Study of factors preventing children from enrolment in primary school in the Republic of Honduras: analysis using structural equation modelling

Studies have investigated factors that impede enrolment in Honduras. However, they have not analysed individual factors as a whole or identified the relationships among them. This study used longitudinal data for 1971 children who entered primary schools from 1986 to 2000, and employed structural equation modelling to examine the factors themselves as well as the relationships between their components and educational attainment. Findings indicate that reduced educational attainment is not necessarily the result of repetition or dropout. Low educational attainment occurs due to impediments in access to school, absenteeism, or overage, as this leads to a child suddenly leaving school.     

An Analysis of Primary School Dropout Patterns in Honduras

This study hypothesized that repeating a grade is one reason why Honduran primary students drop out of school but not the main reason. Using longitudinal data, we analyzed student enrollment patterns up until students left school. The results revealed that many students dropped out suddenly without having previously repeated a grade, although many dropouts had also repeated a grade at some point, and repeating a grade experience was not among the most frequently appearing dropout patterns in any of the completed grades. The findings indicated that low expectations of education and the need to enter the labor market were causes of immediate dropout.     

Changes in the repetition and dropout situation in Honduran primary education since the late 1980s

While Honduras's post-1990s enrolment status has improved, no reports examine changes in status. We examined changes in enrolment patterns by analysing 1689 children's data using the true cohort method. We also analysed educational-development strategies/policies and project documentation. Grade-failure numbers did not improve over time because more children attended school, and no clear influence of strategies/policies and projects on educational quality was observed. Enrolment patterns were divided into graduation pattern with once-or-none repetition, and into dropout pattern after one-or-two years’ attendance. However, the more recent the school entrance year, the more often students continued attendance until graduation. Policy implications of these are discussed.     

Enrolment patterns of individual children left behind in the trend towards ‘quality education’: A case study of primary education in Nepal

Using longitudinal data, this study examined the enrolment status of individual children left behind in the global trend towards ‘quality education’. The study identified common characteristics among dropouts as well as the existence of children who managed to complete primary education but could not progress smoothly. Among them, some children’s grade levels were lowered by more than two years when they transferred from public to private schools, and their grade levels increased by one or more years when they transferred from private to public schools. These surprising enrolment patterns provide evidence of an ignorance about systematic learning.     

浅谈小学问题学生情感教育

由于家庭因素和学校因素的影响,一部分小学生被贴上“问题学生”的标签,这严重影响了学生的身心发展和自我认识.采用情感教育的渗透,培养学生的自尊心自信心,可以让问题学生走出内心的困扰,重新树立正确的人生价值观.     

论我国中小学环境教育内容

中小学环境教育是我国环境基础教育的一个重要组成部分。中小学环境教育的课程内容包括三个方面：环境知识技能、环境意识、环境规范，并且中学和小学环境教育内容应该各有侧重，形成系统性和层次性。     

Context matters: primary schools and academies reform in England

There is little conclusive evidence linking academies reform in England with school improvement. While this reform has been effective in improving educational outcomes in some contexts, it has been resoundingly unsuccessful in others. Nevertheless, political faith in autonomous schooling as key to a world-class education remains strong. This paper considers how matters of context impact on approaches to and enactments of this policy. Drawing on case study data from two groups of primary schools from (1) a local authority and (2) an academy chain, the paper examines the particular situated, professional, material and external factors that impact on these schools’ capacities to cope with and respond to academies reform. In light of the continued tendency within policy for schools to be dematerialised, the paper argues the ongoing significance of greater attention to matters of context in understanding how schools are navigating the complex terrain of this reform.     

The influence of closing poor performing primary schools on the educational attainment of students

This paper examines whether the closure of poor performing primary schools improved students' educational attainment. It is believed that school closure affects children's educational outcomes positively because children switch to better primary schools. At the same time, school closure creates a social disturbance such that educational outcomes may be affected negatively. There is no previous literature on the effect of this type of school closure on student performance. The empirical results indicate that student test scores are not affected by the school closure. Children are, however, tracked into higher secondary education levels after the school closure if they received more education years at the new primary school. This effect fades out and eventually becomes negative for children who received more than one education year at the new primary school. The results further suggest that there are no detrimental effects of a school closure in terms of educational performance.     

Grade repetition in Honduran primary schools

This paper looks at several dimensions of the grade failure issue in Honduras using a unique data set compiled by the UMCE evaluation project in 1998 and 1999. The analytical framework incorporates econometric analysis of standardized tests and teacher pass/fail decisions for roughly 13,000 second and fourth grade students. The results show that first time grade repetition, as well as repeating previous grades, is associated with lower marginal achievement on the UMCE exams, although the same is not true for students who are repeating the second or third time. The strongest predictor of grade failure is previous repetition, despite the inclusion of controls for achievement and attendance. The implications of this apparently strong stigma effect associated with grade repetition are discussed, as well as other policy issues related to grade repetition in developing countries.     

