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The growing internationalisation of higher education is closely intertwined with English-medium instruction (EMI), that is, non-philological study programmes conducted in English in non-English-speaking countries. Although EMI is attributed numerous strengths, such as advancement of English language skills, a matter of concern is the sufficiency of students’ English language proficiency for fruitful engagement in EMI. This …

Principal, as the manager and expert leader of a school, performs out numerous tasks to ensure quality and harmonious operations within the school. The principal has the leading role in creating a positive and encouraging environment for the implementation of the teaching process. One of the conditions needed to create such an environment is providing …

As part of the Music Culture course, teacher education students at the Faculty of Teacher Education of the University of Zagreb are obliged to attend classical and jazz music concerts organized by the faculty as a part of the Music Scene of the Faculty of Teacher Education.The paper aims to examine the attitudes and opinions …

This paper presents research into the social, emotional, and academic functioning of gifted students in the classroom. An outline is provided of the theoretical foundations of the problem, starting with its definition and presentation of giftedness models. It then discusses the functioning of gifted students in the perspective of other authors. This study aims to …

Near the end of the winter semester of the school year 2018/2019 the attitudes of students of graduate studies at Faculty of Science (PMF), edu-cational studies at Faculty of Science, Department of Physics (PMF-F) and Faculty of Education (UF), Čakovec Department (N=151) were analysed, re-garding the core values of the National Curriculum Framework (NOK) and …

In terms of increasing computerization of society, where knowledge is becoming a basic production resource, it is expected that the school as an educational institution takes a leading role in these changes. The education system must be responsive and adaptive to become a generator of change and constant companion of a high quality school work …

Developing a society based on knowledge requires an adjustment of educational systems, which entails changes in the learning process, as well as new roles of students and teachers. This refers to development of schools that place the highest value on active learning and children’s holistic development, which implies new approaches to learning and teaching, including …

Quality assurance and improvement systems have become an indispensable and important part of every educational institutions in Europe and Croatia. The early days of their development were typically marked by activities aimed at evaluating the quality of teaching and teachers’ work, which was followed by those aimed at evaluating and improving other aspects of these …

The center for quality assurance of the University of Split organized an online survey in which teachers from all university constituents shared their experiences with student evaluations of teacher effectiveness. Within this survey, the teachers responded to three types of questions: about students, teacher and teaching quality. Out of the 1,833 teachers employed at the …