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Preparing Indonesian Youth
Preparing Indonesian Youth: A Review of Educational Research offers insights into the challenges and prospects in preparing Indonesian youth for 21st century living. The chapters feature empirically-based case studies focusing on three key aspects of education in Indonesia: teachers and teaching; school practices, programs, and innovations; and the social contexts of youth and schooling. The case studies also represent different vantage points contributing to an enriched understanding of how larger social phenomenon—for example, education decentralisation in Indonesia, (rural-urban and transnational) migration, international benchmarking assessments, and the global feminist and women’s m...
World Class
“An upbeat chronicle of [Clavel’s] children’s school experiences in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo…[offering] advice about vetting schools and enriching children’s education.” —Kirkus Reviews “An intriguing volume on the differences in global education.” —Library Journal A must-read firsthand exploration of why Asian students are outpacing their American counterparts and how to help our children excel in today’s competitive world. When Teru Clavel had young children, she watched her friends and fellow parents vie for spots in elite New York City schools. Instead of losing herself in the intensive applications and interview process, Teru and her family moved to Asia, emb...
PISA 2009 Results: Learning to Learn Student Engagement, Strategies and Practices (Volume III)
This volume of PISA 2009 results examines 15-year-olds’ motivation, their engagement with reading and their use of effective learning strategies.
PISA 2009 Results: Students On Line Digital Technologies and Performance (Volume VI)
This sixth volume of PISA 2009 results explores students’ use of information technologies to learn.
International Handbook of Comparative Large-Scale Studies in Education
This handbook is the first of its kind to provide a general and comprehensive overview of virtually every aspect of International Large Scale Assessment (ILSA). It includes historical, economic, and policy perspectives, theoretical foundations, methodology, and reviews of findings from analyses of ILSA data. After decades, during which ILSAs have generated knowledge within central areas of education research and gained increased and substantial impact on educational policy, practice and research, such a broad overview for a wide-ranging audience is much needed. With contributions from authors and editors from all continents, this handbook appeals to an international audience and keeps a neut...
PISA 2015 Results (Volume IV) Students' Financial Literacy
The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) examines not just what students know in science, reading and mathematics, but what they can do with what they know. Results from PISA show educators and policy makers the quality and equity of learning outcomes achieved elsewhere.
Alice: Scarlet Book 2
In a snowy castle, far, far away from everyone, lives a girl. Her hair is as dark as the night sky, her skin is as white as snow, and her lips are as red as petals from a rose—and her life as enchanted as her violet-colored eyes. Waking up in a world she doesn’t remember, Alice is catapulted into the intrigues of the Middle Kingdom. Amid the danger this place holds, her only chance of safety lies in Prince Clyde, the only heir to the throne. What begins as only a fight for her freedom becomes a battle between the present and her past.
Language Contacts at the Crossroads of Disciplines
This volume offers a cross-disciplinary insight into language contact research, bringing together fresh empirical and theoretical studies from various fields concerning different dimensions of language contact and variation, second language acquisition and translation. In the present-day world of globalization, population mobility and information technology, the themes of multilingualism and contact-induced language change are as topical as ever, and research on language contacts and cross-linguistic influence has expanded rapidly during the last few decades. Along with the increasing specialization of related disciplines, their research perspectives, methods and terminology have become disp...
International Perspectives in Educational Effectiveness Research
This edited volume explores questions about ‘what works’, how, for whom, when, and why in education, and considers how and to what extent such knowledge can be understood and extended across countries and different educational systems. The book starts by presenting an overview of the history of educational effectiveness research and offers examples of current theories of educational effectiveness. Next, it provides exemplars of effectiveness studies that report on educational systems, policies, and practices from across six continents. These studies vary in their research methods and outcomes, illustrating a field of research that is conscious of its origins, its agenda, and its ambition...
