After independence in 1991, Uzbekistan became the master of its own way of economic and social development and had the task to construct a democratic state and open civil society, a socially-oriented market economy. All this entailed a radical reform of the education system in Uzbekistan. Education had to be reoriented towards meeting the common national interest and ensuring competitiveness in...

MFO1 /PCO1 Plus Postage. *Educational Assessment; *Educational Change; Educational Quality; Elementary Secondary Education; Models; Jrganizational Development; *Organizational Effectiveness; School Restructuring; *Systems Analysis; *Systems Approach Although educational reformers frequently use the words "system," "systemic change," and "sys.temic approach," many lack a fundamental understandin...

Calls for fundamental reform of dental education were made twice in the twentieth century. More recently, spurred by the work of the American Dental Education Association's Commission on Change and Innovation in Dental Education (ADEA CCI), North American dental educators have again begun advocating for major curriculum reform in order to develop in students the higher order thinking skills req...

This paper investigates the impact of increased education, due to an exogenous education reform, on time spent in religious activities by utilizing Turkish Time Use Survey data. The reform significantly rises individuals’ years schooling. We also document that for women, has a negative causal allocation activities. However, there are no significant effects men’s As result, we suggest plays impo...

Reform movements in higher education have employed technology primarily to mimic standard mechanisms, representations and objects of higher education. While there are important reasons to make use of standard representations, this strategy often reproduces standard artifacts of higher education, which limits innovation and reform. For example, too often reengineering has focused on the bottom l...