Sierra Leone Medium Term National Development Plan (Volume 1) - Ministry of Planning and Economic Development (Sierra Leone) (2019)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Student organisation as a facet of teaching quality in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence to inform the World Bank’s Teach observation instrument - Mitchell, Rafael (UKFIET, Oxford, 2019)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

National Sustainable Development Plan-2020-2035 - MoFPEPD (Ministry of Finance, Planning, Economic, and Physical Development, 2019)

Corporate governance principles and practices disclosed in the South African technical vocational education and training colleges' annual reports - Moloi, Tankiso; University of Johannesburg; Adelowotan, Michael (Journal of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues, 2019)
The motivation for the development of corporate governance codes in South Africa was to ensure that companies and other organisations are managed so as to ensure ethical leadership, accountability, transparency and sustainability of these organisations. However, observers of the South African Corporate environment noted that the development of King I code of corporate governance was particularly focused on corporate bodies and not to other organisations. In order to address this imbalance and considering the significant role of these educational institutions to the development of the nation's economy, the subsequent King codes were designed in a manner that permitted them to apply to any organisation regardless of manner or form of incorporation. The Heher Commission of Inquiry that investigated the process of administration in the Higher Education Sector observed that there are so many challenges (ranging from leadership and administration; funding and accountability; infrastructure and equipment) confronting TVET colleges, which is an indication that governance in general is a challenge in this environment. Through the document analysis methodology, this work explored the nature of corporate governance principles and practices disclosed in South Africa's Technical, Vocational, Educational, and Training colleges' annual reports so as to determine whether the challenges could also be attributable to the lack of application of principles thereby filling gap in many studies focusing on the application of King code to companies alone. We hypothesize that the application of King codes will lead to improved performance by TVET colleges. Our research question is "To what extent will the application of King codes resolve the challenges facing TVET colleges in South Africa?" Our findings suggest that the majority of the observed institutions had not disclosed the key corporate governance practices in their annual reports. It could then be argued that the challenges that are plaguing these institutions as highlighted by the Heher Commission of Inquiry could also be attributable to the lack of application of principles, leading to the unstable leadership and administration; lack of funding and accountability; decaying infrastructure and equipment, which ultimately renders these organisations incapable of delivering on its core mandate.
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WhatsApp: Creating a virtual teacher community for supporting and monitoring after a professional development programme - Moodley, Maglin (South African Journal of Education, 2019)
Keywords: ❓ Multiple DOI

A secure model for storage and dissemination of examination results: A case study of Zambia technical education vocational and entrepreneurship training authority - Mseteka, Lister; Phiri, Jackson (Journal of Computer Science, 2019)
© 2019 Lister Mseteka and Jackson Phiri. Most developing countries and public higher institutions of learning have low levels of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and hence face challenges in securing information and information systems. Therefore, dissemination of examination results through web and mobile applications usually raise security concerns on how to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and authenticity of students' examination results due to susceptibility of web and mobile applications. In this study, we are proposing a secure model for storage and dissemination of students' examination results using encryption and cryptographic hash functions to simultaneously provide confidentiality, integrity and authenticity assurances of students' examination results. The study is based on Technical Education, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training Authority (TEVETA), an examination body in Zambia. A baseline study was conducted to determine the challenges faced by TEVETA and students regarding dissemination of students' examination results. Data was collected from 558 respondents consisting of 514 students, 36 members of staff in-charge of examinations in TEVETA registered institutions and 8 TEVETA ICT staff. The results from the study indicate that the current TEVETA examination cycle business processes have a number of irregularities. These include candidate registration, storage of students' examination results and dissemination of students' examination results. The results from the baseline study were used to come up with the model which was then used to develop a prototype. The results obtained from the test and evaluation of the developed prototype based on the model shows that the system provides an avenue to ensure the confidentiality of students' results through encryption as well of integrity and authenticity of students' examination results through detection of altered students' examination results during transmission and storage through cryptographic hash function.

Methods of financing technical and vocational education and training, and entrepreneurship education to support skills development in Lusaka Province, Zambia - Mubanga, Philip; Hock, Oo Yu; Asif, Mahbub Karim; Mulenga, Innocent Mutale (International Journal of Research and Scintific Innovation (IJRSI), 2019)
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Harnessing technical and vocational education and training and entrepreneurship education to address unemployment in Lusaka province, Zambia. - Mubanga, Phillip; Hock, Oo Yu; Karim, Asif Mahbub; Senteri, Zulkifli; Mulenga, Innocent Mutale; Preckler, Miriam (2019)

Effective Strategies for Integrating Project Based Learning into Woodwork Technology Education and Understanding at Tertiary Institutes in Nigeria - Muhammad Umar Isa; Yusri Bin Kamin (International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 2019)
The purpose of this examination is to research viable methodologies for in-corporating Project-based Learning (PoBL) in instructing and learning Woodwork Technology Education (WTE) at tertiary foundations in Nige-ria. A mixed-method approach including both quantitative and subjective technique was utilized for the investigation. The example of the examination involved 50 in-administration postgraduate understudies from Nigerian tertiary foundations concentrating Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in University Teknologi Malaysia for the quantitative perspective and 9 in-administration postgraduate understudies for the subjective part. A 16-thing organized poll was utilized for quantitative information accumulation while semi-organized meeting convention was utilized for subjective information gathering. Quantitative information was investigated utilizing SPSS programming variant 24 to process the rate and intend to demonstrate the degree of understanding or difference on things of the survey. NVIVO 12 was utilized for subjective data examination. Mem-ber check and pear questioning were utilized to build up the reliability of the interview convention. The principal discoveries of the examination un-covered that PoBL has not been embraced in WTE educating and learning at tertiary establishments of Nigeria, and the conventional instructional methodology including lecture, demonstration and task have been the instructional methodologies received. It was additionally uncovered from the discoveries that rebuilding of WTE educational plan at tertiary organizations in Nigeria to concentrate on a student-focused methodology, just as sorting out courses and workshops for WTE speakers to be familiar with the utilization of PoBL in WTE instructing and learning as a component of the successful techniques for incorporating PoBL in instructing and learn-ing WTE at tertiary establishments in Nigeria. PoBL is appropriate in the instructional procedures of courses like WTE which include intellectual and psychomotor aptitude procurement. At long last, the deficiencies of studies identifying with PobL in Nigeria illuminates the need to attempt this examination in WTE at tertiary organizations.

Challenge of integrating entrepreneurial competencies into technical college programs - Muhammad, Abubakar Ibrahim; Kamin, Yusri Bin; Wahid, Nur Husna Binti Abd (International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology, 2019)
© 2019, Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Publication. All rights reserved. For a country to keep abreast of being competitive in global economy technical and vocational education must play a critical role. For long time, technical and vocational education disciplines have been in cache, living graduates unable to connect learned knowledge with real life problems. The emergence of integrating technical education with entrepreneurial competencies in some institutions in Nigeria advocates transformative changes both at the conceptual and technological levels. One of the challenge facing technical education in Nigeria is lack of appropriate entrepreneurial competencies in the content of technical college curriculum. The purpose of the study was to explore the challenge facing the integration of entrepreneurial competencies into the technical college curriculum. This study uses phenomenological research design method was guided by interview protocol, thus the data were qualitatively collected. This research involved ten experts from three technical institutions in Kano state Nigeria based on their educational background, field of teaching and experience in entrepreneurship education. The study found that poor funding, lack of qualified teachers, inappropriate curriculum and negative attitude toward on entrepreneurship education are the main challenges hindering the integration of entrepreneurial competencies into technical college programs in Nigeria. It is recommended that the need for an appropriate entrepreneurial competencies for technical college programs this will facilitate easy and rapid self-employment among the graduates to enable them become novice entrepreneurs for self-reliance. Consequently, 20 per cent of public expenditure should be allocated to bridge the gap in funding education.

TEACHER EDUCATION CURRICULUM DESIGNING: THE IMPORTANCE OF CONNECTING UNIVERSITY CURRICULA TO SECONDARY SCHOOL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS CONTEXTS - Mulenga, Innocent Mutale (ZANGO: Zambian Journal of Contemporary Issues, 2019)
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A competency-based curriculum for Zambian primary and secondary schools: learning from theory and some countries around the world. - Mulenga, Innocent Mutale; Kabombwe, Yvonne Malambo (2019)
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Understanding a competency-based curriculum and education: The Zambian perspective - Mulenga, Innocent Mutale; Kabombwe, Yvonne Malambo (Journal of Lexicography and Terminology (Online ISSN 2664-0899. Print ISSN 2517-9306)., 2019)
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Teachers present in school but absent in class: utilization and ‘silent erosion’of learning time in the implementation of the curriculum in Mongu district of Zambia. - Mulenga, Innocent Mutale; Lubasi, Ireen Monde (2019)
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Teacher's Voices Crying in the School Wilderness: Involvement of Secondary School Teachers in Curriculum Development in Zambia. - Mulenga, Innocent Mutale; Mwanza, Christine (Journal of Curriculum and teaching, 2019)

A Critical Literature Review of Perceptions of Tablets for Learning in Primary and Secondary Schools - Mulet, Julie; Van de Leemput, Cécile; Amadieu, Franck (Educational Psychology Review, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; literature / systematic review

Adoption of Self-Directed Learning: A Case Study of Kenya Jua Kali Sector - Muli, Elizabeth M.; Opiyo, Elisha T.O.; Oboko, Robert O. (2019 IST-Africa Week Conference, IST-Africa 2019, 2019)
© 2019 The authors. This study examines the state of the Education sector in Kenya with regard to provision of education to all. There is a remarkable progress in education reforms, however, cohort analysis from standard 1 to university education indicates that only 2% of pupils who enrol for standard 1 actually progress to 1st year of university education. Cumulatively, this wastage has led to a remarkable loss of potential human resource in the country. It is in the light of this the Government of Kenya has embarked on a series of reforms to address these challenges and meet the goals of the Kenya Vision 2030. The Education sector lacks alternate pathways to promote lifelong learning for those who drop out of formal education for some reasons and would wish to pursue further education later in life. These people end up in the Jua Kali sector. This study explores the potential of self-directed learning to give a second chance and provide learning opportunities to youths and young adults in this sector. This will equip them with necessary skills to manage their small businesses profitably.

Effectiveness of Student Psychological Support Services at a Technical and Vocational Education and Training College in South Africa - Munyaradzi, Muchineripi; Addae, David (Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019)
In this case study research, the effectiveness of psychological support services rendered to students at a Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) college in South Africa is explored. Using the systems theory of psychology, the article postulates that students at TVET colleges encounter a myriad of psychological challenges, which can adversely affect their academic success. From an interpretivist paradigmatic standpoint, a sample of 30 students was purposively selected to participate in focus group interviews. It was found out that psychological support services improved students' academic performances, attendance, retention, and also enhanced college certification rate. It is recommended that institution need to establish linkages with key stakeholders such as the Departments of Higher Education and Training and Health, psychological professional bodies, and other TVET colleges in order to create a platform for sharing vital information on psychological support to students.

Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India. - Muralidharan, Karthik; Singh, Abhijeet; Ganimian, Alejandro J. (American Economic Review, 2019)
Keywords: interesting

Development of social studies learners’ textbooks for secondary schools in Zambia. - Musilekwa, Sianga; Mulenga, Innocent Mutale (2019)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Teachers' ICT Adoption in South African Rural Schools: A Study of Technology Readiness and Implications for the South Africa Connect Broadband Policy - Mwapwele, Samwel Dick; Marais, Mario; Dlamini, Sifiso; Van Biljon, Judy (The African Journal of Information and Communication, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Research weaving: visualizing the future of research synthesis - Nakagawa, Shinichi; Samarasinghe, Gihan; Haddaway, Neal R.; Westgate, Martin J.; O’Dea, Rose E.; Noble, Daniel WA; Lagisz, Malgorzata (Trends in ecology & evolution, 2019)
Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024

National Sustainable Development Plan 2020-2035 - National Plan Secretariat (Ministry of Finance, Planning, Economic, and Physical Development, Grenada, 2019)
Keywords: _publish

Strengthening the Education Workforce - Naylor, Ruth; Jones, Charlotte; Boateng, Pearl (2019)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Chatbot and conversational analysis to promote collaborative learning in distance education - Neto, Antonio Justiniano Moraes; Fernandes, Márcia Aparecida (IEEE, 2019)

Modelling TVET Colleges as Alternative Centres to Deliver eSkills Training in Rural Communities of Eastern Cape - Ngqulu, Ndiyakholwa; Gumbo, Sibukele; Nogwina, Mnoneleli (2019 IST-Africa Week Conference, IST-Africa 2019, 2019)
© 2019 The authors. The National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa (NEMISA) has adopted, among other objectives, a focus and dedication of time and resources in upskilling people to be digitally competent. This objective is delivered through provincial e-Skills CoLabs distributed around South Africa which have the mandate to roll out the necessary digital skills (e-skills) courses for various ICT user groups usually at ICT Centres with adequate infrastructure. This is necessary as it is public knowledge that while people may own ICT devices, they still face challenges utilising them to work, get further training and conduct business. However, many ICT Centres that are either donated or provided by various stakeholders have failed due to sustainability. This study interrogates the potential of Eastern Cape Technical and Vocational Education and Training colleges (TVETs) as ICT centres to deliver e-skills training. Most of these TVET college campuses are located in rural areas; therefore provide a means to bridge the digital gap between and develop the capacity of our rural communities and up skill people. Informed by the brief background above, the research question guiding this study is 'What is the state of readiness of TVET colleges as ICT centres of choice to service communities'? To respond to this question, 6 Eastern Cape TVET colleges of Eastern Cape were sampled.

