eTekkatho

eTekkatho logo - Myanmar language version

Educational resources for the Myanmar academic community

You are here: HomeEducation › Educational assessment › Results 2650 of 78 in Resource type = Reports

Sort by:

  • A–Z
  1. Title

    Education policy research series discussion document, No. 3. Educational neurosciences - more problems than promise?

    Description
    This paper reviews recent research carried out on studies of the brain (neuroscience) in relation to the biological basis for learning (educational neurosciences). It examines the promise of educational neurosciences, synaptogenesis and neural plasticity, the problem of mouse-based education, dyslexia, mathematics and mirrors in the brain and functional localization on Sukhumvit Road. This paper was published by UNESCO in 2013.
    Author
    Ilkka Tuomi
    Publisher
    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
    http://www.unescobkk.org/education/news/article/educational-neurosciences-more-problems-than-promise-education-policy-research-series-discussion/
  2. Title

    Education policy research series discussion document, No. 4. Financing of secondary education in the Asia-Pacific region: synthesis paper

    Description
    This paper provides an overview of the current status of secondary education in the Asia-Pacific region with insights on countries' policies and experiences relating to financing secondary education including public expenditure, sources of funding, teacher salaries, how free is secondary education, private tutoring, technical and vocational education, aid for secondary education and public-private partnerships. It also discusses related challenges such as decentralization in education, formula funding, mobilisation of additional resources and targeted support to the disadvantaged. This paper was published by UNESCO in 2013.
    Publisher
    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
    http://www.unescobkk.org/resources/e-library/publications/article/financing-of-secondary-education-in-the-asia-pacific-region-synthesis-paper-education-policy-resea/
  3. Title

    Education policy research series discussion document, No. 5. Education systems in ASEAN+6 countries: a comparative analysis of selected educational issues

    Description
    This report reviews and analyzes key educational issues in the areas of education policy and management frameworks, secondary education and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) +6 countries and highlights how the systems can be improved and how educational disparities across the countries can be reduced. This report was published by UNESCO in 2014.
    Publisher
    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
    http://www.unescobkk.org/resources/e-library/publications/article/education-systems-in-asean-6-countries-a-comparative-analysis-of-selected-educational-issues-educa/
  4. Title

    Educational practices series, No. 10: Motivation to learn

    Description
    This booklet explains the principles that encourage children to learn including motivational beliefs, unfavourable motivational beliefs impede learning, favourable motivational beliefs facilitate learning, students' beliefs about goal orientation, different beliefs about effort affect learning intentions, goal-setting and appraisal, striving for goals and willpower and keeping multiple goals in harmony.
    Author
    Monique Boekaerts
    Publisher
    UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
    http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac10e.pdf
  5. Title

    Educational practices series, No. 11: Academic and social-emotional learning

    Description
    This booklet discusses the principles behind teaching the social-emotional skills that students need to succeed in school and life including learning requires caring, teach everyday life-skills, link social-emotional instruction to other school services, use goal-setting to focus instruction, use varied instructional procedures, promote community service to build empathy, involve parents, build social-emotional skills gradually and systematically, prepare and support staff well and evaluate what you do.
    Author
    Maurice J. Elias
    Publisher
    UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
    http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac11e.pdf
  6. Title

    Educational practices series, No. 12: Teaching reading

    Description
    This booklet outline the practices of reading development and instruction including oral language, phonological and phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, prior knowledge, comprehension, motivation and purpose, integrated reading and writing, texts, assessment, cultural factors and practice.
    Author
    Elizabeth S. Pang; Angaluki Muaka; Elizabeth B. Bernhardt; Michael L. Kamil
    Publisher
    UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
    http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac12e.pdf
  7. Title

    Educational practices series, No. 17: Teaching science

    Description
    This booklet provides guidance on how to teach science effectively including teaching as a purposeful means to an end, core scientific ideas, deep scientific understanding, complexity of learning, active construction of scientific knowledge, science content and students' interests, expectations for learning and students' anxieties and conflicts.
    Author
    John R. Staver
    Publisher
    UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
    http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/Practice_17.pdf
  8. Title

    Educational practices series, No. 18: Teacher professional learning and development

    Description
    This booklet outlines the principles for teacher professional learning and development that has a positive impact on student outcomes including focus on valued student outcomes, worthwhile content, integration of knowledge and skills, assessment for professional inquiry, multiple opportunities to learn and apply information, approaches responsive to learning processes, opportunities to process new learning with others, knowledgeable expertise, active leadership and maintaining momentum.
    Author
    Helen Timperley
    Publisher
    UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
    http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Educational_Practices/EdPractices_18.pdf
  9. Title

