Hybrid online/offline mobile solutions for accessing open educational resources in areas with poor internet connectivity - D.L. Pugoy, Reinald Adrian; D.L. Habito, Consuelo; B. Figueroa, Roberto (Asian Association of Open Universities Journal, 2016)
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Does private schooling narrow wealth inequalities in learning outcomes? Evidence from East Africa - Alcott, Benjamin; Rose, Pauline (Oxford Review of Education, 2016)
In many low- and lower-middle-income countries, private schools are often considered to offer better quality of education than government schools. Yet, there is a lack of evidence to date on their role in reducing inequalities: namely, the extent to which private schooling improves learning among the most disadvantaged children. Our paper uses household survey data from Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda to identify whether any observed impact of private schooling on core literacy and numeracy skills differs according to children’s household wealth. We demonstrate wealth gaps in access to private schooling, and use inferential models to account for observable differences between those who do and do not enrol in private schools. In Kenya and Uganda, we find that private schooling appears to improve the chances of children learning relative to their peers in government schools, but the chances of the poorest children learning in private schools remains low and is at best equivalent to the richest learning in government schools. In Tanzania, private schooling does not seem to improve poorer children’s learning, whereas it does for richer children. These findings raise a caution about the extent to which private provision can help narrow learning inequalities.

Teacher assistant support and deployment in mainstream schools - Butt, Rosemary (International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2016)
Models of support for students with disability and learning difficulties in mainstream classes in Australia rely extensively on teacher assistants (TAs). Current models, however, inadvertently perpetuate low expectations because providing TA support can be one of the most restrictive supports offered in a school [Giangreco, M. F. 2010a. “One-to-One Paraprofessionals for Students with Disabilities in Inclusive Classrooms: Is Conventional Wisdom Wrong?” Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 48 (1): 1–13; Etscheidt, S. 2005. “Paraprofessional Services for Students with Disabilities: A Legal Analysis of Issues.” Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities 30(2): 60–80]. In addition, the increasing instructional role of TAs in the classroom is concerning. Negative outcomes for students where TAs provide support have been noted [Giangreco, M. F., J. C. Suter, and M. B. Doyle. 2010. “Paraprofessionals in Inclusive Schools: A Review of Recent Research.” Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation 20: 41–57; Webster, R., P. Blatchford, and A. Russell. 2010. “Should Teaching Assistants Have a Pedagogical Role? Lessons Following the DISS Project.” Paper Presented at the BERA annual conference, September 1–4, University of Warwick, UK]. A qualitative case study was conducted in an Australia city over three years across four primary school sites to identify the issues and propose possible solutions. The study identified five different models of TA support and deployment. It was found support models used in mainstream schools were generally inequitable – if students did not have a disability or learning difficulty they received instruction primarily from a qualified teacher, but if students had a disability or learning difficulty, they received instruction from a TA who may have had no qualifications, no involvement in planning, limited supervision and unclear reporting; and no clear duty statement requirements. A more inclusive and more equitable model of TA support is discussed.
Keywords: Teacher assistant; deployment; inclusive education; mainstream; support

Blended Learning Approach to Develop the Teachers’ TPACK - Qasem, Arwa Ahmad Abdo; Viswanathappa, Gandla (Contemporary Educational Technology, 2016)
A theoretical framework has emerged recently to guide research in the teachers’ use of ICT and it is the technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK). Early research indicates that Blended learning is increasingly being adopted at all levels of educational system. It is considered as a way to foster engaging in interactive learning experiences. The purpose of this article was to determine the levels of ICT knowledge on e-course design through blended learning approach among science teachers of secondary schools in Yemen. The study was conducted on the sample of 60 science teacher trainees in Ibb city. The ICT knowledge scale was used based on TPACK. To analyze the data t-test was used. The findings in this study indicated that TPACK has provided a valuable tool for assessing teacher knowledge in the area of technology integration, the teachers’ ICT knowledge was above average in two groups, and there is significant difference between experimental and control groups on ICT knowledge scale. Recommendations are made for future research on online collaboration activities to raise awareness of factors related to online group work and to determine the in-service training needs of teachers on ICT use to follow-up support and to ensure successful utilization of new technologies.
Keywords: Blended Learning; Computer Assisted Instruction; Control Groups; ERIC, Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Experimental Groups; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Information Technology; Instructional Design; Instructional Effectiveness; Knowledge Level; Likert Scales; Online Courses; Pedagogical Content Knowledge; Postsecondary Education; Preservice Teachers; Pretests Posttests; Quasiexperimental Design; Science Teachers; Secondary Education; Secondary School Teachers; Technological Literacy; Technology Uses in Education; Trainees; Yemen; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2096173; __finaldtb

revised from 2014). USAID/ Kenya Primary Math and Reading (PRIMR) Initiative: Endline impact evaluation – revised edition. Prepared under the USAID EdData II - Piper, B.; King, S.; Mugenda, A. (2016)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

The impacts of professional learning communities on science teachers’ knowledge, practice and student learning: a review - Dogan, Selcuk; Pringle, Rose; Mesa, Jennifer (Professional Development in Education, 2016)
The purpose of this article is to provide a review of empirical studies investigating the impact of professional learning communities (PLCs) on science teachers’ practices and knowledge. Across 14 articles that satisfied the definition we embraced, most were devoted to the change in science teaching practices, disciplinary content knowledge (DCK) and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of K–12 science teachers. Although a small number of studies have implicit focus on comparing measures of student learning, we set out to examine the studies in science education and present how teachers engaged in PLCs focusing on examining and exploring strategies to promote student learning. Analysis of the related studies resulted in the following: PLCs can help teachers increase their PCK and DCK; increases in PCK and DCK may facilitate the change in teacher practices from traditional into more inquiry-based approaches; science teachers collaboratively focusing on student learning in PLCs are more likely to change their practice; and studies do not embrace student learning as an essential feature of PLCs. Methodological flaws and future directions along with implications for science teachers’ professional development are discussed.
Keywords: professional development; professional learning communities; science education; teacher knowledge; teacher practice

What Really Works to Improve Learning in Developing Countries? An Analysis of Divergent Findings in Systematic Reviews - Evans, David K.; Popova, Anna (The World Bank Research Observer, 2016)
Over the course of just two years, at least six reviews have examined interventions that seek to improve learning outcomes in developing countries. Although the reviews ostensibly have the same objective, they reach sometimes starkly different conclusions. The first objective of this paper is to identify why reviews diverge in their conclusions and how future reviews can be more effective. The second objective is to identify areas of overlap in the recommendations of existing reviews of what works to improve learning. This paper demonstrates that divergence in the recommendations of learning reviews is largely driven by differences in the samples of research incorporated in each review. Of 229 studies with student learning results, the most inclusive review incorporates less than half of the total studies. Across the reviews, two classes of programs are recommended with some consistency. Pedagogical interventions that tailor teaching to student learning levels—either teacher-led or facilitated by adaptive learning software—are effective at improving student test scores, as are individualized, repeated teacher training interventions often associated with a specific task or tool. Future reviews will be most useful if they combine narrative review with meta-analysis, conduct more exhaustive searches, and maintain low aggregation of intervention categories.

The Obstacles of Geographical Information System (GIS) Development: A Study of Teachers' Distribution in Sukabumi, Indonesia - Yani, Ahmad; Rosita, Rosita (6th International Conference on Educational, Management, Administration and Leadership, 2016)
Geographical Information System (GIS) is an application used to process data in form of thematic maps which is arranged overlapping to produce informations needed by the user. Employing descriptive method, this study indicated that basically the GIS deve
Keywords: Lebanon_event_2021; _C:Indonesia IDN; _C:Kenya KEN; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Empowering Global Citizens: A World Course - Reimers, Fernando M.; Chopra, Vidur; Chung, Connie K.; Higdon, Julia; O'Donnell, E. B. (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016)
How do we help students work effectively with others from diverse cultural backgrounds? How do we help them understand the world? How do we prepare them for work and life in an era of globalization, volatility, and uncertainty? Empowering Global Citizens offers educators and parents compelling answers to those questions.This book presents The World Course, a curriculum on global citizenship education designed to equip students with the competencies they need to thrive and contribute to sustainable development in an era of globalization. Drawing on curriculum mapping this book offers a coherent and rigorous set of instructional units to support deep learning of twenty-first-century competencies that develop agency, imagination, confidence, and the skills to navigate the complexity of our times. Drawing on a rich conceptual framework of global education, The World Course scaffolds the development of global competency drawing on project-based learning and other pedagogies that support personalization. The course expands children’s horizons, helping them understand the world in which they live in all its complexity from kindergarten to high school. This is done through learning activities at the zone for proximal development for each age group, with activities that foster student agency and a growth mindset.

Automatic Teacher Modeling from Live Classroom Audio - Donnelly, Patrick J.; Blanchard, Nathan; Samei, Borhan; Olney, Andrew M.; Sun, Xiaoyi; Ward, Brooke; Kelly, Sean; Nystran, Martin; D'Mello, Sidney K. (Association for Computing Machinery, 2016)
We investigate automatic analysis of teachers' instructional strategies from audio recordings collected in live classrooms. We collected a data set of teacher audio and human-coded instructional activities (e.g., lecture, question and answer, group work) in 76 middle school literature, language arts, and civics classes from eleven teachers across six schools. We automatically segment teacher audio to analyze speech vs. rest patterns, generate automatic transcripts of the teachers' speech to extract natural language features, and compute low-level acoustic features. We train supervised machine learning models to identify occurrences of five key instructional segments (Question & Answer, Procedures and Directions, Supervised Seatwork, Small Group Work, and Lecture) that collectively comprise 76% of the data. Models are validated independently of teacher in order to increase generalizability to new teachers from the same sample. We were able to identify the five instructional segments above chance levels with F1 scores ranging from 0.64 to 0.78. We discuss key findings in the context of teacher modeling for formative assessment and professional development.
Keywords: _C:Canada CAN; _C:Congo, Republic COG; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; automatic feedback; classroom discourse; dialogic instruction; educational data mining; speech recognition

Minding our language: why education and technology is full of bull**** … and what might be done about it - Selwyn, Neil (Learning, Media and Technology, 2016)
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Assessment For Learning Without Limits - Peacock, Alison (Open University Press, 2016)
This book explores assessment practices that offer an enlightening and enabling view of all learners. Following the demise of national curriculum levels the book embraces a unique opportunity to change how children are assessed. Rather than simply replacing the old structure with a new one it focuses instead on enabling children to learn in meaningful ways so that assessment becomes a tool for improvement rather than judgment. Building on two influential research studies Learning without Limits (Hart et al 2004) and Creating Learning without Limits (Swann et al 2012) the book continues the story of an alternative ‘learning without limits’ pedagogy. Inspired by a relentless focus on every child’s capacity to learn the book explores what can be achieved when we remove limits on learning. School leaders and teachers struggling against practices that seeks to define label and rank explore the opportunity to view assessment reform as a means of reducing inequity through ‘learning without limits’ principles of collaboration professional learning and inquiry. Children share their views and offer powerful insights into what may be achieved when limits are lifted on their learning. Consequently a liberating and alternative view of assessment is presented achieved through children and adults working in partnership. Throughout the book practical examples are offered illustrated by real life stories often about children who have achieved more than their teachers thought possible.At a time when schools are in pursuit of new assessment practices and reporting of progress the insights in this book about what is possible are highly pertinent for individual teachers school leaders and teacher educators wondering how best to foster children’s learning capacity.

Does technology improve reading outcomes? Comparing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of ICT interventions for early grade reading in Kenya - Piper, Benjamin; Zuilkowski, Stephanie Simmons; Kwayumba, Dunston; Strigel, Carmen (International Journal of Educational Development, 2016)
Education policymakers are investing in information and communications technology (ICT) without a research base on how ICT improves outcomes. There is limited research on the effects of different types of ICT investments on outcomes. The Kenya Primary Math and Reading (PRIMR) study implemented a randomized controlled trial comparing the effects and cost of three interventions – e-readers for students, tablets for teachers, and the base PRIMR program with tablets for instructional supervisors. The results show that the ICT investments do not improve literacy outcomes significantly more than the base non-ICT instructional program. Our findings show that cost considerations should be paramount in selecting ICT investments in the education sector.
Keywords: Education policy; International education; Kenya; Literacy; Reading; Technology; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2457283; ___working_potential_duplicate; __finaldtb

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

Evidence for digital learning - Haßler, Björn (2016)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Education in Emergencies Endline Evaluation Report – Sierra Leone - Sankoh, Didan; Cowan, Emma (Girls' Education Challenge, UK Aid, 2016)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Design Based Implementation Research (DBIR) for Sustaining Innovation in Classroom Instruction - Ubaidullah, Aysha (Changing Classrooms - Challenges For Teachers & Teacher Educators, 2016)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

DESIGN BASED IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH (DBIR) FOR SUSTAINING INNOVATION IN CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION - Ubaidullah, Aysha (CHANGING CLASSROOMS -CHALLENGES FOR TEACHERS & TEACHER EDUCATORS, 2016)

Building a Better Mousetrap: How Design-Based Research was Used to Improve Homemade PowerPoint Games - Siko, Jason; Barbour, Michael (TechTrends, 2016)
This paper is a review of a three-cycle, design-based research study that explored the relationship between the pedagogical research and the actual implementation of a game design project using Microsoft PowerPoint. Much of the initial literature on using homemade PowerPoint games showed no significant improvement in test scores when students created these low-tech games, despite the fact that the game project was grounded in sound pedagogical strategies. After each iteration changes were made to better reflect the recommendations from the literature, and at the end of the study, students creating games were performing statistically higher on tests than their counterparts who did not create games. Limitations of the study are discussed, as well as ideas for future research in the area of student-generated games as an instructional approach. Retrieved from http://rdcu.be/ne9S

Democracy on the Move? The Potential Link Between Circular Migration and Democratization - Rother, Stefan (2016)
This chapter argues that circular migration may contribute to transformation in areas that have so far been rarely touched upon in the debate. Besides the transfer of financial remittances and professional skills, political and (un)democratic attitudes and practices may also be diffused through temporary or circular migration. Based on a survey among 1000 Philippine return migrants from six destinations and qualitative research, this chapter shows that at an individual level, the migration experience may have a positive or negative influence on the democratic attitudes of migrants. This effect might be enforced through circular migration, because it provides the migrant with a regular “reality check” in comparing home and destination country. The findings are discussed with reference to a clearly democratic country (Japan), a clearly authoritarian state (Saudi Arabia) and the “special case” of Hong Kong. For policy makers, the case studies allow to draw a conclusion that opens up new vistas: If circular migrants should contribute to the development in their home countries, it is of utmost importance to provide them with opportunities for organizing and political participation while being abroad.