Role of IEIs - Nigeria's Entreprise Institutions and Education (2019)

Exploring selected theories applicable to educational disciplines and social sciences research. - Nkhata, Bentry; Mkandawire, Sitwe Benson; Nachiyunde, Kabunga; Phiri-Nalube, Patricia; Kaani, Bestern; Mulenga, Innocent Mutale; Phiri, Chidongo; Chileshe, Bernard; Sichula, Noah Kenny; Sikayomya, Patrick (2019)
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Examining the service quality of administrative practices in Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Colleges in South Africa - Nomzamo, Monica Mpanza; Green, Paul; Sentoo, Naresh; Cecile N. Gerwel Proches (African Journal of Business and Economic Research, 2019)
The purpose of the research was to evaluate administrative practices in three selected Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Colleges in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In the higher education sector, students are the clients who are to be given service and whose needs are to be satisfied. A SERVQUAL theoretical framework was employed in this study. The study drew on a mixed method research design. Questionnaires were administered to students, and semi-structured interviews were conducted with administrative clerks and administrative managers. A stratified sampling technique was used when collecting data from staff, and a convenience sample was applied when collecting data from students. Content analysis was used to analyse data from the interviews and the responses from questionnaires were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS). The results of the research indicated a need for TVET Colleges to implement an appropriate set of processes for administrative practices and how critical it is that all employees should adhere to principles of quality customer service.

Evaluation of the extent school access programme assisted teachers to acquire ICT skills - Nwajiuba, Chinyere Augusta; Okoro, Kingsley O.; Edikpa, Edith (Asian Journal of Information Technology, 2019)
Evaluation of the Extent School Access Programme Assisted Teachers to Acquire ICT Skills
Keywords: _Source:Intuitive; _THEME: Curriculum and resources; _THEME: Education management; _THEME: Teacher Professional Development; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2426072; __finaldtb

Sierra Leone: Transforming the Country through Innovation - O'Connor, Shane; Zurutuza, Naroa (UNICEF, 2019)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Digital Literacy Among Teachers: Identifying Digital Divide Among Interactive Whiteboard Users in Public High Schools - Oatis, Tammy (2019)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:Canada CAN; _C:China CHN; _C:Georgia GEO; _C:Greece GRC; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Korea, Republic KOR; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Spain ESP; _C:Thailand THA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Sources, Format Preference and Challenges of Accessing TVET Information among the Engineering Students of the Federal Polytechnic Ede, Osun State, Nigeria - Odumade-Salako, Adepero Olajumoke; Federal Polytechnic Ilaro Library, Ogun State, Nigeria; Amusan, Blessing Babawale (Library Philosophy and Practice, 2019)
The study focused on sources, format preference and challenges faced by the engineering students of the Federal Polytechnic Ede, Osun State in accessing Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) information resources. The study adopted a survey method. Questionnaire was administered on a sample size of 379 students selected from the School of Engineering of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, from a population of 7400 students through a stratified sampling technique. 306 sets of questionnaire were returned and valid for analysis, representing 80.74% return rate. The study discovered that personal collections, Internet and colleagues were the three most used sources of accessing TVET information among the students. Also majority of the respondents preferred TVET information sources in electronic format to print resources and reasons attributed to this include ability to interact with the source and search within texts; and round-the-clock, easy, cheap and remote accessibility. Also, the respondents experienced several challenges in accessing TVET information which include high cost of accessing information, poor attitudes of library staff and lack of awareness of TVET information sources. The study recommends among others that the Institution Library should reposition itself to be the first point of call for information among the students, and also acquire more eresources and improve accessibility to the resources. There is also the need to re-orientate the library staff, especially the front desk staff on staff-customer relations as well as teaching information literacy skills to the students to solve the problems associated with information retrieval.
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OECS PD Magazine - OECS Commission (2019)

Improving graduate outcomes for technical colleges in Nigeria - Okolie, Ugochukwu C.; Igwe, Paul A.; Elom, Elisha N. (Australian Journal of Career Development, 2019)
© Australian Council for Educational Research 2019. This study examined key issues affecting the effective management of carpentry and joinery workshops for improving the quality of graduates of technical colleges in Nigeria. Drawing upon data collected through a structured questionnaire administered to 27 technical colleges teachers and 13 craft trainers, plus a focus group, this study adopts a mixed methods approach. The survey was conducted in technical colleges in Enugu and Ebonyi States of eastern Nigeria; hence, this study cuts across single geographical boundaries. The patterns of responses among respondents suggested that poor student academic performance result from lack of equipment, funding, and support for technical colleges by the government, whereas effective management of workshops promoted learning and student discipline. The study addressed issues for how workshop success can be promoted.

Constraints and strategies for effective use of social networking sites (snss) for collaborative learning in tertiary institutions in nigeria: perception of tvet lecturers - Olelewe, Chijioke Jonathan; Orji, Chibueze Tobias; Osinem, Emmanuel C.; Rose-Keziah, Ikemelu Chinelo (Education and Information Technologies, 2019)
© 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. The popularity of using social networking sites (SNSs) as an educational tool is increasing every day. Many educators are now trying to integrate these online teaching platforms that were provided by commercial services such as Google, LinkedIn and Facebook into learning environment. Despite the importance of SNSs, a lot of constraints seem to hinder its effective use for collaborative learning in Nigeria by TVET lecturers. Therefore, the main purpose of this paper is to ascertain the perception of TVET lecturers on the constraints and possible strategies to effective use of SNSs for collaborative learning in tertiary institutions in Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive design. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 128 TVET lecturers purposively drawn from the four tertiary institutions in Enugu State that offers vocational and technical education programme. Mean, standard deviation, exploratory factor analysis and t-test statistics were used in realizing the objectives. The finding of the study showed among others that, 13 SNSs were commonly used by TVET lecturers, 13 major constraints hinder effective use of SNSs for collaborative learning by TVET lecturers, while 10 strategies were proffered to promote the effective use of SNSs for collaborative learning. This paper therefore calls for continuous professional development (CPD) of TVET lecturers particularly to enable them acquire the needed soft skills required for effective utilization of SNSs in their teaching practices.

A Framework For Evaluating The Outcome Of Use Of ICTOn Early Grade Literacy Assessment; A Case Study Of Tusome Literacy Programme In Kenya - Olubendi, Doreen (University of Nairobi, 2019)
Previous research work in the field of education has highlighted how information and communication technology plays an integral role in deepening and accelerating learning. Little has been done focusing on its adoption among public schools in Kenya. Systematic use of mobile devices and other information and communication technologies to assess early grade literacy and numeracy, especially in developing countries, remains limited to date. The purpose of this study is to develop a framework for evaluating the outcomes of ICT use on early grade literacy assessment. The focus of this study is on Tusome Literacy program, which is a USAID funded program of over five years, which has been adopted by the Kenyan Government. Education officials under Ministry of Education are equipped with tablets that have pre-installed software to be used for continuous assessment of Curriculum Support Officers, teachers and learners in early grade literacy in public primary schools. The specific objectives are: the relationship between the ICT infrastructure and the level of use of the assessment tool; the relationship between the ICT skills of the Curriculum Support Officer/County Director of Education and the level of use of the assessment tool; the relationship between the local support and the level of use of the assessment tool; the relationship between the level of use of the assessment tool and the frequency of the lessons observed; the relationship between the frequency of lessons observed and the literacy score of the learners. The design of this study is a survey research that was conducted in three counties in Kenya i.e Uasin Gishu, Bungoma and Busia counties. The sample size determination for the CSOs was equal to the population. The study targeted 30 CSOs and 2 County Directors from Bungoma, 14 CSOs and 2 County Directors from Busia; and 17 CSOs and 2 County Directors from Uasin Gishu. Questionnaires were used to collect data. The response rate was 89%. Analysis of the data was done by both descriptive statistics and inferential analysis. The study found out that the issuance of tablets with preloaded monitoring tools and applications to the CSOs and County Directors of Education enabled implementation and use of the ICT tools. The tablets had a source of internet connection so as to send the collected data to a central server. Continuous training and support of the CSOs on use of the ICT gadgets for classroom support was also key. Proper implementation resulted to increased frequency of CSOs visit to schools to iii continuously support teachers and assess teachers and learners using the ICT tools. Frequency of lessons observed and the implementation (use of the assessment tools) was significantly related as the OR=1.599, p=0.004. The study compared the literacy score and the ICT outcome (frequency of lessons observed by CSOs). The result showed that the ICT outcome significantly relates to the literacy score the with an odds ratio OR=9.531E-019, p=0.001. In conclusion, Tusome Literacy Programme has enabled improved literacy on early grade learners through use of ICT tools to monitor and support teachers and continuous assessment of learners in the early grade. A recommendation for further research is the integration of the ICT monitoring tool (Tangerine:Tutor) with other Ministry of Education systems such as The National Education Management Information System (NEMIS). The integrated data and information would enable better use for decision-making and formulation of transparent and accountable policies within the education sector in Kenya.
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Scaling Access & Impact Realizing the Power of EdTech - Omidyar Network (2019)
Keywords: Final_citation; existing

Interactions between vocational and attitudinal skills in labour market outcomes: findings from the skills’ assessment of garment factory workers in Ethiopia - Otchia, Christian S.; Yamada, S. (Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2019)
© 2019, © 2019 The Vocational Aspect of Education Ltd. In this paper, we analyse the effects of workers’ self-rated attitudinal skills and their performance on vocational skills tests on their wage. The survey was conducted with garment workers who had experience of less than three years in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The constituting elements of attitudinal skills were examined using the questionnaire for the workers. Meanwhile, a vocational skills test was conducted with the same population and graded by the employers and the vocational schools’ teachers. We found that the attitudinal skills, i.e. the desire to maintain a clean and tidy workplace and to follow the rules, are associated with higher earnings. Vocational skills, which are more likely to be rewarded by higher salaries, include sewing and patternmaking. We also found that the interaction between patternmaking, sewing, and attitudinal skills yielded higher returns. Interestingly, our results show that at higher levels of attitudinal skills, workers with high sewing skills, and high patternmaking skills earned a higher wage. Our results are robust to alternative measures of attitudinal skills that correct for reference bias and different specifications.

Adoption and diffusion of open educational resources (OER) in education: A meta-analysis of 25 OER-projects - Otto, Daniel (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019)

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)
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Sequence to sequence model performance for education chatbot - Palasundram, Kulothunkan; Sharef, Nurfadhlina Mohd; Nasharuddin, Nurul; Kasmiran, Khairul; Azman, Azreen (International journal of emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 2019)

Longitudinal outcomes of an individualized and intensive reading intervention for third grade students - Partanen, M.; Siegel, L.S.; Giaschi, D.E. (Dyslexia, 2019)
Early intervention is known to reduce reading disabilities; however, treatment response is variable, and some students have persistent deficits that require intensive supports. This study examined the immediate and 1-year outcomes of an individualized and intensive reading program for third grade students, which was delivered throughout the school day for an average of 189 hr of instruction over 3 months. These students' performances were compared with two comparison groups, including poor readers who received small group supports and good readers who did not have additional reading instruction. The intensive group showed an improvement in word recognition and decoding fluency immediately after the program and 1 year later, and there was a decrease in significant reading impairments from 62% before intervention to 35% at follow-up. Furthermore, baseline reading, spelling, phonological awareness, and rapid naming skills were predictive of persistent reading deficits at a later time point. Although improvements in reading skills were shown, a significant gap between poor and good readers persisted in the third and fourth grades. This study illustrates the importance of a tertiary intensive reading program, but also the need for continuing supports. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords: Awareness; Child; Dyslexia; Female; Humans; Learning Disorders; Linguistics; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Reading; Remedial Teaching; Students; _AcademicRecoveryOECS; awareness; child; dyslexia; female; human; individualized instruction; intensive intervention; learning disorder; linguistics; longitudinal study; male; procedures; psychology; reading; reading disability; response to intervention; student; teaching

Supporting adaptive management - Pasanen, Tiina; Barnett, Inka (2019)
Keywords: Final_citation; ⛔ No DOI found

Supporting adaptive management - Pasanen, Tiina; Barnett, Inka (2019)
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Artificial intelligence in education: Challenges and opportunities for sustainable development - Pedro, Francesc; Subosa, Miguel; Rivas, Axel; Valverde, Paula (2019)
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Co-design as infrastructuring with attention to power: Building collective capacity for equitable teaching and learning through design-based implementation research - Penuel, William R. (Collaborative curriculum design for sustainable innovation and teacher learning, 2019)

