Download or read book Studies in Curriculum Decision Making written by Kenneth A. Leithwood and published by OISE Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Data based Decision Making in Education written by Kim Schildkamp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a context where schools are held more and more accountable for the education they provide, data-based decision making has become increasingly important. This book brings together scholars from several countries to examine data-based decision making. Data-based decision making in this book refers to making decisions based on a broad range of evidence, such as scores on students’ assessments, classroom observations etc. This book supports policy-makers, people working with schools, researchers and school leaders and teachers in the use of data, by bringing together the current research conducted on data use across multiple countries into a single volume. Some of these studies are ‘best practice’ studies, where effective data use has led to improvements in student learning. Others provide insight into challenges in both policy and practice environments. Each of them draws on research and literature in the field.
Download or read book Understanding Decision Making in Educational Contexts written by Stephanie Chitpin and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Decision-Making in Educational Contexts presents 'problem cases' confronting school leaders in real settings, and illustrates the multiple approaches that school leaders draw upon to navigate complex and challenging decision-making contexts.
Download or read book Transforming Teaching and Learning Through Data Driven Decision Making written by Ellen B. Mandinach and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gathering data and using it to inform instruction is a requirement for many schools, yet educators are not necessarily formally trained in how to do it. This book helps bridge the gap between classroom practice and the principles of educational psychology. Teachers will find cutting-edge advances in research and theory on human learning and teaching in an easily understood and transferable format. The text's integrated model shows teachers, school leaders, and district administrators how to establish a data culture and transform quantitative and qualitative data into actionable knowledge based on: assessment; statistics; instructional and differentiated psychology; classroom management."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book The Politics of Curriculum Decision Making written by M. Frances Klein and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1991-01-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent proposals for school reform have involved a significant shift in how curriculum decisions are made, particularly at the state level. In response to these proposals, actions taken by educators have underscored the critical nature of the issue regarding who makes curriculum decisions. This book examines the issues involved in how this pivotal concern has been addressed in the past and how it is being handled now. Each chapter contributes to a more complete understanding of the complexities involved in the recent trend toward the centralization of curriculum decision-making. The book will assist both researchers and practitioners in better understanding the issues involved as well as the impact of the movement.
Download or read book Data Driven Decision Making in Schools Lessons from Trinidad written by J. Yamin-Ali and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-01-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yamin-Ali shows how schools can undertake responsible decision-making through gathering and evaluating data, using as examples six fully developed case studies that shed light on common questions of school culture and student life, including student stress, subject selection, and the role of single-sex classes.
Download or read book Transforming Teaching and Learning Through Data Driven Decision Making written by Ellen B. Mandinach and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connect data and instruction to improve practice Gathering data and using it to inform instruction is a requirement for many schools, yet educators are not necessarily formally trained in how to do it. This book helps bridge the gap between classroom practice and the principles of educational psychology. Teachers will find cutting-edge advances in research and theory on human learning and teaching in an easily understood and transferable format. The text′s integrated model shows teachers, school leaders, and district administrators how to establish a data culture and transform quantitative and qualitative data into actionable knowledge based on: Assessment Statistics Instructional and differentiated psychology Classroom management
Download or read book Thinking About The Curriculum Routledge Revivals written by William A Reid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1978, this book looks at the ‘curriculum crisis’ of the 1970s, examining the effect it has had for Curriculum Studies and curriculum policy making. It focuses on a time when long-established structures and procedures were challenged and schools were accused of having lost touch with the wants and needs of communities. The author argues that the curriculum should become part of community interest and be led by this, rather than by professionals and initiates. Indeed, he feels that the curriculum must have an identity which avoids alliances with technocrats, bureaucrats or ideologues, but yet has a positive philosophy and a commitment to good values.
Download or read book Curriculum Decision Making in TAFE written by Clare McBeath and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study examined the decision-making stage in the curriculum development process in vocational programs throughout Australia. Data were collected from interviews from a network of persons currently involved in curriculum development and case studies of the curriculum development process in action at 16 vocational schools throughout Australia. Although information on curriculum options was found to exist within the Technical and Further Education (TAFE) agencies, biases and knowledge gaps were discernible in the case studies. Although many curriculum decisions are predetermined by outside factors, such as industrial award agreements, it appeared that other decisions were being made without proper assessment of the options available. Particular confusion existed on issues such as the use of modules, self-pacing, and mastery learning. There was a very uneven awareness of entry and exit issues, articulation, and flexibility of testing; and the options of distance education and degrees of individualization were virtually neglected. Thus, the data indicate that curriculum developers, especially the less experienced ones, need a better grounding in curriculum issues and the curriculum options open to them. At least some curriculum developers need more guidance and more confidence in the art of choosing which data are needed to make more effective decisions. Little guidance in anticipating or dealing with the hidden forces of the curriculum process currently exists. (The instrument used in interviewing curriculum developers is appended, and 71 references are listed.) (MN)
Download or read book Democratic Education for Social Studies written by Anna S. Ochoa-Becker and published by IAP. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first edition of this book published in 1988, Shirley Engle and I offered a broader and more democratic curriculum as an alternative to the persistent back-to-the-basics rhetoric of the ‘70s and ‘80s. This curriculum urged attention to democratic practices and curricula in the school if we wanted to improve the quality of citizen participation and strengthen this democracy. School practices during that period reflected a much lower priority for social studies. Fewer social studies offerings, fewer credits required for graduation and in many cases, the job descriptions of social studies curriculum coordinators were transformed by changing their roles to general curriculum consultants. The mentality that prevailed in the nation’s schools was “back to the basics” and the basics never included or even considered the importance of heightening the education of citizens. We certainly agree that citizens must be able to read, write and calculate but these abilities are not sufficient for effective citizenship in a democracy. This version of the original work appears at a time when young citizens, teachers and schools find themselves deluged by a proliferation of curriculum standards and concomitant mandatory testing. In the ‘90s, virtually all subject areas including United States history, geography, economic and civics developed curriculum standards, many funded by the federal government. Subsequently, the National Council for the Social Studies issued the Social Studies Curriculum Standards that received no federal support. Accountability, captured in the No Child Left Behind Act passed by Congress, has become a powerful, political imperative that has a substantial and disturbing influence on the curriculum, teaching and learning in the first decade of the 21st century.