The effectiveness of self-regulated learning scaffolds on academic performance in computer-based learning environments: a meta-analysis - Zheng, Lanqin (Asia Pacific Education Review, 2016)
This meta-analysis examined research on the effects of self-regulated learning scaffolds on academic performance in computer-based learning environments from 2004 to 2015. A total of 29 articles met inclusion criteria and were included in the final analysis with a total sample size of 2648 students. Moderator analyses were performed using a random effects model that focused on the three main areas of scaffold characteristics (including the mechanism, functions, delivery forms, mode, and number of scaffolds; how to promote self-regulated learning by scaffolds); demographics of the selected studies (including sample groups, sample size, learning domain, research settings, and types of computer-based learning environments); and research methodological features (including research methods, types of research design, types of organization for treatment, and duration of treatment). Findings revealed that self-regulated learning scaffolds in computer-based learning environments generally produced a significantly positive effect on academic performance (ES = 0.438). It is also suggested that both domain-general and domain-specific scaffolds can support the entire process of self-regulated learning since they demonstrated substantial effects on academic performance. Different impacts of various studies and their methodological features are presented and discussed.
Keywords: Academic performance; Meta-analysis; Scaffold; Self-regulated learning

Students’ Perceived Heat-Health Symptoms Increased with Warmer Classroom Temperatures - Bidassey-Manilal, Shalin; Wright, Caradee Y.; Engelbrecht, Jacobus C.; Albers, Patricia N.; Garland, Rebecca M.; Matooane, Mamopeli (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2016)
Temperatures in Africa are expected to increase by the end of the century. Heat-related health impacts and perceived health symptoms are potentially a problem, especially in public schools with limited resources. Students (n = 252) aged ~14–18 years from eight high schools completed an hourly heat-health symptom log over 5 days. Data loggers measured indoor classroom temperatures. A high proportion of students felt tired (97.2%), had low concentration (96.8%) and felt sleepy (94.1%) during at least one hour on any day. There were statistically significant correlations, when controlling for school cluster effect and time of day, between indoor temperatures ≥32 °C and students who felt tired and found it hard to breathe. Consistently higher indoor classroom temperatures were observed in classrooms constructed of prefabricated asbestos sheeting with corrugated iron roof and converted shipping container compared to brick classrooms. Longitudinal studies in multiple seasons and different classroom building types are needed.
Keywords: BE:RELEVANT; BE:temperature; South Africa; climate change; health; school; temperature

Does Teaching Experience Increase Teacher Effectiveness? A Review of the Research - Kini, Tara; Podolsky, Anne (Learning Policy Institute, 2016)
Do teachers continue to improve in their effectiveness as they gain experience in the teaching profession? This paper aims to answer that question by critically reviewing recent literature that analyzes the effect of teaching experience on student outcomes in K-12 public schools in the United States. This report reviews 30 studies published within the last 15 years that analyze the effect of teaching experience on student outcomes in the United States. The goal of this paper is to provide researchers and policymakers with a comprehensive and timely review of this body of work. A renewed look at this research is warranted due to advances in research methods (including the use of teacher and student fixed effects) and data systems that have allowed researchers to more accurately answer this question. Specifically, by including teacher fixed effects in their analyses, researchers have been able to compare a teacher with multiple years of experience to that same teacher when he or she had fewer years of experience. In contrast, older studies often used less precise methods, such as cross-sectional analyses, which compare distinct cohorts of teachers with different experience levels during a single school year. [For the research brief to this report "Does Teaching Experience Increase Teacher Effectiveness? A Review of the Research. Research Brief," see ED606427.]
Keywords: Achievement Gains; At Risk Students; Attendance; Collegiality; Correlation; Educational Legislation; Educational Policy; Elementary Secondary Education; Ethnicity; Federal Legislation; Gender Differences; Mathematics Achievement; Peer Influence; Public School Teachers; Racial Differences; Reading Achievement; Socioeconomic Status; Student Characteristics; Teacher Distribution; Teacher Effectiveness; Teaching Conditions; Teaching Experience; _C:India IND; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Student Support Services in the OECS - Knight, Verna; Robinson, Sandra (The Education Development Management Unit (EDMU), OECS Commission, 2016)
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The Impact of Information Provision on Human Capital Accumulation and Child Labor in Peru - IPA (Innovations for Poverty Action, 2016)
One reason children from disadvantaged backgrounds receive less schooling and join the labor force at younger ages with fewer skills may be that they and their families lack crucial information needed to make the right long run investment decisions regarding their human capital. In Peru, IPA and J-PAL worked with researchers and the Ministry of Education to evaluate at scale two low-cost ways of providing relevant information to help students and their families make more informed decisions. Using a series of telenovela-style videos screened as part of the curriculum in schools as well as through an interactive tablet app, the research project evaluated how information provided at different ages could shape human capital decisions. Results suggest that the programs were effective at changing educational plans and lowering dropout rates, while significant effects on child labor were mixed. The policy has now been adopted by the government and scaled up to 100 percent of public schools with full class days.
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Communication in Sierra Leone: an Analysis of Media and Mobile Resources - Wittels, Annabelle; Maybanks, Nick (BBC Media Action, 2016)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Education for All 2000–2015: The Influence of Global Interventions and Aid on EFA Achievements - Benavot, Aaron; Antoninis, Manos; Bella, Nicole; Delprato, Marcos; Härmä, Joanna; Jere, Catherine; Joshi, Priyadarshani; Blanchy, Nihan Koseleci; Longlands, Helen; McWilliam, Alasdair; Zubairi, Asma (The Handbook of Global Education Policy, 2016)

Teachers’ Professional Capabilities and the Pursuit of Quality in Sub-Saharan African Education Systems: Demonstrating and Debating a Method of Capability Selection and Analysis - Buckler, Alison (Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2016)
This paper reports on the methodological approach of a study that examined an important dimension of the global challenge to better understand the ‘quality’ element of Education for All (EFA): the professional lives of women teachers in rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Teachers from five countries (Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Sudan) provided a focus for exploring the relationship between official representations of teachers’ work and the professional lives teachers create and experience. Sen's (1999) capability approach was used as a framework for understanding this relationship and to produce two conceptualizations of professional capabilities for teachers generated by the official and teacher perspectives, respectively. These capabilities are organized around the pursuit of quality in teachers’ work. The paper explains how these two conceptualizations were determined, justifies four key aspects of the method used and highlights key insights into the teachers’ professional lives enabled by this approach.
Keywords: Capabilities; Capability approach; Education; Gender; Measurement

Theme 4: Group Work (Coordinators) - Haßler, Björn (T-TEL Professional Development Programme (Handbook for Professional Development Coordinators), 2016)
This handbook is the HANDBOOK FOR PD COORDINATORS for Theme 4, focusing on group work. In many everyday situations people work alongside colleagues, speak and listen to friends, and see what others do and how they do it. This is how we all learn. As we talk to others, we discover new ideas and information. If activities in the college classrooms are centred on the tutor, then the student teachers do not get enough time to be active: they do not have the opportunity to try, to demonstrate their learning or to ask questions. In such situations, some students may only give short answers and some may say nothing at all. In large classes, the situation is even worse, with only a small proportion of students saying anything at all. One reason for doing group work in the classroom is to give students more opportunities to participate. Working in groups and pairs is about learning collaboratively. Collaborative learning means two or more student teachers working together to achieve a shared goal. This includes peer collaboration (for groups of two student teachers), and small group work (for smaller groups). It requires you to interact and talk about what you are thinking with one another in a specific learning context. Questions can be posed, ideas can be challenged and misunderstandings can be heard and investigated.
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Theme 4: Group Work (Tutors) - Haßler, Björn (T-TEL Professional Development Programme (Professional Development Guide for Tutors), 2016)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Assessment of medical waste management in seven hospitals in Lagos, Nigeria - Awodele, Olufunsho; Adewoye, Aishat Abiodun; Oparah, Azuka Cyril (BMC Public Health, 2016)
Medical waste (MW) can be generated in hospitals, clinics and places where diagnosis and treatment are conducted. The management of these wastes is an issue of great concern and importance in view of potential public health risks associated with such wastes. The study assessed the medical waste management practices in selected hospitals and also determined the impact of Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) intervention programs. A descriptive cross-sectional survey method was used.
Keywords: Environmental hazards; Healthcare workers; LAWMA and Lagos; Medical waste; Waste management

Investigating attitudes towards the use of mobile learning in higher education - Al-Emran, Mostafa; Elsherif, Hatem M.; Shaalan, Khaled (Computers in Human Behavior, 2016)
Mobile learning (M-learning) has become an important educational technology component in higher education. M-learning makes it possible for students to learn, collaborate, and share ideas among each other with the aid of internet and technology development. However, M-learning acceptance by learners and educators is critical to the employments of M-learning systems. Attitudes towards M-learning technology is an important factor that helps in determining whether or not learners and educators are ready to use M-learning. Such attitudes will serve to identify strengths and weaknesses and facilitate the development of the technology infrastructure. This paper aims at exploring students and educators' attitudes towards the use of M-learning in higher educational universities within Oman and UAE; two neighboring countries in the Arab Gulf region. To serve this purpose, two survey questionnaires were conducted: one for students and another for educators. The participants of this study are 383 students and 54 instructors from five universities. Different factors have been examined to test where there is a significant difference among students and educators' attitudes towards the use of M-learning, such as gender, age, country, level of study, smartphone ownership, major in terms of students and age, country, academic rank, academic experience and smartphone ownership in terms of educators. Findings revealed significant differences among the students’ attitudes towards M-learning with regard to their smartphone ownership, country and age. Furthermore, results indicated that M-learning can be one of the promising pedagogical technologies to be employed in the higher educational environments within the Arab Gulf countries.
Keywords: Attitudes; Higher education; Mobile learning; __C:filed:1

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

Effectiveness of Intelligent Tutoring Systems: A Meta-Analytic Review - Kulik, James A.; Fletcher, J. D. (Review of Educational Research, 2016)
This review describes a meta-analysis of findings from 50 controlled evaluations of intelligent computer tutoring systems. The median effect of intelligent tutoring in the 50 evaluations was to raise test scores 0.66 standard deviations over conventional levels, or from the 50th to the 75th percentile. However, the amount of improvement found in an evaluation depended to a great extent on whether improvement was measured on locally developed or standardized tests, suggesting that alignment of test and instructional objectives is a critical determinant of evaluation results. The review also describes findings from two groups of evaluations that did not meet all of the selection requirements for the meta-analysis: six evaluations with nonconventional control groups and four with flawed implementations of intelligent tutoring systems. Intelligent tutoring effects in these evaluations were small, suggesting that evaluation results are also affected by the nature of control treatments and the adequacy of program implementations.
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

The effects of integrating mobile devices with teaching and learning on students' learning performance: A meta-analysis and research synthesis - Sung, Yao-Ting; Chang, Kuo-En; Liu, Tzu-Chien (Computers & Education, 2016)
Mobile devices such as laptops, personal digital assistants, and mobile phones have become a learning tool with great potential in both classrooms and outdoor learning. Although there have been qualitative analyses of the use of mobile devices in education, systematic quantitative analyses of the effects of mobile-integrated education are lacking. This study performed a meta-analysis and research synthesis of the effects of integrated mobile devices in teaching and learning, in which 110 experimental and quasiexperimental journal articles published during the period 1993–2013 were coded and analyzed. Overall, there was a moderate mean effect size of 0.523 for the application of mobile devices to education. The effect sizes of moderator variables were analyzed and the advantages and disadvantages of mobile learning in different levels of moderator variables were synthesized based on content analyses of individual studies. The results of this study and their implications for both research and practice are discussed.
Keywords: Evaluation methodologies; Pedagogical issues; Teaching/learning strategies

Digital Games, Design, and Learning: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis - Clark, Douglas B.; Tanner-Smith, Emily E.; Killingsworth, Stephen S. (Review of Educational Research, 2016)
In this meta-analysis, we systematically reviewed research on digital games and learning for K-16 students. We synthesized comparisons of game versus nongame conditions (i.e., media comparisons) and comparisons of augmented games versus standard game designs (i.e., value-added comparisons). We used random-effects meta-regression models with robust variance estimates to summarize overall effects and explore potential moderator effects. Results from media comparisons indicated that digital games significantly enhanced student learning relative to nongame conditions ([Formula: see text] = 0.33, 95% confidence interval [0.19, 0.48], k = 57, n = 209). Results from value-added comparisons indicated significant learning benefits associated with augmented game designs ([Formula: see text] = 0.34, 95% confidence interval [0.17, 0.51], k = 20, n = 40). Moderator analyses demonstrated that effects varied across various game mechanics characteristics, visual and narrative characteristics, and research quality characteristics. Taken together, the results highlight the affordances of games for learning as well as the key role of design beyond medium.
Keywords: digital games; learning; meta-analysis; systematic review; ⛔ No DOI found

Baseline Study on the Current State of Open and Distance Learning in Cameroon - Ndongfack, Michael N. (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016)
Meeting in Mauritius in May 2014, COL Focal Points from Africa and the Mediterranean Regions reviewed the state of ODL in their respective countries and proceeded to map out their strategic plans for 2015–2018. The report from Cameroon demonstrated that although the country is making some progress in the domain of ODL, it lacks an ODL policy framework, a national body to manage distance education and expertise in the field of ODL. To address the issues raised, it was important to establish the baseline situation. The general objective of this study was to establish the current situation of ODL in Cameroon.

