Comparative analysis of academic grades in compulsory secondary education in Spain using statistical techniques

The present study, based on the construct comparability approach, performs a comparative analysis of general points average for seven courses, using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and the Partial Credit model (PCM) with a sample of 1398 student subjects (M = 12.5, SD = 0.67) from 8 schools in the province of Alicante (Spain). EFA confirmed a one-factor model which explains 74.44% of the variance. Cronbach’s alpha value for this factor was .94. The PCM supported the one-factor model, and an optimal fit was achieved in all of the courses. The analysis of differential item functioning showed no significant differences in any course. Equitable distribution was observed in the evolution of the difficulty indices along the measurement scale for each course. This type of analysis confirms the measurement of a single latent construct in the different topics analysed, despite addressing various theoretical and procedural contents.     

Comparative education studies in great Britain

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Perimeters of Social Repair. Edited by W. H. G. Armytage and John Peel. Pp. 157. London, New York and San Francisco: Academic Press, 1978. (No price.)

The University of Hull: the first Fifty Years. By T. W. Bamford. Pp. x, 290. London: OUP for University of Hull, 1978. £8.00.

Education and Industry in the Nineteenth Century: the English disease? By G. W. Roderick and M. D. Stephens. Pp. ix+196. London: Longman, 1978. £3.95.

Education in Britain since 1944. By W. K. Richmond. Pp. 168. London: Methuen, 1978. £7.00. Education paperback £2.95.

Paths to Excellence and the Soviet School. By John Dunstan. Pp. 302. Windsor: National Foundation for Educational Research Publishing Company, 1978. £9.75.

From Armstrong to Nuffield: Studies in twentieth‐century science education in England and Wales. By E. W. Jenkins. Pp. viii, 318. London: John Murray, 1979. Hardback £7.92, Limp £3.95.

Educational Research: the Art and Science of Investigation. By G. J. Monly. Pp. 390. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1978. £12.80.

Learning Later: Fresh Horizons in English Adult Education. By Enid and Edward Hutchinson. Pp. 200. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978. £6.95.

The Evaluation of In‐Service Teacher Training. By E. S. Henderson. Pp. 224. London: Croom Helm, 1978. £9.95. ISBN: 0 85664 619 9.

How Shall I Put It? By Malcolm Young. Pp. 97. Hythe: Marsland Press, 1978. £3.50. ISBN o 85606 060 7.     

Comparative education in primary teacher education in Ireland and South Africa

Comparative Education as a subject or course on teacher education curricula mainly continues to be taught in Ireland, some African and East European countries and a few colleges in Ireland, the UK and several universities in the USA, Canada, Western Europe, Latin America and Australia. This research compares Irish and South African students' experiences of their Comparative Education courses. The article commences with a survey of literature on the position of Comparative Education in teacher education, a portrayal of the contextual background of South Africa and of Ireland, and a brief synopsis of the pre-course survey of students' expectations, upon which this study builds. Subsequently the research method is explained and the results presented. Three findings emerged from this study. The first is the valuable role of Comparative Education in teacher education. The second is the role of contextual factors in determining the significance of Comparative Education in teacher education. Thirdly, the centrality of clients (i.e. students) is critical to the future of Comparative Education in teacher education.     

中美高职旅游人才培养比较分析与启示

美国高职旅游教育在经历了较长时期的发展之后形成了比较完善又独具特色的培养模式,而我国高职旅游教育在许多方面还有待提高。本文尝试与美国高职旅游教育人才培养作一比较,分析差异存在的原因,并从中得到一些启示,以求我国高职旅游教育的改进和提高。     

中美高等教育机构分类比较分析

中美高等教育机构分类在思想基础、指标体系、分类主体及分类功能等方面,既存在着共同的方面,也有差异。比如两国的分类都体现了“重学术”的价值取向,分类的标准都呈现出一元化的特点。不同的地方表现在我国的高等教育机构分类带有明显的行政性,分类的理论滞后于实践等方面。两国高等教育机构分类的差异是受本国的政治、经济和文化传统等因素影响的。     

中美博士研究生教育的学科结构比较分析

学科结构是博士研究生教育的重要方面.以美CIP-2000和中国1997年学科专业目录为基础,制作了中美研究生专业口径对照表.以此为标准,分析了美国20世纪70年代以来博士研究生学科结构变迁和我国1996-2006年博士研究生学科结构变迁,并比较了中美博士研究生教育学科结构的变化特点.     

