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The Pisa Item Formats & The Development Of The Pisa Marking Guides, Joy Mcqueen, Juliette Mendelovits, Gayl O'Connor, Margaret Wu

Juliette Mendelovits

No abstract provided.

Issues On The Utilization Of Student Data For The Monitoring Of The Relationship Between Social Background And Educational Outcomes, Gary Marks, Silvia Mccormack, Julie Mcmillan

Julie McMillan

Report for the National Education Performance Monitoring Taskforce. MCEETYA

The Measurement Of Language Background, Culture And Ethnicity For The Reporting Of Nationally Comparable Outcomes Of Schooling, John Ainley, Tracey Frigo, Gary Marks, Silvia Mccormack, Julie Mcmillan, Marion Meiers, Susan Zammit

Marion Meiers

Report for the National Education Performance Monitoring Taskforce. MCEETYA (Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs) .

The Measurement Of Language Background, Culture And Ethnicity For The Reporting Of Nationally Comparable Outcomes Of Schooling, John Ainley, Tracey Frigo, Gary Marks, Silvia Mccormack, Julie Mcmillan, Marion Meiers, Susan Zammit

Dr John Ainley

Report for the National Education Performance Monitoring Taskforce. MCEETYA (Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs) .

The Measurement Of Socioeconomic Status For The Reporting Of Nationally Comparable Outcomes Of Schooling, Gary Marks, Julie Mcmillan, Frank Jones, John Ainley

Dr John Ainley

The main purpose of this discussion paper is to develop a common definition of socioeconomic position to be used for reporting of nationally comparable outcomes of schooling within the context of the statement of National Goals for Schooling in the Twentyfirst Century. Report for the National Education Performance Monitoring Taskforce. MCEETYA

Mapping Educational Research And Its Impact On Australian Schools, John Ainley, Allyson Holbrook, Sid Bourke, John Owen, Phil Mckenzie, Sebastian Misson, Trevor Johnson

Dr John Ainley

This report provides an analysis of educational research and its impact on Australian schools. It has a particular focus on research done by academic staff and postgraduate students in university faculties of education, since around 90 percent of the resources involved in Australian educational research are located in those faculties. Within the total research endeavour the report concentrates on research concerned with Australian schools and schooling. The report developed an analytical framework drawn from the literature concerned with knowledge utilisation. The report has provided the most comprehensive mapping yet undertaken of the educational research that was underway in Australia in …

School Governance : Research On Educational And Management Issues, John Ainley, Phil Mckenzie

Dr John Ainley

In a number of countries the past 20 years have seen increases decentralisation of authority for a range of decisions to individual schools. A range of arguments has been advanced in support of decentralisation but a common belief is that shifting authority to schools will enhance the quality, effectiveness and responsiveness of public education. This paper argues decentralisation is not a unitary concept and can be applied to different elements of the teaching and learning environment: curriculum organisation, financial management, personnel management and resource allocation. Research that has investigated the impact of decentralisation itself on student learning outcomes has not …

Looking For Evidence In The Teaching Of Mathematics, Ray Peck, A Bishop, S Bennett

Ray Peck

The joint Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers AAMT/Monash University project 'Excellence in the teaching of mathematics: professional standards project' has been working with teacher focus groups in four states to try and build a picture of what mathematics teachers believe represents excellent teaching. This paper discusses the second aim of this project: to develop an assessment scheme and protocols for certifying this excellence. Topics discussed are developing ways to assess excellence, looking at an American model of assessment - the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), and other models for standards of excellence in teaching.

