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This report presents and describes an evaluation project of the most recent Swedish curriculum reform, Curriculum for … generate new knowledge concerning the influences of international educational reform movements, national curriculum reforms and …, explanatory curriculum theory by relating the societal, the programmatic and the classroom curriculum level, (ii) add a …
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In this part we will present turn by turn the evolution of the curriculum in four domains which are developing in the … consideration the perspective that each curriculum from the four domains has in the ensemble of European and/or EU Studies, the new …, emphasizing the nuances from a country to another. Secondly, we will trace the evolution of each curriculum in relation with the …
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The paper investigates the effect of teacher characteristics (experience, level of education attainment and credentials, gender) on the achievement of eighth grade students using matched student-teacher data from the 1999, 2003 and 2007 TIMSS surveys. The analysis covers European countries, thus...
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This paper examines the effect of teacher gender on student achievement in 20 European countries. We employ a student fixed effect approach to account for unobservable subject-invariant student ability and non-random student-teacher sorting. Our results show that female teachers tend to increase...
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Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are...
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adjust their curricula: Less selective public colleges adopt a less demanding curriculum in order to accommodate the influx … more demanding curriculum to better serve their most able students, again at the expense of medium ability students. The …
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curriculum on supply of and demand for apprenticeship training. Modernizations of training curricula provide us with a quasi … when they have more choice options in the training curriculum because of (1) the higher productivity of graduates who have … 2014. We find that a more heterogeneous curriculum increases both firms' supply of and students' demand for training places. …
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This paper evaluates the effects of a high school curriculum reform on students' probability to enroll at university …
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We analyze the impact of expansion of higher education on student outcomes in the context of competition among colleges which differentiate themselves horizontally by setting curricular standards. When public or economic pressures compel less selective colleges to lower their curricular demands,...
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