Foreword; Terence Lovat -- Introduction: Towards The Simultaneity Of IC?; Fred Dervin & Zehavit Gross -- PART I: ADDING TO PREVIOUS PERSPECTIVES: MAKING IC MORE EFFECTIVE? -- Chapter 1. Meta-Pragmatic Awareness And Intercultural Competence: The Role Of Reflection And Interpretation In Intercultural Mediation; Troy Mcconachy & Anthony J. Liddicoat -- Chapter 2. Intercultural Competence In Host S…
Part 1: Reinvention and Innovation: Designing Business and Economics Education for 21st Century Learning -- 1. Introduction; Kristen Reid and Peter Daly -- 2. Mobile phones - Not a Distraction in the Classroom but a Means of Engagement? ; Alison Lahlafi and Diane Rushton -- 3. Authenticity and Transparency in the Teaching of Leadership Readiness; Lisa O’Malley, Ellen Fowler and Sarah Moore --…
Chapter 1 School Improvement as a Global Movement -- Chapter 2 The Network Model -- Chapter 3 Contexts for School Improvement -- Chapter 4 Classroom Practice and Student Learning -- Chapter 5 Leadership and Collaborative Practice in School Improvement -- Chapter 6 Improving Schools.This unique book explores school improvement policy – from its translation into national contexts and school net…
Imagining Time and Space in Universities presents critical theorizations of time and space to analyze discourses and practices of globalization and internationalization. As both dimensions have been understood in separate and hierarchical modes limited attention is given to cultural meanings embedded in these institutional policies and practices.
Governance -- Higher Education in Times of Discontent? -- Reform and Transformation Following Regime Change -- Change or Continuity in Higher Education Governance? -- The Governance and Management of Student Learning in Universities -- Distinctive Local Continuities Amidst Similar Neo-Liberal Changes: The Comparative Importance of the Particular -- Knowledge -- New Patterns of Diversity in High…
Levels and Sub-sectors -- Preschool Education -- Primary and Secondary Schooling -- Higher Education -- Teacher Education -- Lifelong Learning and Adult Education -- Political, Economic and Social Issues -- Church, State and Education -- Higher Education, Imperialism and Colonial Transition -- Higher Education and the Labour Force -- Language and Education -- Curriculum Policies and Processes -…
1. Overview -- 2. Civic and Citizenship Framework -- 3. Contextual Framework -- 4.Assessment Design -- 5. References -- 6. Appendices.Open AccessThe International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) investigates the ways in which young people are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens in a range of countries in the second decade of the 21st century. ICCS 2016 is a continuation o…
Chapter 1 Introduction, Wayne Martino, Nelson M. Rodriguez, Jennifer C. Ingrey, and Edward Brockenbrough -- Chapter 2 Affect, Alyssa D. Niccolini -- Chapter 3 Allies of Intersectionalities, Paulina Abustan and A.G. Rud Chapter -- 4 Bitter Knowledge, Thabo Msibi -- Chapter 5 Bullying, Gerald Walton -- Chapter 6 Coming Out, Gabrielle Richard -- Chapter 7 Containment, Chris Haywood and Máirtín M…
Measurement and the Rasch model -- Classical Test Theory -- Objective Measurement -- The Rasch Model Explained -- Applications of the Rasch Model — Tests and Competencies -- Monitoring Mathematics Achievement over Time -- Manual and Automatic Estimates of Growth and Gain Across Year Levels: How Close is Close? -- Japanese Language Learning and the Rasch Model -- Chinese Language Learning and …
Introduction, Mark BRAY, Ora KWO & Boris JOKIĆ -- Employing Quantitative Instruments -- 1 Shadow Education Research through TIMSS and PIRLS: Experiences and Lessons in the Republic of Georgia, Magda Nutsa KOBAKHIDZE -- 2 Research on Private Tutoring in Malaysia: Methodological, Insights from a Quantitative Study, Husaina Banu KENAYATHULLA -- 3 Relationships between Shadow Education and Examina…