Additional Assistance : Counting, Duality And Compression Of Number And The Counting Slide, Mary Delahunty, Catherine Pearn

Catherine Pearn

At the beginning of 2000 the principal and staff of St Catherine's, Moorabbin, Victoria, instituted an additional assistance mathematics program within their school to support those children identified as being at risk in the early years. Children in Grade 1 and Grade 2 were the focus for withdrawal and support and were offered three sessions a week withdrawal and some whole class skills activity sessions for the year. Classroom needs was the focus for Grade 3 and children who were specifically targeted in relation to place value and the laws of mathematics received one session per week withdrawal for two …

Methods 1/2/3/4 : Tasks Designed To Develop The Characteristics Possessed By Talented Mathematicians, G Williams, G Cowling, Ray Peck, J Ripon

Ray Peck

This paper discusses group learning among VCE mathematics students at a combined schools' workshop in Hamilton, Victoria, and at Gippsland Grammar. When tasks with the potential for collaborative groups to discover complexities are used in conjunction with a teaching approach like class collaboration students tend to engage with the tasks, more frequently display the types of characteristics possessed by talented mathematicians, and develop new mathematical understandings. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the tks described in this paper are suitable for such a purpose.

Modeling Growth: From Individual Ols Line Fitting To Hierarchical Linear Modeling, A Calandrella, Siek Khoo

Dr Siek Toon Khoo

No abstract provided.

Vet In The International Arena, Phil Mckenzie

Dr Phillip McKenzie

No abstract provided.

Benchmarking Educational Websites: Edna 1999, Claire Campbell, Gerald White, Liz Babidge

Dr Gerald K. White

The advent of the Internet and the use of the World Wide Web (www) have changed the ways people and organizations disseminate information, broadened the means by which industries worldwide deliver services and, in so doing, shortened the distance between members of the global community. These developments have also provided implications and opportunities for the establishment and maintenance of mutually beneficial online alliances worldwide. EdNA Online - an online manifestation of the networked education community in Australia (hence the acronym EdNA for Education Network Australia) - plans to be in a position to capitalise on these national and international strategic …

The Measurement Of Language Background, Culture And Ethnicity For The Reporting Of Nationally Comparable Outcomes Of Schooling, John Ainley, Tracey Frigo, Gary Marks, Silvia Mccormack, Julie Mcmillan, Marion Meiers, Susan Zammit

Julie McMillan

Report for the National Education Performance Monitoring Taskforce. MCEETYA (Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs) .

Distance No Longer A Barrier : Using The Internet As A Survey Tool In Educational Research, Katherine Dix, Jonathan Anderson

Dr Katherine Dix

Learning Technologies Project 2000 Student Data : Executive Report, Katherine Dix

Dr Katherine Dix

Mapping Educational Research And Exploring Research Impact: A Holistic, Multi-Method Approach, Allyson Holbrook, Sid Bourke, John Owen, Phil Mckenzie, John Ainley

Dr Phillip McKenzie

This paper discusses the main analytical techniques used in "Mapping Educational Research and Its Impact on Schools." The study considered the impact of the outcomes of educational research on the practice of teaching and learning in Australian schools and on educational policy and administration. Mixed methods were used, beginning with a review of the literature and the exploration of the Australian Education Index (AEI) educational research database. Documents were collected from faculties of education in Australia, and questionnaires about the use of educational literature were developed for postgraduate students (n=1,267), school principals (n=73), and representatives of 72 professional associations. Interviews …

Using Longitudinal Data For Research On Vet, Phil Mckenzie

Dr Phillip McKenzie

Longitudinal studies can provide insights on young people's transition from education to work that other forms of data cannot. The Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) program, which is managed jointly by the Australian Council for Educational Research and the Commonwealth Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DETYA), has now accumulated more than 20 years of data that follow successive cohorts of young Australians as they move through education and training and into the labour market. The data are added to every year. This paper explores the potential of LSAY data for research on VET, and also some of …

The Measurement Of Socioeconomic Status For The Reporting Of Nationally Comparable Outcomes Of Schooling, Gary Marks, Julie Mcmillan, Frank Jones, John Ainley

Julie McMillan

The main purpose of this discussion paper is to develop a common definition of socioeconomic position to be used for reporting of nationally comparable outcomes of schooling within the context of the statement of National Goals for Schooling in the Twentyfirst Century. Report for the National Education Performance Monitoring Taskforce. MCEETYA

Numeracy Up Front : Behind The International Life Skills Survey, Dave Tout

David (Dave) Tout

Numeracy is part of the International Life Skills Survey (ILSS) planned for the year 2002. This article discusses the work of the Numeracy Working Group of the ILSS and looks at the wealth of ideas and concepts behind these surveys of interest to the wider educational sector.

