The first microcomputers were developed in the late 1970s and soon a wide variety of these machines were available for school and home use. This presented both a marvellous opportunity to improve school education and a significant problem for education authorities in how to provide support for the range of available computers. Several countries, including Australia, attempted to solve this prob...

We examine educational differences in the intendedness of first births in Japan using data from a nationally representative survey of married women (N = 2,373). We begin by describing plausible scenarios for a negative, null, and positive educational gradient in unintended first births. In contrast to well-established results from the U.S., we find evidence of a positive educational gradient in...

Introduction In the 16 years since the first Education for All conference at Jomtien, national governments and international donors have invested billions of dollars in programs and reforms designed to improve access to quality education, with a focus on basic education. These education programs have implemented activities designed to address many of the common obstacles to education: school co...

SERVICE-LEARNING ACTIVITIES for students in the health sciences often involve volunteer work at local wellness centers, nursing homes, hospitals, and blood drives. While service learning is certainly known to be effective and resources exist to aid in the development of service learning, unfortunately, students in the exercise science (ES) area frequently have difficulty finding ES-specific act...

as its first research and training centre and started work in Helsinki, Finland in 1985. The Institute undertakes applied research and policy analysis on structural changes affecting the developing and transitional economies, provides a forum for the advocacy of policies leading to robust, equitable and environmentally sustainable growth, and promotes capacity strengthening and training in the ...

Article: There is little question that today’s society is a litigious one, and few professions can escape the realities of such. Although there is no mandate for national data collection on special education due process hearings (Ahearn, 2002), Chambers, Harr, and Dhanani (2003) estimate that more than 9,000 requests for dispute resolution are made per year. The hearings that result from unreso...

BACKGROUND I have been a clinical tutor for 10 years in Worthing Hospital, UK. During this time I have seen an increased emphasis on classroom teaching, assessments in controlled situations and simulation, rather than on apprenticeship learning during well-supervised clinical working. CONTEXT At the educational conference on 'Learning without Leaving the Workplace' hosted by my hospital, I ha...

Over the last sixty years, the world has witnessed a remarkable transformation in educational opportunity. The inclusion of education as one of the fundamental rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted in 1948, and the ensuing creation of a global architecture to support the achievement of this right, transformed humanity. Whereas sixty years ago the vast majority of the world...

Increasing widespread use of educational technologies is producing vast amounts of data. Such data can be used to help advance our understanding of student learning and enable more intelligent, interactive, engaging, and effective education. In this paper, we discuss the status and prospects of this new and powerful opportunity for data-driven development and optimization of educational technol...