Reflecting on Five Decades of Teacher Professional Development in Tanzania: The Missing Dimensions - Dachi, Hillary (Papers in Education and Development, 2016)
The importance of teacher development need not be over stated. This is adducible by the fact that transformations, innovations and diffusions in education make it imperative that teachers have to continually change and adopt. This paper takes stock of the trajectory of teacher professional development in Tanzania by locating related initiatives in the macro-policies and education transformations spanning a period of nearly five decades. It identifies the missing dimensions for robust in-service continuous professional development programmes (CPD) for primary and secondary school teachers. The paper proposes the need to support a cost effective in-service CPD model, which is school based designed around a reflective practitioner approach, for which teaching is an interactive problem solving professional undertaking requiring continuous updating of key competences that teachers require for classroom practices. Key words:      teachers’ professionalism; teachers’ continuous professional development; macro-policies; education transformations
Keywords: _C:Canada CAN; _C:Finland FIN; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Korea, Republic KOR; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Namibia NAM; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Uganda UGA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Overview of Enterprise Architecture work in 15 countries - Heikkilä, Jukka; Penttinen, Katja (2016)
This research report is an overview of enterprise architec- ture work in 15 countries. The report supports the ongoing enterprise architecture work of Finnish government done by the Ministry of Finance in the Interoperability Development Programme, by Finnish Enterprise Architecture Research -project.
Keywords: Final_citation

Theme 3: Talk for Learning (Coordinators) - Haßler, Björn (T-TEL Professional Development Programme (Handbook for Professional Development Coordinators), 2016)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Theme 3: Talk for Learning (Tutors) - Haßler, Björn (T-TEL Professional Development Programme (Professional Development Guide for Tutors), 2016)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

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

Expanding Access to Early Childhood Development Using Interactive Audio Instruction - World Bank (World Bank Group, Education Development Center, 2016)

EVALUATION OF GROUNDWATER POTENTIAL OF CHANCHAGA AREA, MINNA, NORTH-CENTRAL NIGERIA - Akande, Waheed Gbenga; Abdullahi, Idris-Nda; Amadi, Nwanosike Amadi; Abdulfatai, Ibrahim Asema; Alabi, Adekola Amos; Yahaya, Tauheed (2016)
Inadequate potable water supply remains one of the challenges of residents of Minna Metropolis, Niger State, Nigeria owing to the basement complex terrain underlying the area. The rapid increase in population in the area, which is due to its proximity to the nation’s capital city (Abuja) among others, has led to a corresponding increase in the demand for potable water for domestic, irrigational and industrial uses which public water by government could not meet. Consequently, the inhabitants resort to seeking alternative arrangements for water through hand dug wells and surface water sources which are often of uncertain quality. Objectives: Thus, this study investigates the groundwater potential of Chanchaga area, Minna, North-central Nigeria with a view to delineating the suitable aquifer for groundwater development. Material and Methods: The technique employed for this study was Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES) of the Electrical Resistivity (ER) method. A total number of twenty-three (23) Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES) points were investigated using Schlumberger array configuration and the data obtained were analyzed using partial curve matching and computer iteration techniques. The data were interpreted to reveal various geoeletric layers that characterize the area. Results: The results revealed predominantly H-type curve typical of the basement complex system with three geoelectric layers: the top soil, weathered/fractured basement and fresh basement. The apparent resistivity of the first layer ranged from 25 Ωm – 928 Ωm with a corresponding thickness of 0.5 m – 3.1 m, second layer has apparent resistivity values of 8.3 Ωm – 41.3 Ωm with a corresponding thickness of 2.1 m – 33.0 m and the third geoelectric layer has apparent resistivity values ranging from 74 Ωm – 4173.5 Ωm with an infinite thickness. A careful examination and integration of the isopach map with the isoresistivity maps (at 30 and 40 metres depths) indicated that the central and northern parts of the study area have very low to low apparent resistivity values and shallow overburden which is capable of constituting shallow aquifer units. Conclusions: It is concluded that the central and northern parts of the study area have poor to marginal groundwater potential, and this is supported by the occurrences and concentration of fractures which can constitute weathered/fractured aquifers around these regions. It is recommended that water wells be drilled to an effective depth of 40 to 50 m for optimum groundwater yields, and that pumping test be carried out on the drilled wells in order to further determine the aquifer efficiency and productivity in the area.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Academics who tweet: “messy” identities in academia - Budge, Kylie; Lemon, Narelle; McPherson, Megan (Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2016)
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the growing use of Twitter in academic and artist practices. The authors explore commonalities, overlaps and differences within the reflections on the initial and ongoing motivations, usage and learnings the authors have encountered whilst immersed in this environment. Design/methodology/approach The authors locate the particular inquiry by drawing on the literature surrounding digital identities, academic literacies and digital scholarship. Departing from other studies, the focus is on a narrative inquiry of the lived experiences as academics and as artists using Twitter. Findings Academics use of Twitter plays a distinctly social role enabling communication that connects, and fostering accessible and approachable acts. It enables a space for challenging norms of academic ways of being and behaving. In addition, the authors draw conclusions about the “messiness” of the interconnected space that incorporates multiple identities, and highlight the risk taking the authors associate with using Twitter. Research limitations/implications Academic practice is ever changing in the contemporary university. This initial study of academic and artist practices and the use of Twitter suggests future developments including participants using similar questions to elicit notions of practice to engage in a deeper understanding of motivations and behaviours. Practical implications In using social media tools such as Twitter, individual academics and their practices are modified; the impact of this practice is visible. Originality/value The authors contribute to emerging discussions and understandings about academics, social media and identity. The authors argue that by participating in the use of Twitter, the authors are part of the collective process of challenging what it means to be an academic and artist.
Keywords: Academics; Artists; Identity; Narrative inquiry; Social media; Twitter

Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls? - Fairlie, Robert W. (The BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2016)
Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed “the Boy Crisis.” An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these disparities exist across family resources and race. Focusing on disadvantaged schoolchildren, I then examine whether time investments made by boys and girls related to computer use contribute to the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for schoolwork and are more likely to use computers for playing games, but are less likely to use computers for social networking and email than are girls. Using data from a large field experiment randomly providing free personal computers to schoolchildren for home use, I also test whether these differential patterns of computer use displace homework time and ultimately translate into worse educational outcomes among boys. No evidence is found indicating that personal computers crowd out homework time and effort for disadvantaged boys relative to girls. Home computers also do not have negative effects on educational outcomes such as grades, test scores, courses completed, and tardies for disadvantaged boys relative to girls.

Chapter 10 - Improving Education Outcomes in Developing Countries: Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Policy Implications - Glewwe, P.; Muralidharan, K. (Handbook of the Economics of Education, 2016)
Improvements in empirical research standards for credible identification of the causal impact of education policies on education outcomes have led to a significant increase in the body of evidence available on improving education outcomes in developing countries. This chapter aims to synthesize this evidence, interpret their results, and discuss the reasons why some interventions appear to be effective and others do not, with the ultimate goal of drawing implications for both research and policy. Interpreting the evidence for generalizable lessons is challenging because of variation across contexts, duration and quality of studies, and the details of specific interventions studied. Nevertheless, some broad patterns do emerge. Demand-side interventions that increase the immediate returns to (or reduce household costs of) school enrollment, or that increase students’ returns to effort, are broadly effective at increasing time in school and learning outcomes, but vary considerably in cost-effectiveness. Many expensive “standard” school inputs are often not very effective at improving outcomes, though some specific inputs (which are often less expensive) are. Interventions that focus on improved pedagogy (especially supplemental instruction to children lagging behind grade level competencies) are particularly effective, and so are interventions that improve school governance and teacher accountability. Our broad policy message is that the evidence points to several promising ways in which the efficiency of education spending in developing countries can be improved by pivoting public expenditure from less cost-effective to more cost-effective ways of achieving the same objectives. We conclude by documenting areas where more research is needed, and offer suggestions on the public goods and standards needed to make it easier for decentralized and uncoordinated research studies to be compared across contexts.
Keywords: Cost effectiveness; Demand for education; Education in developing countries; Learning outcomes; Pedagogy; Policy evaluation; School enrollment and attendance; School governance; School inputs

Reconstructing education in post-conflict Sierra Leone - Pai, Grace (Security, Education and Development in Contemporary Africa, 2016)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Youth unemployment in resource-rich Sub-Saharan Africa: A critical review - Ackah-Baidoo, Patricia (The Extractive Industries and Society, 2016)
This paper critically reviews the youth unemployment crisis in resource-rich Sub-Saharan Africa. Although the region has experienced continuous and a seemingly limitless ﬂow of investment in all types of extractive industries in recent decades, this growth has not directly translated into signiﬁcant poverty reduction. Its overdependence on natural resources economically seems to have had a negative impact on socioeconomic development overall, generating very few jobs for youth and exacerbating existing unemployment crises. The paper uses Ghana, one the region’s top mineral-rich countries, as a case study to explore these issues further.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; CLL:en; _C:Ghana GHA; __C:filed:1; publicImportV1

Study on Agricultural Technical and Vocational Education and Training (ATVET) in Developing Countries - Walker, Katharina; Hofstetter, Sonja (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2016)

DBIR: february-2016-rpp-forum-measuring-results-of-partnerships-2 (DBIR, 2016)

DBIR: january-2016-rpp-forum-addressing-challenges-in-partnerships-2 (DBIR, 2016)

DBIR: nsta-2016-workshop-how-to-assess-three-dimensional-learning-in-your-classroom-building-tasks-that-work-2 (DBIR, 2016)

DBIR: sss-2016-workshop-adapting-curriculum-for-3-dimensional-learning-2 (DBIR, 2016)

Integration of ICTs into the curriculum of Cameroon primary and secondary schools: A review of current status, barriers and proposed strategies for effective Integration (International Journal of Education and Development Using Information and Communication Technology, 2016)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

T-TEL school partnership innovation (2016)

World Development Report 2016: Digital Dividends (2016)
Keywords: AWP2; AWP2-actual

From counting women to ensuring women count: A qualitative study of university and early career experiences of women secondary school teachers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from a capabilities perspective - Abay, Negar Ashtari (2016)
At the heart of this study is a concern with moving from counting women—from a quantitative focus on gender parity—to having women count—ensuring conditions exist that allow women teachers to fully participate in quality teaching and the positive transformation of the teaching profession. Women comprise less than 20% of secondary school teachers in Ethiopia (MoE, 2014), reflecting similar patterns of under-representation elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study uses in-depth interviews and field observations over a period of 15 months in Addis Ababa to shed light on why many women in Ethiopia who enter university do not make it into secondary school teaching and why many of those who enter teaching, in urban areas where most teachers are concentrated, do not stay in the profession. Drawing on a capabilities perspective, the study goes further to examine the cumulative disadvantage—in terms of well-being and agency—that women experience during the process of their university (undergraduate and teacher) training and in their early years of working in urban secondary schools, as well as the ways in which women contend with disadvantage. This study shows that such disadvantage and the responses to it have implications not only for whether women enter and stay in teaching but also for how they engage in their work. Utilizing the rich qualitative data collected and the analysis afforded by using the capability approach, the study concludes by recommending how different actors, including government, universities and schools, can foster institutional conditions of possibility (Walker, 2006a) and educational arrangements that enhance rather than limit full and equal participation in the teaching profession. Foregrounded throughout this study are the voices and experiences of young women, offering a perspective which disrupts the presumed norm of the single male teacher and highlights some of the limits of gender-neutral teacher policies.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:Ethiopia; CA:AandC; CL:en; CL:pt; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:R; CT:T; F:gender; F:policy; F:teaching; F:women; P:measurement; P:school teacher; P:teacher education; P:teachers; Q:higher education; R:interview; R:observation; R:qualitative; R:quantitative; T:Ausbildung; T:career; Z:Higher education; Z:Teacher education; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