    Educational practices series, No. 19: Effective pedagogy in mathematics

    Description
    This booklet provides guidance on how to teach mathematics effectively including an ethic of care, arranging for learning, building on students' thinking, worthwhile mathematical tasks, making connections, assessment for learning, mathematical communication, mathematical language, tools and representations and teacher knowledge.
    Author
    Glenda Anthony; Margaret Walshaw
    Publisher
    UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
    http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Educational_Practices/EdPractices_19.pdf
  10. Title

    Educational practices series, No. 1: Teaching

    Description
    This booklet provides an introduction to the principles of effective teaching including a supportive classroom climate, opportunity to learn, curricular alignment, establishing learning orientations, coherent content, thoughtful discourse, practice and application activities, scaffolding students' task engagement, strategy teaching, co-operative learning, goal-oriented assessment and achievement expectations.
    Author
    Jere Brophy
    Publisher
    UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
    http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac01e.pdf
  11. Title

    Educational practices series, No. 20: Teaching other languages

    Description
    This booklet offers practical guidance on how to teach other languages including characteristics of learners of other languages, learning another language is a process, designing courses for learning other languages, designing and organizing classroom tasks, reading and vocabulary learning in other languages, writing and extended discourse, error correction and feedback in language learning, technology and the teaching of other languages, assessment and professional development for teachers of other languages.
    Author
    Elizabeth B. Bernhardt
    Publisher
    UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
    http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Educational_Practices/EdPractices_20.pdf
  12. Title

    Educational practices series, No. 21: Principles of instruction

    Description
    This booklet presents the ten research-based principles of instruction and suggestions for classroom practice including daily review, present new material using small steps, ask questions, provide models, guide student practice, check for student understanding, obtain a high success rate, provide scaffolds for difficult tasks, independent practice and weekly and monthly review.
    Author
    Barak Rosenshine
    Publisher
    UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
    http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Educational_Practices/EdPractices_21.pdf
  13. Title

    Educational practices series, No. 23: Effective pedagogy in social sciences

    Description
    This booklet provides guidance on teaching social sciences (including the subjects of social studies, history, geography, economics and classical studies) to improve student outcomes including alignment: identifying prior knowledge, aligning teaching to desired outcomes, providing opportunities to revisit learning; connection: drawing on relevant content, ensuring inclusive content, establishing productive learning relationships, promoting dialogue, sharing power with students; interest: maximizing student interest, satisfying diverse motivational needs, using a variety of activities; and teaching as inquiry.
    Author
    Claire Sinnema; Graeme Aitken
    Publisher
    UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
    http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Educational_Practices/EdPractices_23.pdf
  14. Title

    Educational practices series, No. 24: Emotions and learning

    Description
    This booklet discusses the effects that emotions have on students' learning and achievement, including understanding emotions, individual and cultural differences, positive emotions and learning, negative emotions and learning, self-confidence, task values and emotions, emotion regulation, classroom instruction and teacher emotions, goal structures and achievement standards, test-taking and feedback and families, peers and school reform.
    Author
    Reinhard Pekrun
    Publisher
    UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
    http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Educational_Practices/EdPractices_24eng.pdf
  15. Title

    Educational practices series, No. 25: Nurturing creative thinking

    Description
    This booklet examines how educational practice can be used to encourage creative thinking including how creativity can be promoted through all school subjects, influence creative thinking through well-designed learning spaces, increase the use of open-ended questions, engage learners in meaningful and authentic activities, collaboration enhances creativity, make efficient use of educational technologies, allow for mistakes and sensible risk-taking and learning how to assess and reward creativity.
    Author
    Panagiotis Kampylis; Eleni Berki
    Publisher
    UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
    http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Educational_Practices/EdPractices_25eng.pdf
  16. Title

    Educational practices series, No. 2: Parents and learning

    Description
    This booklet provides guidance on what parents can do to help their children do well in school including the curriculum of the home, parent/child relationship, routine of family life, family expectations and supervision, homework, school/home communication, parental involvement, parent education, family/school relationships and families and communities.
    Author
    Sam Redding
    Publisher
    UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
    http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac02e.pdf
  17. Title

    Educational practices series, No. 3: Effective educational practices

    Description
    This booklet discusses briefly a range of educational practices that promote learning including parent involvement, graded homework, aligned time on task, direct teaching, advance organizers, the teaching of learning strategies, tutoring, mastery learning, co-operative learning and adaptive education.
    Author
    Herbert J. Walberg; Susan J. Paik
    Publisher
    UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
    http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac03e.pdf
  18. Title