Comparative studies on Sino-Canadian higher education

Today education is internationalization. Both China and Canada have their own strong merits of higher education. This paper approaches comparative studies on differences of Sino-Canadian higher education from new points, so as to achieve an inspiration to the development of Chinese higher education： preserve relative independence between higher education and politics, establish Degree Quality Assessment Board and formulate Degree Authorization Act, and open up to promote international exchange of Sino-Canadian higher education.     

Comparative education in Spain in the 21st century

ABSTRACT

The current process of globalisation has led to a convergence of international and Spanish concerns regarding teaching and research issues in the area of comparative education. Both in their teaching and their research work, the academics within the Spanish comparative community display a notable – and typically Hispanic – heterogeneity. This includes their use of epistemologically diverse frameworks and paradigms as well as their penchant for intellectual and teaching traditions built upon a wide-ranging, diverse gnoseological foundation. Along with research agendas focused on topics well within the orthodoxy and tradition of the field, Spanish comparative work has also tackled subjects long advocated by the late-modern agenda such as post-colonialism, the world ‘disorder’ and refugees and hospitality pedagogy. The community's engagement with and analysis of the cultural reality of Latin America stands out as a specific feature of Spanish comparative studies. While the works published in the Revista Española de Educación Comparada (REEC) (Spanish Journal of Comparative Education) attest to the theorisation and markedly interdisciplinary nature of the analyses carried out by many of our academics, the authors of this essay argue for the inclusion of teleological perspectives. Only by incorporating the viewpoints offered by these teleological disciplines will we be able to stand up to the sterile, eminently relativist tendencies of post-modern epistemology.     

Comparative and international education in initial teacher education: an Irish case study

Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, Comparative and International Education (CIE) has almost disappeared from the curricula of teacher education colleges in Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Yet, CIE is experiencing a revival at postgraduate level. This article will explore the reasons for this dichotomy and the decline of CIE in initial teacher education. It will use findings from a research study in an Irish teacher education college to inform this exploration. The author initiated, developed, and offered a CIE course to final year BEd (n=24) students in 2003 and again in 2005. This article will use data gathered during the latter course to explore CIE for undergraduate trainee teachers, considering students’ motivation for choosing to study CIE, their perceptions of CIE, and their beliefs about how it may enhance their professional practice in classrooms. It will explore, in particular, a significant finding that emerged from the study – the potential of CIE in developing student teachers’ capacities to teach in multicultural classrooms.     

Mapping inclusive education within the discipline of Pedagogy. Comparative analysis of new study programmes in Slovenia

In the research in the field of inclusiveness it is often neglected how inclusiveness is constructed differently within the so-called Anglo-American and continental educational contexts. In Slovenia, the field of educational studies has historically developed within the continental, particularly German tradition, as a discipline called Pedagogy at the Faculty of Arts. Since Pedagogy is fundamentally theorising the processes of becoming a free human being and does not take a particular interest in the issues of vulnerable social groups, a complementary area of tertiary study emerged in today's Faculty of Education (e.g. Special needs Pedagogy). However, recently we can identify a trend of emerging new study programmes, the so-called inclusive education. Because of this separation between scientific fields, this paper is dealing with a question of which of the disciplines is offering a more convincing answers to the question of how to conceptualise and implement the inclusiveness. Using qualitative analyses of the concept of inclusiveness and content analyses of Slovenian study programmes and courses related to inclusive education, we attempt to show that discipline of Pedagogy provides a conceptualising of inclusiveness that is more complex through successfully interweaving the humanistic and social paradigm.     

Comparative education and education sciences: Variations on an old theme

where he teaches comparative education. Until 1988, President of the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE). Member of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies and Vice-President of the Spanish Comparative Education Society. Publications include: Fundamentos de Educación Comparada (1982, 1986), Problemas mundiales de la educación (1982, 1986), Sistemas educativos de hoy (1984, 1987), Primary Education on the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century(published in Spanish and French; 1986 and 1987) and Pedagogía prospectiva (1989). He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals of various countries.