A machine-learning solution for quantifying the impact of climate change on roads - Piryonesi, S. M.; El-Diraby, T. (2019)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Interactive apps prevent gender discrepancies in early grade mathematics in a low-income country in Sub-Sahara Africa - Pitchford, Nicola J.; Chigeda, Antonie; Hubber, Paula J. (Developmental Science, 2019)
Keywords: _C:Belgium BEL; _C:France FRA; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Myanmar MMR; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Seychelles SYC; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Aprendizagem móvel baseada em jogos de realidade aumentada: ensino de professores com a aplicação EduPARK - Pombo, Lúcia; Marques, Margarida Morais; Carlos, Vânia (Da Investigação às Práticas, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Mobile augmented reality game-based learning: teacher training using the EduPARK app - Pombo, Lúcia; Marques, Margarida Morais; Carlos, Vânia (Da Investigação às Práticas, 2019)
Keywords: _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Portugal PRT; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Approaches to teacher professional development in low-to-middle-income countries - Power, Tom (Sustainable English language teacher development at scale: lessons from Bangladesh, 2019)
This chapter begins by situating discussion of approaches to teacher development (TD) in the context of the grand societal challenge of Education for All (UNESCO 2014), as written into the earlier Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and now Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4:‘to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all.’ This goal cannot be met without addressing the stark and urgent need for greater numbers of teachers who are adequately equipped with the knowledge and skills to enable effective student learning. Drawing upon personal experiences of work with teachers in LMICs over nearly two decades, the chapter argues against ‘blaming teachers’ for poor student learning outcomes, and advocates instead the development of better understandings of the often challenging contexts in which teachers practise. The chapter then critically examines common approaches to TD that have often failed adequately to equip teachers for classroom practice, outlining a broadly supported agenda for reform. Recent literature has begun to identify certain characteristics of TD programmes that are increasingly associated with effective student outcomes, in what may be an emerging consensus. These characteristics are briefly outlined, before the chapter closes with lessons learned from English in Action. EIA has both contributed to and benefitted from this emerging evidence base and Chapter 5 illustrates how the implementation of EIA exemplifies such characteristics through a cohesive programme design.
Keywords: Important; Read

Evidence-based approaches to improving teachers’ skills, in schools serving poor and marginalised communities - Power, Tom; Hedges, C; McCormick, R; Rahman, S (Pan-Commonwealth of Learning Forum, 2019)
Keywords: C:Poor and marginalised communities; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:France FRA; _C:India IND; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _C:State of Palestine PSE; _C:Zimbabwe ZWE; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

AI assisted school mapping and discussion - Project Connect (Project Connect, 2019)

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.

Betriebliche Integration von Pflegefachkräften aus dem Ausland: Innenansichten zu Herausforderungen globalisierter Arbeitsmärkte - Pütz, Robert; Kontos, Maria; Larsen, Christa; Rand, Sigrid; Ruokonen-Engler, Minna-Kristiina (2019)

Improvement of chatbots semantics using wit. ai and word sequence kernel: Education chatbot as a case study - Qaffas, Alaa A. (International Journal of Modern Education and Computer Science, 2019)

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

Factor Analysis of the Challenges and Strategies for Effective Work-Based Learning in Nigerian Technical and Vocational Education - Rabiu Haruna; Yusri Bin Kamin (Jurnal Pendidikan Teknologi dan Kejuruan, 2019)
This study investigated challenges and strategies for effective work-based learning in Nigerian technical and vocational education (TVE) using a factor analysis approach. Through the use of structured questionnaire, the opinions of 385 respondents consisting of 227 TVE lecturers and 158 supervisors of technical and vocational firms were sought. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics and varimax rotated principal component factor analysis with factor loading of 0.40. The result showed that about 25% of the TVE firms in Northwest Nigeria are industrial technical firms, 22% are computer/ICT, 19% are business/distributive trade, 18 % are home economics while about 16% are agricultural based. Using principal component factor analysis, the study identified: policy, funding, attitudinal and linkage as challenging factors undermining effectiveness of work-based learning in Nigerian TVE. On the other hand, training, administrative, institutional and facility/curriculum are strategic factors for effectiveness of work-based learning in Nigerian TVE. Based on the findings, the study among others recommended strong technical and vocational education linkage with industry for skills training of students through work-based learning framework and approach

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

High School Teacher Perceptions of Blended Learning - Raymond, Stephen (2019)
Keywords: _C:France FRA; _C:Greece GRC; _C:Kuwait KWT; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Namibia NAM; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

The MOOC pivot - Reich, Justin; Ruipérez-Valiente, José A. (Science, 2019)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Tablet use in primary education - Ricoy, María-Carmen; Sánchez-Martínez, Cristina (Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Credibility versus fake news in digital newspapers on tablets in primary education/Credibilidad versus falsedad de las noticias de periódicos digitales sobre la tableta en la Educación Primaria - Ricoy, María-Carmen; Sánchez-Martínez, Cristina; Feliz-Murias, Tiberio (Cultura y Educación, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

La Tablet en la escuela: Revisión bibliográfica en Scopus - Rodríguez, María Montserrat Castro; Suárez, Óscar Mallón (Hamut\' ay, 2019)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:China CHN; _C:Costa Rica CRI; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Guatemala GTM; _C:India IND; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Spain ESP; _C:United Kingdom GBR; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; literature / systematic review

Developing Inclusive Education Policy in Sierra Leone: A Research Informed Approach - Rose, R.; Garner, P.; Farrow, B. (Inclusion, Equity and Access for Individuals with Disabilities., 2019)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Scaling Learning Analytics up to the national level: the experience from Estonia and Uruguay - Ruiz-Calleja, Adolfo; Garcıa, Sofıa; Tammets, Kairit; Aguerrebere, Cecilia; Ley, Tobias (2019)
This paper analyzes the key aspects in the implementation of national-level LA and the limitations that current initiatives present. With this purpose, we present a multiple case study that describes six national-level LA projects in Uruguay and Estonia. By means of a data value chain, we synthesize the steps followed by the LA projects to extract meaning out of data and discusses the main issues related to scaling up LA. We found out that these LA projects are driven by political and not so much by educational- aspects. We also saw that integrating personal data from diﬀerent educational institutions is a key step in these projects, which entails technical, legal and administrative issues. We also see a big potential in national-level LA to provide a macro perspective that supports teachers, students, parents or school leaders to take evidence-based decisions.
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

2Dsearch: Facilitating reproducible and valid searching in evidence synthesis - Russell-Rose, T; Shokraneh, F (BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, 2019)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Comparison of Thermal Comfort Levels of Learning Spaces during Mid-season in Bayero University, Kano - S.M. Ali (AJEES, African Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2019)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Schooling responses to income changes: Evidence from unconditional cash transfers in Rwanda - Sabates, Ricardo; Bhutoria, Aditi; Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel; Devereux, Stephen (International Journal of Educational Research, 2019)

The Development dictionary: a guide to knowledge as power - Sachs, Wolfgang (2019)

Research Methods for Business Students Eight Edition - Saunders, M. N. K.; Lewis, Philip; Thornhill, Adrian (QualitativeMarket Research: An International Journal, 2019)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Topic modeling as a strategy of inquiry in organizational research: A tutorial with an application example on organizational culture - Schmiedel, T.; Müller, O; Brocke, J. (Organizational Research Methods, 2019)
Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024

Final Evaluation Report: Evaluation of Africa Educational Trust’s Speak Up II in South Sudan - Schulze, Charles (2019)

Teacher CPD: International trends, opportunities and challenges - Scutt, Cat; Baeyer, Sarah (Chartered College of Teaching, 2019)
Keywords: C:International

Differences of TVET teachers’ perceptions on competency across different types of TVET institutions in nigeria - Sern, Lai Chee; Hamisu, Mohammed Adamu; Salleh, Kahirol Mohd; Adamu, Babayo Yakubu (International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, 2019)
© BEIESP. Competency is regarded as one of the main elements related to human resource development because it supports the aims of an organisation and the capabilities of its employees. This paper aimed at finding out the differences of the TVET teachers’ perceptions on competency (Thinking, Organizational and Application Competencies) across the three categorises of Nigerian tertiary institutions (University, Polytechnics, and College of Education) based on Malaysian Human Resource Development Practitioners (MHRDP) Competency Model. The study was quantitative by nature and 218 questionnaires were distributed to TVET teachers in five tertiary institutions based on stratified sampling technique. A total of 205 questionnaires were retrieved and ANOVA was conducted for data analysis. The present findings revealed that there was no statistically significant differences of the TVET teachers’ perceptions across the three categorises of Nigerian tertiary institutions in terms of Thinking Competency, Organisational Competency, and Application Competency. This outcome reflects that the competency model (MHRDP) can be used by TVET teachers regardless of their affiliated TVET institutions.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

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

The Role of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Restoring Hospitality Sector Specific Skills in Zimbabwe: A Students’ Perspective - Shereni, Ngoni Courage (Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education, 2019)
© 2019, © 2019 The International Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education. This study was done to determine the role played by Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in restoring sector-specific skills lost to other countries in the Zimbabwean hospitality industry. Semi-structured questionnaires were self-administered to 136 students studying hospitality related qualifications in Polytechnics in Zimbabwe using a convenient sampling technique. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22.0 was used to analyze data generating frequencies and descriptive statistics. The findings of the research show that the hospitality industry will continue to lose skills to other countries mainly because of low salaries, better working conditions in other countries, the unfavorable economic environment in Zimbabwe and the need by students to gain international exposure. TVET institutions in Zimbabwe have a great role to play in replacing lost skills therefore financial challenges, equipment unavailability and lack of qualified lecturers need to be addressed for them to be effective.

An Integrative Literature Review on Sexual Abuse Prevention Education Programs for Elementary School Students in South Korea - Shin, Hyewon; Lee, Jung Min; Kang, Kyung-Ah; Kim, Shin-Jeong; Shin, Hyewon; Lee, Jung Min; Kang, Kyung-Ah; Kim, Shin-Jeong (Child Health Nursing Research, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

SmartTab: A Design & Implementation of Tablet for Learning Purposes based on PyQT framework - Shrunkhla, Iti; Tripathi, Bramha Swaroop; Reddy, S. R. N. (IEEE, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ❓ Multiple DOI

Sierra Leone invests $1.5 million to bring education innovation to schools for better learning outcomes - Sierra Leone Education Innovation Challenge (2019)
A national education dashboard released last month by Sierra Leone’s agency for technology and innovation and the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE) showed that schools and studentsRead More
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Education of Children with Disabilities in the South Asian Context - Singal, Nidhi (Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia, 2019)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Mapping schools' NAPLAN results: a spatial inequality of school outcomes in Australia - Smith, Crichton; Parr, Nick; Muhidin, Salut (Geographical Research, 2019)
This article identiﬁes spatial dimensions of educational outcomes using maps of the 2016 Grade 5 reading results for Australia’s National Assessment Program–Literacy and Numeracy for all Australian schools. A geographical information system (GIS) was used to overlay schools’ results onto suburbs’ advantage or disadvantage to visualise spatial patterns. We then examined the extent to which school results “cluster” in socio-economically advantaged and disadvantaged suburbs and considered the consistency of spatial patterns for results across major cities. That work illustrates both how GIS can foreground educational inequality and how “the spatial” is more than corollary for student socio-economic status. Results show substantial differences between urban and remote areas and towns of different size. Maps of cities visualise spatial “clustering” patterns of school results, with most schools in advantaged suburbs having high results and almost no schools in disadvantaged suburbs having high results. Educational outcomes strongly align to local sociodemographic characteristics, and parallel host communities’ levels of advantage or disadvantage. Differences between public and private schools are less signiﬁcant than within-sector differences for schools in advantaged or disadvantaged locales. Patterns in all cities are consistent—schools in advantaged suburbs predominantly have high results, whereas non-government schools generally perform better than government schools in disadvantaged suburbs. Most concerning is the persistent and increasing trajectory of results in advantaged, and more so in disadvantaged suburbs, of all cities since the ﬁrst National Assessment Program–Literacy and Numeracy in 2008. Ameliorating spatial inequality between primary schools is one of the greatest challenges for Australians.
Keywords: Lebanon_event_2021; _C:Australia AUS; _C:United Kingdom GBR; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

A question answering and quiz generation chatbot for education - Sreelakshmi, A. S.; Abhinaya, S. B.; Nair, Aishwarya; Nirmala, S. Jaya (IEEE, 2019)

Using digital technology to improve learning - Stringer, Eleanor; Lewin, Cathy; Coleman, Robbie (Education Endowment Foundation, 2019)
Keywords: _Added to LR; _T:reviewed

Teacher educators as agents of change? A critical realist study of a group of teacher educators in a Kenyan university - Stutchbury, Kristina (The Open University, 2019)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Botswana BWA; _C:France FRA; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:India IND; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Mauritius MUS; _C:Mozambique MOZ; _C:Namibia NAM; _C:New Zealand NZL; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Rwanda RWA; _C:Senegal SEN; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Sudan SDN; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Togo TGO; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Zambia ZMB; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Perezhivanie as a phenomenon and a unit of analysis for studying children’s interactions with iPads in the early years of school in Saudi Arabia - Sulaymani, Omar; Fleer, Marilyn (Early Child Development and Care, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

A systematic review of tablet technology in mathematics education - Svela, Alexander; Nouri, Jalal; Viberg, Olga; Zhang, Lechen (2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Effects of assistive technology for students with reading and writing disabilities - Svensson, Idor; Nordström, Thomas; Lindeblad, Emma; Gustafson, Stefan; Björn, Marianne; Sand, Christina; Almgren/Bäck, Gunilla; Nilsson, Staffan (Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

The effects of multi-track year-round education on the delivery of senior high school education in Ghana. Lessons from global MT-YRE systems - Takyi, Stephen Appiah; Azerigyik, Richard Apatewen; Amponsah, Owusu (International Journal of Educational Development, 2019)
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd The debate on the effects of Multi Track Year-Round Education (MT-YRE) on educational outcomes remains unresolved in the conventional literature. Nevertheless, Ghana has introduced an MT-YRE in 400 schools to allow graduates from Junior High Schools, who for space constraints, would not have continued their formal educational journey, to enrol in Senior High Schools. The purpose of this study was to examine the prospects and challenges of the MT-YRE on educational outcomes and discuss their implications for educational policy in Ghana. The data used in the study were obtained through a review of literature from databases such as the Educational Resources Information Centre (ERIC), Ebsco, ProQuest and JSTOR and from grey sources such as institutional websites and online media publications. The results from a synthesis of the literature show that the MT-YRE has the prospects of increasing student enrolment while cutting down the cost of infrastructure provision. For instance, the literature indicates that student enrolment at the Senior High School level in Ghana has increased significantly with the introduction of the MT-YRE. However, other literature indicate that the MT-YRE affects educational outcomes negatively. It results in scheduling difficulties among families and denies students the opportunities to take summer jobs. A review of the Ghanaian MT-YRE reveals other challenges, which inlcude high administrative cost (employing more teachers) and poor academic performance of students (as a result of increased contact hours leading to behavioural problems caused by fatigue and boredom). The authors argue that poor academic performance among students is likely to defeat the government's Free SHS policy. This is because parents are likely to pay higher fees to enrol their non-performing wards in remedial classes. The cost of the lost years for these students may be difficult to quantify. Following the challenges identified, there is the need for educational policy makers to strategically plan towards the development of technical and vocational education to help accommodate the increasing students’ enrolment. Finally, the progress of the MT-YRE should be carefully monitored and evaluated to guide future decision making.

