Examination malpractice poses a significant challenge to the integrity of Senior High School (SHS) education in Ghana. This narrative review delves into the complex interplay of factors contributing to malpractices and explores the perspectives of SHS teachers. Current strategies, while implemented with the intent to mitigate malpractices, reveal gaps and limitations that call for improvement. Factors such as high-stakes examinations, inadequate resources, and the absence of a robust ethical fou...

Educational Reform 

New engineering is a strategic action for the reform of higher education in China, and it is the upgrading and development of traditional engineering majors. In the teaching process of the course, artificial intelligence and Internet of Things and other technologies are combined with interdisciplinary integration, so that students have a wider range of knowledge and more comprehensive abilities, adjust the training objectives to meet the needs of the industry in the new era, continuously improve...

Educational Reform 

This study systematically examines the historical progression of educational reforms in China and the influence of various factors, notably economic such as socio-economic conditions, policy adjustments and shifts in educational philosophy at different historical periods on the strategies of education reform. Concerning forecasted transformations in education, the research identifies four primary dimensions—revising the strategic direction of reforms; integrating novel technology into educationa...

Educational Reform 

With the continuous reform and progress of the education system, science education for primary and secondary school students has received increasing attention from the public and has become an essential component of the basic education system. However, the current science teaching in Chinese primary and secondary schools still faces many challenges, including a shortage of science teachers, an incomplete long-term effective science teacher training system, a lack of science textbooks and teachin...

Educational Reform 

The university students’ innovation and entrepreneurship training program is a vital platform for innovation and entrepreneurship education in Chinese universities. It is project-based, allowing students to actively engage in project design, execution, and successful completion through project defense. This program aims to enhance students’ innovative thinking, entrepreneurial abilities, and further develop their practical skills. This article analyzes the implementation of the innovation and en...

Educational Reform  Higher Education 

Assessment is a vital aspect of curriculum practice. A prime concern of educational stakeholders is how the outcomes of instruction affect students’ need to transfer knowledge, ideals, and skills to the workplace. However, social studies teachers in junior high schools in Ghana dwell much on traditional assessment methods than authentic assessment methods. The study aimed to examine social studies teachers’ knowledge and practice of authentic assessment in junior high schools. The specific objec...

Educational Reform  Educational Technology 

Research on the topic of summative assessments has attracted a large audience. The latest trend of a “process-oriented view of learning” has given rise to a heated discussion about assessment as a facilitative instrument to scaffold learning rather than being regarded solely as a “high-stake” measurement tool. Black and Wiliam contributed heavily to theorizing about the pedagogical use of assessment in the classroom with their widely read papers “Assessment and classroom learning (1998)” and “Cl...

Language Education  E-Learning and Knowledge Management  Technology  Distance and Open Education  Teaching and Learning Technologies  Educational Reform  Educational Technology  Higher Education 

“Meta-universe” is a development trend in the current informatization era, and transforming real features into virtual digital information is the future development direction of educational archives in the context of “meta-universe”. As a basic work of national education development, informatization of education archives has made great progress, but at present, the relevant research is not deep enough. In this paper, we discuss the informatization of education in the context of metaverse, analyz...

Educational Reform 

With the expansion of language service industry and the wide application of machine translation, cultivating high-quality machine translation post-editors is becoming increasingly significant. Cultivating post-editors with higher-order thinking helps improve the efficiency of international exchange and meets the demand of language service industry. This paper explores the path to cultivate critical thinking-oriented machine translation post-editors, by means of the reconstruction of post-editing...

Educational Reform 

The development of educational informatization has brought about great changes in educational form and learning mode. Through the deep integration of subject teaching and information technology, colleges and universities can realize the goal of core literacy education. Intelligent teaching based on intelligent interactive technology can promote the transformation of educational ideas, improve TPACK teaching ability, and realize the reform and innovation of teaching mode, so as to guide students ...

Educational Reform  Educational Technology  Higher Education