Measurement Of The Socio-Economic Status Of Australian Higher Education Students, Julie Mcmillan, John Western

Julie McMillan

The underrepresentation of persons from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds in higher education in countries such as Australia is of policy concern. In order to be able to identify such individuals for targeted interventions and to monitor their participation rates, it is necessary to have an accurate, simple to administer, and relatively inexpensive method of measuring students' socio-economic characteristics. We demonstrate that the postcode methodology currently used by the Australian Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DETYA) for monitoring purposes, while being relatively simple and inexpensive to administer, is subject to considerable error. A student is allocated the `average' socio-economic status …

Procedures Or Concepts : Confusion In Young Children's Development Of Mathematical Understanding, Catherine Pearn

Catherine Pearn

This article provides an overview of research investigating the mathematical understanding of young children involved in the Mathematics Intervention program.

Assessing Expectations Of The First Year Student - Asap, Oscar T. Mcknight

Oscar T McKnight Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

The Anu3_2 Scale: A Revised Occupational Status Scale For Australia, F Jones, Julie Mcmillan

Julie McMillan

Australian researchers have used ANU status scales for over two decades to assign socioeconomic status scores to occupations coded into the occupational classifications produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). When the ABS has released new occupational classifications in the past, the ANU scale has been updated accordingly. The most recent status scale, the ANU3 scale, was developed in 1989 for use with the First Edition of the Australian Standard Classification of Occupations (ASCO). In 1996, however, the ABS released the Second Edition of ASCO. In this paper, we report an adaptation of the ANU3 scale for use with …

Patterns Of Participation In Year 12 And Higher Education In Australia : Trends And Issues, Gary Marks, Nicole Fleming, Michael Long, Julie Mcmillan

Julie McMillan

The report examines participation in education in Australia. It addresses several policy and conceptual issues relevant to educational participation. These include rurality, ethnicity, Indigenous status, socioeconomic background, part-time work, individual schools, and psychological factors.

The Implications Of Halo Effects And Item Dependencies For Objective Measurement, T Mcnamara, Ray Adams

Prof Ray Adams

Analysis of data from performance-based language tests presents the problem of dealing appropriately with bundles of items that are linked to particular tasks. The authors use recent developments in Rasch modelling which allow analysis of bundles of items (or sets of ratings) to examine the extent of dependence between items and ratings, and they explore the implications of those dependences on the assessments. Data from two performance assessments are used in two studies of this problem.

Keynotes [Sound Recording] : Music Evaluation Kit, Jennifer Bryce, Margaret Wu

Dr Jennifer Bryce

'Keynotes' is a multi-faceted, multimedia program for teachers and students of music. A range of computer-scored assessment tasks lets teachers pinpoint strengths and weaknesses in a student's musical ability, while the orientation section profiles over 20 instruments to help students make an informed decision about which instrument to learn.

Patterns Of Participation In Year 12 And Higher Education In Australia : Trends And Issues, Gary Marks, Nicole Fleming, Michael Long, Julie Mcmillan

Nicole Wernert

The report examines participation in education in Australia. It addresses several policy and conceptual issues relevant to educational participation. These include rurality, ethnicity, Indigenous status, socioeconomic background, part-time work, individual schools, and psychological factors.

Scoring Of Occupational Categories For Social Research, Julie Mcmillan, F Jones

Julie McMillan

No abstract provided.

Learning To Read In The Early Years Of School, John Ainley, Marianne Fleming

Dr John Ainley

No abstract provided.