Artificial Intelligence Basics - Taulli, T; Oni, M (Apress, 2019)

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

Technology Integration Changes over Three Years: Teacher Technology Acceptance in a One-to-One Tablet PC Integration Across Cities - Terashima, Kosuke; Nakagawa, Hitoshi; Kobayashi, Yuki; Murai, Masuo (International Journal, 2019)
Keywords: _C:Japan JPN; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United Kingdom GBR; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

The potential use of Tablet Computers to support Teaching and Learning activities in South African Schools - Theunissen, Kristen; Siebörger, Ingrid (IEEE, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Education for sustainable development in Africa: a critique of regional agendas - Tikly, Leon (Asia Pacific Education Review, 2019)

A history of meta‐regression: Technical, conceptual, and practical developments between 1974 and 2018 - Tipton, Elizabeth; Pustejovsky, James E.; Ahmadi, Hedyeh (Research Synthesis Methods, 2019)
At the beginning of the development of meta‐analysis, understanding the role of moderators was given the highest priority, with meta‐regression provided as a method for achieving this goal. Yet in current practice, meta‐regression is not as commonly used as anticipated. This paper seeks to understand this mismatch by reviewing the history of meta‐regression methods over the past 40 years. We divide this time span into four periods and examine three types of methodological developments within each period: technical, conceptual, and practical. Our focus is broad and includes development of methods in the fields of education, psychology, and medicine. We conclude the paper with a discussion of five consensus points, as well as open questions and areas of research for the future.
Keywords: _yl:a

Current practices in meta‐regression in psychology, education, and medicine - Tipton, Elizabeth; Pustejovsky, James E.; Ahmadi, Hedyeh (Research Synthesis Methods, 2019)
Having surveyed the history and methods of meta‐regression in a previous paper, in this paper, we review which and how meta‐regression methods are applied in recent research syntheses. To do so, we reviewed studies published in 2016 across four leading research synthesis journals: Psychological Bulletin , the Journal of Applied Psychology , Review of Educational Research , and the Cochrane Library . We find that the best practices defined in the previous review are rarely carried out in practice. In light of the identified discrepancies, we consider how to move forward, first by identifying areas where further methods development is needed to address persistent problems in the field and second by discussing how to more effectively disseminate points of methodological consensus.
Keywords: _yl:b

A double challenge for the disabled - Toesland, F (United Nation, 2019)

Using electronic technology in the dynamic testing of young primary school children: predicting school achievement - Touw, Kirsten WJ; Vogelaar, Bart; Bakker, Merel; Resing, Wilma CM (Educational Technology Research and Development, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Building and indoor environmental quality assessment of Nigerian primary schools: A pilot study - Toyinbo, Oluyemi; Phipatanakul, Wanda; Shaughnessy, Richard; Haverinen-Shaughnessy, Ulla (Indoor Air, 2019)
A total of 15 classrooms went through on-site assessments/inspections, including measurements of temperature (T), and concentrations of carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide (CO2). In addition, the level of surface biocontamination/cleaning effectiveness was assessed by measuring adenosine triphosphate (ATP) levels on students' desks. Based on the data, the quality of facilities in the buildings was low. Classroom occupancy exceeded ASHRAE 50 person/100 m2 standard in all cases indicating overcrowding. However, concentrations of CO2 remained below 1000 ppm in most classrooms. On the other hand, indoor T was above the recommended levels for thermal comfort in all classrooms. Maximum indoor CO was 6 ppm. Median ATP concentrations on the desk tops were moderately high in all schools. The use of open incinerators and power generator sets near classrooms, which was suspected to be the main source of CO, should be discouraged. Improved hygiene could be achieved by providing the students access to functioning bathroom facilities and cafeteria, and by effective cleaning of high contact surfaces such as desks. Although ventilation seems adequate based on CO2 concentrations, thermal comfort was not attained especially in the afternoon during extreme sunlight. Therefore, installing passive and/or mechanical cooling systems should be considered in this regard.
Keywords: C:Nigeria; _z:class:countries; _z:class:themes; cleaning; educational buildings; indoor environmental quality; natural ventilation; openalex:n:1; openalex:yes; school classrooms; thermal acceptability

Towards universal health coverage: reforming the neglected district health system in Africa - Tumusiime, Prosper; Kwamie, Aku; Akogun, Oladele B; Elongo, Tarcisse; Nabyonga-Orem, Juliet (BMJ Global Health, 2019)
In most African countries, the district sphere of governance is a colonial creation for harnessing resources from the communities that are located far away from the centre with the assistance of minimally skilled personnel who are subordinate to the central authority with respect to decision-making and initiative. Unfortunately, postcolonial reforms of district governance have retained the hierarchical structure of the local government. Anchored to such a district arrangement, the (district) health system (DHS) is too weak and impoverished to function in spite of enormous knowledge and natural resources for a seamless implementation of universal health coverage (UHC). Sadly, the quick-fix projects of the 1990s with the laudable intention to reduce the burden of disease within a specified time-point dealt the fatal blow on the DHS administration by diminishing it to a stop-post and a warehouse for commodities (such as bednets and vaccines) destined for the communities. We reviewed the situation of the district in sub-Saharan African countries and identified five attributes that are critical for developing a UHC-friendly DHS. In this analytical paper, we discuss decision-making authority, coordination, resource control, development initiative and management skills as critical factors. We highlight the required strategic shifts and recommend a dialogue for charting an African regional course for a reformed DHS for UHC. Further examination of these factors and perhaps other ancillary criteria will be useful for developing a checklist for assessing the suitability of a DHS for the UHC that Africa deserves.
Keywords: ❓ Multiple DOI

Humanising as innovation in a cold climate of [so-called-evidence-based] teacher education - Turvey, Keith (Journal of Education for Teaching, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Sierra Leone | Education and Literacy - UIS (2019)
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Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Sierra Leone | UNESCO UIS - UIS (2019)

Realising the potential of technology in education: A strategy for education providers and the technology industry - UK Government (2019)

The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2019: Special Edition - UN Stat (2019)

2019 Human Development Index Ranking - UNDP (2019)
United Nations Development Programme: Human Development Reports

ICT Transforming Education in Africa UNESCO-KFIT project update, January-March 2019 - UNESCO Digital Library - UNESCO (2019)

Migration, Displacement and Education: Building Bridges, Not Walls - UNESCO (Global Education Monitoring Report, 2019)

TVET Country Profile: Nigeria - UNESCO-UNEVOC (2019)

Accessible Digital Textbooks Using Universal Design for Learning for Learners with and Without Disabilities - UNICEF (2019)

Integrating new technology in the language classroom: innovative teacher identities - Valentyn, Gail (Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University, 2019)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:China CHN; _C:Estonia EST; _C:Finland FIN; _C:Mauritius MUS; _C:Namibia NAM; _C:New Zealand NZL; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Spain ESP; _C:Sri Lanka LKA; _C:Thailand THA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

A Detailed Example: Galactic Dynamics - Vallejo, Juan C.; Sanjuan, Miguel AF (Predictability of Chaotic Dynamics, 2019)

Tools to create and democratize conversational artificial intelligence - Van Brummelen, Jessica Jessica Raquelle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)

Retention and attrition among National Certificate (Vocational) Civil and Construction students in South African TVET - Van der Bijl, Andre; Lawrence, Mark (Industry and Higher Education, 2019)
© The Author(s) 2018. The National Certificate (Vocational) (NC(V)) was introduced into South Africa’s system of vocational training to ‘solve problems of poor quality programmes, lack of relevance to the economy, as well as low technical and cognitive skills of TVET [technical and vocational education and training] graduates’. The NC(V) did not, however, meet expectations, partially because of systemic difficulties. This article reports on research conducted among students who studied on the NC(V) Civil and Construction programme in an effort to identify appropriate corrections that could be made by college management. The research project made use of Tinto’s Student Integration Model to identify reasons for both student attrition and student persistence. The study provides information on the predicament facing TVET Civil and Construction students and has broad relevance for practitioners operating in higher and post-school education.

A comparative study on the traditional and intensive delivery of an online course: Design and facilitation recommendations - Vlachopoulos, P.; Jan, S.K.; Lockyer, L. (Research in Learning Technology, 2019)
In this paper, we present findings from a comparative study on a fully online postgraduate course offered in traditional (i.e. 13-week academic session) and intensive (i.e. 6-week academic session) delivery formats. Keeping the course curriculum, structure and quality consistent in both delivery modes, the study investigated student participation and academic performance given different facilitation techniques applied to the discussion forums. Using data from the learning management system and students’ final marks, we conducted quantitative and qualitative analysis and found no difference in the academic performance of students in both courses; however, there was a statistically significant relationship between student participation and academic performance in the intensive delivery format but not in the traditional delivery format. We also found differences in the type of interactions in the different delivery formats. Two key takeaways emerge from our study. Firstly, intensive online courses can be as effective as traditional courses in terms of achievement of learning outcomes with variations in learning design, in this case, the facilitation approach used. Secondly, considering the level and nature of interactions, student-centred discussion forums that allow students to assume different roles work well in the intensive delivery format especially in open discussions. These are important findings for academics and practitioners who wish to offer intensive courses without compromising on course quality and student success. © 2019 P. Vlachopoulos et al.
Keywords: Discussion; Facilitation; Intensive; Interactions; Online; Performance; _AcademicRecoveryOECS

Using examination and learning assessment data to uncover foundational skill gaps in Sierra Leone’s secondary schools - Waistell, Daniel; De, Sourovi; Ofori Owusu, Diana; Allen, Reg; Sanni, Kayode; Dupigny, Albert (UKFIET Conference, 2019)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE; ⛔ No DOI found

Antecedents and Consequences of Teachers’ Emotional Labor: a Systematic Review and Meta-analytic Investigation - Wang, Hui; Hall, Nathan C.; Taxer, Jamie L. (Educational Psychology Review, 2019)
Emotional labor represents a long-standing area of research that since its initial development by Hochschild (1983) has been increasingly explored to understand why and how teachers manage and express their emotions in class. However, previous studies investigating teachers’ emotional labor have utilized varying conceptual frameworks and have often shown inconsistent effects, particularly concerning deep acting (i.e., the internalization of desired emotions such that expressed emotions are more consistent with experienced emotions). The current systematic review aimed to outline and summarize existing research findings on teachers’ emotional labor and is supplemented by a meta-analytic investigation on the connection between teachers’ emotional labor and psychological well-being. Practical implications, limitations, and directions for future research are discussed.
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Belgium BEL; _C:Canada CAN; _C:China CHN; _C:France FRA; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Poland POL; _C:Romania ROU; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Effects of an Intensive Reading Intervention for Ninth-Grade English Learners With Learning Disabilities - Williams, K.J.; Vaughn, S. (Learning Disability Quarterly, 2019)
English learners with learning disabilities (LD) have well-documented difficulties comprehending text. This study examined the effects of an intensive reading intervention (Reading Intervention for Adolescents [RIA]) on reading outcomes (word reading, vocabulary, and comprehension) for ninth-grade ELs with LD (n = 85). In the RIA, students received instruction in advanced word study, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Participants assigned to RIA received the intervention for the entire ninth-grade school year for approximately 3.75 to 4.25 hr a week, whereas students in the comparison condition participated in elective courses. After using analysis of covariance to test for treatment effects and controlling for false discovery rate, there were no significant differences between the two groups except on the proximal vocabulary measure (g = 0.41). Small, nonsignificant effects were observed on measures of word reading and sentence-level comprehension, and Hedges’ g values ranged from 0.08 to 0.18. Findings reveal the challenges of improving reading outcomes for English learners with learning disabilities in high school. © Hammill Institute on Disabilities 2019.
Keywords: English learners; SEN; _AcademicRecoveryOECS; adolescents; high school; intensive intervention; learning disabilities; reading