One Laptop per Child Rwanda: Enabling Factors and Barriers - Adam, Taskeen; Haßler, Björn; Cruickshank, Heather (South Africa International Conference on Educational Technologies, 2016)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Austria AUT; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Belgium BEL; _C:Botswana BWA; _C:Burkina Faso BFA; _C:Canada CAN; _C:China CHN; _C:Croatia HRV; _C:Cuba CUB; _C:Cyprus CYP; _C:Denmark DNK; _C:Egypt EGY; _C:Ethiopia ETH; _C:Finland FIN; _C:France FRA; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:India IND; _C:Iran IRN; _C:Israel ISR; _C:Italy ITA; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Korea, Republic KOR; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Mexico MEX; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:New Zealand NZL; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Peru PER; _C:Poland POL; _C:Portugal PRT; _C:Romania ROU; _C:Russian Federation RUS; _C:Rwanda RWA; _C:Serbia SRB; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Spain ESP; _C:Sri Lanka LKA; _C:Sudan SDN; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Thailand THA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Uruguay URY; _C:Viet Nam VNM; _C:Zambia ZMB; _C:Zimbabwe ZWE; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Influence of Mobile Learning Training on Pre-Service Social Studies Teachers' Technology and Mobile Phone Self-Efficacies - Adedoja, Gloria; Oluwadara, Abimbade (Journal of Education and Practice, 2016)
Current instructional deliveries favour the use of mobile technology because of its inherent potentials and benefits such as portability, ease of use cost and others. Despite these benefits, many teachers especially in Sub-Saharan Africa still prefer the conventional method and use mobile phones for social engagements such as texting, chatting, callings and others. Though, these teachers use mobile phones for these social activities, using it for instruction is somewhat problematic for them without adequate training on its pedagogical implications. This is also because there are dearth of trainings in this area. Some factors that could however affect this type of specialised training include Technology Self-efficacy, Mobile Phone Self-efficacy, attitude, age and others. The sample of this present study was 101 pre-service social studies teachers in two Universities in Nigeria. The influence of the Mobile learning training on Technology/Mobile Phone Self-efficacies was explored. The results indicated that the pre-service social studies teachers have high Technology/Mobile Phone Self-efficacies after exposure to the training.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; Age Differences; C:Nigeria; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:R; CT:T; ERIC, Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Electronic Learning; F:attitude; F:learning; F:pedagogy; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Instructional Effectiveness; Likert Scales; Nigeria; P:electro; P:services; P:social; P:teachers; P:technology; Postsecondary Education; Predictor Variables; Preservice Teachers; Pretests Posttests; Q:mobile learning; Questionnaires; R:questionnaire; Self Efficacy; Social Studies; Student Teacher Attitudes; T:Training; Technological Literacy; Technology Education; Z:Age Differences; Z:Electronic Learning; Z:Foreign Countries; Z:Instructional Effectiveness; Z:Likert Scales; Z:Predictor Variables; Z:Preservice Teachers; Z:Pretests Posttests; Z:Questionnaires; Z:Self Efficacy; Z:Social Studies; Z:Student Teacher Attitudes; Z:Technological Literacy; Z:Technology Education; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2096188; __C:filed:1; ___working_potential_duplicate; __finaldtb; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Integration durch Bildung. Migranten und Flüchtlinge in Deutschland: Gutachten - Aktionsrat Bildung; Blossfeld, Hans-Peter (Waxmann, 2016)

The professional development of teachers in Higher Education in Oman: a case study of English teachers in the Colleges of Applied Sciences - Al-Ghatrifi, Yaqoob (University of Reading, 2016)
Keywords: _C:Antigua and Barbuda ATG; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Bahrain BHR; _C:Benin BEN; _C:Canada CAN; _C:China CHN; _C:Egypt EGY; _C:France FRA; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Greece GRC; _C:India IND; _C:Iran IRN; _C:Ireland IRL; _C:Israel ISR; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Kuwait KWT; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Malta MLT; _C:Mexico MEX; _C:Mozambique MOZ; _C:Namibia NAM; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:New Zealand NZL; _C:Oman OMN; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Portugal PRT; _C:Qatar QAT; _C:Saudi Arabia SAU; _C:Somalia SOM; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:United Arab Emirates ARE; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Yemen YEM; _C:Zambia ZMB; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Pilot assessment of indoor environmental qualities of learning environments in Bayero University, Kano - Ali, S.M.; Martinson, D.B.; Al-Maiyah, S. (2016)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

ROAPA–Repositório de Objetos de Aprendizagem para o ensino de pesca e aquicultura - Alvim, Silvio José Trindade; others (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, 2016)
The use of technology in education has experienced a number of changes. The use of the computer as a learning tool promoter is a constant challenge for educators. The creation, classification and maintenance of digital materials with educational content are laborious but essential tasks for the good use of technologies of information and communication in education, in various levels of education. In this context, the work that follows is intended to propose the creation of a reference model for implementation of a Learning Object Repository (LOR) as well as outlining a production process of these objects and choosing a team based on roles and responsibilities modeled in the process. As methodological approach was made a literature review on the subject. Conceptual maps were used to support the planning of the repository model. For choosing the set of metadata used in the model was made a Systematic Review of Literature (SRL) and after these steps the initial software interface has been validated through a survey instrument using the Likert scale for evaluation of non-functional software requirements applied to a group of educators and students of the academic community of IFES Campus Piúma. It is expected that the model will serve as a subsidy for the implementation of a repository for use by technical courses of Aquaculture and Fisheries of aforementioned campus, allowing the search and use of digital educational materials for teachers and students, in a simply and efficiently way
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; CC:Brazil; CLL:pt; OER; publicImportV1

Computer usage for learning how to read and write in primary school - Arndt, Petra A. (Trends in Neuroscience and Education, 2016)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) Plus: Liberia. Program evaluation report - b (Implementing Mother Tongue, 2016)

Unlocking resilience through autonomous innovation - Bahadur, Aditya; Doczi, Julian (Overseas Development Institute, 2016)

Improving Secondary School Teacher Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa - Bainton, Dave; Barrett, Angeline Mbogo; Tikly, Leon (Bristol Working Papers in Education, 2016)
Keywords: C:sub-Saharan Africa; _C:Benin BEN; _C:Botswana BWA; _C:Burundi BDI; _C:Cameroon CMR; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Chile CHL; _C:China CHN; _C:Congo, Republic COG; _C:Ethiopia ETH; _C:Gambia GMB; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:India IND; _C:Ivory Coast CIV; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Mali MLI; _C:Mozambique MOZ; _C:Namibia NAM; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Philippines PHL; _C:Rwanda RWA; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:South Sudan SSD; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Improving Secondary School Teacher Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Framing the Issues - Bainton, Dave; Barrett, Angeline Mbogo; Tikly, Leon (Bristol Working Papers in Education, 2016)
Keywords: Cited; RRQ1:High; ⛔ No DOI found

Girl power: cash transfers and adolescent welfare. Evidence from a cluster‐randomized experiment in Malawi - Baird, Sarah J.; Chirwa, Ephraim; Hoop, Jacobus De; Özler, Berk (Chapter in NBER book African Successes, Volume II: Human Capital, 2016)

Tablets in Schule und Unterricht: Forschungsmethoden und-perspektiven zum Einsatz digitaler Medien - Bastian, Jasmin; Aufenanger, Stefan (Springer-Verlag, 2016)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Opening new doors: Community engagement in India - Batada, A.; Banarjee, S.; Subramanian, M. (The Sesame Effect: The Global Impact of the Longest Street in the World, 2016)
Keywords: 01.11.19; Final_citation; cited; existing; tempss_1

Reducing parent‐school information gaps and improving education outcomes: Evidence from high frequency text messaging in Chile - Berlinski, Samuel; Busso, Matias; Dinkelman, Taryn; Martinez, Claudia (Unpublished Manuscript, 2016)

Mathematics education in Sub-Saharan Africa : status, challenges, and opportunities (Vol. 2) : main report (English) - Bethell, George (The World Bank Group, 2016)
Keywords: Cited; RRQ1:High

Matching couples with Scarf’s algorithm - Biró, Péter; Fleiner, Tamás; Irving, Robert W. (Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 2016)
Scarf’s algorithm [18] provides fractional core elements for NTU-games. Biró and Fleiner [3] showed that Scarf’s algorithm can be extended for capacitated NTU-games. In this setting agents can be involved in more than one coalition at a time, cooperations may be performed with different intensities up to some limits, and the contribution of the agents can also differ in a coalition. The fractional stable solutions for the above model, produced by the extended Scarf algorithm, are called stable allocations. In this paper we apply this solution concept for the Hospitals Residents problem with Couples (HRC). This is one of the most important general stable matching problems due to its relevant applications, also wellknown to be NP-hard. We show that if a stable allocation yielded by the Scarf algorithm turns outto be integral then it provides a stable matching for an instance of HRC, so this method can be used as a heuristic. In an experimental study, we compare this method with other heuristics constructed for HRC that are applied in practice in the American and Scottish resident allocation programs, respectively. Our main finding is that the Scarf algorithm outperforms all the other known heuristics when the proportion of couples is high.
Keywords: _C:Hungary HUN; _C:Ireland IRL; _C:Spain ESP; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Integration durch Bildung. Migranten und Flüchtlinge in Deutschland - Blossfeld, Hans-Peter; Bos, Wilfried; Daniel, Hans-Dieter; Hannover, Bettina; Köller, Olaf; Lenzen, Dieter; Roßbach, Hans-Günther; Seidel, Tina; Tippelt, Rudolf; Wößmann, Ludger (Münster: Waxmann, 2016)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Blended learning implementation in secondary education for girls: case study Tatweer project Saudi Arabia - Bukhari, Eman Gasim (International Journal of Academic Research and Reflection, 2016)
Blended learning (BL) has been the subject of much research recently, and the present research adds to this growing body of knowledge as the first substantial study on BL in secondary education for girls in Saudi Arabia. Based on field work comprising interviews and questionnaires this research reports the results of an exploratory, empirical case study of a large-scale programme (Tatweer project) for the introduction of blended learning into 25 traditional secondary girls' schools in Saudi Arabia. Adopting the interpretive research paradigm the objective of the study is to gain rich insight into blended learning guided by the effect of BL on female education. The study demonstrates a number of positive effects of BL on students' engagement and self-development, however, problems with the workloads of students and the failure of teachers to integrate face-to-face learning with e-learning are also observed. Throughout the research Sharpe et al.'s (2006) 8-dimensional framework of BL is applied in a new way to assess the implementation level of BL. This results in the recommendation to extend this framework with an ethical dimension. Further recommendations of the work are to actively seek feedback from key stakeholder groups during BL implementation, to use BL for teacher training in BL, and to measure performance indicators like students' workloads during the transition of traditional schools to BL.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Can we open the black box of AI? - Castelvecchi, D. (Nature, 2016)
Keywords: ❓ Multiple DOI

Implementation Research: Finding Common Ground on What, How, Why, Where, and Who - Century, Jeanne; Cassata, Amy (Review of Research in Education, 2016)
Over many decades, educators have developed countless interventions and theories about how to create lasting change. Implementation research is the study of these efforts with a set of basic questions: What are we doing? Is it working? For whom? Where? When? How? And, Why? In other words, implementation research is an endeavor to understand if and how educational efforts are accomplishing their goals. This chapter describes the landscape of implementation research, tracing it back to its historical roots and connecting it to other fields with the aim of identifying common threads across diverse efforts. The authors survey where the field is today and highlight different perspectives on complex questions that have long troubled researchers. They outline some of the sticky issues ahead and make a case for shared conceptual clarity and clearly communicated and understood language that will help researchers understand how various bodies of implementation research work are related. The authors conclude by describing the opportunity presented to the education research community in this moment: to capitalize on and learn from historical and contemporary work in education and other fields, and to identify connections across theories and approaches and find ways to collectively move forward toward the shared goal of making education better.

