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Final Evaluation Report: Supporting Improved Literacy Achievement (Sila) Project, Robert Hattam, Lyn Kerkham, John Walsh, Jenny Barnett, Dianne Bills, Petra Lietz, Mollie Tobin
Final Evaluation Report: Supporting Improved Literacy Achievement (Sila) Project, Robert Hattam, Lyn Kerkham, John Walsh, Jenny Barnett, Dianne Bills, Petra Lietz, Mollie Tobin
Dr Petra Lietz
The Supporting Improved Literacy Achievement (SILA) project has attempted to make a difference to literacy achievement in some of the most ‘educationally disadvantaged’ schools in South Australia, and hence to take on seriously what has been an intractable policy and practice problem for many decades. In brief, the SILA project has adopted a coaching model as the means of providing schools with support for developing responses to diagnostic reviews. This strategy is a significant departure from common practice in DECS where schools are expected to undertake regular self-review processes using the DIAf tools with support for post-review development usually left …
The Contribution Of Iea Research Studies To Australian Education, John Ainley, John Keeves, Jan Lokan, Petra Lietz, Geoff Masters, Sue Thomson
The Contribution Of Iea Research Studies To Australian Education, John Ainley, John Keeves, Jan Lokan, Petra Lietz, Geoff Masters, Sue Thomson
Dr Petra Lietz
This chapter is concerned with the contribution of the research studies conducted by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) to Australian education. During a period of 50 years education across the world has undergone a remarkable transformation. Many of the changes that have occurred have been initiated by the United Nations Organization and its agen¬cies, particularly UNESCO. From its origins within the UNESCO Institute in Hamburg, IEA and its programs have evolved to develop the worldwide conduct of research in education both through the undertaking and reporting of studies as well as the informal training of …
The Relationship Of Iea To Some Developments In Educational Research Methodology And Measurement During The Years From 1962 To 1992, John Keeves, Petra Lietz
The Relationship Of Iea To Some Developments In Educational Research Methodology And Measurement During The Years From 1962 To 1992, John Keeves, Petra Lietz
Dr Petra Lietz
The marked expansion of education at all levels from early childhood education to primary and secondary schooling, as well as to universi¬ties and institutes of technology and to programs of lifelong learning and recurrent education in the workplace, led to the development of educational research as a major field of scholarly inquiry during the second half of the twentieth century. Research into education involves many disciplines in addition to psychology and operates with large numbers of individuals, institutions and systems at several levels across the approximately 200 states of the world. Moreover, it neces¬sarily involves change over time since it …