; P:environment; Q:ICT; Q:certificate; Q:secondary education; R:impact; T:Ausbildung; T:Educação profissionalizante; T:TVET; T:Training; T:apprenticeship training; T:trainee; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Uganda UGA; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Post-Primary Education in Africa: Challenges and Approaches for Expanding Learning Opportunities. - Hoppers, W (Association for the Development of Education in Africa, 2009)

Postgraduate Students’ Perception of the Use of E-portfolios as a Teaching Tool to Support their Learning in an Open and Distance Education Institution - Modise, Mphoentle Puleng (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
E-portfolios have been used for decades in education; however, it is still a new trend in some developing countries as they continue to adopt e-learning practices. The study investigated postgraduate students’ experiences and perceptions of using an e-portfolio as a teaching tool to support their learning in an open and distance e-learning (ODeL) university in South Africa. A sample of 74 students registered for an online module were selected and an online questionnaire administered via Lime Survey. The results show that more than half of the respondents (71%) were using the e-portfolio for the first time. The study also revealed the contrasting views of the support received from the lecturer and institution for the e-portfolio platform, especially with technical issues. This study suggests that distance education institutions that are using e-portfolios need to strategically choose user-friendly technology tools and design appropriate student support strategies for delivering online modules. Higher education institutions that are planning to implement e-portfolios may find the results of this paper useful; however, further investigation of the learners’ needs, and available tools may assist with creative and appropriate designs of support strategies for their contexts.
Keywords: COVID-19; Community of Inquiry (CoI); Mahara; Open Distance Learning (ODL); _genre:PR-primary_research; e-learning; e-portfolio; student support; ⛔ No DOI found

Potential long-term consequences of school closures: Lessons from the 2013-2016 Ebola pandemic - Smith, William C. (In Review, 2020)
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has seen an unprecedented shutdown of society. Nearly 1.725 billion children across the globe have been affected as over 95% of countries closed schools as the virus spread in April 2020. Much attention has been given to school closures as non-pharmaceutical mitigation tools to stem the spread of the disease through ensuring social distancing. Within education, focus has been given to keep students connected through remote learning and the immediate needs of schools upon reopening. This study takes a longer-term view. Using Demographic Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys from before and after the 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak in Guinea and Sierra Leone, this study examines changes in enrolment and dropout patterns, with targeted consideration given to traditionally marginalized groups. With schools closed for seven and nine months in the two countries, the length and intensity of the Ebola pandemic is the only health crises in the past century to come close to the school closures being experienced in 2020. Findings suggest that youth in the poorest households see the largest increase in dropout rates post-Ebola and that this impact can persist for years. Two years after being declared Ebola-free an additional 22,000 of the poorest secondary age youth remained out of school than would have been expected based on the pre-outbreak dropout rate. To halt the likely expansion in inequality post-pandemic, these results point to the need for longer term, sustainable planning that includes comprehensive financial support packages to groups most likely to be impacted.
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

PowerUp! A Tool for Calculating Minimum Detectable Effect Sizes and Minimum Required Sample Sizes for Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Design Studies - Dong, Nianbo; Maynard, Rebecca (Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013)
This paper and the accompanying tool are intended to complement existing supports for conducting power analysis tools by offering a tool based on the framework of Minimum Detectable Effect Sizes (MDES) formulae that can be used in determining sample size requirements and in estimating minimum detectable effect sizes for a range of individual- and group-random assignment design studies and for common quasi-experimental design studies. The paper and accompanying tool cover computation of minimum detectable effect sizes under the following study designs: individual random assignment designs, hierarchical random assignment designs (2-4 levels), block random assignment designs (2-4 levels), regression discontinuity designs (6 types), and short interrupted timeseries designs. In each case, the discussion and accompanying tool consider the key factors associated with statistical power and minimum detectable effect sizes, including the level at which treatment occurs and the statistical models (e.g., ﬁxed effect and random effect) used in the analysis. The tool also includes a module that estimates for one and two level random assignment design studies the minimum sample sizes required in order for studies to attain user-deﬁned minimum detectable effect sizes.

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

Practical implementation science: developing and piloting the quality implementation tool - Meyers, Duncan C.; Katz, Jason; Chien, Victoria; Wandersman, Abraham; Scaccia, Jonathan P.; Wright, Annie (American journal of community psychology, 2012)

Practical lessons for phone-based assessments of learning - Angrist, Noam; Bergman, Peter; Evans, David K.; Hares, Susannah; Jukes, Matthew C. H.; Letsomo, Thato (BMJ Global Health, 2020)
School closures affecting more than 1.5 billion children are designed to prevent the spread of current public health risks from the COVID-19 pandemic, but they simultaneously introduce new short-term and long-term health risks through lost education. Measuring these effects in real time is critical to inform effective public health responses, and remote phone-based approaches are one of the only viable options with extreme social distancing in place. However, both the health and education literature are sparse on guidance for phone-based assessments. In this article, we draw on our pilot testing of phone-based assessments in Botswana, along with the existing literature on oral testing of reading and mathematics, to propose a series of preliminary practical lessons to guide researchers and service providers as they try phone-based learning assessments. We provide preliminary evidence that phone-based assessments can accurately capture basic numeracy skills. We provide guidance to help teams (1) ensure that children are not put at risk, (2) test the reliability and validity of phone-based measures, (3) use simple instructions and practice items to ensure the assessment is focused on the target skill, not general language and test-taking skills, (4) adapt the items from oral assessments that will be most effective in phone-based assessments, (5) keep assessments brief while still gathering meaningful learning data, (6) use effective strategies to encourage respondents to pick up the phone, (7) build rapport with adult caregivers and youth respondents, (8) choose the most cost-effective medium and (9) account for potential bias in samples.
Keywords: __C:filed:1; health economics; health services research; public health

Práticas pedagógicas com o uso dos tablets no ensino médio técnico do IFRO - Pereira, Dauster Souza; Bueno, José Lucas Pedreira (2016)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

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

Pre-pilot findings on developing a literacy tablet - Chang, Angela; Nunez, David; Roberts, Tom; Sengeh, David; Breazeal, Cynthia (ACM, 2013)
We report observations on how children in a developing country respond to a literacy tablet that is designed to initiate and scaffold literacy learning toward self-sufficiency. This paper describes our first lessons from developing an educational system for enabling children who have no access to schooling to read with minimal outside intervention. We share lessons learned from challenges in the design process, discuss implementation considerations for deploying in remote developing areas, and discuss observations of how children use the technology. We reflect how this experience impacts ongoing work on developing countries regarding collaboration and literacy learning.
Keywords: developing countries; literacy tablet; tablet interaction; technology implementation

Pre-service teacher training in Malawi: findings of a pilot study on the viability of media players for teacher development - Carrier, Carol; Finholt-Daniel, Matt; Sales, Gregory C (International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2012)
As part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID funded Malawi Teacher Professional Development Support project, a sub-task was the piloting of an alternative technology that could be used for improving the quality and consistency of teacher continued professional development (CPD). The pilot, which included 26 open and distance learning (ODL) student teachers, was launched in the spring of 2011 using a low-cost portable MP3 multi-purpose device. A short course on numeracy, containing 5 weekly lessons, was piloted. Each lesson consisted of one or two readings, two videos, and an assignment that directed the learner to complete tasks and document their completion using the camera and audio recorder features of the media player. The viability of using the media player for CPD was evaluated on the ease of use, effectiveness of instruction, and potential for long-term scalability. The evaluation results demonstrated that, with a small amount if initial training, the devices were easy to use and they effectively deliver instruction. Scalability, however, is critical to the long-term success of an initiative based on these or similar devices. An analysis suggests that an affordable option worth considering is the systematic, shared use of media player devices within schools. This approach could dramatically reduce the cost of using this alternative technology for ODL training to pennies per lesson. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
Keywords: Distance learning; Education; Learning; Malawi; Software; Student teachers; Teacher education; Teaching; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2096523; __finaldtb; ⛔ No DOI found

Predicting academic success in higher education: literature review and best practices - Alyahyan, Eyman; Düştegör, Dilek (International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2020)
Student success plays a vital role in educational institutions, as it is often used as a metric for the institution’s performance. Early detection of students at risk, along with preventive measures, can drastically improve their success. Lately, machine learning techniques have been extensively used for prediction purpose. While there is a plethora of success stories in the literature, these techniques are mainly accessible to “computer science”, or more precisely, “artificial intelligence” literate educators. Indeed, the effective and efficient application of data mining methods entail many decisions, ranging from how to define student’s success, through which student attributes to focus on, up to which machine learning method is more appropriate to the given problem. This study aims to provide a step-by-step set of guidelines for educators willing to apply data mining techniques to predict student success. For this, the literature has been reviewed, and the state-of-the-art has been compiled into a systematic process, where possible decisions and parameters are comprehensively covered and explained along with arguments. This study will provide to educators an easier access to data mining techniques, enabling all the potential of their application to the field of education.

Predicting and resolving non-completion in higher (online) education – A literature review - Delnoij, Laurie E. C.; Dirkx, Kim J. H.; Janssen, José P. W.; Martens, Rob L. (Educational Research Review, 2020)
Non-completion in higher education is a persistent problem and even worse of a problem in higher online education. Although there is a lot of research on predictors of non-completion, less is known about what interventions resolve the non-completion problem and to what extent these interventions focus on relevant predictors of non-completion. To close that gap, the literature was systematically reviewed with a twofold aim: 1. Identify modifiable predictors of non-completion in higher (online) education 2. Investigate characteristics of effective interventions to reduce non-completion in higher (online) education. Results showed that study- or learning strategies, academic self-efficacy, (academic) goals and intentions, institutional or college adjustment, employment, supportive network, and faculty-student interaction are modifiable consistent predictors of non-completion. Coaching, remedial teaching, and peer mentoring are promising interventions to resolve the problem of non-completion in higher education. Interventions aimed at increasing completion rates are limited in targeting relevant modifiable predictors of non-completion.
Keywords: Higher education; Intervention; Non-completion; Predictors; Review

Predicting global patterns of long-term climate change from short-term simulations using machine learning - Mansfield, Laura A.; Nowack, Peer J.; Kasoar, Matt; Everitt, Richard G.; Collins, William J.; Voulgarakis, Apostolos (npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2020)

Predicting poverty and wealth from mobile phone metadata - Blumenstock, J.; Cadamuro, G.; On, R. (Science, 2015)

