while many international organisations have independent evaluations, including the international monetary fund (imf) and world health organization (who), uniquely the world bank in its 2015 world development report sought to ascertain the potential biases that influence how its staff interpret evidence and influence policy. here, we describe the world bank’s study design, including experiments ...

This article shares the critical reflections of a teacher educator who utilised digital stories as teaching strategy in professional development module for final-year pre-service teachers. Action research, through participatory narrative inquiry approach, was employed, and data were gathered from stories, scripts, reflective essays. The findings suggest that platform created students to collabo...

The research presented in this article focuses on an international collaboration conducted by four experienced teacher educators who used assumption identification and examination to advance pedagogical practice. It describes examines how deliberately undertook reflective practices inform enhance teaching. Four vignettes are described analyzed— Practica woes Modelling practice —and examined usi...

Wiki use may help EFL instructors to create an effective learning environment for inquiry-based language teaching and learning. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of wikis on the EFL learners’ IBL process. Forty-nine EFL students participated in the study while they conducted research projects in English. The Non-wiki group (n = 25) received traditional inquiry instr...

The National Quality Standard (NQS) is the benchmark for quality in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) within Australia. Australian Government positioned reflective practice at core of NQS (ACECQA, 2013) order to raise standards inform future planning decision making (COAG, 2009; Kennedy, 2011). Critical reflection was identified as foundational good with educators expected engage a 'liv...

The reward systems typically found in colleges and universities often serve as a barrier rather than catalyst for improving teaching. As such, an increasing number of university faculty members are using their own classrooms site inquiry reflective practice (e.g. self-study) to concurrently advance research This paper portrays yearlong self-study two former practitioners turned probationary wit...

Teaching critical thinking skill using the smart learning approach have been treated as essential goal of higher education in many countries, however, important predictors academic performance, effects orientations on teaching are still not fully clear, hence, this study tried to explore moderating relationship between constructivist and skills among pre-service teachers. Findings showed that t...

Strategic Decision-Making is always challenging because it inherently uncertain, ambiguous, risky, and complex. By contrast to tactical operational decisions, strategic decisions are decisive, pivotal, often irreversible, which may result in long-term significant consequences. A decision-making process usually involves many aspects of inquiry, including sensory perception, deliberative thinking...