Impact Evaluation of the Save the Children Early Childhood Stimulation Program in Bangladesh: Final Report. - Chinen, Marjorie; Bos, Johannes M. (American Institutes for Research, 2016)

Evaluation of the transformative potential of positive gender socialization in education for peace building - Chinen, Marjorie; Elmeski, Mohammed (Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016)
American Institutes for Research (AIR) is conducting an impact evaluation of The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund's (UNICEF's) teacher-training program and reinforcing text messages that aim to provide meaningful knowledge regarding the transformative potential of positive gender socialization in education for peace building in the region of Karamoja, Uganda. The impact evaluation assesses the effects of the teacher-training program, with an emphasis on gender socialization, on teachers' knowledge, attitudes, and practices concerned with gender equity, and positive gender socialization. The authors implemented a mixed-methods research design for the impact evaluation, using quantitative and qualitative methods. They compared the outcomes of interest among the teachers who benefit from the program with the outcomes of interest of comparable teachers in different schools who do not benefit from the program. The impact evaluation is based on an eight-month intervention, with baseline data collected in March 2015 and endline data collected in November 2015. One hundred five schools from eight Coordinating Centre Tutors (CCTs) located in the districts of Abim, Kaabong, and Napak are participating in the study, with a third of the schools receiving the training plus reinforcing text messages (the "complete intervention" group), another third receiving the teacher training only (the "limited intervention" group), and the other third not receiving any of the interventions (the control or "business as usual" group). A total of 916 teachers working in the 105 schools at the time of baseline data collection were surveyed. Provided that the various stakeholders respond in the manner anticipated, the trainings--and potentially the active teacher support and engagement delivered using the mobile SMS platform--should lead to a set of initial effects or intermediate outcomes. Tables and figures are appended.
Keywords: Comparative Analysis; ERIC, Resources in Education (RIE); Educational Practices; Elementary Education; Elementary School Teachers; Foreign Countries; Inservice Teacher Education; Intervention; Mixed Methods Research; Outcome Measures; Peace; Program Effectiveness; Randomized Controlled Trials; Sex Fairness; Socialization; Synchronous Communication; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Characteristics; Telecommunications; Uganda; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2097972; ___working_potential_duplicate; __finaldtb

Open Data Readiness Assessment: Prepared for the Government of Sierra Leone - Chrzanowski, Pierre; Holm, Jeanne; Manley, Laura; Dodds, Elizabeth; Baker, Rob (World Bank Group; Open Aid Partnership, 2016)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Using eye-tracking in applied linguistics and second language research - Conklin, Kathy; Pellicer-Sánchez, Ana (Second Language Research, 2016)
With eye-tracking technology the eye is thought to give researchers a window into the mind. Importantly, eye-tracking has significant advantages over traditional online processing measures: chiefly that it allows for more ‘natural’ processing as it does not require a secondary task, and that it provides a very rich moment-to-moment data source. In recognition of the technology’s benefits, an ever increasing number of researchers in applied linguistics and second language research are beginning to use it. As eye-tracking gains traction in the field, it is important to ensure that it is established in an empirically sound fashion. To do this it is important for the field to come to an understanding about what eye-tracking is, what eye-tracking measures tell us, what it can be used for, and what different eye-tracking systems can and cannot do. Further, it is important to establish guidelines for designing sound research studies using the technology. The goal of the current review is to begin to address these issues.
Keywords: Final_citation

Evaluating the Impact of 1: 1 Laptops on High School Science Students and Teachers - Crook, Simon Joseph (2016)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Cuba CUB; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Luxembourg LUX; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:Switzerland CHE; _C:Thailand THA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Design-Based Research and Design-Based Implementation Research | InformalScience.org - Crowley, Kevin (2016)
Keywords: Final_citation; existing

Design-Based Research and Design-Based Implementation Research | InformalScience.org - Crowley, Kevin (2016)

Collective action and the deployment of teachers in Niger: a political economy analysis - Cummings, Clare (2016)
This briefing paper explores causes of inequitable teacher deployment in Niger and asks whether collective action might be the solution.
Keywords: C:Niger

Education in Conflict and Crisis: How Can Technology Make a Difference? A Landscape Review. - Dahya, N. (GIZ, 2016)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Education in Conflict and Crisis: How Can Technology Make a Difference? A Landscape Review - Dahya, Negin (GIZ, 2016)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Landscape Review: Education in Conflict and Crisis - How Can Technology Make a Difference? | INEE - Dahya, Negin (2016)
Conflict and crisis are among the biggest obstacles to ensuring inclusive and quality education for all (Sustainable Development Goal 4). The use of information and communication technology (ICT) has the potential to support, enhance, and enable education for the most marginalized, affected by war, natural disasters, and the rapid spread of disease. Across these different contexts, tools like radio, mobile phones, mobile projectors, e-readers and tablets, laptops and computers can facilitate teaching and learning in a range of different ways. The term “mobility” with regard to learning is highly relevant in this landscape: it recognizes that learning should not stop as people move, and that people on the move are focused on continuing their education. This landscape aims to identify major trends, patterns, and lessons learned about the use of mobile technologies in crisis and conflict settings, and also to define gaps in our existing knowledge base.

Challenges in the Informal Construction Artisan Training System in the Ghanaian Construction Industry - Damasah, SK (College of Art and Built Environment, 2016)
This research sought to find out the challenges confronting the informal artisan training system in the Ghanaian construction industry and provide available opportunities to help improve the system. The study was limited to two regions namely Greater Accra and Volta regions of Ghana. In all, two hundred and thirty-three (233) artisans comprising of one hundred and thirteen (113) apprentices and one hundred and twenty (120) master artisans were used for the study. Questionnaires were the main research instrument but personal observation was also used by the researcher. The sample of three hundred (300) was used in the data analysis. Qualitative research approach was used, employing the descriptive approach. Data from the field was analysed using percentages. From the findings, it was realized that two main modes of skill acquisition were in play pertaining to the informal sector, these are the traditional method (75%) and the attachment method (25%). Another finding was that, one shortcoming of the informal system appears to be a lack of consistency and adequate content in the training that apprentice receive. The study concludes that there is little external motivation or capability for the system’s trainees to progress in performance or in improving their methods. More than 55% of the master artisans apply experimentation or trial and error in their work. It is recommended that, it will be essential to involve the master artisans in a reform process including efforts to provide them with opportunities to upgrade their own knowledge of construction skills.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; A:West Africa; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:P; CT:T; P:artist; P:construction; T:Formal apprenticeship; T:Training; _C:Ghana GHA; publicImportV1

Effective Teacher Professional Development - Darling-Hammond, Linda; Hyler, Maria E; Gardner, Madelyn; Gardner, Madelyn (Learning Policy Institute, 2016)
Keywords: C:United States / International; __C:filed:1; important; ⛔ No DOI found

Idea to Retire: Decentralized IT Governance - Denford, J. (2016)
Keywords: Final_citation; anystyle; existing

Department of Education Statistical Digest - Department of Education (Government of St. Lucia, 2016)

Global school feeding sourcebook: lessons from 14 countries - Drake, Lesley; Woolnough, Alice; Bundy, Donald; Burbano, Carmen (world scientific, 2016)

Moving in circles along a straight path: The elusiveness of inclusive education in early childhood development in Uganda - Ejuu, G. (Journal of Childhood & Developmental Disorders, 2016)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

The university in the twenty-first century: teaching the new enlightenment in the digital age - Elkana, Yehuda; Kl??pper, Hannes; Lazerson, Marvin (2016)

Berufsausbildung in einer Einwanderungsgesellschaft - Euler, Dieter; Eckart, Severing (2016)

What really works to improve learning in developing countries? An analysis of divergent findings in systematic reviews. World Bank Research Observer - Evans, D.K.; Popova, A. (Statistical Methods for Research Workers, 2016)
Keywords: ___duplicate_item

What Really Works to Improve Learning in Developing Countries? An Analysis of Divergent Findings in Systematic Reviews [World Bank Research Observer] - Evans, David K.; Popova, Anna (The World Bank Research Observer, 2016)
Keywords: C:Low- and middle-income countries; STC-TLC; __C:filed:1; ___duplicate_item; _genre:LR-literature_review

How Useful Are They? - Fawcett, Liz (2016)
Keywords: _C:Canada CAN; _C:Ireland IRL; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Nepal NPL; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Education 3.0 and Internet Governance: A new global alliance for children and young people’s sustainable digital development - Frau-Meigs, Divina; Hibbard, Lee (2016)
Keywords: Final_citation; ⛔ No DOI found

The Impact of Information Provision on Human Capital Accumulation and Child Labor in Peru. - Gallego, Francisco; Neilson, Christopher; Molina, Oswaldo (2016)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Improving education in developing countries: Lessons from rigorous impact evaluations - Ganimian, A.J.; Murnane, R.J. (Review of Educational Research, 2016)

Deep Learning, Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning Series - Goodfellow, I.; Bengio, Y; Courville, A. (MIT Press, 2016)

Core principles of agile - gov.uk (GOV.UK, 2016)
Focus on user needs, deliver iteratively, improve continuously, fail fast, learn quickly.
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

National Credit and Qualifications Framework - Government of Botswana (2016)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; CC:Botswana; Qualification Framework; publicImportV1

Guidelines for Registration of Training Providers - Government of Kenya (2016)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; CC:Kenya; publicImportV1

Gender in Education Policy - Government of Uganda (2016)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; CC:Uganda; publicImportV1

An Outcomes Evaluation of the School Feeding Project Implemented By Caritas Zimbabwe at Chirongwe Primary School, Masvingo Province - Gozo, Shingiriro Persistance (Lupane State University, 2016)

IPDCTalks - Speaker Cable Green's full speech on SDG 4: Education (2016)
Up to two third of college and university students in the US can’t afford their school books,' says IPDC Talks speaker Cable Green (Director of Open Education at Creative Commons). In his presentation during the IPDC Talks, Cable Green elaborates on the importance of access to information for SDG4 Education. Watch presentations from other IPDC Talks speakers on https://www.facebook.com/netherlands....

Correction to: Mathematics Education in East Africa - Halai, Anjum; Tennant, Geoff (Mathematics Education in East Africa: Towards Harmonization and Enhancement of Education Quality, 2016)
All chapters in the book are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Mathematics Education in East Africa: Towards Harmonization and Enhancement of Education Quality - Halai, Anjum; Tennant, Geoff (Springer Nature, 2016)
*THIS BOOK WILL SOON BE AVAILABLE AS OPEN ACCESS BOOK* This book is a valuable resource for policymakers and practitioners as it brings insights mainly from developing countries where relatively less research activity takes place. It is also a valuable resource for courses in mathematics education in the teacher education colleges, and departments of education in the sub-Saharan Africa region. In the increasingly global and technological world mathematics is seen as a significant gatekeeper of opportunities for social and economic advancement and mobility. Hence, countries and development agencies in the broader sub-Saharan Africa region are looking towards increasing access to relevant and high-quality secondary education as a lever towards economic development. Policy makers and other key decision makers in education look towards improvement in mathematics teaching and learning as a key focus in education reform. In the East Africa region also a number of initiatives have been taken at the national level in the respective countries to improve the quality of mathematics education. This book provides an in-depth comparative analysis of the developments and issues in mathematics education in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda, and advances our understanding of the state of secondary mathematics education in East Africa.
Keywords: Central / national / federal government policies; Challenges in teaching and learning mathematics; Education; Education Policy; Harmonizing mathematics education in diverse settings; International and Comparative Education; Mathematics; Mathematics Education; Mathematics curriculum developmen; Mathematics education in sub-Saharan Africa; Pitfalls in sub-Saharan African math education; Potentials in sub-Saharan African math education; State of mathematics education in sub-Saharan Africa; Teaching of a specific subject; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNU Teaching of a specific subject; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPQ Central government::JPQB Central government policies

Developing a Framework for App Evaluation: Empowering Learning and Communication with iPads for Children and Young People with Communication Impairments - Hamshire, Claire; Lachkovic, Julie (Springer, 2016)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Strategies for implementing implementation science: a methodological overview - Handley, Margaret A.; Gorukanti, Anuradha; Cattamanchi, Adithya (Emergency Medicine Journal, 2016)

E-Learning in nursing education in Rwanda: benefits and challenges. An exploration of participants' perspectives - Harerimana, A; Mtshali, NG; Hewing, H (Journal of Nursing and Health Science, 2016)
E-learning is a commonplace in nursing and healthcare professional education, and generally the importance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the Internet in tertiary education is recognized. The entry visa for e-learning is a computer and an Internet connection [1]. The aim of this paper is to analyse the utilisation of e-learning in selected nursing campus in Rwanda. A convergence parallel mixed method was use as recommended by Creswell[2]. For quantitative survey, a total of 275 participants responded to the questionnaires, and for qualitative approach, a total number of 40 participants were purposively selected. Quantitative data was analysed using SPSS 23, and for qualitative data, thematic analysis was used. The finding from this study indicated that participants were ready and eager to embrace e-learning in nursing education due to a number of benefits they reported such e-learning being a student centred approach, being a blended learning method, and fast track for the production of nursing workforce taking into consideration the history of Rwanda. However it was found that a number of challenges were hindering a proper implementation such as: resource constraints, insufficient teachers and students training in ICT, language barrier, lack of policies regarding e-learning, resistance to change, issues related to Moodle accessibility.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Central Africa; C:Rwanda; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:T; P:nurse; Q:e-learning; T:Training; T:continuing education; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Teacher Professional Development: Insights, Programmes & Resources - Haßler, Björn (African Deans of Education, 2016)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; ⛔ No DOI found

Theme 1: Creative Approaches (Student Teachers) - Haßler, Björn (T-TEL Professional Development Programme (Professional Develoment Guide for Student Teachers), 2016)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd

Theme 2: Questioning (Student Teachers) - Haßler, Björn (T-TEL Professional Development Programme (Professional Develoment Guide for Student Teachers), 2016)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd

Theme 3: Talk for Learning (Facilitators) - Haßler, Björn (T-TEL Professional Development Programme (Handbook for Facilitators), 2016)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd

Theme 3: Talk for Learning (Student Teachers) - Haßler, Björn (T-TEL Professional Development Programme (Professional Develoment Guide for Student Teachers), 2016)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd

Theme 4: Group Work (Facilitators) - Haßler, Björn (T-TEL Professional Development Programme (Handbook for Facilitators), 2016)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd

Theme 4: Group Work (Student Teachers) - Haßler, Björn (T-TEL Professional Development Programme (Professional Develoment Guide for Student Teachers), 2016)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd

Theme 5: Teaching and Learning Materials (Facilitators) - Haßler, Björn (T-TEL Professional Development Programme (Handbook for Facilitators), 2016)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd

Theme 5: Teaching and Learning Materials (Student Teachers) - Haßler, Björn (T-TEL Professional Development Programme (Professional Develoment Guide for Student Teachers), 2016)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd

Theme 6: Leadership for Learning Materials (Facilitators) - Haßler, Björn (T-TEL Professional Development Programme (Handbook for Facilitators), 2016)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd

Theme 6: Leadership for Learning (Student Teachers) - Haßler, Björn (T-TEL Professional Development Programme (Professional Develoment Guide for Student Teachers), 2016)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd

A short guide on the use of technology in learning: Perspectives and Toolkit for Discussion - Haßler, Björn; Major, L; Warwick, P; Watson, Steve; Hennessy, S; Nichol, B (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, 2016)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; Björn-CV-OECS; Monday; TL:English; TL:Translated; TranslationGoingAhead; Zenodo; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Perspectives on Technology, Resources and Learning - Productive Classroom Practices, Effective Teacher Professional Development - Haßler, Björn; Major, L; Warwick, P; Watson, Steve; Hennessy, S; Nichol, B (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, 2016)
Keywords: AWP2; Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; Björn-CV-OECS; CitedIn:BIBBTVET; CitedIn:OER4Schools-HHH3-B; CitedIn:OER4Schools-HHH3-B-AUTHORS; CitedIn:eCubed; DIAL-RDO; Done:ReferenceFixed; IMPORT_FROM_DFID_RITE; InPrep; TPD@Scale-cited; _bjoern_cv; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; eCubed; ⛔ No DOI found

Tablet use in schools: a critical review of the evidence for learning outcomes - Haßler, Björn; Major, Louis; Hennessy, Sara (Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2016)
The increased popularity of tablets in general has led to uptake in education. We critically review the literature reporting use of tablets by primary and secondary school children across the curriculum, with a particular emphasis on learning outcomes. The systematic review methodology was used, and our literature search resulted in 33 relevant studies meeting the inclusion criteria. A total of 23 met the minimum quality criteria and were examined in detail (16 reporting positive learning outcomes, 5 no difference and 2 negative learning outcomes). Explanations underlying these observations were analysed, and factors contributing to successful uses of tablets are discussed. While we hypothesize how tablets can viably support children in completing a variety of learning tasks (across a range of contexts and academic subjects), the fragmented nature of the current knowledge base, and the scarcity of rigorous studies, makes it difficult to draw firm conclusions. The generalizability of evidence is limited, and detailed explanations as to how, or why, using tablets within certain activities can improve learning remain elusive. We recommend that future research moves beyond exploration towards systematic and in-depth investigations building on the existing findings documented here.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; -missingHU; Android; Australia AUS; Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; Belgium BEL; Björn-CV-OECS; Canada CAN; Chile CHL; DL4D cited; Malawi MWI; Monday; New Zealand NZL; Spain ESP; TL:Arabic; TL:English; TL:Translated; Thailand THA; TranslationGoingAhead; Turkey TUR; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:China CHN; _C:France FRA; _C:Germany DEU; _C:India IND; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:Zambia ZMB; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; _bjoern_cv; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; iPad; learning outcomes; publicImportV1; school; systematic reviews; tablets

COMET South Africa: Final Report and Documentation of Test Results of Electricians, Mechatronics, Motor Mechanics, and Welders - Hauschildt, Ursel (2016)

Comparing traditional and digital learning methods to improve the learning outcomes of young children - Hendriks, Daniëlle (2016)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Using digital technology and school-based professional development to leverage interactive classroom teaching in Zambia - Hennessy, Sara; Haßler, Björn; Mwewa, G (2016)
This chapter describes a study which explored the feasibility of using information and communications technologies (ICTs) to support more interactive forms of subject teaching and learning in Sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, we: • provided open educational resources (OER) to three ICT-and Internetequipped primary schools in Zambia, all serving disadvantaged communities; • worked with partners to identify the needs of school-based continuing professional development (CPD) adapted to the local context; • responded to those needs by designing an appropriate intervention – focusing on participatory, collaborative and interactive pedagogies supported by ICTs and OER, both within the classroom and for teacher development.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; Björn-CV-OECS; C:Zambia; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:R; CT:T; F:learning; F:teaching; P:teacher education; P:teachers; Q:ICT; Q:OER; Q:digital technology; Q:interactive; Q:interactive pedagogy; Q:open educational resources; Q:primary education; R:evaluation; T:Classroom teaching; Z:ICT in education; Z:Intervention evaluation; Z:Primary education; Z:Teacher education; publicImportV1

Leading professional change through research (ing): Conceptual tools for professional practice and research - Hofmann, Riikka (Transformative Doctoral Research Practices for Professionals, 2016)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Education Technology Map: Guidance Document - Hollow, D.; Muyoya, C.; Brugha, M. (Jigsaw Consult, 2016)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Interactive machine learning for health informatics: when do we need the human-in-the-loop? - Holzinger, A. (Brain Informatics, 2016)

African political economy: contemporary issues in development - Hope, Kempe Ronald (2016)

Mathematical Thinking in the lower secondary school - Hopkins, C; Mostert, I; Anghileri,, J.; AIMSSEC (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
This book is for teachers and educators who want to develop their maths teaching skills where English is the language of instruction. It has been written by the international group of educators based at AIMSSEC, The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences Schools Enrichment Centre. The book provides practical classroom activities underpinned by sound pedagogy and recent research findings. The activities are designed for teachers working alone or in ‘self-help’ teachers’ workshops. They are designed to develop mathematical thinking and offer immediate practical tools to help deliver this approach. All of the content in the book has been trialled by teachers around the world and is written by experienced maths teachers and subject matter experts, so you can be confident that the tools can be used to help deliver successful teaching and learning in your classroom, wherever you might be in the world. This book: provides practical support for mathematics teachers in the 11-15 lower secondary classroom, includes activities that exemplify ways of teaching and learning the most important parts of any national curriculum, and offer material that is universally relevant is written by an experienced international writing team, all of whom have worked as teacher educators in more than one country. Focuses on problem solving activities and identifying powerful ways of approaching the curriculum. Offers teachers ideas for introducing mathematical concepts through enquiry based learning draws on the activities on the NRICH website (www.nrich.maths.org) which has been built up over the last eighteen years.

Research on the Novel Education Pattern for Science and Engineering Classes Based on Experiment and Interactive Teaching Method - Huang, Wenzhun; Xie, Xinxin; Bian, Wei; Zhang, Hui (Atlantis Press, 2016)
Keywords: _C:China CHN; _C:Switzerland CHE; _C:Turkey TUR; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Should touch screen tablets be used to improve educational outcomes in primary school children in developing countries? - Hubber, Paula J.; Outhwaite, Laura A.; Chigeda, Antonie; McGrath, Simon; Hodgen, Jeremy; Pitchford, Nicola J. (Frontiers in psychology, 2016)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Technology and Teacher Professional Development (TPD): the process and content of microlearning in a school-based integrated in-service teacher education (INSET) project - Ibn Junaid, Muhammad; Ogange, Betty; Allela, Melissa (2016)

In-service Teachers' Sense of Agency after Participation in a Research Master Course - Impedovo, Maria Antonietta (International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Participating in an international master’s programme: impact on agency for African in-service teachers - Impedovo, Maria Antonietta; Ligorio, Maria Beatrice (Professional Development in Education, 2016)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Cost efficiency analysis: teacher professional development - International Rescue Committee (IRC) (2016)
This brief explores the relative costs of running these different professional development activities across nine programs in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Pakistan.
Keywords: __C:filed:1

A child-to-child approach to improve literacy: Design of the Buddy Reading program - Jasti, C.; Jukes, M.C.; Dubeck, M.M.; Elliott; Inyega, H.N. (2016)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

The impact of child-to-child reading on reading skills and motivation - Jukes, M.C.H.; Dubeck, M.M.; Adelman, E.; Sheppard, M.; Jasti, C.; Turner, E. (2016)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Technology and Teacher Professional Development (TPD): the process and content of microlearning in a school-based integrated in-service teacher education (INSET) project - Junaid, Muhammad Ibn; Ogange, Betty; Allela, Melissa (2016)

Does living in a community with more educated mothers enhance children's school attendance? Evidence from Sierra Leone - Kamanda, Mamusu; Madise, Nyovani; Schnepf, Sylke (International Journal of Educational Development, 2016)
In Sierra Leone girls are 23.4% less likely to attend secondary education than boys. This difference between sexes increases the gender gap in educational attainment since women's education is positively associated with children's educational wellbeing. This paper investigates the relationship between children's school attendance, their mothers’ level of education, as well as the overall level of women's education at the community level in Sierra Leone using multilevel statistical modelling techniques and the country's 2008 Demographic and Health Survey data. The findings suggest that, regardless of a child's own mother's education, an increase in the proportion of mothers with secondary or higher education in a community by 10% improves the probability of attending junior secondary school significantly by 8%; a 50% increase improves the likelihood of attending school by 45%. There was no significant relationship between the proportion of better educated mothers in a community and primary school attendance. However, relative to children whose mothers had no formal education, children whose mothers had attained primary, secondary or higher education were 7%, 14% and 22% more likely to attend primary school respectively. Future policies should seek to promote girls’ education at post-primary education and develop community based programmes to enable the diffusion and transmission of educational messages.
Keywords: Girls’ education; Mothers’ education; School attendance; Sierra Leone; _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Lecturer Based Supportive Tool Development and Approaches for Learning Material Sharing under Bandwidth Limitation - Kautsar, Irwan Alnarus; Kubota, Shinichiro; Musashi, Yasuo; Sugitani, Kenichi (Journal of Information Processing, 2016)
総合学術電子ジャーナルサイト「J-STAGE」－国内で発行された学術論文全文を読むことのできる、日本最大級の総合電子ジャーナルプラットフォームです。
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Information Quality: The Potential of Data and Analytics to Generate Knowledge - Kenett, RS; Shmueli, G (John Wiley & Sons, 2016)

How does professional development improve teaching? - Kennedy, Mary M. (Review of Educational Research, 2016)
Professional development programs are based on different theories of how students learn and different theories of how teachers learn. Reviewers often sort programs according to design features such as program duration, intensity, or the use of specific techniques such as coaches or online lessons, but these categories do not illuminate the programs’ underlying purpose or premises about teaching and teacher learning. This review sorts programs according to their underlying theories of action, which include (a) a main idea that teachers should learn and (b) a strategy for helping teachers enact that idea within their own ongoing systems of practice. Using rigorous research design standards, the review identifies 28 studies. Because studies differ in multiple ways, the review presents program effects graphically rather than statistically. Visual patterns suggest that many popular design features are not associated with program effectiveness. Furthermore, different main ideas are not differentially effective. However, the pedagogies used to facilitate enactment differ in their effectiveness. Finally, the review addresses the question of research design for studies of professional development and suggests that some widely favored research designs might adversely affect study outcomes.

Influence of Trainee Teacher Philosophy about Teaching and Learning on Integration of Computer Technology into Future Teaching Practices - Kimaiyo, Lilian C; Kitainge, Kisilu M; Too, Jackson (American Journal of Applied Psychology, 2016)
The study sought to establish the influence of trainee teacher philosophy about teaching and learning on integration of computer technology into future teaching practices. This was done in the light of the fact that the Kenya government has launched the national laptop project in public primary schools which is expected to run from July, 2016.It is expected that the teachers who are undertaking training in Primary school Teacher Training colleges are key to effective implementation of computer use. The study was carried out in five public Teacher Training Colleges in the Rift Valley Province, Kenya. This study employed a correlational research design. The research population for the study was all teacher trainees in pubic teacher training colleges in Rift Valley. The colleges have a total population of 5,075 student teachers. Using a table of random numbers, the researcher then selected proportional samples from each stratum in every Teacher Training College to ensure that there was uniform representation of the different groups. The total sample from the five TTCs was 357 trainee teachers. The primary data was collected using a questionnaire consisting of two scales. The study established that there was a statistically significant influence of trainee teachers’ philosophy about teaching and learning on prospective ICT integration. Trainee teachers who believed that learners construct their own knowledge with the teacher as a guide scored highly on intentions to integrate ICT in the classroom than those who believed that the teacher is the source of knowledge. Trainee teachers who intended to use child-centered teaching practices viewed ICT integration positively. It is therefore important that teacher trainers in TTCs emphasize learner-centered teaching methods in order to promote ICT integration.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

