Health development science; Developmental origins of chronic illnesses; Community; Diabetes; Autism; Obesity; Nutrition; Health disparities across the lifespan; Fetal programming
Researchers commonly interpret effect sizes by applying benchmarks proposed by Jacob Cohen over a half century ago. However, effects that are small by Cohen’s standards are large relative to the ...impacts of most field-based interventions. These benchmarks also fail to consider important differences in study features, program costs, and scalability. In this article, I present five broad guidelines for interpreting effect sizes that are applicable across the social sciences. I then propose a more structured schema with new empirical benchmarks for interpreting a specific class of studies: causal research on education interventions with standardized achievement outcomes. Together, these tools provide a practical approach for incorporating study features, costs, and scalability into the process of interpreting the policy importance of effect sizes.
Creating the market university Berman, Elizabeth Popp
Princeton University Press,
2012, 2012., 20111219, 2011, 2012-00-00, 2012-01-01, 20120101
eBook, Book
Academic science in the U.S. once self-consciously avoided the market. But today it is seen as an economic engine that keeps the nation globally competitive. Creating the Market University compares ...the origins of biotech entrepreneurship, university patenting, and university-industry research centers to show how government decisions shaped by a new argument--that innovation drives the economy-transformed academic science. (Verlag)
Since the early 1990s, the federal role in education-exemplified by the controversial No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)-has expanded dramatically. Yet states and localities have retained a central role ...in education policy, leading to a growing struggle for control over the direction of the nation's schools.In An Education in Politics, Jesse H. Rhodes explains the uneven development of federal involvement in education. While supporters of expanded federal involvement enjoyed some success in bringing new ideas to the federal policy agenda, Rhodes argues, they also encountered stiff resistance from proponents of local control. Built atop existing decentralized policies, new federal reforms raised difficult questions about which level of government bore ultimate responsibility for improving schools.
Rhodes's argument focuses on the role played by civil rights activists, business leaders, and education experts in promoting the reforms that would be enacted with federal policies such as NCLB. It also underscores the constraints on federal involvement imposed by existing education policies, hostile interest groups, and, above all, the nation's federal system. Indeed, the federal system, which left specific policy formation and implementation to the states and localities, repeatedly frustrated efforts to effect changes: national reforms lost their force as policies passed through iterations at the state, county, and municipal levels. Ironically, state and local resistance only encouraged civil rights activists, business leaders, and their political allies to advocate even more stringent reforms that imposed heavier burdens on state and local governments. Through it all, the nation's education system made only incremental steps toward the goal of providing a quality education for every child.
This study aims to see students’ responses regarding the need for textbooks for the Education Management and Policy Analysis Course in the Doctoral Education Study Program, FKIP, Universitas ...Bengkulu. This study was carried out by giving questionnaires to students to respond to their desired needs. This study was carried out through the Education Management and Policy Analysis Course. The results of this research showed that respondents needed a book for the Educational Management and Policy Analysis course and at the same time produced the Educational Management and Policy Analysis textbook. Research like this had been carried out before by other researchers, but with different topics and respondents, and the advantages of this study gave birth to the book Analysis of Educational Management and Policy. This study makes a contribution to the Doctor of Education Study Program regarding the addition of textbooks which also serve as references for the Education Management and Policy Analysis Course. The novelty of this study is the birth of a book for the Education Management and Policy Analysis Course. This study has implications for lecturers and students in the Doctor of Education Study Program who have a handbook on Education Management and Policy Analysis.
Education Policy Olssen, Mark; Codd, John A; O′Neill, Anne-Marie
SAGE Publications (UK),
2004, 2004-00-00, 2004-06-08
eBook, Book
`This is the new policy bible for educationalists - it is at once systematic, provocative and instructive′ - Michael A Peters, Research Professor, University of Glasgow This book provides an ...international perspective on education policy, and of the role and function of education in the global economy. The authors present a Foucauldian perspective on the politics of liberal education, within a theoretical framework necessary for the critical analysis of education policy.
Assistência estudantil: Uma avaliação de sua efetividade Ferreira, Luiz Cláudio Costa; Almeida, Alexandre Nascimento de; Santos, Carolina Cassia Batista ...
Education policy analysis archives,
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O Programa Nacional de Assistência Estudantil (PNAES) completa 12 anos de existência em 2020, contou com um orçamento em torno de R$ 1 bilhão em 2019, no entanto, há poucas iniciativas de avaliação ...dos seus impactos. O objetivo deste estudo é avaliar o efeito dos programas de assistência estudantil da Universidade de Brasília (UnB) no período de 2010-2014, por meio da comparação das taxas de evasão e retenção entre os estudantes participantes e não participantes da assistência estudantil. Os resultados indicaram que não houve diferença na taxa de evasão entre os dois grupos analisados. Quando avaliado em desagregado por cursos, a taxa de evasão variou inversamente proporcional ao prestígio do curso. A retenção dos estudantes da assistência estudantil apresentou ser maior comparativamente a dos estudantes não participantes nos cursos de médio e baixo prestígio. Os programas de assistência estudantil têm atingido o objetivo do PNAES, reduzindo a taxa de evasão e mantendo a média de retenção dos estudantes atendidos dentro dos parâmetros definidos pelo Ministério da Educação do Brasil (MEC). Destaca-se que, no caso da retenção, são necessários ajustes para que essa seja igual entre todos os estudantes da UnB, principalmente nos cursos considerados de médio e baixo prestígio.
This open access book presents original research on effective and equitable teacher practice in mathematics and science education across Nordic countries. It focuses on three key aspects of teacher ...practice: what teachers teach, how teachers teach, and how teachers assess their students. To provide a comprehensive understanding of teacher practice, data from the IEA’s Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) from 2011 to 2019 was analyzed. TIMSS provides large-scale and representative data, allowing an in-depth investigation of the relations between teachers, their practices, and student outcomes. The findings highlight the changes in teacher practice over time and the extent to which such changes explain the differences in student outcomes. This research also contributes to understanding how the relationships between teacher practice and student outcomes vary across different student groups (i.e., gender, socioeconomic status, and language background). The empirical evidence presented not only adds a significant layer to the academic discourse but also offers practical implications. These insights are crucial in facilitating educational policymaking and classroom practices aimed at improving student outcomes and closing gaps in educational inequality.
Trotz massiver Förderungen für die Digitalisierung ist die Präsenzlehre noch immer der Standard an deutschen Hochschulen. Aufgrund des Physical Distancing im Zuge der Corona-Pandemie musste sie ...jedoch kurzfristig fast vollständig digitalisiert werden. Die Beiträge des Bandes bieten einen multiperspektivischen Zugang zu den damit verbundenen Herausforderungen und beleuchten, wie die verschiedenen Akteur*innen die Umstellung auf digitale Lehr- und Lernformate umgesetzt und erlebt haben. Durch die Zusammenführung der verschiedenen Sichtweisen können die Bedarfe und Wünsche der einzelnen Akteursgruppen zusammengebracht und bei der nachhaltigen Weiterentwicklung der Hochschullehre besser berücksichtigt werden.