    Educational practices series, No. 4: Improving student achievement in mathematics

    Description
    This booklet discusses strategies and practices for improving mathematics instruction including the opportunity to learn, focus on meaning, learning new concepts and skills while solving problems, opportunities for both invention and practice, openness to student solution methods and student interaction, small-group learning, whole-class discussion, number sense, concrete materials and students' use of calculators.
    Author
    Douglas A. Grouws; Kristin J. Cebulla
    Publisher
    UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
    http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac04e.pdf
  19. Title

    Educational practices series, No. 5: Tutoring

    Description
    This booklet discusses the principles for effective tutoring including real-life goals, question and prompt, check and correct errors, discuss and praise, reading: support and review, writing: map and edit, mathematics: make it real and summarize, recruit and match partners, provide training and materials and monitor and give feedback.
    Author
    Keith Topping
    Publisher
    UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
    http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac05e.pdf
  20. Title

    Educational practices series, No. 9: Preventing HIV/AIDS in schools

    Description
    This booklet highlights the importance of providing effective education for children on HIV and AIDS to halt the spread of the infection including professional trained and actively involved educators, establish partnerships, utilize non-conventional methods of teaching, introduce open communication, innovative teaching sessions, gender-specific approaches, dealing with culturally sensitive content, the value of peer-based support, skill-based education and monitoring and evaluation.
    Author
    Inon I. Schenker; Jenny M. Nyirenda
    Publisher
    UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
    http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac09e.pdf
  21. Title

    From access to equality: empowering girls and women through literacy and secondary education

    Description
    This report discusses the importance of gender equality, how far gender equality in education has developed, obstacles to its progress, the reasons for focusing on secondary education and literacy for girls and women, examples of improving education for girls and women and how to build environments for gender-sensitive and gender-responsive education. Case studies from Bangladesh, Indonesia, China, Myanmar, Cambodia, India are included. This report was published by UNESCO in 2012.
    Publisher
    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
    http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/resources/online-materials/single-view/news/from_access_to_equality_empowering_girls_and_women_through_literacy_and_secondary_education/#.Uzvdk6hkQ1I
  22. Title

    How much and what kind of teaching is there in elementary education in India: evidence from three states

    Description
    This report discusses the state of primary education in India. While access to primary education has been widened considerably, learning outcomes have not improved as much as expected. The report looks at why this is the case, focusing on the quality and quantity of teacher presence and interaction with students. It highlights factors that have an impact on teacher and student availability and goes on to make suggestions for improving the situation. This report was published in 2014 by the World Bank.
    Author
    Deepa Sankar; Toby Linden
    Publisher
    The World Bank Group
    https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/17800
  23. Title

    ICT transforming education: a regional guide

    Description
    This guide for teachers and those who train teachers discusses the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) within teaching and learning, including ICT in the world beyond the classroom, digital skills and modes of learning, ICT adoption and use, e-learning, assessing e-learning, integrating and implementing ICT, e-resources for learning, blended learning with Web 2.0 tools, web tools for teachers and changing learning environments. This guide was published by UNESCO in 2010.
    Author
    Jonathan Anderson
    Publisher
    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
    http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/publications-and-communication-materials/publications/full-list/ict-transforming-education-a-regional-guide/
  24. Title

    Impact evaluation of three types of early childhood development interventions in Cambodia

    Description
    This report evaluates the success of three interventions designed to widen access to early childhood development services in Cambodia. The three projects involved include: formal preschools, community preschools and home-based services. It describes the challenges that these three projects faced and discusses the lessons learnt from their respective successes and failures. This report was published by the World Bank in 2013.
    Author
    Adrien Bouguen; Deon Filmer; Karen Macours; Sophie Naudeau
    Publisher
    The World Bank Group
    https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/15900
  25. Title

    Impact of early childhood education on early achievement gaps: evidence from the Indonesia Early Childhood Education and Development (ECED) project

    Description
    This paper assesses whether the Indonesia Early Childhood Education and Development project had an impact on early achievement gaps as measured by a range of child development outcomes and enrolment using data collected in 2009 and 2010 on approximately 3,000 four-year-old children residing in villages across Indonesia. This paper was published by WorldBank in 2014.
    Author
    Haeil Jung; Amer Hasan
    Publisher
    The World Bank Group
    https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/18340

Sort by:

  • A–Z