VLIV POUŽITÍ MOBILNÍHO DOTYKOVÉHO ZAŘÍZENÍ PŘI PROCVIČOVÁNÍ UČIVA - Klubal, Libor (Klára Rybenská Experimentální ověření efektivity vỳuky anglického jazyka s využitím myenglishlab........... 128 Danuše Vymetálková, 2016)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Bulgaria BGR; _C:Chile CHL; _C:China CHN; _C:Czech Republic CZE; _C:Ethiopia ETH; _C:Greece GRC; _C:Luxembourg LUX; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Poland POL; _C:Romania ROU; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:Spain ESP; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Tunisia TUN; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Do youth employment programs improve labor market outcomes? A systematic review - Kluve, Jochen; Puerto, Susana; Robalino, David A.; Romero, Jose Manuel; Rother, Friederike; Stöterau, Jonathan; Weidenkaff, Felix; Witte, Marc (Ruhr Economic Papers, 2016)
This study reviews the evidence on the labor market impact of youth employment programs. We analyze the effectiveness of interventions, and factors that influence program performance including country context, target beneficiaries, program design, implementation, and evaluation type. We identify 113 impact evaluations covering a wide range of methodologies, interventions, and countries. The meta-analysis synthesizes the evidence based on 2,259 effect sizes (Standardized Mean Differences) and the statistical significance of 3,105 impact estimates (Positive and Statistically Significant). Just more than one-third of youth employment program evaluations worldwide show a significant positive impact on labor market outcomes - either employment rates or earnings. In general, programs have been more successful in middle- and low-income countries; this may be because programs' investments are especially helpful for the most vulnerable population groups that they target. We conjecture that recent programs might have benefited from innovations in design and implementation. In middle-low income countries, skills training and entrepreneurship programs have had a higher impact. In high-income countries, the role of intervention type is less decisive - much depends on context and how services are chosen and delivered, a result that holds across country types. We find evidence that programs integrating multiple interventions more likely succeed because they respond better to different needs of beneficiaries. Results also point to the importance of profiling and follow-up systems in determining program performance, as well as to incentive systems for services provider
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; C:Ethiopia; C:Kenya; C:Liberia; C:Malawi; C:South Africa; CLL:en; Employment; _C:Uganda UGA; publicImportV1

A school mental health literacy curriculum resource training approach: Effects on Tanzanian teachers' mental health knowledge, stigma and help-seeking efficacy - Kutcher, Stan; Wei, Yifeng; Gilberds, Heather; Ubuguyu, Omary; Njau, Tasiana; Brown, Adena; Sabuni, Norman; Magimba, Ayoub; Perkins, Kevin (International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2016)
© 2016 The Author(s). Background: Mental health literacy (MHL) is foundational for mental health promotion, prevention, stigma reduction, and care; School supported information pertaining to MHL in sub-Saharan Africa is extremely limited, including in Tanzania. Successful application of a school MHL curriculum resource may be an effective way to increase teacher MHL and therefore help to improve mental health outcomes for students. Methods: Secondary school teachers in Tanzania were trained on the African Guide (AG) a school MHL curriculum resource culturally adapted from a Canadian MHL resource (The Guide) for use in Africa. Teacher training workshops on the classroom application of the AG were used to evaluate its impact on mental health literacy in a sample of Tanzanian Secondary school teachers. Pre-post training assessment of participant knowledge and attitudes was conducted. Help-seeking efficacy for teachers themselves and their interventions for students, friends, family members and peers were determined. Results: Paired t test (n = 37) results demonstrate highly significant improvements in teacher's overall knowledge (p < 0.001; d = 1.14), including mental health knowledge, (p < 0.001; d = 1.14) and curriculum specific knowledge (p < 0.01; d = 0.63). Teachers' stigma against mental illness decreased significantly following the training (p < 0.001; d = 0.61). Independent t tests comparing the paired sample against unpaired sample also demonstrated significant differences between the groups for teacher's overall knowledge (p < 0.001). Teachers also reported high rates (greater than 3/4 of the sample) of positive help-seeking efficacy for themselves as well as for their students, friends, family members and peers. As a result of the training, the number of students teachers identified for potential mental health care totaled over 200. Conclusions: These positive results, when taken together with other research, suggest that the use of a classroom-based resource (the AG) that integrates MHL into existing school curriculum through training teachers may be an effective and sustainable way to increase the MHL (improved knowledge, decreased stigma and positive help-seeking efficacy) of teachers in Tanzania. As this study replicated the results of a previous intervention in Malawi, consideration could be given to scaling up this intervention in both countries and applying this resource and approach in other countries in East Africa.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; A:East Africa; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; AA:Africa; C:Malawi; C:Tanzania; CA:AandC; CCZ:Tanzania; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:R; CT:T; F:Improvement; F:assessment; F:attitude; F:curriculum; F:outcomes; P:culture; P:health; P:teachers; R:impact; T:Ausbildung; T:Lehrwerkstatt; T:Training; T:trainee; Z:Adolescents; Z:Knowledge; Z:Mental health; Z:Mental health literacy; Z:School-based intervention; Z:Stigma; Z:Teachers; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:Zimbabwe ZWE; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; publicImportV1

Children can learn new facts equally well from interactive media versus face to face instruction - Kwok, Kristine; Ghrear, Siba; Li, Vivian; Haddock, Taeh; Coleman, Patrick; Birch, Susan AJ (Frontiers in psychology, 2016)
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Achieving teaching quality in sub-Saharan Africa: Empirical results from cascade training - Lange, Sarah; Benavot, Aaron (Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 2016)
© Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2016. Sarah Lange examines the effectiveness of cascade training, which constitutes a cost-effective training model in teacher training. In development cooperation countries, teaching quality is expected to improve with teacher professional development; for this purpose, she explores the effectiveness of training multipliers in schools in Cameroon. This research question is analysed with a design, which encompasses a questionnaire survey provided to teachers, students and principals as well as a teacher video survey and a student achievement test. The empirical results show the effects of cascade training on the learner-oriented teaching practice, if the trained teachers are supported in their role as change agents. Among the conditions for the conceptual quality and the implementation of cascade training, the continuity of school-based professional development is particularly emphasized in light of the results.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:Cameroon; CA:AandC; CL:en; CL:pt; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:R; CT:T; F:achievement; F:teaching; P:measurement; P:teacher training; P:teachers; R:questionnaire; R:survey; T:Training; T:trainee; publicImportV1; type:book

The Use of Manipulatives in Mathematics Education - Larbi, Ernest; Mavis, Okyere (Journal of Education and Practice, 2016)
The study was designed to investigate the efficacy of using algebra tile manipulatives in junior high school students' performance. The study sample comprised 56 students from two schools purposely selected from two towns within the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abirem municipality. The students were made up of two groups; the experimental and the control group. Each group was taught the same algebra units over a period of four weeks. However, the experimental group was taught using algebra tile manipulatives whilst the control group was taught using the conventional "talk and chalk" method. The instruments used for data collection were mathematics achievement pretest and posttest. Students' achievements on the posttest were analysed using percentages, mean, standard deviation and the independent t-test. The findings of the study were that, those who were taught through extensive use of algebra tiles performed significantly better. Thus the use of the algebra tiles proved very effective and promising approach to teaching and learning algebra, and that the tiles also improved students' thinking process as they solved problems in algebra. On the basis of these findings, it is recommended that algebra tiles should be used as a tool to introducing students to algebraic concepts.
Keywords: Algebra; Comparative Analysis; Control Groups; Conventional Instruction; Experimental Groups; Foreign Countries; Junior High School Students; Manipulative Materials; Mathematics Achievement; Mathematics Education; Pretests Posttests; Teaching Methods; ⛔ No DOI found

A tool for addressing construct identity in literature reviews and meta-analyses - Larsen, K.R.; Bong, C.H. (MIS Quarterly, 2016)
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ICT and the Education of Refugees: A Stocktaking of Innovative Approaches in the MENA Region​ - Lewis, K.; Thacker, K. (Technical Paper Series (World Bank), 2016)

ICT and the Education of Refugees - Lewis, Kent; Thacker, Simon (2016)
Keywords: _C:Afghanistan AFG; _C:Algeria DZA; _C:Armenia ARM; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Chile CHL; _C:Congo XCO; _C:Costa Rica CRI; _C:Egypt EGY; _C:Ethiopia ETH; _C:France FRA; _C:Germany DEU; _C:India IND; _C:Indonesia IDN; _C:Iran IRN; _C:Iraq IRQ; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Kuwait KWT; _C:Lebanon LBN; _C:Libya LBY; _C:Luxembourg LUX; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Morocco MAR; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Oman OMN; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Philippines PHL; _C:Qatar QAT; _C:Rwanda RWA; _C:Saudi Arabia SAU; _C:South Sudan SSD; _C:Spain ESP; _C:State of Palestine PSE; _C:Sudan SDN; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Syrian Arab Republic SYR; _C:Thailand THA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United Arab Emirates ARE; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Uruguay URY; _C:Yemen YEM; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

ICT and the Education of Refugees: A Stocktaking of Innovative Approaches in the MENA Region - Lewis, Kent; Thacker, Simon (World Bank, 2016)

The Impact of Vocational Schooling on Human Capital Development in Developing Countries: Evidence from China. - Loyalka, P.; Huang, X.; Zhang, L.; Wei, J.; Yi, H.; Song, Y.; Shi, Y.; Chu, J. (World Bank Economic Review, 2016)
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Blended Learning in the Vocational Education and Training System in Tanzania: Understanding Vocational Educators' Perceptions - Machumu, HJ; Zhu, C; Sesabo, JK (International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding, 2016)
In a constructivist world of teaching and learning, opportunities to acquire and develop the knowledge and practical skills necessary to design, establish, and deploy blended learning in vocational education and training (VET) programs delivery is a labour-market-driven. The paper examines VET educator’s pleas about the need for the design, adoption and deployment of blended learning in VET programs delivery in Tanzania. A single case study design with an in-depth interview and focus group discussion was conducted with 15 VET educators in three VET colleges in both Morogoro and Dar es Salaam regions. Snowball and purposive sampling were used to obtain sample respondents. For the data analysis, content analysis was employed to condense data obtained from interviews and focus group discussion. It was found that continuous professional development, institutional arrangements, and support should be provided online to facilitate the design, adoption and use of blended learning in VET. We recommend that locally designed blended learning should be relevant to the environment of both students and teachers. In reality, the interplay between blended learning, imparting knowledge and practical skills remain the key focus of future research.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:Tanzania; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:T; F:learning; F:teaching; HDR25; P:technology; Q:e-learning; Q:mobile learning; Q:open education; T:Ausbildung; T:TVET; publicImportV1

Enhancing access to education and training for persons with disabilities in Somalia and Somaliland - Maina, L., (2016)
Ongoing civil war and extreme poverty has substantially increased the prevalence of disability in Somalia. Estimates suggest that 15-20% of the population have disabilities, with the average family having at least one member with disabilities. However, support for people with disabilities in Somalia remains low. Widespread discrimination leaves people with disabilities excluded from education and employment, and vulnerable to violence and abuse. This impacts on their participation in decision making and advocacy for their rights. In this article, Lucy introduces the work of the Africa Educational Trust (AET) project ‘Enhancing access to education and training for people with disabilities’, funded by the EU between 2012 and 2015.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; C:Somalia; CA:AandC; CL:de; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:R; CT:T; F:access; F:disability; F:policy; R:impact; T:Training; Z:Access to education; Z:Conflict; Z:Disability; Z:Education policy; Z:Employment skills; Z:Inclusive education; Z:Student financial support; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Inclusiveness in the Vocational Education Policy and Legal Frameworks of Kenya and Tanzania - Malle, Abebe Yehualawork (Journal of Education and Learning, 2016)
This study examines the status of inclusiveness in the education and training policies of Ethiopia in comparison to those of selected East African countries. The focus is on vocational education in terms of the special educational and training needs of students with disabilities. Focus group discussions and interviews conducted in Kenya and Tanzania, relevant policy document analysis and the findings of Article 1 of the study were used as primary sources for the research. A total of 18 representatives of DPOs from Kenya and Tanzania participated in two sessions of focus group discussions, and 15 high-profile figures and experts from concerned government bodies of these study countries were interviewed. Most of the study participants agreed that the issue of disability was not adequately addressed in the education and training policies or the legal and implementation instruments of the study countries. The participants also proposed valuable recommendations.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:East Africa; C:Ethiopia; C:Kenya; C:Tanzania; CA:AandC; CL:en; CL:pt; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:R; CT:T; F:disability; F:inclusion; F:policy; P:measurement; R:focus groups; R:interview; T:TVET; T:Training; T:training needs; Z:Comparative Education; Z:Disabilities; Z:Educational Legislation; Z:Educational Needs; Z:Educational Policy; Z:Focus Groups; Z:Foreign Countries; Z:Inclusion; Z:Interviews; Z:Special Education; Z:Specialists; Z:Vocational Education; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

A two-sided academic landscape: portrait of highly-cited documents in Google Scholar (1950-2013) - Martín-Martín, Alberto; Orduna-Malea, Enrique; Ayllón, Juan M.; López-Cózar, Emilio Delgado (arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.02861, 2016)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

The counting house: Measuring those who count. Presence of bibliometrics, scientometrics, informetrics, webometrics and altmetrics in the Google Scholar citations, Researcherid, ResearchGate, Mendeley & Twitter - Martín-Martín, Alberto; Orduña-Malea, Enrique; Ayllón, Juan M.; Lopez-Cozar, Emilio Delgado (arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.02412, 2016)
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Exploring the impact of the design of the physical classroom environment on young children with autism spectrum disorder ( ASD ) - Martin, Caren S. (Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2016)
In 2010, the C enters for D isease C ontrol ( CDC ) reported a 1600% increase in the number of individuals between the ages of 6 and 22 years with autism spectrum disorder ( ASD ). Knowledge about educational interventions for children with ASD is substantial; however, less is known about the design of supportive classroom environments where they learn. ASD experts believe that the early years in school, namely preschool through 6th grade, are critical in reaching children and establishing a foundation for their life‐long learning and general well‐being. In context of the human ecosystem theory that models the interaction between people and the natural, social and designed environments, this literature review of refereed sources (2000–2012) documented findings about interventions, that is, design criteria ( DC ) for incorporation into the physical classroom environment used by children with ASD . The majority of the studies was exploratory and presented DC that subsequently were not tested. Due to research method and/or sampling design, efficacy, reliability and validity of findings varied. Limited research (19 articles, 1 conference proceeding) addressing classroom DC leaves designers, teachers and school administrators substantially reliant on anecdotal information in terms of creating optimal learning environments to support inclusion of children with ASD . Additional research is needed to examine this critical design/human behaviour relationship via identification of evidence‐based DC to guide classroom design solutions that support learning by children with ASD .