中小学语文综合性学习的呈现与把握

综合性学习开展有助于培养学生学习和探究的兴趣,中小学语文教材的综合性学习内容,从编排形式和活动方式上呈现出学科综合、校本主题综合、自由兴趣综合、跨学科综合等类型及特点。现阶段中小学综合性学习在教学中应如何把握,如何实施的教学策略是我们努力探讨并需要逐步解决的。     

日本中小学职业生涯教育及其启示

少年期是一个人职业观形成和成熟的重要时期,日本向来重视中小学生职业认知和职业能力的培养。随着新世纪终身教育体系的建立和教育改革的深入,日本提出要对学生进行＂职业生涯教育＂,使其从小建立对社会职业的认识,形成基本的职业能力,从而使学生在将来能够顺利进行＂从学校到社会的过渡＂。日本中小学职业生涯教育丰富而有特色的实践经验,为我国在中小学阶段开展劳动技术教育和生涯发展教育带来了启示。     

Outdoor education in rural primary schools in New Zealand: a narrative inquiry

ABSTRACT

This research examines teaching outdoor education in two rural primary schools in Aotearoa New Zealand. The aim was to give ‘voice’ to how outdoor education is taught, programmed and understood. Underpinning the research was the question: what factors enable/constrain teachers’ ability to implement outdoor education? The findings suggest: confusion about outdoor education terminology and the educative purpose of school ‘camps’; schools ‘do what they have always done’, particularly when decisions about outdoor education contexts are dominated by senior management; financial restrictions; and teachers feeling ill-prepared in terms of safety management because of their limited pre-service and post-service teacher education. This research highlights that what to teach, how to teach and where to teach outdoor education needs more consideration and attention for teachers to be better informed about safe outdoor practices and quality pedagogy in, for and about the outdoors.     

Investigating teachers' educational beliefs in Chinese primary schools: socioeconomic and geographical perspectives

This empirical study explores the nature of and profiles in primary teachers' educational beliefs in the Chinese educational settings. A survey of 820 primary school teachers was conducted using a questionnaire focusing on teachers' traditional and constructivist beliefs about teaching and learning. Analysis of variance and cluster analysis were applied. Results show that gender and subject domain affect traditional educational beliefs. Significant differences appear considering economic and geographical context variables. Cluster analysis helps to delineate four teacher belief profiles: a constructivist profile, a mixed constructivist/traditional profile, a traditional profile, and a mixed low constructivist/traditional profile. Inter-relation between teacher belief profiles and school categories are discussed.     

呼唤新体系:小学教育学教材的比较研究

小学教育学教材在小学师资培养和小学教师在职培训中扮演着重要的角色。就目前我国发行量颇大、影响深远的三本小学教育学的教材来看,在体系上存在结构大同小异、与普通教育学教材极其相似、没有从小学教育的实际出发、缺乏明确的价值取向等问题。在新课程改革的背景下,应该重构小学教育学教材的体系,适应小学教育正在发生的巨大变革。在重构中,应该坚持到小学去研究教育学、研究和解决实际问题的原则。     

重庆市小学英语教学资源的合理配置

合理配置重庆市小学英语教学资源,包括教师资源的有效整合、教材的选择和使用、其他教学资源的积极开发和合理利用等。     

对日本新的小学数学教学内容改革的认识

着重探讨日本新的小学数学教学内容的改革 ,课程和教学内容的改革要充分考虑社会、学生、学科的发展需要。     

数学新课程实施中学生合作能力的培养

培养学生的合作学习能力可通过合作＂做＂数学、＂思考＂数学、＂体味＂数学等途径实施师生合作,而在学生之间的合作应特别培养合作的主动性、和谐性和交互性。     

合肥市小学体育师资现状调查与分析

采用文献资料、问卷调查和数理统计等方法,对合肥市小学体育师资的类型及人数比例,体育教师的编制及配备情况,现有体育教师的年龄、学历和职称结构以及职业态度等进行研究,并根据调查结果有针对性地从教育主管部门、学校和体育教师等环节为合肥市小学体育师资建设提出建设性意见。     

小学阶段英语学习策略的动态研究

采用访谈和问卷调查的方法,对某大学附属小学更换英语学习教材前后学习策略的使用情况进行了调查,并录入SPSS做了配对样本t检验,结果发现:教材更换前后学生学习策略的使用情况具有显著差异性。学习策略的培训是提高学生学习策略运用的途径,但不是唯一途径,通过调查发现,学习内容的改变、学习任务的改变会导致学习策略的变化。     

Stifling transformation through the manipulation of enrolment: A case study of two public high schools in Gauteng Province

Abstract

This article reports on an investigation into how admission policies in general and the ‘zoning’ policy in particular are applied by the School Governing Bodies (SGBs) of two particular former Model C secondary schools in a town in the Gauteng Province, Republic of South Africa. It also examines the admission criteria currently in use against the background of allegations that the application of these criteria is a veiled attempt to exclude black learners from schools in order to retain a white learner majority. It also considers what can be termed the ‘channelling’ of learners. Interviews were conducted with a sample of disgruntled parents, a chairperson of the school governing body (SGB) of one of the schools and the principals of two unrelated schools, which were mentioned during the interviews with the disgruntled parents.