Download or read book Curriculum Making in Europe written by Mark Priestley and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of profound social, political and technological changes, recent global trends in education have included the emergence of new forms of curriculum policy. Addressing a gap in the literature, this book investigates the ways in which curriculum policy is influenced, formulated, and enacted in a number of countries-cases in Europe.
Download or read book An Analysis of Curriculum Decision Making in Arizona School Districts written by John Knapp Butts and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Curriculum Decision Making in a Research University written by Pamela Judith Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an empirical study addressing the need to better understand how academics design undergraduate curricula and the influences that shape their decisions. The study draws on literatures from the perspectives of curriculum and the teaching-research nexus to identify a framework for investigating higher education curriculum decisions that comprises all potential influences in the higher education context, including research. Interviews were held with 20 academics from a range of disciplines, who were working at a research university and were both research active and committed to teaching. These participants were intended to represent a group who experienced the dynamics between research and teaching in their curriculum practice. The findings show that the process of higher education curriculum decision making is an iterative web, with multiple starting points and pathways. The common starting points, in order of frequency, were course content, learning outcomes, and teaching and learning activities. The findings suggest that there is no one best pathway for curriculum design, because the iterative process means that decisions are progressively revisited and refined. However, beginning from learning outcomes is helpful for providing a framework for thinking about other curriculum decisions. There is also widespread awareness that students need to be engaged, and that active learning approaches enhance student learning. Practices which were less common were using marking criteria to guide students in their assessment tasks, and evaluating learning effectiveness. Participants' beliefs about educational purposes were found to the most important influence shaping their curriculum decisions. Five curriculum orientations were identified that aligned with the following beliefs about educational purposes: (1) inducting students into a discipline, (2) preparing students' for professional and academic pathways, (3) making learning personally relevant to students, (4) engaging students with social issues and reform, and (5) designing a system for learning. Research was an important influence on many of the curricula studied. The explicit inclusion of research in this study enabled the identification of the 'professional and academic curriculum orientation', which is distinctive from other curriculum studies. In this orientation, research provided a bridge between professional and academic educational purposes for preparing students for professional practice, for future research and for academic learning. Patterns of beliefs suggest that curriculum orientations are informed by participants' disciplinary knowledge practices. Engagement with educational professional development was found to develop pedagogical expertise and was associated with transformative curriculum change. Most participants did not explicitly identify external influences from the socio-political context as having an impact on their curricula decisions. However they demonstrated that they were responding to changing expectations for including employability skills in curricula, and about teaching and learning. Participants' curriculum orientations were found to shape their responses to change. This study suggests implications for educational change initiatives and for educational professional development. Academics were found to be responsive to changing their curriculum and teaching practices when they perceive the change to enhance the achievement of their educational purposes, to be aligned with their disciplinary knowledge practices, and to provide benefits that include institutional recognition and reward.
Download or read book Analyzing Influences written by Mark Robin Campbell and published by IAP. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editorial Board: Deborah Blair VanderLinde, Oakland University. William Bauer, University of Florida. Lisa R. Hunter, The State University of New York at Fredonia. Ronald Kos, Boston University. Joshua A. Russell, The Hartt School, University of Hartford. Peter Whiteman, Institute of Early Childhood, Macquarie University. Analyzing Influences: Research on Decision Making and the Music Education Curriculum examines influences on research in music teacher preparation, practices, and policies. These influences include administrators’ perspectives, preservice music educators’ beliefs, and in-service teachers’ practices. Invited essays offer insights into past and present trends in music teacher preparation. This collection of studies represents best thinking in the field and serves as an impetus for further research and action. Each author’s analysis on the influences affecting their specific areas provides insights into key issues affecting decision making processes. This volume is a significant addition to the libraries of Colleges of Education and Schools of Music, as well as an important reference for music scholars and educators, researchers, and graduate students who are concerned with advancing both the scope and quality of research in the study of music teaching and learning.
Download or read book Social Decision Making Social Problem Solving SDM SPS Grades K 1 written by Linda Bruene Butler and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on teaching students to be reflective, non-impulsive, and responsible decision makers and problem solvers - while emphasizing essential literacy skills. The programme uses cooperative learning methods, including small-group brainstorming, problem-solving, and role-playing activities. Students learn skills such as self-control, listening, respectful communication, giving and receiving help, and working cooperatively.
Download or read book Education and Career Choice written by P. White and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research project offers a new perspective on post-sixteen transitions. Combing secondary data with narrative accounts it describes how young people in the UK make choices at the end of their compulsory schooling and provides a dynamic model of decision-making and a thorough critique of current research in the area, beyond fashionable concepts.
Download or read book Curriculum Improvement written by Ronald C. Doll and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 1986 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ninth Edition of "Curriculum Improvement" is comprehensive, unique, practical, and thought-provoking. Despite the problems it cites, the book offers a message of hope-- that schools can help to solve society's problems by impressing upon children and youth that they can achieve and succeed if they act in doing what they know to be right and productive.
