Projects

The Board, in early meetings, gave high and immediate priority to three projects for which task forces were set up: Home and School (which concerns the fruitful interaction of these two chief agents of education); Financing of Education (which concerns new means of supporting education and increasing its productivity); and Science Education. These projects have resulted in both book–length publications and, in some cases, also in shorter publications aimed at practitioners, as well as forming the basis for plans for workshops.

Major Publications

The work of the Academy has formed the focus of several journal articles and symposia at annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association. The Academy’s activities have resulted in the following major publications:

Eicher, J.–C., & Chevaillier, T. (1994). Rethinking the finance of post–compulsory education. International Journal of Educational Research, 19(5), 445–519. (whole issue)

Fraser, B. J., & Walberg, J. H. (Eds.). (1995). Improving Science Education. Chicago, IL: National Society for the Study of Education.

International Academy of Education. (1995). Families and schools: A handbook for practitioners. School of Community Journal, 5(1), 1–90. (whole issue)

Kellaghan, T., Sloan, K., Alvarez, B., & Bloom, B. (1993). The Home Environment and School Learning: Promoting Parental Involvement in the Education of Children. San Francisco, CA: Jossey–Bass.

Tuijnman, A. C., & Postlethwaite, T. N. (Eds.). (1994). Monitoring the standards of education. Oxford: Pergamon.

Tuijnman, A.C. (1999). Research agenda for lifelong learning: A report by the task force of the International Academy of Education. In A. C. Tuijnman and T. Schuller (Eds.), Lifelong Learning: Policy and Research (pp. 1–22). London: Portland.

Educational Practices Series

A highly successful series assists practitioners to improve practice through the provision of short publications which present the results of well–established bodies of research in easy–to–read booklets. Titled the Educational Practices Series, it is coordinated by Jere Brophy and is published and distributed through a cooperative arrangement with the International Bureau of Education (IBE) in Switzerland. The titles in the series are:

  1. Teaching by Brophy, J.
  2. Parents and Learning by Redding, S.
  3. Effective Educational Practices by Walberg, H.J., & Paik, S.J.
  4. Improving Student Achievement in Mathematics by Grouws, D.A., & Cebulla, K.J.
  5. Tutoring by Topping, K.
  6. Teaching Additional Languages by Judd, E.L., Tan, L., & Walberg, H.J.
  7. How Children Learn by Vosniadou, S.
  8. Preventing Behaviour Problems: What Works by Foster, S.L., Brennan, P., Biglan, A., Wang, L., & al–Ghaith, S.
  9. Preventing HIV/AIDS in Schools by Schenker, I.
  10. Motivation to Learn by Boekaerts, M.
  11. Academic and Social Emotional Learning by Elias, M.
  12. Teaching Reading by Pang, S., & Muaka, A., & Bernhardt, E., & Kamil, M.
  13. Promoting Pre–School Language by Lybolt, J., & Gottfred, C
  14. Teaching Speaking, Listening and Writing by Wallace, T., Stariba, W.E., & Walberg, H.J.
  15. Using New Media by Chung–wai Shih, C., & Weekly, D.E.
  16. Creating a Safe and Welcoming School by Mayer, D.E.
  17. Teaching Science by Staver, J.R.

Some of these titles are available in other languages from the IBE Website.

Educational Policy Series

Another series, the Education Policy Series, is aimed at policy–makers and decision–makers. The series overall is coordinated by Lorin Anderson, Eric Hanushek, Neville Postlethwaite and Kenneth Ross and published by the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) in Paris. The first publications in the series are:

  1. Accountability in Education by Jo–Anne Anderson
  2. Recruitment, Retention and Development of School Principals by Judith D. Chapman
  3. School–based Management by Brian J Caldwell
  4. Economic Outcomes and School Quality by Eric E Hanushek
  5. Preparation, Recruitment and Retention of Teachers by James Cooper and Amy Alvarado
  6. Grade Repetition by Jere Brophy
  7. Demand–side Finances in Education by Harry Anthony Patrinos
  8. Program Evaluation: Large–scale and Small–scale studies by Lorin W Anderson and T. Neville Postlethwaite
  9. National assessments of educational achievement by T. Neville Postlethwaite and Thomas Kellaghan
  10. Poverty and education by Servaas van der Berg

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