Posts Tagged ‘High Stakes National Assessment’
Pedagogical Awakenings and Self-Discovery in the light of imperatives, constraints and opportunities of teaching Social Studies in Singapore
Posted by: Principal/Editor on July 16, 2013
PLS Working Paper Series
The PLS Working Paper Series is published by the School of Education, University of Queensland (Australia) and the Policy and Leadership Studies (PLS) Academic Group of the National Institute of Education (Singapore)
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- Measuring GovernanceThe use of governance indicators, as applied to developing countries, has grown spectacularly in recent years. Following the maxim that you cannot manage what you cannot measure, international investors and official development aid agencies, together with academics and the media, have turned widely to using quantitative governance indicators for both analyti […]
- How to Spend It: Commodity and Non-Commodity Sovereign Wealth FundsSovereign wealth funds have become important players in global financial markets. But their investments have repeatedly raised concerns, such as fear of industrial espionage or geopolitical threats. This paper argues that the principal motivation for setting up SWFs should put such concerns into the appropriate perspective. Development economics can explain […]
- To Benefit from Plenty: Lessons from Chile and NorwayIt might seem obvious discovering an asset such as oil or copper would be wonderful news for the country making the find. Yet the opposite is often true. The windfall can bring poverty, civil strife, corruption, inequality, slower growth and undemocratic practices. The phenomenon is known as the resource curse. This study of the paradox of plenty looks at th […]
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