iran’s nineteenth century is to be regarded as the age of major reforms including educational reform. in that century, iran’s defeat by russian made the european presence in iran possible; europeans intended to reform iranian educational system. these powerful countries supported the missionary activities in iran and in particular backed the development of minorities’ educational system. under ...

In this paper, I test for evidence of an intra-household flypaper effect by evaluating the impact of an educational fee reduction reform in rural China on different categories of household expenditures, including spending on individual children. Using data that preand post-dated the reform, I exploit cohort comparisons, the variation in the extent of educational fee reductions across different ...

In recent years, new concepts of educational theory and practice have stimulated new approaches to medical education in many countries. For various reasons, medical education in Ireland has been slow to change such that there are now increasing concerns about educational standards. In addition, Ireland currently produces too few doctors and is therefore highly dependent on overseas doctors to m...

This chapter discusses the role of ICT as a catalyst of a new global educational reform in schools aimed to break the monopoly of the print and paper based educational system. Some basic definitions are given although it is emphasized that the area is very dynamic and the definitions are still evolving. The main conclusion related to the ongoing educational reform is that it is based on designi...

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...

despite the serious confrontation of iranian seminaries and religious communities against a flood of western modernistic ideas and institutions, the modernistic tendencies increased in qom seminary, during the leadership of ayatollah boroujerdi. modernists often sought reforms in organization, educational programs and propagation system of seminaries and offered various reform projects to ayato...

This paper analyzes a set of undergraduate engineering education curriculum reform proposals that have a relationship with educational research and cognitive psychology. In addition, the paper explores educational research and cognitive psychology research results that provide guidance on undergraduate engineering curriculum design.

Increasing access to education may have consequences that go beyond the effects on marginal students induced to enroll. It may change school quality, peer effects, and returns to skill. This paper studies the effects of an educational expansion on student learning, exploiting an Italian reform that changed the admission requirements for university STEM majors. Newly collected administrative dat...

A theory-based system of educational reform through instructional technology, the Training, Infrastructure and Empowerment System (TIES), was developed and piloted in a research university during the late 1990s. In 2001, a research study was conducted on this implementation using qualitative methodology. Interviews were conducted with 12 participants who represented 4 different stakeholder grou...