Predicting Student Performance Using Data Mining and Learning Analytics Techniques: A Systematic Literature Review - Namoun, Abdallah; Alshanqiti, Abdullah (Applied Sciences, 2021)
The prediction of student academic performance has drawn considerable attention in education. However, although the learning outcomes are believed to improve learning and teaching, prognosticating the attainment of student outcomes remains underexplored. A decade of research work conducted between 2010 and November 2020 was surveyed to present a fundamental understanding of the intelligent techniques used for the prediction of student performance, where academic success is strictly measured using student learning outcomes. The electronic bibliographic databases searched include ACM, IEEE Xplore, Google Scholar, Science Direct, Scopus, Springer, and Web of Science. Eventually, we synthesized and analyzed a total of 62 relevant papers with a focus on three perspectives, (1) the forms in which the learning outcomes are predicted, (2) the predictive analytics models developed to forecast student learning, and (3) the dominant factors impacting student outcomes. The best practices for conducting systematic literature reviews, e.g., PICO and PRISMA, were applied to synthesize and report the main results. The attainment of learning outcomes was measured mainly as performance class standings (i.e., ranks) and achievement scores (i.e., grades). Regression and supervised machine learning models were frequently employed to classify student performance. Finally, student online learning activities, term assessment grades, and student academic emotions were the most evident predictors of learning outcomes. We conclude the survey by highlighting some major research challenges and suggesting a summary of significant recommendations to motivate future works in this field.
Keywords: Final_citation; academic performance; cited; educational data mining; existing; learning analytics; machine learning; performance prediction; student learning outcomes; student success; systematic literature review

Prediction of coastal flooding risk under climate change impacts in South Korea using machine learning algorithms - Park, Sang-Jin; Lee, Dong-Kun (Environmental Research Letters, 2020)
Abstract Coastal areas have been affected by hazards such as floods and storms due to the impact of climate change. As coastal systems continue to become more socially and environmentally complex, the damage these hazards cause is expected to increase and intensify. To reduce such negative impacts, vulnerable coastal areas and their associated risks must be identified and assessed. In this study, we assessed the flooding risk to coastal areas of South Korea using multiple machine learning algorithms. We predicted coastal areas with high flooding risks, as this aspect has not been adequately addressed in previous studies. We forecasted hazards under different representative concentration pathway climate change scenarios and regional climate models while considering ratios of sea level rise. Based on the results, a risk probability map was developed using a probability ranging from 0 to 1, where higher values of probability indicate areas at higher risk of compound events such as high tides and heavy rainfall. The accuracy of the average receiver operating characteristic curves was 0.946 using a k-Nearest Neighbor algorithm. The predicted risk probability in 10 year increments from the 2030s to the 2080s showed that the risk probability for southern coastal areas is higher than those of the eastern and western coastal areas. From this study, we determined that a probabilistic approach to analyzing the future risk of coastal flooding would be effective to support decision-making for integrated coastal zone management.
Keywords: _z:no_pdf

Predictors of reading development in deaf children: A 3-year longitudinal study - Kyle, Fiona E.; Harris, Margaret (Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010)
The development of reading ability in a group of deaf children was followed over a 3-year period. A total of 29 deaf children (7–8 years of age at the ﬁrst assessment) participated in the study, and every 12 months they were given a battery of literacy, cognitive, and language tasks. Earlier vocabulary and speechreading skills predicted longitudinal growth in reading achievement. The relations between reading and the predictor variables showed developmental change. Earlier reading ability was related to later phonological awareness skills, suggesting that deaf children might develop their phonological awareness through reading. Deaf children who had the most age-appropriate reading skills tended to have less severe hearing losses and earlier diagnoses and also preferred to communicate through speech. The theoretical implications of the role for speechreading, vocabulary and phonological awareness in deaf children’s literacy are discussed.
Keywords: _C:France FRA; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Spain ESP; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement - Moher, David; Liberati, Alessandro; Tetzlaff, Jennifer; Altman, Douglas G (British Medical Journal, 2009)
Keywords: ___working_potential_duplicate

Preliminary estimates of missing force magnitudes - Haßler, Björn; Warner, CD; McIntyre, ME (1st General Assembly of the European Geophysical Union, 2004)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; ⛔ No DOI found

Preparing for life in a digital age: The IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study international report - Fraillon, Julian; Ainley, John; Schulz, Wolfram; Friedman, Tim; Gebhardt, Eveline (Springer Nature, 2014)
Keywords: Final_citation

Preparing teacher education students to integrate mobile learning into elementary education - Bai, Hua (TechTrends, 2019)
The wide adoption of mobile technology has greatly influenced K-12 education. In teacher education programs, it is necessary for educators to train teacher education students to use mobile technology for educational purpose. This paper reports an exploratory effort in preparing elementary education students for mobile learning. The participants’ perceptions of mobile learning and intended use of mobile technology were examined through the analyses of their online discussion posts, responses to survey items and their projects. Their perceived benefits of mobile learning, limitations of mobile technology, their intended implementation of mobile learning and the challenges they anticipated were reported. Implications and recommendations were discussed regarding the knowledge of mobile apps, pedagogical practices and some non-instructional issues.

Preparing Teachers and Developing School Leaders for the 21st Century: Lessons from around the World - Schleicher, Andreas (OECD Publishing, 2012)
Results from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD's) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) have shown that the degree to which education systems succeed in equipping students with important foundation skills varies significantly. Since the quality of teaching is at the heart of student learning outcomes, it is an appealing idea to bring together education leaders from high performing and rapidly improving education systems to explore to what extent educational success and some of the policies related to success transcend the specific characteristics of cultures and countries. To this end, in March 2012 the second "International Summit on the Teaching Profession" was held in New York, hosted by the U.S. Department of Education, the OECD and Education International. The Summit brought together education ministers, union leaders and other teacher leaders from high-performing and rapidly improving education systems, as measured by PISA, to review how to best improve the quality of teaching, teachers and school leaders. This publication underpinned the Summit with available research about what can make educational reforms effective, and highlights examples of reforms that have produced specific results, show promise or illustrate imaginative ways of implementing change. The Summit was organized around three interconnected themes: (1) Developing Effective School Leaders; (2) Preparing Teachers to Deliver 21st-Century Skills; and (3) Matching Teacher Demand and Supply. Selected comparative data on education from OECD sources are annexed. Individual chapters contain references and notes. (Contains 37 figures and 35 boxes.)
Keywords: Administrator Effectiveness; Communication Skills; Comparative Analysis; Cooperation; Creativity; Critical Thinking; Educational Assessment; Educational Change; Educational Innovation; Foreign Countries; Outcomes of Education; Problem Solving; Student Evaluation; Teacher Education; Teacher Effectiveness; Teacher Leadership; Teacher Supply and Demand; Teaching (Occupation); Technology Uses in Education; Unions

Preparing teachers for early learning in Sub Saharan Africa - Pryor, J. Westbrook, J. (Faculty of Education, 2013)

Preprinting the COVID-19 pandemic - Fraser, Nicholas; Brierley, Liam; Dey, Gautam; Polka, Jessica K.; Pálfy, Máté; Nanni, Federico; Coates, Jonathon Alexis (bioRxiv, 2021)
The world continues to face a life-threatening viral pandemic. The virus underlying the COVID-19 disease, SARS-CoV-2, has caused over 98 million confirmed cases and 2.2 million deaths since January 2020. Although the most recent respiratory viral pandemic swept the globe only a decade ago, the way science operates and responds to current events has experienced a paradigm shift in the interim. The scientific community has responded rapidly to the COVID-19 pandemic, releasing over 125,000 COVID-19 related scientific articles within 10 months of the first confirmed case, of which more than 30,000 were hosted by preprint servers. We focused our analysis on bioRxiv and medRxiv, two growing preprint servers for biomedical research, investigating the attributes of COVID-19 preprints, their access and usage rates, as well as characteristics of their propagation on online platforms. Our data provides evidence for increased scientific and public engagement with preprints related to COVID-19 (COVID-19 preprints are accessed more, cited more, and shared more on various online platforms than non-COVID-19 preprints), as well as changes in the use of preprints by journalists and policymakers. We also find evidence for changes in preprinting and publishing behaviour: COVID-19 preprints are shorter and reviewed faster. Our results highlight the unprecedented role of preprints and preprint servers in the dissemination of COVID-19 science, and the impact of the pandemic on the scientific communication landscape.
Keywords: _genre:PR-primary_research

Preprints During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Public Health Emergencies and Medical Literature - September 23, J. Hosp Med 2020 October;15:634-636 Published Online First; 2020 | 10.12788/Jhm.3491 (Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2020)
1Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, California; 2Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.

Preprints Involving Medical Research—Do the Benefits Outweigh the Challenges? - Flanagin, Annette; Fontanarosa, Phil B.; Bauchner, Howard (JAMA, 2020)
A preprint is a complete manuscript posted to a preprint server by authors before peer review and publication in a journal. The goals of preprints are to enable authors to obtain timely feedback and comments on research before submission to a peer-reviewed journal, to claim provenance of an idea, and to facilitate and expedite dissemination of and access to research. Preprints can be amended or updated, commented on by others, and remain on the preprint server even if subsequently published in a journal. They can be cited and indexed and increasingly are given attention in the news and social media.

Preprints with The Lancet are here to stay - Kleinert, Sabine; Horton, Richard (The Lancet, 2020)
We started our collaboration with the freely accessible preprint platform SSRN in June, 2018.1 From then on, we asked all authors of research papers across Lancet journals at submission stage whether they would like to post their paper as a preprint. We started this as a trial to learn more about uptake and the perceptions of the medical and health community, particularly as a latecomer to the preprint concept.

Preschool and Child Development Under Extreme Poverty: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Rural Mozambique. - Martinez, Sebastian; Naudeau, Sophie; Pereira, Vitor (World Bank, 2017)

Presentation for Internationalisierungsoffensive go-international - Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2024)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://opendeved.net/
Keywords: Internal; _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence

Preservice teachers' perceptions about the use of blended learning in a science education methods course - Yılmaz, Özkan; Malone, Kathy L (Smart Learning Environments, 2020)
The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine the effectiveness of blended learning within the context of a science education methods course for early childhood elementary preservice teachers in Turkey. Elementary teachers historically fear science and avoid using it in their classes. This course was blended to allow the students to experience active science learning during face to face sessions. Student perceptions about their experiences in a blended methods course were collected using a previously validated survey. The data analysis of the post-test only survey research design demonstrated that students’ perceptions were positive towards the use of blended learning within their science education methods course. However, the analysis determined that students felt that certain technical aspects of the blended learning environment hindered their learning.
Keywords: Blended learning; Data analysis; Education; Education--Teaching Methods And Curriculum; Elementary preservice teachers; Higher education; Learning; Learning environment; Science education; Science instruction; Science methods courses; Students; Teachers; Teaching methods; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2095728; __finaldtb

Prevalence and Determinants of Fatigue among Private High School Students in Bogor Tengah Sub-District, Indonesia, 2016 - Rachmat, Basuki; Susilowati, Andi (Journal of Ecophysiology and Occupational Health, 2019)
Keywords: BE:LMIC; BE:RELEVANT

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

Primary Schooling for Children with Disabilities: A Review of African Scholarship - Singal, Nidhi; Spencer, Carrie; Mitchell, Rafael (2021)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

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

Prime Minister's statement to the House of Commons (GOV.UK, 2020)
Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a statement on Global Britain.

