The Quality Link is the newsletter of the IEQ project. Each issue comes
with a different focus as it looks at the diffrent countries in which the
IEQ project is in operation. It highlights and reports on the experiences,
activites and progress at the country level as well as the resulting products.
The Quality Link includes such things as illustrations of country-specific
methods developed and implemented by IEQ teams in the field, project summaries
and a publications list at the end of each newsletter.
How Do Teachers Use Textbooks and Other Print Materials? A Review
of the Literature (by Jeanne Moulton)
For the Improving Educational Quality project
This study was motivated by the research interest of the Improving Educational
Quality (IEQ) project in South Africa, where the staff is working with
South Africans to conduct empirical research on textbook use in primary
school classrooms. The goal of this documents was to review the literature
on textbook use, both in developing countries and in the United States.
(Sept. 94, 42 p.)
( PDF format
- 89K )
IMPROVING EDUCATIONAL QUALITY: A NEW APPROACH (by Don Adams with Mark Ginsburg, Yidan Wang and Judy Sylvester)
This the paper is devoted to: 1) elaborating the relationships between
IEQ and the two basic bodies of recent international research on educational
quality; and 2) analyzing the distinctiveness of IEQ in its attempt at
combining collaboratively-designed and locally-conducted classroom research
into a radiating process of improving education in sample schools and concomitantly
influencing practices and policies affecting the larger educational systems.
(Jan 95, 17 p.)
( PDF format - 57K
)
Curriculum Analysis : a reference manual (by Jonathan D Jansen, Vijay Reddy)
This workshop was to be the final session in a series of curriculum-related
workshops entitled "Curriculum Development Workshop Programme"
during which participants learned about models of, and approaches to, curriculum
development, the role of media in materials development, and other related
topics. The overall purpose of the series was to help build the capacity
of NGOs to design, review, assess and implement educational programs and
curricula, while the purpose of this particular workshop was to provide
NGO staff responsible for curriculum development and evaluation with curriculum
analysis tools for appraising a curriculum.
(19 p.)
( PDF format
- 67K )
IEQ - Guide To Information Sources : A Description of Work in Progress (by L.E. Klopfer)
(Mar 92, 38 p.)
( PDF format - 99K
)