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

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

Teach - World Bank's Classroom Observation Tool - World Bank (World Bank, 2019)
Teach-Related Blogs

The Changing Nature of Work - World Bank (2019)

World Development Report 2019: The Changing Nature of Work - World Bank (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2019)

Optimal Experimental Design for Staggered Rollouts - Xiong, Ruoxuan; Athey, Susan; Imben, Guidi W.; Bayati, Mohsen (Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2019)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Talent leadership strategies enhance teacher’s professional competencies in 21st century education for sustainable development - Xu, Ping; Yue, Xiaoyao (IOP Publishing, 2019)
Keywords: _C:Canada CAN; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Thailand THA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Zambia ZMB; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Application and Research of Basketball Tactics Teaching Assisted by Computer Multimedia Technology - Yu, Lei; Li, Dong; Chen, Dong; Li, Wenbin (Springer, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Friends or foes? Examining platform owners’ entry into complementors’ spaces - Zhu, Feng (Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2019)
As platform owners continue to expand their ecosystems, many of them have started to provide consumers with their own complementary applications. These moves position the platform owners as direct competitors to their complementors. This paper surveys empirical studies that examine the direct entry of platform owners into complementors’ product spaces. It finds that both the motivation and impact of such entries on complementors are multifaceted. The motivation behind platform owners’ direct entry goes beyond value capture, and the impact of platform entry on complementors varies across empirical settings. It identifies several future research directions that can help advance our understanding of the relationships between platform owners and complementors.
Keywords: Final_citation; multisided markets; platform-owner entry

Analysing training needs of TVET teachers in South Africa. An empirical study - Zinn, Bernd; Raisch, Kevin; Reimann, Jennifer (International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2019)
Context: This paper reports on a study of the progress of vocational education and training (VET) and the need for further profession-oriented training of lecturers in public, technical vocational colleges in South Africa, under the consideration of societal and political conditions. Approach: The study is based on a mixed methods approach in which an analysis of educational policy documents and a qualitative and a quantitative study with VET teachers and representatives of education authorities in South Africa are conducted. Findings: The classification of the results is conducted in line with the conditions defined by Phillips and Ochs regarding policy transfers. The following can thus be observed through the bilateral relationship between Germany and South Africa: (1) The Guiding Philosophy of the educational system is characterised by societal and political power structures. This is evident in an analysis of approved reforms within the last two decades. (2) The desired effects of “Ambitions Goals” have thus far not taken hold. Nonetheless, there is a willingness to enact reforms to continue developing vocational education, including the training and further education of lecturers that must be noted. Minimum requirements regarding lecturers’ basic qualifications have been formulated, which one in five vocational lecturers in South Africa currently cannot fulfil. (3) The Strategies formulated to implement training methods face the main problem of difficulty in implementation in colleges. (4) The Enabling Structures, i.e. the education-management-system as well as the financial and personnel support of the educational system, are widely perceived by lecturers as unsupportive, ineffective and discriminatory. This is observed, for example, when looking at the equipment used, teachers’ salaries, classroom sizes as well as the mentorship programme and further training opportunities. (5) Processes: a discrepancy exists on the level of the lecturers and the central need for further training regarding modern technologies, especially those used by foreign firms in their production in South Africa. (6) The results of the conducted study document a high variation of qualifications among TVET lecturers when it examines their teaching Techniques. Conclusions: Overall, the empirical results of the study reveal a complex structure with respect to the requirements for further training of TVET lecturers, describe central needs for further training of lecturers and deliver connectable knowledge for both the practical educational advancement of lecturer training and further education training, as well as for research in the context of the internationalisation of vocational training in South Africa.

Teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge, curriculum designing, and student’s comprehension of secondary school ordinary level physics in Lusaka, Zambia. - Zulu, Jacqueline; Mulenga, Innocent Mutale (2019)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Особенности структуры интеллекта младших школьников, обучаемых посредством гаджетов - Водяха, Сергей Анатольевич; Водяха, Юлия Евгеньевна; Минюрова, Светлана Алигарьевна (Педагогическое образование в России, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

한국의 초등학생을 대상으로 한 성폭력 예방 교육 프로그램에 관한 통합적 고찰 - 신혜원; 이정민; 강경아; 김신정 (Child Health Nursing Research, 2019)
Keywords: _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Korea, Republic KOR; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Instant Messaging Tutoring: A Case of South Africa - Budree, A; Hendriks, T (2019 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Data Science & Engineering (Confluence), 2019)
This research study was focused on determining the role social media, and in particular, instant messaging can have in providing tutor assistance to high school students. The study investigates the implementation of Dr. Maths, an instant messaging tutoring service that ran successfully in South Africa from 2007 to 2013. With the demise of the Dr Maths initiative, there hasn't been any further reconstruction of this sort. The results of this study strongly indicate that learners see value in having a tutor assist them with schoolwork, over the WhatsApp IM platform. This will allow for access to much required educational resources particularly in disadvantaged communities in developing countries such as South Africa. However, it is recommended that any solution implemented be as platform agnostic as possible to avoid a recurrence of the issue faced by Dr. Maths.
Keywords: Africa; Computers; Education; Final_citation; Instant Messaging; Instant messaging; Mobile handsets; Wireless communication; cited; developing country; existing; mlearning; mobile tutors

Defining and Quantifying National-Level Targets, Indicators and Benchmarks for Management of Natural Resources to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals - Dickens, Chris; Smakhtin, Vladimir; McCartney, Matthew; O’Brien, Gordon; Dahir, Lula (Sustainability, 2019)
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are high on the agenda for most countries of the world. In its publication of the SDGs, the UN has provided the goals and target descriptions that, if implemented at a country level, would lead towards a sustainable future. The IAEG (InterAgency Expert Group of the SDGs) was tasked with disseminating indicators and methods to countries that can be used to gather data describing the global progress towards sustainability. However, 2030 Agenda leaves it to countries to adopt the targets with each government setting its own national targets guided by the global level of ambition but taking into account national circumstances. At present, guidance on how to go about this is scant but it is clear that the responsibility is with countries to implement and that it is actions at a country level that will determine the success of the SDGs. Reporting on SDGs by country takes on two forms: i) global reporting using prescribed indicator methods and data; ii) National Voluntary Reviews where a country reports on its own progress in more detail but is also able to present data that are more appropriate for the country. For the latter, countries need to be able to adapt the global indicators to fit national priorities and context, thus the global description of an indicator could be reduced to describe only what is relevant to the country. Countries may also, for the National Voluntary Review, use indicators that are unique to the country but nevertheless contribute to measurement of progress towards the global SDG target. Importantly, for those indicators that relate to the security of natural resources security (e.g., water) indicators, there are no prescribed numerical targets/standards or benchmarks. Rather countries will need to set their own benchmarks or standards against which performance can be evaluated. This paper presents a procedure that would enable a country to describe national targets with associated benchmarks that are appropriate for the country. The procedure builds on precedent set in other countries but in particular on a procedure developed for the setting of Resource Quality Objectives in South Africa. The procedure focusses on those SDG targets that are natural resource-security focused, for example, extent of water-related ecosystems (6.6), desertification (15.3) and so forth, because the selection of indicator methods and benchmarks is based on the location of natural resources, their use and present state and how they fit into national strategies.
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; SDGs; benchmark; goal; natural resources; resource security; standard; target; water resources

The Siyavula Case: Digital, Collaborative Text-Book Authoring to Address Educational Disadvantage and Resource Shortage in South African Schools - Lambert, Sarah (International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2019)
Siyavula is known as a pioneer developer of high-quality free digital maths and science textbooks to address resource gaps and disadvantage in South African schools. This case study identifies the success factors which could be replicated in other contexts. Siyavula has developed expertise in digital developing, editing and improving maths and science workbooks and teachers' guides and distributing them in multiple digital and mobile formats for free. In 2013 the government took the free texts and sponsored the printing and distribution of c500K copies of Grade 4-6 titles, saving the government approximately USD$83.5 Million for each of the 12 books (student workbook and teacher guide in both English and Afrikaans). The collaborative authoring system is identified as instrumental to the success of the project to address under-resourced schools, through a combination of personal (attitudinal), technical (online systems) and social resources (volunteers and stakeholders). Siyavula leaves a legacy of multi-stakeholder volunteer text-books sprints where an intense face-to-face experience provides the ground-work for constructive online authoring inclusive of diverse stakeholder input across different roles and ranks. Collaborative authoring advances curriculum and pedagogy sharing, expertise and capacity building. Collaborative authoring systems are found to have potential in many under-resourced school contexts not only for school texts, but also for early reading, multi-lingual and culturally appropriate book adaptations.
Keywords: Collaborative Writing; Costs; Disadvantaged Schools; Educational Resources; Educational Technology; Electronic Publishing; Elementary Secondary Education; Faculty Development; Final_citation; Foreign Countries; Shared Resources and Services; Social Justice; Technology Uses in Education; Textbooks; cited; existing

Uganda Impact Study Report - Pouezevara, Sarah; Brunette, Tracy; Jordan, Rachel; Nakyejwe, Deborah (RTI International, 2019)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Critical Hours and Important Environments: Relationships between Afterschool Physical Activity and the Physical Environment Using GPS, GIS and Accelerometers in 10–12-Year-Old Children - Remmers, Teun; Thijs, Carel; Ettema, Dick; de Vries, Sanne; Slingerland, Menno; Kremers, Stef (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019)
Introduction: The objective of this study was to assess relationships between children’s physical environment and afterschool leisure time physical activity (PA) and active transport. Methods: Children aged 10–12 years participated in a 7-day accelerometer and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) protocol. Afterschool leisure time PA and active transport were identified based on location- and speed-algorithms based on accelerometer, GPS and Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) data. We operationalized children’s exposure to the environment by combining home, school and the daily transport environment in individualized daily activity-spaces. Results: In total, 255 children from 20 Dutch primary schools from suburban areas provided valid data. This study showed that greenspaces and smaller distances from the children’s home to school were associated with afterschool leisure time PA and walking. Greater distances between home and school, as well as pedestrian infrastructure were associated with increased cycling. Conclusion: We demonstrated associations between environments and afterschool PA within several behavioral contexts. Future studies are encouraged to target specific behavioral domains and to develop natural experiments based on interactions between several types of the environment, child characteristics and potential socio-cognitive processes.
Keywords: GPS; accelerometer; children; context-specific; physical activity; spatial behavior

An Atlas of Nigerian Languages - Blench, Roger (2019)
A listing and introduction to the languages of Nigeria. 2019 edition of a document first published in 1976 as 'An Index of Nigerian Languages'

Broadening borders to build better schools: Virtual professional learning communities - Carpenter, Daniel; Munshower, Paul (International Journal of Educational Management, 2019)
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how rural teachers provided a PLC by leveraging virtual technologies to connect educators of like subject disciplines from several schools, foreign and domestic. Design/methodology/approach A phenomenological case study-based approach was leveraged to investigate established vPLCs at schools (Creswell, 2013; Stake, 2010). Qualitative data were collected from multiple sources to obtain rural teacher perceptions on the impact vPLCs had on their practice (Creswell, 2013). Findings Teacher collaborative teams build relationships comparable to teams that met face to face as part of a similar PLC and PD experience. Participant reflections in this investigation showed that rural educators favored face-to-face meetings; however, vPLCs provided similar teacher experiences to that of the face-to-face PBL model. Results indicated that educators recognized virtual collaboration just as valuable a tool for enabling PLCs than face-to-face collaborations while still offering similarities to improved teacher practice. Research limitations/implications The research was limited to teachers in rural settings in the USA (Texas) and in the Dominican Republic. The research was limited to teacher perceptions of change, and observed changes as part of their participation in a research-based virtual PLC model. The research was limited to the school setting over an academic year. Practical implications The findings from this study have practical implications for rural teachers and school implementation of a professional learning community model. Originality/value The promise provided by this study is that vPLCs may provide opportunity for rural schools to provide a job-embedded professional development model (Croft et al., 2010) for otherwise isolated teachers (Barrett et al., 2015).
Keywords: Collaboration; Communities of Practice; Computer Mediated Communication; ERIC, Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Education; Educational technology; Faculty Development; Learning; Meetings; Preferences; Professional development; Professional learning communities; Rural Schools; Rural schools; School districts; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Collaboration; Teacher collaboration; Teachers; Teaching; Virtual professional learning communities; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2095794; __finaldtb

Teacher ‘quality’ and attainment grouping: The role of within-school teacher deployment in social and educational inequality - Francis, Becky; Hodgen, Jeremy; Craig, Nicole; Taylor, Becky; Archer, Louise; Mazenod, Anna; Tereshchenko, Antonina; Connolly, Paul (Teaching and Teacher Education, 2019)
Prior research suggests that where pupils are 'tracked', better qualified, more experienced teachers tend to be deployed to higher attainment groups, at the expense of pupils in lower tracks. This is especially pertinent from a social justice perspective, given consistent findings in the UK that pupils from socially-disadvantaged backgrounds are over-represented in low attainment groups. This article draws on data from 380 teachers, drawn from 126 secondary schools in England, and interviews with 118 Year 7 students, to examine whether these findings from prior research in the US and elsewhere extend to the case of England in the present day. Findings show some evidence of these inequitable tendencies: those teachers highly qualified in their taught subject were less likely to be allocated to low sets. We also examine whether an intervention designed to encourage more equitable distribution had any impact on practice, and find tentative evidence that deployment in intervention schools had been impacted in relation to teacher subject qualifications. Pupils believed that teachers of higher sets had higher expectations and standards of behaviour, whereas those for low sets were seen to be unhelpfully indulgent, indicating a need for research attention to pedagogy and tracking. Findings are analysed from a social justice perspective, with interest in the consequences of inequitable distribution of teachers for the reproduction of social inequality.
Keywords: _C:Ireland IRL; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Teach : Observer Manual - Molina, Ezequiel; Melo Hurtado, Carolina Eugenia; Pushparatnam, Adelle; Wilichowski, Tracy Marie (The World Bank, 2019)
Teach differs from other classroom observation tools in that it captures (i) the time teachers spend on learning and the extent to which students are on task, and (ii) the quality of teaching practices that help develop students’ socio-emotional and cognitive skills. As part of the Time on Task component, 3 “snapshots” of 1–10 seconds are used to record both the teacher’s actions and the number of students who are on task throughout the observation. The Quality of Teaching Practices component, on the other hand, is organized into 3 primary areas: Classroom Culture, Instruction, and Socio-emotional Skills (see graphic on page 3).These areas have 9 corresponding elements that point to 28 behaviors. The behaviors are characterized as low, medium, or high, based on the evidence collected during the observation. These behavior scores are translated into a 5-point scale that quantifies teaching practices as captured in a series of two, 15-minute lesson observations.