Principal leadership and the integration of information and communication technolgies for teaching and learning in Zimbabwe - Guvhu, Rosemary (University of the Free State, 2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Principles for Digital Development (Principles for Digital Development, 2022)
Resources & Expertise for the Digital Principles

Principles for Digital Development - Digital Impact Alliance (Principles for Digital Development, 2021)
Resources & Expertise for the Digital Principles
Keywords: ___duplicate_item; auto_merged

Principles for Digital Development in Education - amendments, tenets, questions - Haßler, Björn (2020)
Principles for Digital Development in Education An adaptation of the Principles for Digital Development for use in education Björn Haßler, Open Development & Education, 2019 About this document Recommended acknowledge- ment. Please acknowledge/cite this document as indicated. Haßler, B. ...
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; _yl:q

Principles of Remote Sensing & GIS. African Science & Technology Digest - Tudunwada, I.Y. (ISSN, 2011)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

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

Private engagement in refugee education and the promise of digital humanitarianism - Menashy, Francine; Zakharia, Zeena (Oxford Review of Education, 2019)

Private-Public Partnership and Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in a Developing Economy - Okoye, KRE; Chijioke, Okwelle P. (Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review (Oman Chapter); Sohar, 2013)
Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system is widely recognised as education system expected to produce a competent workforce who can compete and excel in a rapidly changing environment and improves a country's economy. That TVET system in Nigeria and many other countries are in crisis or in immediate need for intervention, are often heard. Private Public Partnership (PPP) is viewed as an alternative strategy put forward to address the challenges confronting this all-important education system. Therefore, this paper attempts to add to the available literature on PPP in TVET by examining; conceptualizing PPP and its relative importance in economic growth, revamping TVET for technological advancement and economic growth in Nigeria through PPP collaboration. Constraints on TVET as a measure for economic development in Nigeria were also highlighted. The paper concludes by recommending for a proper PPP involvement in TVET system in Nigeria to enhance its economic potentiality. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; Business And Economics--Management; C:Nigeria; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:T; Economic growth; P:economy; Public private partnerships; Q:Private Public Partnership; Studies; T:TVET; Vocational education; publicImportV1

Private Technical and Vocational Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Provision Patterns and Policy Issues. New Trends in Technical and Vocational Education - Atchoarena, David; Esquieu, Paul (International Institute for Educational Planning, 2002)
The private provision trend in technical and vocational education (TVE) in sub-Saharan Africa occurred as the deterioration of state-run TVE systems in the region created a market niche for private providers. While advocates of deregulation believe the adoption of market principles in TVE will lead to greater efficiency and effectiveness, private providers have emerged in an uncoordinated and unmonitored fashion. A literature review and case studies of two countries Senegal and Mali led to some of the following key findings: (1) in some countries the majority of TVE students are enrolled in private institutions; (2) a large number of private TVE institutions operate illegally; (3) private provision concentrates on the service and commercial trades; and (4) the private sector may operate with lower costs and be more responsive to the labor market, but they do not provide much job-related training or include work-experience programs. Some of the policy issues are as follows: (1) simplifying procedures for establishing private TVE institutions facilitates their growth but is not sufficient to prevent the growth of an illegal sector; (2) the lack of regulation for private TVE institutions raises complex issues regarding the mechanisms required to ensure quality and protect consumers against abuses; and (3) for private TVE to succeed, students and the programs themselves must receive some public funding and develop relationships with industry. (Includes 84 references.) (MO)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:Mali; C:Senegal; CA:AandC; CC:Mali; CC:Senegal; CL:de; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:R; CT:T; Case Study; F:policy; F:regulation; P:mechanic; P:services; Q:Postsecondary Education; R:case study; R:literature review; T:TVET; T:Training; T:vocational school; Z:Case Studies; Z:Compliance (Legal); Z:Education Work Relationship; Z:Educational Development; Z:Educational Finance; Z:Educational Policy; Z:Educational Quality; Z:Federal Regulation; Z:Foreign Countries; Z:Free Enterprise System; Z:Government Role; Z:Government School Relationship; Z:Postsecondary Education; Z:Private Education; Z:Proprietary Schools; Z:Public Education; Z:Quality Control; Z:School Business Relationship; Z:Vocational Education; Z:Vocational Schools; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Pro-Poor PRIMR: Improving early literacy skills for children from low-income families in Kenya - Piper, B.; Jepkemei, E.; Kibukho, K. (Africa Education Review, 2015)

Problem Analysis. A Global Public Good produced by the EdTech Hub (https://EdTechhub.org, #EdTechHub). - Hennessy, Sara; Jordan, Katy; Haßler, Björn; Hollow, David; Brugha, Meaghan; Eberhardt, Molly Jamieson; Sabates, Ricardo (Research sphere outputs, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; __C:filed:1; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Procedures for Undertaking Systematic Reviews - Kitchenham, B (2004)

Procesos y condiciones en el aprendizaje de adultos. Jornada Nacional de Supervisores. Supervisión para aprendizajes de calidad y oportunidades para todos. Educación Rural - Cardemil, C. (Ministerio de, 2001)

Process evaluation of complex interventions: Medical Research Council guidance - Moore, Graham F.; Audrey, Suzanne; Barker, Mary; Bond, Lyndal; Bonell, Chris; Hardeman, Wendy; Moore, Laurence; O’Cathain, Alicia; Tinati, Tannaze; Wight, Daniel; Baird, Janis (BMJ, 2015)
Process evaluation is an essential part of designing and testing complex interventions. New MRC guidance provides a framework for conducting and reporting process evaluation studies

Process for iterative and adaptive implementation of government policy in order to utilise educational technology - Haßler, Björn; Khalayleh, Abdullah (Zenodo, 2019)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Process for iterative and adaptive implementation of government policy in order to utilise educational technology - Haßler, Björn; Khalayleh, Abdullah (Activating EdTech Jordan, 2019)
An output of Activating EdTech Jordan.
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _yl:l

Processing speed and working memory underlie academic attainment in very preterm children - Mulder, Hanna; Pitchford, Nicola J.; Marlow, Neil (Archives of Disease in Childhood-Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 2010)

Processing speed mediates executive function difficulties in very preterm children in middle childhood - Mulder, Hanna; Pitchford, Nicola J.; Marlow, Neil (Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 2011)

Professional development and teacher change - Guskey, T. R. (Teachers and Teaching, 2002)

Professional development and teacher learning: mapping the terrain - Borko, H. (Educational Researcher, 2004)

Professional Development for Middle Leader Teachers: ICT Integration in Schools in Japan - Terashima, Kosuke (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2019)
Keywords: _C:Canada CAN; _C:Japan JPN; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Professional Development for Primary School Teachers in Cameroon: Is the Cascade PD Model Effective? - Moulakdi, André; Bouchamma, Yamina (Creative Education, 2020)
Teacher professional development (TPD), a constant concern on the minds of education leaders, is conducted in various ways in education systems around the world. Using Guskey’s professional development assessment model, we evaluated a cascade model of teacher professional development in Cameroon’s primary education system by examining the responses of the teachers who experienced these activities. Our findings indicate that the professional growth activities undertaken in cascade format, particularly professional development (PD) days, teacher evaluations, demonstration and group lessons did not adequately address the teachers’ training needs and expectations and this because this model of training is not suitable to improve teaching practices in the context.

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

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

Professional development in clinical leadership: Evaluation of the chief residents clinical leadership and management programme - Hofmann, Riikka; Vermunt, Jan D. (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge Working Paper, 2017)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Professional Development in the OECS Gets an Upgrade! - Warner-Arnold, Tracey (2020)

Professional Development on Digital Literacy and Transformative Teaching in a Low‐Income Country: A Case Study of Rural Kenya - Kerkhoff, Shea; Makubuya, Timothy (2021)

Professional Development Research: Consensus, Crossroads, and Challenges - Hill, Heather C.; Beisiegel, Mary; Jacob, Robin (Educational Researcher, 2013)
Commentaries regarding appropriate methods for researching professional development have been a frequent topic in recent issues of Educational Researcher as well as other venues. In this article, the authors extend this discussion by observing that randomized trials of specific professional development programs have not enhanced our knowledge of effective program characteristics, leaving practitioners without guidance with regard to best practices. In response, the authors propose that scholars should execute more rigorous comparisons of professional development designs at the initial stages of program development and use information derived from these studies to build a professional knowledge base. The authors illustrate with examples of both a proposed study and reviews of evidence on key questions in the literature.
Keywords: C:International

Professional Learning Communities - A Guideline for South African Schools - VVOB (VVOB, 2015)
The Department of Basic Education, with the support of VVOB, and with input from a wide range of stakeholders, developed a practical guideline on implementing PLCs in schools. The Integrated Strategic Framework for Teacher Professional Development (ISPFTED) foresees the nation-wide implementation of Professional Learning Communities by 2017. PLCs are put forward as a central instrument to strengthen teachers’ professional development. During a colloquium held in September 2014 a wide range of speakers from academia, government, unions and subject associations provided input on international and local research, local experiences and various initiatives on PLCs. The participants also provided feedback on two draft documents: a policy document on subject committees and PLCs and a practical guideline on implementing PLCs. The final product of this exercise can be downloaded below.

Professional Learning Communities: A Review of the Literature - Stoll, Louise; Bolam, Ray; McMahon, Agnes; Wallace, Mike; Thomas, Sally (Journal of Educational Change, 2006)
International evidence suggests that educational reform’s progress depends on teachers’ individual and collective capacity and its link with school-wide capacity for promoting pupils’ learning. Building capacity is therefore critical. Capacity is a complex blend of motivation, skill, positive learning, organisational conditions and culture, and infrastructure of support. Put together, it gives individuals, groups, whole school communities and school systems the power to get involved in and sustain learning over time. Developing professional learning communities appears to hold considerable promise for capacity building for sustainable improvement. As such, it has become a ‘hot topic’ in many countries.