A Framework for Evaluating Appropriateness of Educational Technology Use in Global Development Programs - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2016)

Recognizing the Political in Implementation Research - McDonnell, Lorraine M.; Weatherford, M. Stephen (Educational Researcher, 2016)
The widely publicized opposition to the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is in marked contrast to its relatively uncontroversial development and adoption—a contrast that points to the importance of understanding how the politics of enactment differs from the politics of implementation. In this article, we draw on the research literatures on enactment, implementation, and policy feedback to outline the reasons that the politics of policy implementation may look quite different from the politics of enactment, and we argue that education researchers need to pay as much attention to the political sustainability of reforms as to their implementation into school-level practice. This essay is an exercise in retrieval and construction, looking back to early implementation studies that featured political factors as key components of their analytical frameworks but also building on the insights from newer research that uses policy feedback as its theoretical lens. In arguing why the analysis of a policy’s political sustainability should be more systematically integrated into implementation research, we draw illustrative examples from the CCSS.

Skills for sustainable development: Transforming vocational education and training beyond 2015 - McGrath, Simon; Powell, Lesley (International Journal of Educational Development, 2016)

Education Matters - MoEHRD (Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development - Education Matters, 2016)

Organizational culture and creativity in entrepreneurship education: A study of secondary education in Nigeria - Moses, Chinonye Love; Ayodele, Olokundun Maxwell; Mosunmola, Akinbode; Gbenga, Agboola Mayowa (Research Journal of Applied Sciences, 2016)
© Medwell Journals, 2016. This study was based on an ethnographic research of the culture of entrepreneurship teaching in 2nd Evangelical Church in West Africa (ECWA) Secondary School. Data was collated through the instrument of in depth interview and was analyzed through content analysis. The findings showed that there is positive relationship between organizational culture and creativity in entrepreneurship education. This is an indication that organizational culture impacts heavily on creativity in entrepreneurship teaching. The study concluded with the sections of recommendations for policy implications.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:West Africa; C:Nigeria; CA:AandC; CCZ:Nigeria; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:R; CT:T; F:policy; F:teaching; P:culture; Q:secondary education; R:impact; R:interview; T:entrepreneurship education; Z:Creativity; Z:Entrepreneurship education; Z:Organizational culture; Z:Secondary education; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

Developing learning diaries for action research on healthcare management in Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda - Mshelia, Comfort; Lê, Gillian; Mirzoev, Tolib; Amon, Samuel; Kessy, Ambrose; Baine, Sebastian Olikira; Huss, Reinhard (Action Research, 2016)
© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Action research (AR) can be an effective form of ‘on the job’ training. However, it is critical that AR cycles can be appropriately recorded in order to contribute to reflection and learning. One form of recording is for coresearchers to keep a diary. We found no previous literature describing the use of diaries in AR in sub-Saharan Africa. We therefore use this paper to reflect on how diaries were used by district health management teams in the PERFORM project. We share five lessons from our experience. First, it is important to foster ownership of the diary by the people who are responsible for filling it in. Second, the purpose of keeping a diary needs to be clear and shared between researchers and practitioners from the very beginning. Third, diaries should be allowed to evolve. Fourth, it is a challenge for busy practitioners to record the reflection and learning processes that they go through. Last, diaries on their own are not sufficient to capture reflection and learning. In conclusion, there is no best way for practitioners to keep a diary; rather the focus should be on ensuring that an AR recording process (whether diary or otherwise) is locally owned and complements the specific practice setting.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; C:Tanzania; CA:AandC; CCZ:Ghana; CCZ:Tanzania; CCZ:Uganda; CL:de; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:T; F:learning; P:health; T:Training; Z:Diaries; Z:action research; Z:district health management teams; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Uganda UGA; publicImportV1

Rethinking the role of teacher education in Zambia: quality curriculum designing as a missing link in explaining teacher's pedagogical content knowledge. - Mulenga, Innocent Mutale (2016)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Understanding Students' and Teachers' Approaches to Tablet Use in Turkish Secondary Schools: A Model Based Approach - Mutlu, Tugba (University of Sheffield, 2016)
Keywords: _C:Antigua and Barbuda ATG; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Austria AUT; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Chile CHL; _C:China CHN; _C:France FRA; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Greece GRC; _C:Guyana GUY; _C:Hungary HUN; _C:India IND; _C:Iran IRN; _C:Israel ISR; _C:Jamaica JAM; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Kazakhstan KAZ; _C:Korea, Republic KOR; _C:Lebanon LBN; _C:Malta MLT; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:New Zealand NZL; _C:Oman OMN; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Poland POL; _C:Russian Federation RUS; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Thailand THA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:Turkmenistan TKM; _C:United Arab Emirates ARE; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Education Technology Map: Guidance Document - Muyoya, Chisenga; Brugha, Meaghan; Hollow, David (Jigsaw Consult, 2016)

Using research evidence - A practice guide - Nesta (2016)

Integration of ICTs into the Curriculum of Cameroon Primary and Secondary Schools: A Review of Current Status, Barriers and Proposed Strategies for Effective Integration - Ngajie, Berty Nsolly; Ngo, Mback Marie Charlotte (International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2016)
Many sub-Saharan African countries are progressively integrating information and communication technologies (ICTs) into their education systems especially in primary and secondary schools. These efforts that are seen in both private and public schools to bring technologies into the classroom are just starting but are encountering a lot of difficulties. Cameroon, a Sub-Saharan African country, is not an exception to the situation in this group of countries. ICTs were officially introduced in schools in Cameroon since 2001 and since then many initiatives have been carried out but the difficulties supersede the progress. Based on available research, this study focuses on the current status of ICTs in Cameroon primary and secondary schools. It gives a brief description of the country's education system, and reviews major initiatives that have been carried out so far in the integration of ICTs in primary and secondary schools. It further identifies and analyzes some barriers that cause ICT integration into curriculum ineffective. Lastly, it recommends some strategies to overcome the barriers, and guidelines for a contextualized and effective ICT integration.
Keywords: Administrator Qualifications; Barriers; Change Strategies; Educational Administration; Educational History; Educational Technology; Elementary Secondary Education; Foreign Countries; Knowledge Level; Professional Development; Teacher Qualifications; Technology Integration; Technology Uses in Education; ⛔ No DOI found

Teachers as agents of sustainable peace, social cohesion and development: theory, practice & evidence - Novelli, Mario; Sayed, Yusuf (Education as Change, 2016)
Keywords: _C:Afghanistan AFG; _C:Australia AUS; _C:India IND; _C:Lebanon LBN; _C:Myanmar MMR; _C:Nepal NPL; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Rwanda RWA; _C:Sierra Leone SLE; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

School in a Box in Low Resource Primary School in Mozambique: Practical Application of Zone of Proximal Development in Teacher Training with Mobile Technology - O'Sullivan, Linda; Seabra, N. Miguel (International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning (IJMBL), 2016)
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2012 to 2026 OECS Education Sector Strategy - OECS (Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, 2016)

Availability, Access and Utilization of E-Resources among Pre-Service Teacher Trainees by Distance - Olaniran, Sunday O.; Duma, M. A. N.; Nzima, D. R.; Kumar, V; Murthy, S; Kinshuk (IEEE 8TH International Conference on Technology for Education, 2016)
The study investigated accessibility to and utilization of electronic resources among pre-service teachers in the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). Survey research design was used to carry out the study. Two hundred and thirty eighty (238) undergraduate students studying to obtain Bachelor of Education (B. Ed.) by distance were purposively sampled from Ibadan Study Centre of the institution. The results from the survey revealed that electronic resources in different forms like radio broadcast, e-journals, e-books, and CD-ROM, among others, are available and accessible to the pre-service teacher trainees by distance. However, limited internet connectivity and inadequate access to electricity were shown as major factors constraining most of the participants from accessing and utilizing the available electronic resources. The study recommends for the distance learning providers in developing nations to partner with telecommunication firms and internet service providers with a view to providing constant and affordable internet services to their learners, especially those that are studying to become classroom teachers.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; AA:Africa; C:Nigeria; CA:AandC; CL:en; CL:fr; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:D; CT:F; CT:P; CT:Q; CT:R; CT:T; D:developing nation; F:access; P:electro; P:service industry; P:teachers; Q:ICT; Q:distance learning; Q:e-learning; R:research design; R:survey; T:trainee; Z:E-Learning; Z:E-Resources; Z:ICT; Z:ODL; Z:Pre-Service Teachers; publicImportV1; ⚠️ Invalid DOI

Alternate Academy: Investigating the Use of Open Educational Resources by Students at the University of Lagos in Nigeria - Onaifo, Daniel (2016)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

ResearchGate como fuente de evaluación científica: desvelando sus aplicaciones bibliométricas - Orduña-Malea, Enrique; Martín-Martín, Alberto; Delgado-López-Cózar, Emilio (Profesional de la Información, 2016)

The next bibliometrics: ALMetrics (Author Level Metrics) and the multiple faces of author impact - Orduña-Malea, Enrique; Martín-Martín, Alberto; Delgado-López-Cózar, Emilio (El profesional de la información (EPI), 2016)

Contextualizing the twin concepts of systematicity and transparency in information systems literature reviews - Par‍‍‍é, G.; Tate, M.; Johnstone, D. (European Journal of Information Systems, 2016)

Making Sense of MOOCs A Guide for Policy-Makers in Developing Countries - Patru, M; Balaji, V (UNESCO, Commonwealth of Learning, 2016)

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

(untitled) - Piper (2016)
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Improving procedural and conceptual mathematics outcomes: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial in Kenya - Piper, B.; Ralaingita, W.; Akach, L.; King, S. (Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2016)

Implementing mother tongue instruction in the real world: Results from a medium-scale randomized controlled trial in Kenya - Piper, B.; Zuilkowski, S.S.; Ong’ele, S. (Comparative Education Review, 2016)

The Emerging International Knowledge Exchange Barrier in Virtual Teacher Communities - Pirkkalainen, Henri; Jokinen, Jussi; Pawlowski, Jan (ACM, 2016)
Openness in education has sought its way to practice in schools as in universities. Many strategies and concepts have emerged: from openly shared resources to open practices to improve the access to and the quality of education. The knowledge exchange of educators has been seen a crucial activity in reaching and sustaining openness. This article analyses a typical knowledge exchange activity in schools: European teachers were engaged in virtual OER communities to exchange teaching resources as well as experiences about using OER and ICT in education. We applied technology acceptance framework and studied a potential barrier of international knowledge exchange. The findings of the study show surprising results: the willingness to exchange teaching materials within global virtual teacher communities decreases as schools mature in using OER and ICT. This study serves especially as a discussion opener for sustaining discourse and peer support in teacher virtual communities that strive for openness and international knowledge exchange. The findings have strong practical implications for the open education domain as well as for school / teacher development in general.
Keywords: knowledge exchange; open education; teacher networks; technology acceptance; virtual community

Fine motor skills predict maths ability better than they predict reading ability in the early primary school years - Pitchford, Nicola J.; Papini, Chiara; Outhwaite, Laura A.; Gulliford, Anthea (Frontiers in psychology, 2016)

Education Needs Assessment Report - Sierra Leone - Plan International (2016)
Keywords: _C:Sierra Leone SLE

Inside in-service teacher training: What works and how do we measure It? Working paper - Popova, Anna; Evans, David K.; Arancibia, Violeta (Washington, DC.: Rise Programme, 2016)
Keywords: _genre:LR-literature_review; ⛔ No DOI found

Editor’s comments: synergies between big data and theory - Rai, A. (MIS Quarterly, 2016)
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Planning and governance for blended pedagogies and engagement of knowledge economy for South Africa's national development agenda - Ramoroka, Tlou Millicent (University of Limpopo, 2016)
Keywords: _C:Algeria DZA; _C:Australia AUS; _C:Bangladesh BGD; _C:Botswana BWA; _C:Brazil BRA; _C:Canada CAN; _C:Chile CHL; _C:China CHN; _C:Congo XCO; _C:Dominican Republic DOM; _C:Egypt EGY; _C:Estonia EST; _C:Finland FIN; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Greece GRC; _C:India IND; _C:Indonesia IDN; _C:Iran IRN; _C:Ireland IRL; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Korea XKOR; _C:Korea, Republic KOR; _C:Latvia LVA; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Mexico MEX; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:North Macedonia MKD; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Poland POL; _C:Romania ROU; _C:Serbia SRB; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Spain ESP; _C:Sri Lanka LKA; _C:Sweden SWE; _C:Thailand THA; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; _C:Viet Nam VNM; _C:Zambia ZMB; _C:Zimbabwe ZWE; _C:eSwatini SWZ; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Need for more and better implementation science in global health - Ridde, Valéry (BMJ Specialist Journals, 2016)