A incompatibilidade entre os atributos dos recursos educacionais abertos e as preferências dos usuários como barreira à difusão de inovação - Correa, Juliana Nelia do Nascimento (Universidade de São Paulo, 2019)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Chile CHL; _C:China CHN; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Iceland ISL; _C:India IND; _C:Ireland IRL; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Luxembourg LUX; _C:Mauritius MUS; _C:Montenegro MNE; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Peru PER; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Spain ESP; _C:Sudan SDN; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Venezuela VEN; _C:Zambia ZMB; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Country list with HDI, iHDI, MPI and Gini (version 1) - Haßler, Björn; Adam, Taskeen; Brugha, Meaghan; Damani, Kalifa; Allier-Gagneur, Zoe; Hennessy, Sara; Hollow, David; Jordan, Katy; Martin, Kevin; Murphy, Mary; Walker, Hannah (EdTech Hub Research Instruments, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; __C:filed:1; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _yl:q

Keyword inventory - Haßler, Björn; Adam, Taskeen; Brugha, Meaghan; Damani, Kalifa; Allier-Gagneur, Zoé; Hennessy, Sara; Hollow, David; Jordan, Katy; Martin, Kevin; Murphy, Mary; Walker, Hannah (EdTech Hub Research Instruments, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; _C:Abkhazia XABKH; _C:Afghanistan AFG; _C:Albania ALB; _C:Algeria DZA; _C:Andorra AND; _C:Angola AGO; _C:Antigua and Barbuda ATG; _C:Argentina ARG; _C:Armenia ARM; _C:Artsakh XARTH; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Austria AUT; _C:Azerbaijan AZE; _C:Bahamas BHS; _C:Bahrain BHR; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Barbados BRB; _C:Belarus BLR; _C:Belgium BEL; _C:Belize BLZ; _C:Benin BEN; _C:Bhutan BTN; _C:Bolivia BOL; _C:Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH; _C:Botswana BWA; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:Brunei Darussalam BRN; _C:Bulgaria BGR; _C:Burkina Faso BFA; _C:Burundi BDI; _C:Cambodia KHM; _C:Cameroon CMR; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Cape Verde CPV; _C:Catalan Republic XCATA; _C:Central African Republic CAF; _C:Chad TCD; _C:Chile CHL; _C:China CHN; _C:Colombia COL; _C:Comoros COM; _C:Congo XCO; _C:Congo, Democratic Republic COD; _C:Congo, Republic COG; _C:Costa Rica CRI; _C:Croatia HRV; _C:Cuba CUB; _C:Cyprus CYP; _C:Czech Republic CZE; _C:Denmark DNK; _C:Djibouti DJI; _C:Dominica DMA; _C:Dominican Republic DOM; _C:Ecuador ECU; _C:Egypt EGY; _C:El Salvador SLV; _C:Equatorial Guinea GNQ; _C:Eritrea ERI; _C:Estonia EST; _C:Ethiopia ETH; _C:Federated States of Micronesia FSM; _C:Fiji FJI; _C:Finland FIN; _C:France FRA; _C:Gabon GAB; _C:Gambia GMB; _C:Georgia GEO; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Greece GRC; _C:Grenada GRD; _C:Guatemala GTM; _C:Guinea GIN; _C:Guinea-Bissau GNB; _C:Guyana GUY; _C:Haiti HTI; _C:Holy See VAT; _C:Honduras HND; _C:Hungary HUN; _C:Iceland ISL; _C:India IND; _C:Indonesia IDN; _C:Iran IRN; _C:Iraq IRQ; _C:Ireland IRL; _C:Israel ISR; _C:Italy ITA; _C:Ivory Coast CIV; _C:Jamaica JAM; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Kazakhstan KAZ; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Kiribati KIR; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Korea, Democratic People's Republic PRK; _C:Korea, Republic KOR

Systemic Mixed-Methods Research — a conceptual framework for EdTech research along the IDIA scale - Haßler, Björn; Hennessy, Sara; Hollow, David; Simpson, Lea; Carter, Alice; Kalifa Damani; Gill Francis; Katy Jordan; Nora McIntyre; Joel Mitchell (EdTech Hub, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; __C:filed:1; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _yl:f

Methodology for literature reviews undertaken by the EdTech Hub - Haßler, Björn; Taskeen Adam; Meaghan Brugha; Kalifa Damani; Zoe Allier-Gagneur; Sara Hennessy; David Hollow; Katy Jordan; Kevin Martin; Mary Murphy; Hannah Walker (EdTech Hub, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; STC-TLC; __C:filed:1; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _yl:h

Sprint 1 report - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sprint 1 report - Arabic - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Managing Transitions from Mother Tongue Instruction to English as the Medium Instruction - Boateng, Pearl (2019)
International evidence is clear that there is no best practice in transitioning from mother tongue to English as the medium of instruction in low and middle-income countries. Many studies found in the development of this helpdesk report provided in-depth analysis on the complex colonial histories of mother tongue language policies, nation building, implementation realities and challenges, as well as the importance of a cohesive mother tongue policy. Other papers found for this report provided useful policy considerations for governments, donors and programme staff. Much of the research addresses wider enablers to promote better quality inclusive education at a systemic level through mother tongue language policies. Some authors suggest that we are quite a way from a ‘global’ understanding of the aims and purposes of EMI because it appears to be a phenomenon which is being introduced ‘top-down’ by policy makers and education managers, rather than through consultation with the key stakeholders. Likewise there is a lack of understanding of the wider consequences or the outcomes of EMI (Clegg, 2005; Pinnock, 2009; Dearden, 2014). The benefits of mother tongue instruction (MTI) are well established in literature. The literature describes three main language of instruction models, namely: ‘early-exit’ (1-4 years of MTI), ‘late-exit’ (1-6 years of MTI), and ‘very late-exit’ (1-8 years or beyond in MTI). Results from early-exit policies show low learning outcomes, and this model is often fraught with implementation challenges from political will to resourcing. The sudden transition in early-exit policies does not allow learners to develop adequate cognitive, linguistic and academic skills in their mother tongues prior to the switch. The effective transfer of cognitive and academic competences from the mother tongue to the second language is possible only when the learners have acquired adequate linguistic and academic competence in their mother tongues. The weight of current evidence strongly suggests that if the academic benefits of MTI are to be achieved, then initial MTI needs to be a minimum of six years.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Period Poverty Impact on the Economic Empowerment of Women - Tull, Kerina (2019)
The aim of this review was to present the recent evidence on the period poverty (lack of access to sanitary products, WASH facilities, dignity, and information about menstruation) impact on the economic empowerment of women. Improving menstrual health management (MHM, also known as ‘period poverty’) can substantially improve girls’ education, health and wellbeing. The literature, as well as experts consulted for this rapid review, confirm that that MHM has an impact on the lives of women and girls, albeit indirectly (expert comment). Given the shortage of information on period poverty globally, the expected sensitivities around the topic, and the lack of standardised tools and methods (Phillips-Howard et al., 2016), evidence is predominantly provided from qualitative, participatory, and descriptive methods. It is difficult from the qualitative studies to determine the extent to which period poverty impacts any of these outcomes or economic empowerment, or how influential period poverty contrasts with other challenges facing women and girls in the contexts studied.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

How solar mini-grids can bring cheap, green electricity to rural Africa - Zajicek, Charlie (odi.org, 2019)
Well-suited to small, remote communities, renewable energy mini-grids can be the most cost-effective option for rural electrification in Africa.

Design Principles for Systematic Search Systems: A Holistic Synthesis of a Rigorous Multi-cycle Design Science Research Journey - Sturm, Benjamin; Sunyaev, Ali (Business & Information Systems Engineering, 2019)
Rigorous systematic literature searches are often described as complex, error-prone and time-consuming because of a prevailing lack of adequate technological assistance. Nonetheless, one of the first steps when conducting a rigorous literature review is finding an appropriate literature sample. The quality of this literature sample is an important factor for the overall quality of the literature review. This article investigates how to design innovative IT systems that effectively facilitate systematic literature searches. Applying the design science research paradigm, the research method consists of multiple design cycles of artifact development, evaluation, and refinement. In doing so, six design principles are derived that intend to increase the comprehensiveness, precision, and reproducibility of systematic literature searches. The results could be helpful for research and practice. The derived design knowledge builds a foundation for future research on systematic search systems and enables new methodological contributions. The results could also guide the development of innovative search systems and features that, eventually, increase the quality and efficiency of information accumulation in different contexts.
Keywords: Design principles; Design science research; Information retrieval; Literature review; Systematic literature searches; Systematic search systems; _Added-ailr-2024

Systematic review searches must be systematic, comprehensive, and transparent: a critique of Perman et al - Greyson, Devon; Rafferty, Ellen; Slater, Linda; MacDonald, Noni; Bettinger, Julie A.; Dubé, Ève; MacDonald, Shannon E. (BMC Public Health, 2019)
A high quality systematic review search has three core attributes; it is systematic, comprehensive, and transparent. The current over-emphasis on the primacy of systematic reviews over other forms of literature review in health research, however, runs the risk of encouraging publication of reviews whose searches do not meet these three criteria under the guise of being systematic reviews. This correspondence comes in response to Perman S, Turner S, Ramsay AIG, Baim-Lance A, Utley M, Fulop NJ. School-based vaccination programmes: a systematic review of the evidence on organization and delivery in high income countries. 2017; BMC Public Health 17:252, which we assert did not meet these three important quality criteria for systematic reviews, thereby leading to potentially unreliable conclusions. Our aims herein are to emphasize the importance of maintaining a high degree of rigour in the conduct and publication of systematic reviews that may be used by clinicians and policy-makers to guide or alter practice or policy, and to highlight and discuss key evidence omitted in the published review in order to contextualize the findings for readers. By consulting a research librarian, we identified limitations in the search terms, the number and type of databases, and the screening methods used by Perman et al. Using a revised Ovid MEDLINE search strategy, we identified an additional 1016 records in that source alone, and highlighted relevant literature on the organization and delivery of school-based immunization program that was omitted as a result. We argue that a number of the literature gaps noted by Perman et al. may well be addressed by existing literature found through a more systematic and comprehensive search and screening strategy. We commend both the journal and the authors, however, for their transparency in supplying information about the search strategy and providing open access to peer reviewer and editor’s comments, which enabled us to understand the reasons for the limitations of that review.
Keywords: Immunization; Narrative review; Scholarly communication; School; Search methodology; Systematic review; Vaccination

The True Cost of Freemiums in Edtech - Levine, Elliott (EdTech Digest, 2019)
An industry veteran has some on-point advice about what you pay for and what you get. GUEST COLUMN | by Elliott Levine They say, “the best things in life are free,” but that is not always the case. With education technology (edtech), sometimes the cost of “free” ends up being unreasonably high in the long […]

An Overview of Innovative Financing Mechanisms for Education in Development Contexts - Joynes, Chris (2019)
Traditionally, financing for social development in development settings has utilised bonds and guarantees. These mechanisms focused primarily on resource mobilization by leveraging the balance sheets of international finance institutions to make loans. However, since the mid-2000s, innovative financing has encouraged alternative models where private sector actors share the risks and rewards. This report reviews evidence on the use of Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) and Development Impact Bonds (DIBs) in India or other LMICs to deliver results in primary and secondary education. Evidence suggests that, in recent years, there has been a significant growth in the application of impact bonds in a range of global settings, including for education in LMICs. These mechanisms are seen to be particularly valuable when operating in complex, fluid contexts (REACH 2017), and, with appropriate design, can also contribute towards the development of wider systemic capacity.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Digital School Census in 10 Weeks? How it was done in Sierra Leone - Namit, K.; Thi Mai, T. (World Bank Blogs, 2019)
Note: This blog is specifically about Sierra Leone’s successful transition to a digital school census but has broader implications for other countries who plan to adopt digital tools at a wider scale to collect data and monitor education and healthcare facilities in their countries. In April of last year, the new Minister of Finance of Sierra Leone approached the World Bank with a strong commitment to prioritize education and an intriguing request.
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Stunting, Wasting, and Education in Nigeria - Tull, Kerina (2019)
Globally, the number of primary school children with nutritional deficiencies is high. This rapid review focuses on children with such deficiencies (namely stunting and wasting), and how it affects them throughout their primary education. Although the focus is on Nigeria, other country examples and their approaches to address this issue are also included, where available. Key points include as hungry children find it difficult to concentrate (Muiru et al., 2014; Foodbank, 2015; Businge, 2016), their learning needs and outcomes are different to well-nourished children. Countries respond to these children in different ways: the most popular being school feeding programmes, e.g. in India, which has a high prevalence of stunting and wasting, there is the free Midday Meal Scheme, which is the largest such scheme in the world (Singh et al., 2012). However, such approaches have varying impacts: positive effects on measured learning were found in Burkina Faso and Peru (World Bank Group, 2018). However, in Kenya, providing school meals took significant time away from the classroom, and so they had an ambiguous net effect (World Bank Group, 2018). Therefore, it is worth noting that although school feeding gets children to school, it does not always improve learning (FAO et al., 2018).
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Mapped: The Median Age of the Population on Every Continent - Desjardins, Jeff (Visual Capitalist, 2019)
This chart takes a look at the median age of every continent, while also breaking down the youngest and oldest countries in the world.