Professional learning communities and the diffusion of pedagogical innovation in the Chinese education system - Sargent, Tanja Carmel (Comparative Education Review, 2015)

Professional Learning Communities in the Teachers' College: A Resource for Teacher Educators. - Du Plessis, Joy; Muzaffar, Irfan (EQUIP1, 2010)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Professional learning in the learning profession - Darling-Hammond, L.; Wei, R.C.; Andree, A.; Richardson, N.; Orphanos, S. (National Staff Development Council, 2009)

Professional learning with ICT in the southern African context: The UNISA-Cambridge collaboration on Advanced Diplomas in Education. - Hennessy, S.; Dreyer, J.; Paulsen, R.; Haßler, Björn; Loubser, C.; Beardon, T.; Mays, T. (5th Higher Education & ICT Forum: 21st Century Learning and Collaborative Teaching, 2014)
It is clear from the recent 2013 conference of the Distance Education Teachers’ Association hosted at the University of Nairobi that an increasing number of the developing countries of Africa are exploiting the potential of distance and school-based learning for the development of more and better teachers in pursuit of agendas informed by the EFA mandate and the MDGs. This requires access in turn to more and better resources that can help new teachers to conceptualise their emerging practice and also help existing teachers to think about how they might need to adapt their current practices to develop the knowledge and skills necessary for success in an increasingly information rich global knowledge society made possible through increasingly accessible and aff ordable ICT. This presentation off ers insights into how both distance teacher education and schooling itself can be revolutionised through exploiting powerful new technologies and harnessing the potential of OER. We report on the progress of a collaboration between UNISA and the Centre for Commonwealth Education (University of Cambridge, UK), on the new Advanced Diplomas in Education (ADEs). The ADE is a new qualifi cation in the South African national qualifi cations framework that was introduced as part of a comprehensive national review of minimum requirements for teacher education [3]; these place increased emphasis on the teacher’s role as a knowledge worker encompassing disciplinary, pedagogic, fundamental and contextual learning. The ADE is targeted at qualifi ed teachers who wish to deepen their understanding of the teaching of particular subjects in particular phases. Drawing on the resources, networks and expertise of UNISA, AIMSSEC and the OER4Schools project, we seek to develop new ADE qualifi cations for mathematics and science. Specifi c examples include modules on Shape and Space, the Earth and Beyond, and Biodiversity. The ADEs: • provide students with a deeper understanding of pedagogical subject knowledge for eff ective and inclusive teaching in diverse contexts, • concretely apply pedagogical theories and action research within their teaching, • demonstrate competence in subject teaching through problem solving, • develop the ability to teach subjects drawing on a coherent, deep conceptual understanding, of both subjects and subject pedagogy, • broaden teaching and learning horizons by using appropriate technology/ICT eff ectively, and • increase understanding of the role of the various subjects (such as science, mathematics, technology) in society
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Professionalisierung von Bildungs- und Berufsberatung in Nigeria – Analyse der nationalen und internationalen theoriebegründeten Konzeptentwicklung und der Vernetzung der Akteure - Raji, Moromoke Nimota (Technische Universität Dresden, 2012)
Keywords: C:Nigeria

Program Assessment of Kolibri FLY - Open Development and Education (OpenDevEd, 2022)
Keywords: _r:AddedByZotZen

Programmes to Support Foundational Learning in South Asia - Fitzpatrick, Rachel (2022)
Despite great achievements in improving school enrolment and completion levels in South Asia, a high proportion of learners continue to live in learning poverty, with approximately 50 per cent of learners unable to read or understand a simple text by age ten (UNICEF, 2021). Learning levels were severely impacted by large scale school closures as a result of Covid-19, with approximately 434 million learners impacted in the region (UNICEF, 2021). Improving foundational learning outcomes, particularly for the most marginalised, is a key policy priority for many South Asian countries. This report draws together learning from seven programmes in South Asia aimed at improving foundational learning, to provide insight into effective approaches that have previously or continue to have an impact on foundational learning levels.

Progress in climate change adaptation research - Sietsma, Anne J.; Ford, James D.; Callaghan, Max W.; Minx, Jan C. (Environmental Research Letters, 2021)

Progress Towards Meaningful Women’s Participation in Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Decision-making - Lenhardt, Amanda (2021)
The Women, Peace and Security or Gender Peace and Security (WPS/GPS) agenda has expanded significantly over the 20+ years of concerted efforts at many levels to expand the role of women in conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Yet many authors note that the expansion of international agreements and national plans to support greater women’s participation in decision-making have yet to translate into concrete changes. This report examines progress in promoting women’s meaningful participation in decision making processes in conflict prevention and peacebuilding, with a focus on changes since 2018. Evidence on women’s meaningful participation in decision-making tends to focus on a small range of measurable outcomes with some studies considering the outcomes of women’s involvement in those processes to determine the extent to which they might be ‘meaningful’. Few studies examine differential outcomes of such initiatives for different groups of women, and most data does not allow for the disaggregation of intersecting identities between gender, ethnicity, race, disability, migration status and other key factors. Evidence collected for this report suggests that policies and programmes seeking to support greater women’s participation in decision-making in conflict prevention and peacebuilding often struggle to address the broader structural factors that inhibit women’s empowerment. Tackling longstanding and often deeply embedded harmful social norms has proven challenging across sectors, and in conflict or post-conflict settings with highly complex social dynamics, this can be especially difficult. Many of the issues highlighted in the literature as hindering progress on the WPS agenda relate to cross-cutting issues at the heart of gender inequality. Multiple authors from within women’s movements in conflict and post-conflict settings emphasise the need for policies and programmes that support women to act as agents of change in their own communities and which amplify their voices rather than speak on their behalf. Recent achievements in South Sudan and the Pacific region are indicative of the potential of women’s movements to affect change in conflict prevention and peacebuilding and suggest progress is being made in some areas, though gender equality in these processes may be a long way off.

Progressive Transformative Teacher Education in Cameroon - Tchombe, T.M. (2014)
Keywords: :C:Cameroon; Cited; RRQ1:High; RRQ2:Medium; ⛔ No DOI found

Project Appraisal Document: Sierra Leone Free Education Project - World Bank (2020)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Project: Extending design thinking with emerging digital technologies (Exten.D.T.2) (Lnu.se, 2022)
The core ideas of the project rest on the assumption that design thinking combined with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and educational robotics provide new and innovative ways to address the challenges and opportunities for learning and education in the age of digital transformations – from current to future practices.

Project Information Document (PID): Sierra Leone Free Education Project (P167897) - World Bank (World Bank Group, 2019)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Project Information Document: Sierra Leone Free Education Project - World Bank (2019)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Project updates for Climate, Environment and Education Adaptation Research (CLEEAR) Tanzania Steering Committee - Villavicencio, Xuzel; Haßler, Björn; Jengo, Eunice (2024)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://opendeved.net/
Keywords: _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence

Project updates for Climate, Environment and Education Adaptation Research (CLEEAR) Tanzania Steering Committee - Villavicencio, Xuzel; Hassler, Bjoern (Open Development & Education, 2023)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://opendeved.net/
Keywords: _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence

Projecting the potential impacts of COVID-19 school closures on academic achievement - Kuhfeld, Megan; Soland, James; Tarasawa, Beth; Johnson, Angela; Ruzek, Erik; Liu, Jing (2020)
With 55 million students in the United States out of school due to the COVID-19 pandemic, education systems are scrambling to meet the needs of schools and families, including planning how best to approach instruction in the fall given students may be farther behind than in a typical year. Yet, education leaders have little data on how much learning has been impacted by school closures. While the COVID-19 learning interruptions are unprecedented in modern times, existing research on the impacts of missing school (due to absenteeism, regular summer breaks, and school closures) on learning can nonetheless inform projections of potential learning loss due to the pandemic. In this study, we produce a series of projections of COVID-19-related learning loss and its potential effect on test scores in the 2020-21 school year based on (a) estimates from prior literature and (b) analyses of typical summer learning patterns of five million students. Under these projections, students are likely to return in fall 2020 with approximately 63-68% of the learning gains in reading relative to a typical school year and with 37-50% of the learning gains in math. However, we estimate that losing ground during the COVID-19 school closures would not be universal, with the top third of students potentially making gains in reading. Thus, in preparing for fall 2020, educators will likely need to consider ways to support students who are academically behind and further differentiate instruction.
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Proliferation of Papers and Preprints During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: Progress or Problems With Peer Review? - Vlasschaert, Caitlyn; Topf, Joel M.; Hiremath, Swapnil (Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease, 2020)
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spread exponentially throughout the world in a short period, aided by our hyperconnected world including global trade and travel. Unlike previous pandemics, the pace of the spread of the virus has been matched by the pace of publications, not just in traditional journals, but also in preprint servers. Not all publication findings are true, and sifting through the firehose of data has been challenging to peer reviewers, editors, as well as to consumers of the literature, that is, scientists, healthcare workers, and the general public. There has been an equally exponential rise in the public discussion on social media. Rather than decry the pace of change, we suggest the nephrology community should embrace it, making deposition of research into preprint servers the default, encouraging prepublication peer review more widely of such preprint studies, and harnessing social media tools to make these actions easier and seamless.
Keywords: Blog posts; COVID-19; Critical appraisal; Peer review; Preprints; Twitter; _genre:PR-primary_research

Promises to Keep: Impact of COVID-19 on Adolescents in Kenya - Population Council; Presidential Policy and Strategy Unit (Kenya) (Poverty, Gender, and Youth, 2021)

Promising practices for equitable remote learning Emerging lessons from COVID-19 education responses in 127 countries - Dreesen, Thomas; Akseer, Spogmai; Brossard, Mathieu; Dewan, Pragya; Giraldo, Juan-Pablo; Kamei, Akito; Mizunoya, Suguru; Correa, Javier Santiago Ortiz (2020)

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

Promoting Effective Education in Electromagnetics: Taiwan's School of Accessible and Visualized Electromagnetics Formed [Education Corner] - Liao, W. J.; Wu, R. B.; Wu, T. L.; Ma, T. G.; Pang, Y. H.; Tsai, Z. M.; Yu, H. H.; Tu, K. M.; Lin, H. C.; Peng, S. T. (IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, 2016)
The School of Accessible and Visualized Electromagnetics (SAVE), a teaching and learning resource management consortium in Taiwan, has been formed to coordinate teachers from the field of electromagnetics (EM) to develop and share innovative teaching materials. Based on the cloud concept and following the simplicity, accessibility, visualization, and edutainment (S.A.V.E.) principles, various types of teaching resources, such as slides, problem sets, video clips, and interactive online laboratories, are available on the SAVE website for online learning. Teachers are able to customize a distinctive learning path to address the needs of a specific student group. To provide students with a means of evaluating their competence in EM, a large-scale online proficiency test was conducted concurrently at multiple sites. Analyses of test results and website uses are provided to assess the SAVE program performance and to draw future work topics.
Keywords: Computer science; Electromagnetics; Engineering education; Market research; Radio frequency; Resource management; SAVE Website; Web sites; __C:filed:1; computational electromagnetics; computer aided instruction; innovative teaching materials; large-scale online proficiency test; learning resource management consortium; online learning; school of accessible and visualized electromagnetics

