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Protocol For A Systematic Review: Interventions For Anxiety In School-Aged Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder (Asd): A Mixed Methods Systematic Review, Petra Lietz, Julie Kos, Katherine Dix, Jenny Trevitt, Mirko Uljarevic, Elizabeth O'Grady Jan 2018

Protocol For A Systematic Review: Interventions For Anxiety In School-Aged Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder (Asd): A Mixed Methods Systematic Review, Petra Lietz, Julie Kos, Katherine Dix, Jenny Trevitt, Mirko Uljarevic, Elizabeth O'Grady

Student learning processes

This review aims to synthesise evidence about interventions to reduce anxiety symptoms in school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). While clinical studies will not be excluded per se, this review seeks to move beyond interventions that are relevant only for clinical practice and care in clinical settings and prioritise studies that draw out implications for school-aged children that will help their functioning in real-world settings such as school and the home. To achieve this aim, the review will employ a mixed-methods systematic review which can accommodate the anticipated diverse types of available studies. These studies are likely to use …


Pisa 2009 Technical Report, John Cresswell (Ed) Jan 2012

Pisa 2009 Technical Report, John Cresswell (Ed)

OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

PISA is methodologically highly complex, requiring intensive collaboration among many stakeholders. The successful implementation of PISA depends on the use, and sometimes further development, of state-of-the-art methodologies and technologies. The PISA 2009 Technical Report describes those methodologies, along with other features that have enabled PISA to provide high quality data to support policy formation and review. The descriptions are provided at a level that will enable review and, potentially, replication of the implemented procedures and technical solutions to problems. This report contains a description of the theoretical underpinning of the complex techniques used to create the PISA 2009 Database, which …


Alternative Scaling Models And Dependencies In Pisa, Greg Macaskill Sep 2008

Alternative Scaling Models And Dependencies In Pisa, Greg Macaskill

OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

This paper examines trends between PISA 2003 and PISA 2006 for the reading and mathematics scales for the OECD countries using both the standard one parameter (1PL) model that has been used in published OECD reports, and a generalised partial credit model, as implemented in ACER ConQuest, which estimates optimal values for each possible score on an item.


The Quality Of Learners' Knowledge About Teaching And Learning, Helen Askell-Williams Jan 2004

The Quality Of Learners' Knowledge About Teaching And Learning, Helen Askell-Williams

Shannon Research Press

The aim of this monograph is to report the development and application of a framework for identifying quality in teachers' and learners' knowledge about teaching and learning.


Life Values And Approaches To Learning: A Study Of University Students From Confucian Heritage Cultures, Bobbie Matthews Jan 2004

Life Values And Approaches To Learning: A Study Of University Students From Confucian Heritage Cultures, Bobbie Matthews

Shannon Research Press

This study seeks to examine the principles that guide the lives of students from East Asia who come to Australia to study. The more specific purpose is to investigate the values and approaches to learning that are important in the lives of Asian tertiary students and to examine changes that may occur when students come from East Asia in order to pursue their education in Australia.