Sprint 2 report - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sprint 2 report - Arabic - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Can Public Rankings Improve School Performance? Evidence from a Nationwide Reform in Tanzania - Cilliers, Jacobus; Mbiti, Isaac; Zeitlin, Andrew (Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), 2019)
In 2013, Tanzania introduced “Big Results Now in Education”, a low-stakes accountability program that published both nationwide and within-district school rankings. Using data from the universe of school performance from 2011-2016, we identify the impacts of the reform using a diﬀerence-in-diﬀerences estimator that exploits the diﬀerential pressure exerted on schools at the top and bottom of their respective district rankings. We ﬁnd that BRN improved learning outcomes for schools in the bottom two deciles of their districts. However, the program also led schools to strategically exclude students from the terminal year of primary school.

Best Practice for Scaling Up Efforts to Improve English Language Skills - Amonoo-Kuafi, Esi Fenyiwa (2019)
This rapid review drew primarily on academic and grey literature published in the last 10 years. Presently, there is a paucity of literature which explores comparable national experiences of implementing large‐scale English language programs and which provide: (i) documentation of the critical components and conditions of the programme designs that affect the likelihood of successfully transitioning from pilot to scale; (ii) review of the design, deployment, and effectiveness of each pilot programme; and (iii) the scale, design, duration, enabling conditions, and initial effectiveness results of the scaled language programmes. The most insightful case study from which there are several recommendations for future language programmes was that of the English in Action (EIA) programme in Bangladesh. Many of the recommendations from this study are listed above and expanded upon in Section 4 of this report. This report is organised into six sections. Section 1 provided an overview of the report findings; Section 2 seeks to give a brief review of some of the background literature on language acquisition and language practice; Section 3 then considers scaling up of national programmes – firstly with an overview of the main lessons regarding scaling up, then looking at lessons learnt for scaling up education programmes more generally; Section 4 focus is on lessons specifically learnt from English language programmes; Section 5 provides the full list of references used.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Teacher’s Voices Crying in the School Wilderness: Involvement of Secondary School Teachers in Curriculum Development in Zambia - Mulenga, Innocent Mutale; Mwanza, Christine (Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2019)
In Zambia, curriculum development for primary and secondary schools is done centrally. The Curriculum Development Centre (CDC), the institution placed with the responsibility of facilitating curriculum development, claims that the Zambian school curriculum is developed through a consultative and participatory approach through course and subject panels where teachers and other stakeholders are represented. However, there has been no empirical evidence to suggest the roles that teachers, who are the major implementers of the same curricular, are required to play in the development process. This study therefore, sought to establish perceptions of secondary school teachers on their role in the curriculum development process in Zambia. The concurrent embedded design of the mixed methods approach was employed with the qualitative approach dominating the study while the quantitative was used to add detail. Data from secondary school teachers was collected using questionnaires while interview guides were used for Head teachers. Raw data collected from interviews and questionnaires was analyzed using themes and descriptive statistics and then arranged into significant patterns so as to easily interpret and understand the essence of the data. The findings of the study clearly suggested that the majority of secondary school teachers in Lusaka were willing to participate in the curriculum development process, especially in situational analysis, in the formulation of educational objectives, in setting up the curriculum project, and in the writing of curriculum materials such as textbooks. From the study it was concluded that teachers were aware of some of the roles that they could play in the curriculum development but were not adequately involved in the development process.

Partnerships in Education - Bajinder Pal Singh (2019)
Partnerships in Education Models, Types, Reach, Benefits, Pitfalls,

An Overview of Evidence Regarding the Impact of Impact Bonds as Innovative Financing Mechanisms for Education in Development Contexts - Joynes, Chris (2019)
This report provides a summary overview of the evidence regarding the impact of impact bonds (including Social Impact Bonds and Development Impact Bonds) in their application as innovative financing mechanisms for supporting education in development contexts. Within the education sector, impact bonds have emerged over the last 4-5 years as one innovative financing mechanism that uses private investment to support social development. From a developmental perspective, this emerging model encompasses two recent and clearly-defined global trends: firstly, an increased focus on programmes that deliver results and, secondly, an increased drive to support collaboration between the public and private sector (Innovative Financing Initiative 2014: v). Evidence suggests that there has been a significant growth in the application of impact bonds in a range of global settings, including for education in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). These mechanisms are seen to be particularly valuable when operating in complex, fluid contexts (REACH 2017), and, with appropriate design, can also contribute towards the development of wider systemic capacity.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Climate Responsive Design - Clegg, Peter; Sandeman, Isabel (Enabel, 2019)
Although countries in East-Africa seem to have a perfect climate, people are not fully benefiting or making efficient use of its potential. They suffer from insufficient daylight or overheating and live on sites that are not coherently organized nor efficiently utilised. Energy is wasted. Trees are considered an abundant energy provider, especially for cooking purposes or for burning bricks. The Forum on ‘Raising Awareness for Climate Responsive Design in East Africa’ took place in Kampala (Uganda) on 27th and 28th February 2019. It was organized by Enabel, the Belgian development agency, and the Construction Management Unit of the Ministry of Education and Sports. Enabel (until 2018 called ‘BTC’ or Belgian Technical Cooperation) has been active in Uganda since 2005 mainly in the Education and Healthcare sectors. The group of organizers and speakers at the Forum decided to sustain momentum and set up a platform that would bring together a community of professionals from private and public sectors, to work towards a higher positive impact on our environment and communities. This document is the first step in this process. The topics of the Forum cover both hard and soft issues that contribute to improving people’s living conditions and environment. They include participation, using local and durable materials, passive ventilation and natural daylighting, sustainable landscapes, and water and waste-management. Architects and engineers must learn to identify the constraints and opportunities of each project site and help local communities to develop their full potential. We hope this document will achieve the critical mass necessary to instigate lasting behavioural change in the way we are living in our environment.

Effectiveness of Minimum Quality Standards for Primary Education in Low and Lower Middle-Income Countries - Ahmed, Hassan (2019)
Minimum quality standards for education are common in low and lower middle-income countries. However, the scope and use of these standards are determined by the country’s level of development. Therefore, some countries have advanced standards, whilst others have simple tools and frameworks to guide the quality of their basic education. Minimum standards are used to monitor, evaluate and inspect the quality of education provision. As such they can also improve accountability in education. However, the availability of minimum quality education frameworks and tools in a country does not always mean they are effective as the availability of both technical and financial resources affects implementation. Overall, minimum standards of basic education contribute to different aspects of quality education. For example, compliance to school infrastructure and environment might promote the safety, health and general well-being of the learners but if the standards of the teacher quality and teaching learning resources are not met then good students’ learning outcomes may not be achieved. Generally, there is an agreement and assumption that the use of minimum standards supports the harmonisation of education provisions and can contribute to quality education.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

The Economic Lives of Young Women in the Time of Ebola : Lessons from an Empowerment Program - Bandiera, Oriana; Buehren, Niklas; Goldstein, Markus P.; Rasul, Imran; Smurra, Andrea (The World Bank, 2019)
This paper evaluates an intervention to raise young women's economic empowerment in Sierra Leone, where women frequently experience sexual violence and face multiple economic disadvantages. The intervention provides them with a protective space (a club) where they can find support, receive information on health and reproductive issues, and vocational training. Unexpectedly, the post-baseline period coincided with the 2014 Ebola outbreak. The analysis leverages quasi-random across-village variation in the severity of Ebola-related disruption, and random assignment of villages to the intervention to document the impact of the Ebola outbreak on the economic lives of 4,700 women tracked over the crisis, and any ameliorating role played by the intervention. In highly disrupted control villages, the crisis leads younger girls to spend significantly more time with men, out-of-wedlock pregnancies rise, and as a result, they experience a persistent 16 percentage points drop in school enrolment post-crisis. These adverse effects are almost entirely reversed in treated villages because the intervention enables young girls to allocate time away from men, preventing out-of-wedlock pregnancies and enabling them to re-enrol in school post-crisis. In treated villages, the unavailability of young women leads some older girls to use transactional sex as a coping strategy. The intervention causes them to increase contraceptive use so this does not translate into higher fertility. The analysis pinpoints the mechanisms through which the severity of the aggregate shock impacts the economic lives of young women and shows how interventions in times of crisis can interlink outcomes across younger and older cohorts.
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Exploring relationships between Kolb's learning styles and mobile learning readiness of pre-service teachers: a mixed study - Ata, Rıdvan; Cevik, Mustafa (Education and Information Technologies, 2019)
The aim of this research is to reveal relations between Kolb's learning styles and mobile learning readiness of pre-service teachers in depth in regard to different variables and identify their mobile learning perspectives. The study group consisted of 352 students enrolled in undergraduate programs in education faculties of different universities in Turkey. The convergent parallel design was used as a mixed method strategy. The survey model, as a quantitative component, was used to describe the present situation and embedded interviews, as a qualitative component, were carried out to deeply reveal pre-service teachers' perspectives on mobile learning depending on their learning styles. The "Learning Styles Inventory - Version III" as well as the "Mobile Learning Readiness Scale" were administered to participants. ANOVA, Tukey-HSD test and Structural Equation Modelling were used to analyze the quantitative data. The qualitative data were analyzed by the content analysis method. Results suggest that 126 (36%) of the pre-service participating in the study were with the assimilating learning style, 92 (26.29%) participants were with the diverging learning style, 73 (20.85%) were with the converging learning style and 59 (16.85%) were with the accommodating learning style. Furthermore, it was observed that there is a statistically significant relationship between the learning styles of the pre-service teachers and their m-learning readiness. In addition, it was observed that while optimism, self-directed learning and self-efficacy have a strong effect on m-learning; mother education, monthly income, gender, internet use frequency have a moderate effect on m-learning within different learning styles. Qualitative data were also in line with the results of quantitative data. Findings were discussed in light of relevant literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Keywords: COGNITIVE styles; Cognitive Style; Cognitive style; Computers--Information Science And Information Theory; Content Analysis; EDUCATIONAL programs; ERIC, Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Educational Attainment; Foreign Countries; Gender Differences; Handheld Devices; Higher Education; Income; Independent Study; Independent study; Kolb's learning styles; Kolb’s learning styles; LEARNING readiness; Learning Readiness; Learning Style Inventory; MOBILE learning; Measures (Individuals); Mobile learning; Mothers; Positive Attitudes; Postsecondary Education; Pre-service teachers; Preservice Teachers; STUDENT teachers; Self Efficacy; Structural Equation Models; Structural equation modelling; Student Attitudes; Teacher Education Programs; Telecommunications; Turkey; Undergraduate Students; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2095788; __finaldtb

Open Access Research: A Review of DFID’s Policy and Practice - Fosci, Mattia; Johnson, Rob; Chiarelli, Andrea (2019)

