Learning through Collaborative Research: The Six Nation Education Research Project

✍ Scribed by Noel F. McGinn

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 236
Series: Reference Books in International Education
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book covers the seven-year project involving China, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, and the US, to show how collaborative research can help expand worldwide knowledge of education.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 9
Glossary of Abbreviations......Page 12
1. International Cooperation in Comparative Education Research......Page 14
2. Predictors of National Difficulties in Mathematics and Science Achievement of Eight-Grade Students: Data from TIMSS......Page 32
3. Pedagogical Practices in English Language Education......Page 65
4. Vocational Training and Education......Page 99
5. Higher Education Reforms: Determinants and Directions......Page 146
6. Education Evaluation and Indicators in the People's Republic of China, Singapore, and the United States......Page 170
7. The Six Nation Project as an Experience in Collaborative Research......Page 191
Contributors......Page 222
Topics Index......Page 225
Persons, Places, Institutions......Page 230

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