Promoting effective Work Integrated Learning (WIL) and Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) practices in the TVET sector through research - Nduna, Nothemba Joyce (2017)
There is a growing interest in increasing research capacity in South African public Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in general and in Universities of Technology (UoTs) and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Colleges in particular. As part of its strategy to increase research capacity, the Education, Training and Development Practices Ϫ Sector Education and Training Authority (ETDP SETA) has established six Research Chairs in six public HEIs. This article introduces the work of the Research Chair for Work Integrated Learning (WIL) and Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) that was established by the ETDP SETA in August 2015. The purpose of introducing the work of the Research Chair is to explore possibilities for research collaborations and partnerships with a variety of stakeholders at local, national and international levels. The article is divided into five sections. The first section is an introduction which provides the context, focus and purpose of the Research Chair. This section also highlights the need for research into WIL current practices and WIL staff development needs and advocates for the development of WIL related HEQSF qualifications in the TVET sector. The second section provides an overview of literature on WIL and RPL and relates the work of the Research Chair to the 2013 Policy on Professional Qualifications for lecturers in TVET and the 2015 Draft RPL Policy for the Higher Education Qualifications Sub-Framework (HEQSF). The third section deals with the research methodology that covers the research questions, intended outcomes and data collection processes that were involved. The fourth section discusses the research findings and enabling factors for the Research Chair. The final section provides a summary of the findings and calls for research collaborations.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; CLL:en; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Promoting Girls Primary Education: Innovation through Government and Donor Co-operation - Kadzamira, E.C.; Sisson, A (Educating Tomorrow: Lessons from Managing Girls’ Education in Africa, 2000)
Keywords: _C:Malawi MWI

Promoting Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation among Chemistry Students using Computer-Assisted Instruction - Gambari, Isiaka A.; Gbodi, Bimpe E.; Olakanmi, Eyitao U.; Abalaka, Eneojo N. (Contemporary Educational Technology, 2016)
The role of computer-assisted instruction in promoting intrinsic and extrinsic motivation among Nigerian secondary school chemistry students was investigated in this study. The study employed two modes of computer-assisted instruction (computer simulation instruction and computer tutorial instructional packages) and two levels of gender (male and female) using pretest-posttest experimental group design. Ninety (45 males and 45 females) senior secondary one (SS1) students from three secondary schools in Minna, Nigeria, made up the sample. The schools were purposively sampled and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The Experimental Group I was taught two selected concepts of chemistry using computer simulation instructional package (CSIP), Experimental Group II was exposed to computer tutorial Instructional package (CTIP) while conventional teaching method (CTM) was used for the Control Group. Validated Chemistry Achievement Test (CAT) and Chemistry Motivation Questionnaire (CMQ) with reliability coefficient of 0.89 and 0.94 respectively were used for data collection. Classroom observations as well as interview schedules were also conducted. Data from CAT and CTM were analyzed using One-way ANOVA and Scheffe’s post-hoc test, while the data from the classroom observations and interview schedules were thematically analyzed. The outcome of this study revealed that students taught with CSIP performed better than those in CTIP and CTM groups. The CSIP and CTIP were found also to be gender friendly. Moreover, students taught with CSIP had higher intrinsic and extrinsic motivation than their counterparts in CTIP and CTM respectively. Based on the findings, it was recommended that chemistry teachers should employ computer simulation for improving their students’ performance and motivation in the subject.
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Promoting Quality Education in Refugee Contexts: Supporting Teacher Development in Northern Ethiopia - Kirk, Jackie; Winthrop, Rebecca (International Review of Education / Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft / Revue Internationale de l'Education, 2007)

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

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

Promotion of PV Uptake and Sector Growth in Kenya through Value Added Training in PV Sizing, Installation and Maintenance - Simiyu, Justus; Waita, Sebastian; Musembi, Robinson; Ogacho, Alex; Aduda, Bernard (Energy Procedia, 2014)
Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa, and more specifically the East African region, has the lowest rates of access to electricity in the world. On average, at most 15% of the rural population has access to electricity. Rural households and remote institutions use traditional energy sources such as charcoal, firewood, kerosene and diesel for generator sets, batteries and dry cell batteries. On the other hand, the region is one of the most promising in the world in economic development with growth levels being high and market saturation is a far away future problem. This growth has however been hampered by several factors with lack of energy being one of them. Kenya being one of the countries in the region faces a similar problem with the traditional sources of hydro facing weather related challenges. The situation is more wanting in the rural setting having only achieved electrification rates of between 5 and 10%. The rural being where the majority of low-income earning groups reside is further compounded with large geographical imbalance in electricity demand and supply. The main challenge to adopting pv utilization however, is lack of local capacity to handle the uptake all the way from solar home systems to grid connected and hybrid systems. According to Kenya Renewable Energy Association (KEREA), it is estimated that between 800 and 1000 pv technicians have been in practice since this sector started in Kenya in the late eighties, majority of them having the basic skills but no formal training to provide the service. They however have been offering necessary service to end-users and are hence an important aspect in the pv sector as a whole. Currently the pv (mainly SHS) comprise an over the counter trade system which provides loopholes when it comes to quality of products and installation. To safeguard the quality and safety of installations, formal training has to be incorporated in the system.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:East Africa; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:Kenya; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:T; F:access; P:culture; P:economy; P:electro; P:services; P:technician; T:Training; Z:Pv training; Z:cultural acceptance; Z:value addition; publicImportV1

Proposal for GPE accelerated funding for COVID-19 response (Malawi) - Global Partnership for Education (2020)

Proposal to the Global Partnership for Education for a contribution towards the implementation of the 2018-2020 Education Sector Plan - Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (Sierra Leone) (2018)

Proposal to the Spencer Foundation: Research Grants on Education: School’s Out For . . . Spring? Understanding the Response of School Districts in the United States to COVID-19-Related Disruptions - Rosenberg, Joshua; Rutherford, Teomara; Anderson, Daniel; White, Rachel S.; Nguyen, Ha; Kimmon, Royce (Open Science Framework, 2020)
There is no doubt that public education has suffered as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers are comparing the COVID slide to summer learning loss, noting this loss could be much worse for those already underserved by U.S. schools (Kuhfeld & Tarasawa, 2020). In order to understand who this loss impacts and how, we need data on school, district, and statewide responses to the pandemic as it unfolded. Luckily, these data are available, as school districts across the country updated their communities about plans for spring 2020. To capture these updates, our team uses multiple approaches for collecting COVID-19-related information via school district websites and social media to create a new, nationwide dataset of district responses.We also analyze how these responses relate to contextual characteristics of districts and their surrounding communities, which will provide a picture of how district characteristics may drive disparities in access to and quality of schooling during the pandemic. Identifying these associations are critical for understanding and disrupting the reproduction and deepening of educational inequality caused by the COVID-19 crisis. The resulting dataset will provide researchers with the information necessary to understand how education during the pandemic may impact students for years to come.

Prospects, Issues and Challenges of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Revamping Nigeria's Depressed Economy - Bolarina, Fehintola Fatimoh Bintu; Akinyele, Temitayo Abosede (International Journal of Vocational and Technical Education Research, 2018)
Nigeria aspires to become a major player in the world economy in line with her Vision 20-2020. To achieve this ambitious goal, the most crucial vehicle apart from power and infrastructure, is a skilled and competent workforce. This is necessary for the effective implementation of national development projects and for attracting necessary international investment by hi-tech industries. (NBTE, 2011). Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is used as a comprehensive term referring to those aspects of the educational process involving, in addition to general education, the study of technologies and related sciences, the acquisition of practical skills, attitudes, understanding and knowledge relating to occupations in various sectors of economic and social life (UNESCO and ILO 2001) In addition to technical knowledge and aptitude, TVET is also concerned with softer skills like communication, negotiation and teamwork. It is dispensed in public and private educational establishments or other forms of formal or informal instructor aimed at granting all segments of the society access to lifelong resources.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; A:West Africa; C:Nigeria; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:T; Q:higher education; T:CTE; T:OE; T:PVE; T:TVET; T:career; T:occupational education; T:professional and vocational education; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Protecting Student Data in a Digital World - Chui, M.; Sarakatsannis, J. (2015)
Keywords: Final_citation; anystyle; existing

Protocol for a systematic review with meta-analysis: Understanding quality characteristics of EdTech interventions and implementation for disadvantaged pupils - Haßler, Björn; McBurnie, Chris; Walker, Hannah; Klune, Christopher; Bhutoria, Aditi (Open Development & Education, 2024)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://opendeved.net/
Keywords: _forthcoming; _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence; coming soon

Prototype Measurement System for the Eye-Hand Coordination Test of the Developmental Test of Visual Perception - Quiroga-Torres, Daniel Alejandro; Lara, Juan S.; Miguel-Cruz, Antonio; Ríos-Rincón, Adriana María (Springer, 2019)
The current version of the Developmental Test of Visual Perception (DTVP-3) is one of the most commonly used tests to identify the presence and degree of visual-perceptual and visual-integration deficits in children from 4 to 12 years of age. This test consists of five main sub-tests including a eye-hand coordination test (EHCT). Currently, the EHCT is based on observations by a therapist and requires a post-hoc analysis using the DTVP normative data, a time-consumption task that is not free of therapist error. Thus, a medical device is needed to automatically measure, score and report the test scores obtained from the DTVP-3. This device will lead to an overall decrease in the time taken for the post-hoc analysis and an improvement in the accuracy of the EHCT score. We determined that the device must allow a stylus position to be tracked in two dimensions with a resolution of 1 mm and the system must be small in size in order not to interfere with the test. In this study, we proposed a system based on Hall-effect technology sensors, which allows distances from the magnetic field magnitudes to be indirectlyestimated using small sensors. A first prototype consisted of a matrix array of sensors. A radial basis function was used to model the magnitude-distance response of each sensor. The model was estimated by using a multivariate linear regression, and it was found that the proposed model for 1 mm resolution tests, had an average r2 of 99%.
Keywords: DTVP-3; Eye-hand coordination test; Hall-effect technology; Measurement system; __C:filed:1

Prototyping - McBurnie, Chris; Hassan, Mustafa Syed; Moustafa, Nariman; Walker, Hannah; Lurvink, Anne-Fleur; Macharia, Grace; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2023)
This resource is an output of the Open Development & Education 'EdTech Fellowship' programme. The programme page is avaialble here: https://opendeved.net/programmes/edtech-fellowship/.
Keywords: _comingsoon; _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence

Provision of continuing professional development by resource centres in selected high schools of the Copperbelt province - Mwale, Kelly Kezala (2006)
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of resource centres in providing Continuing Professional Development to high school teachers in the Copperbelt Province.Major concerns have been expressed by various stakeholders that not enough has been done in enhancing and strengthening the concept of Continuing Professional Development among high school teachers. The Teacher Resource Centres that are supposed to be custodians of In-service Training of Teachers(INSET) now Continuing Professional Development (CPD) are perceived not to have done enough. The establishment of Teacher Resource Centres throughout the country was meant to help upgrade the skills and competencies of teachers at both basic and high school levels. These Continuing Professional Development activities that should be on-going include School Programme of In-service for the Term (SPRINT), Demonstrate, Observe, Discuss and Implement (DODIS) and Subject Meeting at the Resource Centre (SMARC).A purposive sample of 8 teacher resource centres and 12 high schools giving the study a number of 84 respondents was selected.Data were collected by way of questionnaires, interviews and Focus Group Discussions. The major informants were the following: Headteachers, Heads of Department, Teachers and Resource Centre Coordinators.The results of the study revealed that Teacher Resource Centres were not effectively providing Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities among high school teachers. The findings further revealed that the Continuing Professional Development activities such as School Programme of In-service for the Term (SPRINT), Demonstrate, Observe, Discuss and Implement (DODIS) and Subject Meeting at the Resource Centre (SMARC) were almost non-existent in high schools despite clustering them with basic schools.Generally, the findings indicated lack of commitment both by the coordinators in Resource Centres and school administrators. Further revelations by the study indicate that little or no effort has been given to school - based workshops, seminars, professional meetings and conferences. Additionally,constant monitoring of CPD activities was not given prominence by Resource Centre Coordinators hence the glaring lapses in the actual implementation of Continuing Professional Development programmes.Further analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data revealed that there was lack of significant advocacy and sensitisation on the difference between Continuing Professional Development activities and In-service Teacher Education tenable at colleges of education and universities. In view of the research findings, recommendations were made. Teacher Resource Centres ought to enhance advocacy and sensitisation of Continuing Professional Development activities. Pedagogical competences and skills would be strengthened at high school level if Teacher Resource Centres played their expected role of providing Continuing Professional Development to teachers. The study has also shown that school administrators did not apportion equal weight to Continuing Professional Development as they did with sporting activities. There is need to give both areas equal attention.
Keywords: CitedIn:OER4S-TPE-HHH2; CitedIn:OER4Schools-HHH3; CitedIn:OER4Schools-HHH3-A; CitedIn:OER4Schools-HHH3-A-PREVIOUS; SPRINT

Psychological Framework for Quality Technical and Vocational Education and Training in the Twenty-First Century - Sarfo, FK (Learning, Design, and Technology, 2016)
To cope with the rapid changes in the real world of work and to prepare the workforce to enter the twenty-first century, there is a paradigm shift in the modern Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) toward competency-based training (CBT) or vocational pedagogy. However, there is the lack of literature/research in TVET education that reveals the fundamental understanding and roles of contemporary learning theories in instructional psychology for creating successful competency-based learning environments for quality TVET teaching and learning. To contribute to the solution, this paper argues that there are significant relationships between (1) knowledge and skills and their associated learning processes required of modern TVET and (2) learning outcomes and their associated learning processes of the contemporary learning theories. In accordance with this assertion, an integrated learning theories for quality TVET education is proposed. The logic is that, supported by consistent empirical evidence as discussed in this paper, the conditions and instructional methods of the learning theories could be successfully used to design powerful competency-based learning environments to promote the development of technical and vocational expertise in TVET teaching and learning for the twenty-first century.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:T; T:TVET; T:Training; _C:Ghana GHA; publicImportV1

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.

Psychometric evaluation of the self-efficacy questionnaire for children (SEQ-C): validation among Chinese children and adolescents - Xie, Han; Shlonsky, Aron; Harrigan, Susy (Current Psychology, 2022)
The Self-Efficacy Questionnaire for Children (SEQ-C) is a well-established measure of self-efficacy including three specific task demands, that is, academic self-efficacy, social self-efficacy, and emotional self-efficacy. The present study examined the applicability of the SEQ-C for measuring children’s self-efficacy in a Chinese population. The sample was comprised of 1491 students in Grade 4 to 11 (boys = 52.8%; mean age = 13.0 years) in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted to test the factor structure of the SEQ-C. Also, bivariate correlations between SEQ-C and children’s prosocial behavior, bullying behavior and victimized experience were tested to reflect the convergent validity of the SEQ-C. The results revealed that a modified 20-item Chinese version of the SEQ-C had excellent internal consistency reliability, good construct validity, overall acceptable convergent validity and measurement invariance across gender and school level. Only minor adaptions were necessary, and the rationale for making these adjustments was based on both content and performance of the measure. In addition to the cross-cultural validation, this study has extended the age range of the target users (14 to 17 years) by confirming the suitability of the SEQ-C for age groups spanning primary and secondary school children aged between 9 and 18 years. For those working and doing research in schools, this validation study increases confidence in the use of the Chinese SEQ-C and its subscales for identifying children’s self-efficacy in specific domains and for conducting research on interventions where self-efficacy is an important predictor or outcome.

PubGraph: A Large-Scale Scientific Knowledge Graph - Ahrabian, Kian; Du, Xinwei; Myloth, Richard Delwin; Ananthan, Arun Baalaaji Sankar; Pujara, J. (2023)
Research publications are the primary vehicle for sharing scientific progress in the form of new discoveries, methods, techniques, and insights. Unfortunately, the lack of a large-scale, comprehensive, and easy-to-use resource capturing the myriad relationships between publications, their authors, and venues presents a barrier to applications for gaining a deeper understanding of science. In this paper, we present PubGraph, a new resource for studying scientific progress that takes the form of a large-scale knowledge graph (KG) with more than 385M entities, 13B main edges, and 1.5B qualifier edges. PubGraph is comprehensive and unifies data from various sources, including Wikidata, OpenAlex, and Semantic Scholar, using the Wikidata ontology. Beyond the metadata available from these sources, PubGraph includes outputs from auxiliary community detection algorithms and large language models. To further support studies on reasoning over scientific networks, we create several large-scale benchmarks extracted from PubGraph for the core task of knowledge graph completion (KGC). These benchmarks present many challenges for knowledge graph embedding models, including an adversarial community-based KGC evaluation setting, zero-shot inductive learning, and large-scale learning. All of the aforementioned resources are accessible at https://pubgraph.isi.edu/ and released under the CC-BY-SA license. We plan to update PubGraph quarterly to accommodate the release of new publications.

PubGraph: A Large Scale Scientific Temporal Knowledge Graph - Ahrabian, Kian; Du, Xinwei; Myloth, Richard Delwin; Ananthan, Arun Baalaaji Sankar; Pujara, J. (ArXiv, 2023)
Research publications are the primary vehicle for sharing sci-entiﬁc progress in the form of new discoveries, methods, techniques, and insights. Publications have been studied from the perspectives of both content analysis and bibliometric structure, but a barrier to more comprehensive studies of scien-tiﬁc research is a lack of publicly accessible large-scale data and resources. In this paper, we present PubGraph , a new resource for studying scientiﬁc progress that takes the form of a large-scale temporal knowledge graph (KG). It contains more than 432M nodes and 15.49B edges mapped to the popular Wikidata ontology. We extract three KGs with varying sizes from PubGraph to allow experimentation at different scales. Using these KGs, we introduce a new link prediction benchmark for transductive and inductive settings with temporally-aligned training, validation, and testing partitions. Moreover, we develop two new inductive learning methods better suited to PubGraph, operating on unseen nodes without explicit features, scaling to large KGs, and outperforming existing models. Our results demonstrate that structural features of past citations are sufﬁcient to produce high-quality predictions about new publications. We also identify new challenges for KG models, including an adversarial community-based link prediction setting, zero-shot inductive learning, and large-scale learning.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Public Administration Training and Development in Africa: The Case of the Republic of South Africa - Subban, Mogie; Vyas-Doorgapersad, Shikha (Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2014)
South Africa is a developmental state that suffers from a lack of management capacity in the public service. Hence, a national imperative focuses on addressing talent management and building a cohort of qualified and competent public servants. The synergistic link between public sector management and the content of public administration can be associated with and contribute to addressing critical skills shortages in the public service. Training in this regard with the demand for and supply of competent managers raises some serious consideration. Given that academicians and scholars often criticize the history and evolution of education and training in public administration as being overly administrative and outdated, how has the need for a transformative management-governance context advanced in South Africa? In this regard, a range of "soft skills" deemed necessary for the developmental agenda in South Africa is a focal point of contemporary public administration. From a training perspective, methodologies include problem-based learning, performance-oriented and situation-emergent training, project management approach to managerial problems, and emphasis placed on indigenous management knowledge in a developmental context. We hope that these innovative approaches would address the wide managerial gap in the public administration environment.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; C:South Africa; CA:AandC; CL:en; CL:fr; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:T; F:learning; P:administration; P:environment; P:service industry; T:Ausbildung; Z:action learning; Z:capacity; Z:developmental state; Z:new public governance; publicImportV1

Public health interventions, barriers, and opportunities for improving maternal nutrition in Northeast Nigeria - Webb-Girard, Amy; Dzingina, Cynthia; Akogun, Oladele B; Mason, John B.; McFarland, Deborah A. (Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 2012)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Public Policies of Agroecology in the State of Minas Gerais: An Analysis from the perspective of dichotomic paradigms of agrarian development - Oliveira, Andre Correa de (Anais do Encontro Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa do Campo de Públicas, 2017)
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

Public-private partnership for skill acquisition and vocational technical education development in Nigeria - Okpor, I; Najimu, H (Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2012)
This paper discusses the Private Sector Partnership with Education for Skill Acquisition and Vocational Technical Education Development. The relevance of the partnership on bringing skilled and trained manpower in their area of specialization is for the purpose of national development and self actualization. Strategies were identified for the effectiveness of the programme.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:West Africa; C:Nigeria; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:P; CT:T; T:Ausbildung; T:TVET; T:occupational education; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

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

Public Universities with a Public Conscience - A Proposed Plan.pdf - Concerned Academics (2020)
A Proposed Plan for a Social Pedagogy Alternative in the Time of Pandemic

Publication rate and citation counts for preprints released during the COVID-19 pandemic: the good, the bad and the ugly - Añazco, Diego; Nicolalde, Bryan; Espinosa, Isabel; Camacho, Jose; Mushtaq, Mariam; Gimenez, Jimena; Teran, Enrique (PeerJ, 2021)
Background Preprints are preliminary reports that have not been peer-reviewed. In December 2019, a novel coronavirus appeared in China, and since then, scientific production, including preprints, has drastically increased. In this study, we intend to evaluate how often preprints about COVID-19 were published in scholarly journals and cited. Methods We searched the iSearch COVID-19 portfolio to identify all preprints related to COVID-19 posted on bioRxiv, medRxiv, and Research Square from January 1, 2020, to May 31, 2020. We used a custom-designed program to obtain metadata using the Crossref public API. After that, we determined the publication rate and made comparisons based on citation counts using non-parametric methods. Also, we compared the publication rate, citation counts, and time interval from posting on a preprint server to publication in a scholarly journal among the three different preprint servers. Results Our sample included 5,061 preprints, out of which 288 were published in scholarly journals and 4,773 remained unpublished (publication rate of 5.7%). We found that articles published in scholarly journals had a significantly higher total citation count than unpublished preprints within our sample (p < 0.001), and that preprints that were eventually published had a higher citation count as preprints when compared to unpublished preprints (p < 0.001). As well, we found that published preprints had a significantly higher citation count after publication in a scholarly journal compared to as a preprint (p < 0.001). Our results also show that medRxiv had the highest publication rate, while bioRxiv had the highest citation count and shortest time interval from posting on a preprint server to publication in a scholarly journal. Conclusions We found a remarkably low publication rate for preprints within our sample, despite accelerated time to publication by multiple scholarly journals. These findings could be partially attributed to the unprecedented surge in scientific production observed during the COVID-19 pandemic, which might saturate reviewing and editing processes in scholarly journals. However, our findings show that preprints had a significantly lower scientific impact, which might suggest that some preprints have lower quality and will not be able to endure peer-reviewing processes to be published in a peer-reviewed journal.

Pulse Check on Digital Learning - UNICEF (UNICEF, 2022)
Keywords: Final_citation

Pulse Check on Digital Learning - UNICEF (2022)
On Digital Learning
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Pupil absenteeism, measurement, and menstruation: Evidence from western Kenya - Benshaul-Tolonen, Anja; Garazi, Zulaika; Nyothach, Elizabeth; Oduor, Clifford; Mason, Linda; Obor, David; Alexander, Kelly T.; Laserson, Kayla F.; Phillips-Howard, Penelope A. (CDEP-CGEG WP, 2019)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Pupil Learning with Digital Tablet in Classroom - Dauphin, Anyck (Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Pupil premium: overview - UK Government (GOV.UK, 2023)

Pushing the child centred approach in Myanmar: the role of cross national policy networks and the effects in the classroom - Lall, Marie (Critical Studies in Education, 2011)
Keywords: C:Myanmar; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Germany DEU; _C:India IND; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Mongolia MNG; _C:Myanmar MMR; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Thailand THA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

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

Putting Evidence to Work: A School's Guide to Implementation - Sharples, Jonathan; Albers, Bianca; Fraser, Stephen; Kime, Stuart (2019)

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

PV-Solar Power Generation in Educational Institutions - Oleiwi, Fadhil Mahmood; Kasim, Naseer K.; Atwan, Ahmed F. (Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2021)
The PV solar system on the rooftop of buildings is a good source of renewable electric energy. Iraq has very large number of educational institutions with large non-invested rooftop with shortage of electrical energy supply. The present work aims at construction a simulation for PV-System action installed on rooftop of educational institutions in Baghdad using Green Power Solution (GPS) and PV-Syst programs. Based on the surface area of the schools’ roofs, the GPS program estimated three main PV-Systems which can be carried out, 63kW, 50kW, and 30kW in order to supply the electric power to selected school. Due to allocating few hours for school’s studying time along the year, the suitable PV-System is on-grid connection. The results indicated that the annual system performance ratio is 81.9% and the annual output power of these systems were 111.0 MWh/year, 88 MWh/year and 51.4 MWh/year respectively, 19.3MWh/year of them was consumed for this school and the rest is a feedback for grid. This green generation reduced the amount of emission CO2 by 73.981 tons, 62.216 tons and 36.3398 tons per year for systems 63kW, 50kW and 30kW respectively. The results also appear that the initial capital cost of each system can be recovered during the first six years of system operation.

Qualitative exploration of digital chatbot use in medical education: A pilot study - Kaur, Anjuli; Singh, Sid; Chandan, Joht S.; Robbins, Tim; Patel, Vinod (Digital Health, 2021)
Keywords: Artificial intelligence; digital health; education; lifestyle; machine learning; technology

Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches - Creswell, John W.; Poth, Cheryl N. (SAGE Publications, 2016)
In the revised Fourth Edition of the best-selling text, John W. Creswell and new co-author Cheryl N. Poth explore the philosophical underpinnings, history, and key elements of five qualitative inquiry approaches: narrative research, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study. Preserving Creswell's signature writing style, the authors compare the approaches and relate research designs to each of the traditions of inquiry in a highly accessible manner. Featuring new content, articles, pedagogy, references, and expanded coverage of ethics throughout, the Fourth Edition is an ideal introduction to the theories, strategies, and practices of qualitative inquiry.
Keywords: Reference / Research; Social Science / Methodology

Qualitative methods in implementation research: an introduction - Hamilton, Alison B.; Finley, Erin P. (Psychiatry research, 2019)

Qualitative researching - Mason, Jennifer (Sage, 2002)
Keywords: CitedIn:BIBBTVET; CitedIn:eCubed; DL4D cited; Done:ReferenceFixed; TPD@Scale-cited; TPD@Scale_1; eCubed

Qualité de l’air à l’intérieur des écoles - Cartieaux, E.; Rzepka, M.-A.; Cuny, D. (Archives de Pédiatrie, 2011)

Quality education for all children? What works in education in developing countries: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation. Working Paper 20 - Krishnaratne, S.; White, H.; Carpenter, E. (International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2013)

Quality Education for All Children? What Works in Education in Developing Countries. Working Paper 20 - Krishnaratne, Shari; White, Howard (International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2013)

Quality Education in Rwanda: A Critical Analysis of Quality Indicators - de Dieu, Habyarimana Jean; Theogene, Hashakimana; Philothere, Ntawiha; Ke, Zhou (2020)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

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

Quality of Education and Teacher Learning: A Review of the Literature - Leu, E.; Price-Rom, A. (USAID/EQUIP1, 2006)

Quality Teaching: Building a Flexible and Dynamic Approach. GEC Working Paper Series. Number 2. - Leu, Elizabeth; Hays, Frances; LeCzel, Donna Kay; O'Grady, Barbara (GEC Working paper series, 2005)

Quantifying segregation on a small scale: how and where locality determines student compositions and outcomes taking Hamburg, Germany, as an example - Leist, Sebastian A.; Perry, Laura B. (School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2020)
Increased social and academic segregation are known side effects of school choice policies in market-driven environments that facilitate competition amongst schools. Aiming at complementing foundational knowledge in quantifying segregation, this study first defines school markets (i.e., geographical context) based on student transitions from primary school to secondary school in Hamburg, Germany. Second, genuine spatial measures of segregation are applied to generate differentiated in-situ insights. In general, social segregation appears evident between school markets, school types, and individual schools and, thus, shapes social compositions of secondary schools. The pattern of student transfers across the city confirms that parents are selecting particular schools for their children, resulting in different schools servicing different composition of students and so markets. Furthermore, the findings suggest that school markets in both very affluent and very deprived areas are spatially isolated and hence persistently reproduce wealth and affluence as well as poverty and disadvantage.
Keywords: Market models; _C:Australia AUS; _C:France FRA; _C:Germany DEU; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; school choice; segregation; socioeconomic status; student transitions

Quantitative Analysis of the Distribution of Professional Staff with Advanced Degrees in 2014 Missouri Public School Districts by Student Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status - Wall, T J (2015)
Keywords: Lebanon_event_2021; _C:Finland FIN; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Queer identity and theory intersections in mathematics education: a theoretical literature review - Moore, Alexander S. (Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2021)
Researchers have become aware of a need to focus on the continued development of gender and sexuality research in mathematics education, as frameworks and conceptual perspectives have been difficult to operationalize, particularly outside of the heteronormative categories of cis-male and cis-female studies. Early pioneers of this work have proposed intersectionality theory (e.g., Leyva, 2017) and queer theories (e.g., Dubbs 2016; Esmonde 2011; Sheldon and Rands 2013) as promising lenses for conceptualizing such research, as they allow for critical postmodern engagement by avoiding many of the structuralist gender commitments that have previously prevented it. In this paper, I build on this work by employing the notion of mathematical identity. I perform a systematic, theoretical review of the literature to articulate a basis for the intersection of mathematical identity and queer identity. I articulate the theoretical basis for this intersection of identities by building a framework that illustrates the intersectional nature of mathematical and queer identities and gives scholars a tool for conceptualizing future work in this area. This paper issues a call to the field to embrace the uncertainty of this new research borderland, because it is only through a radical vision of identity research in mathematics education—such as is offered here—that researchers can begin to situate students’ participation in mathematics within larger social and economic systems that have yet to be analyzed in depth with respect to queer identity.

Quest: Evaluation Report and Executive Summary - Biggart, Andy; Sloan, Seaneen; O'Hare, Liam; Miller, Sarah (Education Endowment Foundation, 2015)
Quest is a whole-year group approach to teaching English in Key Stage 3. Pupils are grouped according to their current level of reading comprehension, typically with smaller classes for the lowest attaining groups. Key components of the programme include: an emphasis on collaborative (or 'co-operative') learning; a requirement that participating teachers follow a consistent 'cycle of instruction'; and the use of formative assessment in every lesson. Pupil progress is reviewed every eight weeks, with results used as the basis for re-grouping the class. This project sought to assess the impact of Quest on Year 7 pupils' reading comprehension and was supplemented by a process evaluation that assessed programme implementation. Six schools followed the programme, and a further 13 participated in the evaluation. All participating teachers received two days training and extensive resources to be used as part of the approach, including lesson plans, graded texts and 'digitexts' (interactive texts). The programme was designed to be delivered in daily 60-minute lessons by all Year 7 English teachers, and run over the full school year. The study was one of 24 projects in a themed round on literacy catch-up at the primary-secondary transition. Key conclusions include: (1) The evaluation was unable to provide a secure estimate of the impact of Quest on reading comprehension outcomes among Year 7 pupils, primarily due to a high level of drop-out from the trial. (2) Few, if any, schools implemented the programme as designed, suggesting that substantial adaptation may be required if the approach is to gain wider adoption in English schools. (3) Some of the main barriers to successful implementation included: the difficulty in covering the expected material in a single school lesson; a perception of an insufficient focus on writing activities; and its adoption as a whole-year group intervention; (4) Many schools were positive about the range of resources provided by the programme and the co-operative learning aspects of the programme; and (5) Though it is not possible to draw a conclusive statement about the impact of the programme, on average, pupils who received the programme made less progress than those who did not. The evaluation adds limited evidence to a knowledge base of whole-year group approaches to reading interventions that involve co-operative learning, setting by ability, and concentrating most resources on those who are experiencing the greatest difficulties. Further work, taking into account feedback from teachers, is needed in order to adapt Quest to the English secondary school system. This includes reducing the amount of material to be covered in each lesson, and consideration of whether there is a need for more writing opportunities within the programme.
Keywords: _Added to LR; _G:reviewed

R&D: Radiant Heat and Indoor Environments | EMI - Propst, Daniel (EMI world, 2019)
Creating temperate indoor environments in the schools, hospitals, and ministry buildings we design.

Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy: Education in a Time of Crisis - Giroux, Henry A. (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021)
In this book Henry A. Giroux passionately argues that education and critical pedagogy are needed now more than ever to combat injustices in our society caused by fake news, toxic masculinity, racism, consumerism and white nationalism. At the heart of the book is the idea that pedagogy has the power to create narratives of desire, values, identity, and agency at time when these narratives are being manipulated to promote right wing populism and emerging global fascist politics. The book expands on the notion of the plague as not only a medical crisis but also a crisis of politics, ethics, education, and democracy itself. The chapters cover a range topics beginning with historical perspectives on fascism and moving on to issues of social atomization, depoliticization, neoliberal pedagogy, the scourge of staggering inequality, populism, and pandemic pedagogy. The book concludes with a call for educators to make education central to politics, develop a discourse of critique and possibility, reclaim the vision of a radical democracy, and embrace their role as powerful agents of change.
Keywords: Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects; Philosophy / Political; Political Science / Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social

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

Radio: A Rapid Evidence Review - Damani, Kalifa; Mitchell, Joel (EdTech Hub, 2020)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Radio: Rapid Evidence Review - Damani, Kalifa; Mitchell, Joel (2020)
This Rapid Evidence Review (RER) provides an overview of the existing literature on the use of radio in education in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The present RER has been produced in response to the novel 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19), and the resulting widespread shutdown of schools. It, therefore, highlights transferable insights that may be applicable to educational responses resulting from the limitations caused by COVID-19. Established approaches to delivering distance education have renewed salience during this period because many students cannot access schooling in a school building due to social distancing requirements. As one of the longest-serving and most accessible types of educational technology (EdTech), and one that has had some success in education delivery in an LMIC context that was affected by an epidemic, it is particularly useful to focus on radio (Barnett et al., 2018; Hallgarten, 2020). Notably, the RER aims neither to advocate nor discourage the use of radio in education in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, it provides an accessible summary of existing evidence on the topic so that educators, policy makers and donors might make informed decisions about the potential of radio in education delivery.

Raising domestic resources for equitable education - Zubairi, Asma; Rose, Pauline (Background paper for The Learning Generation. Investing in Learning for a Changing World, International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity. http://www. educationequity2030. org/resources-2/2017/3/23/raising-domestic-resources-for-equitable-education, 2016)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Raising early achievement in math with interactive apps: A randomized control trial. - Outhwaite, Laura A.; Faulder, Marc; Gulliford, Anthea; Pitchford, Nicola J. (Journal of educational psychology, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

RAMESES II reporting standards for realist evaluations - Wong, Geoff; Westhorp, Gill; Manzano, Ana; Greenhalgh, Joanne; Jagosh, Justin; Greenhalgh, Trish (BMC Medicine, 2016)
Realist evaluation is increasingly used in health services and other fields of research and evaluation. No previous standards exist for reporting realist evaluations. This standard was developed as part of the RAMESES II project. The project’s aim is to produce initial reporting standards for realist evaluations.
Keywords: Delphi approach; Realist evaluation; Reporting guidelines

Randomised controlled trials – the gold standard for effectiveness research - Hariton, Eduardo; Locascio, Joseph J (International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 2018)

Randomized impact evaluation of education interventions: Experiences and lessons from a reading to learn intervention in East Africa - Ngware, M.W.; Abuya, B.; Oketch, M.; Admassu, K.; Mutisya, M.; Musyoka, P. (International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2015)

Randomized Trial of Tablet Computers for Education and Learning in Children and Young People with Low Vision - Gothwal, Vijaya K.; Thomas, Rachel; Crossland, Michael; Bharani, Seelam; Sharma, Sujata; Unwin, Hilary; Xing, Wen; Khabra, Komel; Dahlmann-Noor, Annegret (Optometry and Vision Science, 2018)
SIGNIFICANCE Mobile devices such as tablet computers have become widely available as mainstream devices and are also used in some schools, but there is an absence of robust information regarding the efficacy of any optical/electronic low vision device or tablet computer in supporting education of young people with low vision. PURPOSE A randomized controlled trial (RCT) is needed to measure the impact of tablet computers on education, specifically on independent access to educational material, in children and young people with low vision. We conducted a pilot RCT to determine the feasibility of conducting a full-scale trial. METHODS This was a randomized multicenter pilot trial across two sites in the United Kingdom and one site in India. Forty children and young people aged 10 to 18 years with low vision (best-corrected visual acuity for distance between <20/60 [0.48 logMAR] and 20/400 [1.30 logMAR] in the better eye) in the United Kingdom (n = 20) and India (n = 20) were randomized to two parallel arms, with a 1:1 allocation ratio, to control (n = 20) or intervention (n = 20). Control group participants received standard low vision care. The intervention group received a tablet computer (iPad) with low vision applications and instruction in its use, including accessibility features. Four primary outcomes included (1) 6-month recruitment rate, (2) retention of participants for 3 months, (3) acceptance/usage of device, and (4) accessibility of device. RESULTS Nineteen participants (95%) enrolled within 6 months in the United Kingdom, and 20 participants (100%), in India. Retention at 3 months was 85% (n = 17) in the United Kingdom and 95% (n = 19) in India. More than one half of participants reported using a tablet computer at school at least once every day. The majority (90%) found it easily accessible. CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrated that it is feasible to recruit children and young people with low vision into an international multicenter RCT of electronic assistive technology. Regardless of geographical location, children and young people with low vision reported using tablet computers at least once a day at school and accessed them easily.

Randomized trials with missing outcome data: how to analyze and what to report - Groenwold, Rolf HH; Moons, Karel GM; Vandenbroucke, Jan P. (Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2014)
Keywords: CitedIn:eCubed; Done:ReferenceFixed; eCubed

Rapid community identification, pain and distress associated with lymphoedema and adenolymphangitis in resource-limited communities of North-eastern Nigeria - Akogun, Oladele B; MK, Akogun; Apake, E.; Kale, O.O. (Acta Tropica, 2011)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Rapid-Cycle Evaluations - American Institute for Research (2018)

Rapid Evidence Assessment (REA) of What Works to Improve Educational Outcomes for People with Disabilities in Low and Middle-Income Countries. Campbell Collaboration and International Centre for Evidence in Disability - Kuper, Hannah; Saran, Ashrita; White, Howard (2018)
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Rapid Evidence Review: Accelerated Learning and EdTech - Damani, Kalifa (The EdTech Hub, 2020)

Rapid Evidence Review: Girls' Education and EdTech (EdTech Hub, 2020)
Full PDF Download Key Findings Access to technology has shown to be often disproportionately more empowering for girls relative to boys, with wider benefits which expand beyond formal education. Most studies suggest there is a significant existing gender digital divide: cultural bias and gendered assumptions about girls’ competence and enjoyment of technology, and the benefits […]
Keywords: _EdTechHub_Output; _zenodoETH

Rapid Evidence Review: Radio - Damani, Kalifa; Mitchell, Joel (2020)

Rapid food and income security assessment Round 2: How are BRAC International volunteers and programme participants coping with COVID-19 - BRAC (2020)
Keywords: _COVID-Continuity-Blogpost-01; _COVID_DEAA-List

Rapid Review of Assistive Technologies for Persons with Disability in India - Singh, Suneeta; Tomar, Manika; Mahendra, Vaishali S (Amaltas Consulting Private Ltd, 2020)
The purpose of this study is to support a better understanding of the evidence on assistive technology and support an effective response

Rapport d'analyse comparative des cadres de compétences en littératie numériq - Smart Africa Alliance; Waziri, Nafisa; Macharia, Grace; Martin, Anna; Walker, Hannah; Haßler, Björn (Smart Africa Alliance, 2024)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://opendeved.net/
Keywords: Coming soon; _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence

Rayyan - AI Powered Tool for Systematic Literature Reviews (2021)
Rayyan is an intelligent research collaboration platform that saves you time completing literature reviews and systematic reviews. Intuitive, scalable, fast.
Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024

(Re)considering the Concept of Literature Review Reproducibility - Cram, W. Alec; Templier, Mathieu; Pare, Guy (Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 2020)

(Re)Designing Augmented Reality Applications to Facilitate Intercultural Telecollaborations - Hadjistassou, Stella; Avgousti, Maria-Iosifina; Louca, Petros (Journal of Learning for Development, 2021)
This paper draws on design-based research to develop a real-world classroom Augmented Reality (AR) scenario which was accompanied by tasks used to mediate intercultural telecollaboration. It investigates the role of these tasks and AR scenario in enacting affordances to enrich students’ learning experiences, to establish a connection between classroom management techniques, their local context and future teaching practices and to promote insightful reflections on such practices. The trajectories upon which these tasks were designed were practice-oriented inviting students to explore three options in dealing with classroom misbehavior and reserved students. Using their mobile devices, students could view in AR a classroom setting, a student’s disruptive behavior and three possible approaches in dealing with such behavior. Upon exploring the three options in handling classroom misbehavior, students across the two participating academic institutions in Europe could post their comments on a newly created platform, ReDesign.
Keywords: Augmented Reality (AR); Learning Management System (LMS); intercultural telecollaboration; language learning; ⛔ No DOI found

Re-Integrating Vocational Technical Skill Acquisition into the Educational Curriculum: Capacity Building for Future Professionals - Olukanni, David O.; Aderonmu, Peter A.; Ogbiye, Adebanji S.; Akinwumi, Isaac I.; Chova, LG; Martinez, AL; Torres, IC (ICERI 2014, 2014)
One of the observable problems facing most developing nations today is the non-availability of adequately trained and well-motivated professionals with the capacity to solving problems of national development. Many University graduate professionals complain of unemployment. However, there exist substantial employment opportunities in Africa and other developing nations but the major challenge being that, the skills to match up with imminent challenges are missing. There is, therefore a need to re-integrate vocational technical skill acquisition into the Educational Curriculum for young professionals with proper mental orientation and practical skills for solving societal problems. This paper underlined the necessity of re-integrating vocational technical education (VTE) courses with special targets on sustainability and capacity building aspect of citizenry lives with a view to ascertain the empowerment of students for self employment after graduation. In a bid to achieve this, the current pedagogical approach and curriculum dynamics employed at the Architecture and Civil Engineering Department of Covenant University Ota, Nigeria was evaluated. Specific reference was made in terms of knowledge application from fabrication, construction in timber, reinforced concrete and steel to the main architectural design project. As regards the capacity building development aspect within the architectural and civil engineering education, the application of the respective vocational technical knowledge, obtained through lectures, site works and work shop practices were of major essence in collaborative design projects. It is expected that the indispensability of VTE courses for a successfully-integrated design would bind every element of the design together in different scales. In this way, the sustainability component of the designs in the studio, engineering workshop practice and energy-efficient design would be put to use. The study recommended the investigation and application of all critical elements of VTE-based curriculum development for a sustainable capacity development of emerging future professionals.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; C:Nigeria; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:D; CT:F; CT:P; CT:T; D:developing nation; F:curriculum; F:pedagogy; P:architecture; P:construction; T:TVET; T:trainee; Z:Capacity Building; Z:Educational Curriculum; Z:Future Professionals; Z:Sustainability; Z:Vocational Technical Skill; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Re-positioning Agricultural Policies in Nigeria - Aisha Abdu-Ismail (Multidisciplinary Journal of Research & Development, 2006)
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