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

Moving teachers to Malawi’s remote communities: A data-driven approach to teacher deployment - Asim, Salman; Chimombo, Joseph; Chugunov, Dmitry; Gera, Ravinder (International Journal of Educational Development, 2019)
There are severe geographical disparities in pupil-teacher ratios (PTR) across Malawi, with most teachers concentrated near commercial centers and in rural schools with better amenities. Most of the variation in PTR is concentrated in small sub-district areas, suggesting a central role for micro-geographic factors in teacher distribution. Employing administrative data from several government sources, regression analysis reveals that school-level factors identified by teachers as desirable are closely associated with PTR, including access to roads, electricity, and water, and distance to the nearest trading center, suggesting a central role for teachers’ interests in PTR variation. Political economy network mapping reveals that teachers leverage informal networks and political patronage to resist placement in remote schools, while administrative officials are unable to stand up to these formal and informal pressures, in part because of a lack of reliable databases and objective criteria for the allocation of teachers. This study curates a systematic database of the physical placement of all teachers in Malawi and links it with data on school facilities and geo-spatial coordinates of commercial centers. The study develops a consistent and objective measure of school remoteness, which can be applied to develop policies to create rules for equitable deployments and targeting of incentives. Growing awareness of disparities in PTRs among district education officials is already showing promising improvements in targeting of new teachers. Simulation results of planned policy applications show significant potential impacts of fiscally-neutral approaches to targeted deployments of new cohorts, as well as retention of teachers through data-calibrated incentives.
Keywords: Data-driven model; Deployments; Lebanon_event_2021; Malawi; Political economy; Schools; Teachers; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:Gambia GMB; _C:India IND; _C:Indonesia IDN; _C:Italy ITA; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Mozambique MOZ; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Philippines PHL; _C:Singapore SGP; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Moocs struggle to lift rock-bottom completion rates - Murray, Seb (Financial Times, 2019)
Business schools are using nudge methods and peer learning to keep students’ attention
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Assessing learning: How can classroom-based teachers assess students’ competencies in numeracy? - Ngware, Moses W.; Hungi, Njora; Mutisya, Maurice (Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

The impact of a mathematics computer-assisted learning platform on students' mathematics test scores - Perera, Marcelo; Aboal, Diego (MERIT Working Papers, 2019)
Since 2013, the Uruguayan educational system has been using an online adaptive learning tool for mathematics: The Mathematics Adaptive Platform (PAM for its Spanish acronym). PAM's content has been adapted to the national curriculum and it is a tool that - based on an analysis of students' experiences - offers personalised feedback according to each student's skill level. The use of PAM has been spreading throughout the education system. By 2016, approximately half of all students in 3rd through 6th grades of primary education had used the platform. The purpose of this study is to identify the effect of the use of PAM on the test score gain in mathematics based on longitudinal data from a sample of students in primary education. The results show a positive effect of 0.2 standard deviations on mathematics test scores. Results also show that the impact of PAM increases as the socioeconomic status of students decreases. There is no heterogeneous impact by gender. This is the first evidence at a country-wide level of the impact of a pedagogical tool of this type.
Keywords: Evaluation of Computer Assisted Learning systems; Final_citation; Mathematics; Uruguay; cited; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

Skills for Human Development: Transforming Vocational Education and Training - Powell, Lesley; McGrath, Simon (Routledge, 2019)

The Politics of Education in Developing Countries: From Schooling to Learning - Hickey, Sam; Hossain, Naomi (Oxford University Press, 2019)
Why have many developing countries that have succeeded in expanding access to education made such limited progress on improving learning outcomes? There is a growing recognition that the learning crisis constitutes a significant dimension of global inequality and also that educational outcomes in developing countries are shaped by political as well as socio-economic and other factors. The Politics of Education in Developing Countries focuses on how politics shapes the capacity and commitment of elites to tackle the learning crisis in six developing countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda.The problem of education quality is serious across the Global South. The Politics of Education in Developing Countries: From Schooling to Learning deploys a new conceptual framework-the domains of power approach-to show how the type of political settlement shapes the level of elite commitment and state capacity to improving learning outcomes. The domain of education is prone to being highly politicized, as it offers an important source of both rents and legitimacy to political elites, and can be central to paradigmatic elite ideas around nation-building and modernity. Of particular importance is the relative strength of coalitions pushing for access as against those focused on issues of higher quality education. This book concludes with a discussion of entry points and strategies for thinking and working politically in relation to education quality reforms and critical commentaries.

Making a difference in the real world? A meta-analysis of the quality of use-oriented research using the Research Quality Plus approach - MacLean, Robert; Sen, Kunal (Research Evaluation, 2019)
Keywords: ___working_potential_duplicate

Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India - Muralidharan, Karthik; Singh, Abhijeet; Ganimian, Alejandro J. (American Economic Review, 2019)
We study the impact of a personalized technology-aided after-school instruction program in middle-school grades in urban India using a lottery that provided winners with free access to the program. Lottery winners scored 0.37 sigma higher in math and 0.23 sigma higher in Hindi over just a 4.5-month period. IV estimates suggest that attending the program for 90 days would increase math and Hindi test scores by 0.6 sigma and 0.39 sigma respectively. We find similar absolute test score gains for all students, but much greater relative gains for academically-weaker students. Our results suggest that well-designed, technology-aided instruction programs can sharply improve productivity in delivering education.
Keywords: Analysis of Education, Returns to Education, Education: Government Policy, Human Capital; Final_citation; Human Development; Income Distribution; Labor Productivity, Economic Development: Human Resources; Migration; Occupational Choice; Skills; existing

Mapping Teacher Distribution Analysis with Digitation Technology Implementation to Improve Education Management in Bengkulu City - Nirwana, Nirwana; Vatresia, Arie; Utama, F. P. (International Conference on Educational Sciences and Teacher Profession (ICETeP 2018), 2019)
Embedded technology in education management is one of the most important things as an aid for Education Department. Not only help in learning process, the use of technology has been also used in many part of education to improve learning process. In this paper, we proposed the idea of mapping the digitation of High School (SMA) in Bengkulu city to manage...
Keywords: _C:France FRA; _C:India IND; _C:Indonesia IDN; _C:Italy ITA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Errors in search strategies used in systematic reviews and their effects on information retrieval - Salvador-Oliván, José Antonio; Marco-Cuenca, Gonzalo; Arquero-Avilés, Rosario (Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 2019)
Objectives Errors in search strategies negatively affect the quality and validity of systematic reviews. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate searches performed in MEDLINE/PubMed to identify errors and determine their effects on information retrieval. Methods A PubMed search was conducted using the systematic review filter to identify articles that were published in January of 2018. Systematic reviews or meta-analyses were selected from a systematic search for literature containing reproducible and explicit search strategies in MEDLINE/PubMed. Data were extracted from these studies related to ten types of errors and to the terms and phrases search modes. Results The study included 137 systematic reviews in which the number of search strategies containing some type of error was very high (92.7%). Errors that affected recall were the most frequent (78.1%), and the most common search errors involved missing terms in both natural language and controlled language and those related to Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) search terms and the non-retrieval of their more specific terms. Conclusions To improve the quality of searches and avoid errors, it is essential to plan the search strategy carefully, which includes consulting the MeSH database to identify the concepts and choose all appropriate terms, both descriptors and synonyms, and combining search techniques in the free-text and controlled-language fields, truncating the terms appropriately to retrieve all their variants.

Evaluation Learning Review for DFID Nigeria - Bolton, Laura (2019)
Eight evaluation and one research report were provided by DFID for this review. The Girls Education Project (GEP III) consists of multiple interventions aiming to provide meaningful and relevant quality basic education for integrated Qur’anic education. Outputs include increasing capacity of teachers, improved governance and improving access and demand. Evaluations on the capacity of teachers to improve learning outcomes did not produce improved learning outcomes. The evaluation of the GEP III found limited impact on the knowledge of trained teachers, curriculum knowledge deteriorated and there was some improvement in teacher’s ability to interpret English was found. It suggests that the use of reading resources could improve teacher’s comprehension skills and using a phonics approach could improve their English. The limited effectiveness of the training is suggested to be related to low initial subject knowledge and pedagogical knowledge, language barriers and the changing class environment. The evaluation concludes that the intervention is highly unlikely to have improved gender sensitive class practice.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

PER1. Toolkit for discussion (Technology, Resources and Learning: Productive Classroom Practices and Effective Teacher Professional Development) [English, Arabic] - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2019)
Toolkit for discussion (Technology, Resources and Learning: Productive Classroom Practices and Effective Teacher Professional Development). Parallel text: English, Arabic This document is based on: Haßler, B. (2019). Toolkit for discussion (Technology, Resources and Learning: Productive Classroom Practices and Effective Teacher Professional Development). Cambridge: Open Development and Education Ltd. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2626545. Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. The Toolkit itself is an extract from:  Haßler, B., Major, L., Warwick, P., Watson, S., Hennessy, S., & Nichol, B. (2016). Perspectives on Technology, Resources and Learning - Productive Classroom Practices, Effective Teacher Professional Development. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2626440. Retrieved from http://bjohas.de/Publications/Perspectives. Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. The document is available as PDF, docx and odt. It is also available as a Google Document.
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevED; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Squad reports and presentations - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

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

Toolkit for discussion (Technology, Resources and Learning: Productive Classroom Practices and Effective Teacher Professional Development) - Haßler, Björn (2019)
Toolkit for discussion (Technology, Resources and Learning: Productive Classroom Practices and Effective Teacher Professional Development) The document is an extract from: Haßler, B., Major, L., Warwick, P., Watson, S., Hennessy, S., & Nichol, B. (2016). Perspectives on Technology, Resources and Learning - Productive Classroom Practices, Effective Teacher Professional Development. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2626440. Retrieved from http://bjohas.de/Publications/Perspectives. Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. The document is available as PDF, docx and odt.
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _yl:b

Sprint 3 report - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Sprint 3 report - Arabic - Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane; Haßler, Björn (Activating EdTech, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Lessons Learned from Education Programmes' Contribution to Peace and Stability - Price, Roz (2019)
Whilst education is most often viewed as central to peace-building, it is important to note that it has two faces. Education can be a strong tool in exacerbating violent conflict whilst on the positive side facilitate peace building through addressing the drivers of a conflict. The review draws from academic research on literature from NGOs and donors showing the links between education, conflict and peace. Education has been considered as a salient feature in emergency response featuring on its role as a peace dividend and an entry point to conflict transformation and peace-building (Smith and Ellison, 2015). However, gaps exist in literature on evidence showing how to programme education to address the needs of refugees and populations in conflict areas. Much of the literature reviewed emphasises the need for context specific conflict analysis with a focus on education for understanding how and under what circumstances education can address conflict and instability.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

bjohas/kanbantool-bookmarklets - Haßler, Björn (2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _yl:o

Capturing cost data: a first-mile problem - Holla, Alaka (2019)
Before we bought our house, my husband and I knew the price. The real estate agent wasn’t allowed to give us a back-of-the-envelope estimate right at the end of the process. She wasn't allowed to just declare that the house was low cost, affordable, or sustainable for our budget. We ...

Benefits and Challenges of the Freetown Teachers College Distance Education Programme for Serving Primary and Junior Secondary School Teachers in Sierra Leone - Shaw, Mohamed; Mansaray, Alpha Bassie (International Journal of Advanced Research, 2019)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

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

Youth and Artificial Intelligence.“Berkman Klein Center - Hasse, A. (2019)
How can we empower young people to meaningfully interact with AI-based technologies to promote and bolster learning, creative expression, and well-being, while also addressing key challenges and concerns?
Keywords: Final_citation; anystyle; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

Finding unmapped schools from space with AI - Yi, Zhuangfang NaNa (Medium, 2019)
Accurate data about schools is critical to provide quality education and promote lifelong learning, ensure equal access to opportunity…

Revealing a safer sex option to reduce HIV risk: a cluster-randomized trial in Botswana - Angrist, Noam; Matshaba, Mogomotsi; Gabaitiri, Lesego; Anabwani, Gabriel (BMC Public Health, 2019)
1.8 million new HIV infections occur every year, disproportionately affecting adolescent girls and young women. Abstinence-only risk avoidance approaches have had limited impact on reducing new infections. This cluster-randomized trial examines a risk reduction approach to curbing risky sex for school-going girls in Botswana.
Keywords: Botswana; HIV; Health; Impact evaluation; Risk reduction; School; Sex education; Southern Africa; Teen pregnancy

Battle for the thermostat: Gender and the effect of temperature on cognitive performance - Chang, Tom Y.; Kajackaite, Agne (PLoS ONE, 2019)
This paper studies differences in the effect of temperature on cognitive performance by gender in a large controlled lab experiment (N = 543). We study performance in math, verbal and cognitive reflection tasks and find that the effects of temperature vary significantly across men and women. At higher temperatures, women perform better on a math and verbal task while the reverse effect is observed for men. The increase in female performance in response to higher temperature is significantly larger and more precisely estimated than the corresponding decrease in male performance. In contrast to math and verbal tasks, temperature has no impact on a measure of cognitive reflection for either gender. Our findings suggest that gender mixed workplaces may be able to increase productivity by setting the thermostat higher than current standards.

What Do Tanzanian Parents Want from Primary Schools—and What Can Be Done about It? - Solomon, Samuel; Zeitlin, Andrew (Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), 2019)
Key Points RISE researchers ran a ‘discrete choice’ experiment among parents of school-aged children. They find: • Parents’ choices are driven by proximity and learning quality, with little additional role for class sizes or infrastructure quality. • Parents’ willingness to walk for learning outcomestheir tradeoff between distance and quality—varies widely by region. • Regional variation in willingness to walk for learning is not reflected in the mix of services provided by the school system.
Keywords: _genre:PR-primary_research

PER5. Spreadsheet: Strategies for Effective Teaching and Learning [English, Arabic] - Haßler, Björn; Abed, Reema; Khalayleh, Abdullah; Alawamleh, Nour; Metni, Eliane (Activating EdTech, 2019)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevED; AuthorFirst:Haßler; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _yl:m; language:Arabic; language:English

WhatsApp: Creating a virtual teacher community for supporting and monitoring after a professional development programme - Moodley, Maglin (South African Journal of Education, 2019)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing