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Equipping Students For Life After School, Geoff Masters
Equipping Students For Life After School, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
Identifying and developing the knowledge, skills and attributes required for life and work is an ongoing challenge in school education.
School Improvement On Australia’S Horizon, Geoff Masters
School Improvement On Australia’S Horizon, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
While Australia has seen a steady decline in 15-year-olds’ reading literacy achievement over the past decade, Geoff Masters identifies promising signs at the primary level that this trend may soon be reversed.
Torch : Tests Of Reading Comprehension, Leila Mossenson, Andrew Stephanou, Margaret Forster, Geoff N. Masters, Margaret Mcgregor, Prue Anderson, Peter Hill
Torch : Tests Of Reading Comprehension, Leila Mossenson, Andrew Stephanou, Margaret Forster, Geoff N. Masters, Margaret Mcgregor, Prue Anderson, Peter Hill
Prof Geoff Masters AO
This set of twelve reading tests is designed to assist teachers of students from Year 3 to Year 10 in their assessment of students' reading comprehension skills. Each of the twelve reading tests consists of a reading passage and a corresponding answer sheet.
Raising Standards : A Shared Challenge, Geoff Masters
Raising Standards : A Shared Challenge, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
Geoff Masters outlines his recommendations to improve literacy, numeracy and science learning in Queensland primary schools.
Profiles Of Learning: The Basic Skills Testing Program In New South Wales: 1989, Geoff Masters, Jan Lokan, Brian Doig, Siek Khoo, John Lindsey, Lynette Robinson, Susan Zammit
Profiles Of Learning: The Basic Skills Testing Program In New South Wales: 1989, Geoff Masters, Jan Lokan, Brian Doig, Siek Khoo, John Lindsey, Lynette Robinson, Susan Zammit
Prof Geoff Masters AO
The 1989 Basic Skills Testing Program in New South Wales provides the most comprehensive picture yet compiled of literacy and numeracy learning in Australian primary schools. In 1989, some 53,800 Year 6 students in NSW government schools were tested in five aspects of literacy and numeracy. Another 2,300 Year 3 students took part in a pilot study. This book discusses the writing of the tests, the analysis of results, and the reporting of results to parents, teachers and schools. The aim of the basic skills tests is to describe, in positive terms, the skills that students have mastered, to identify …
Improving Educational Outcomes In The Northern Territory : Preliminary Advice To The Northern Territory Department Of Education And Training, With A Particular Focus On The Ongoing Improvement Of Students’ Literacy And Numeracy Achievements, Geoff N. Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
The primary focus of this review is on strategies for improving literacy and numeracy outcomes in the Northern Territory. Clearly, the role of school education is much broader than the development of students literacy and numeracy skills, but these are foundational skills on which almost all other school learning is based. It is also clear from research that low levels of literacy and numeracy by the middle years of school are associated with lower school completion rates and a range of post-school outcomes, including higher levels of unemployment, lower lifetime earnings, and poorer health outcomes. Although the primary focus of …
Naplan And My School : Shedding Some Light On A Work In Progress, Geoff Masters
Naplan And My School : Shedding Some Light On A Work In Progress, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
Debate about NAPLAN and the My School website has generated plenty of heat. Geoff Masters casts some light on what is essentially a work In progress.
An Investigation Of The Stability Of A Literacy Variable Over Time: Implications For Standards Monitoring, Siek Khoo, Geoff Masters
An Investigation Of The Stability Of A Literacy Variable Over Time: Implications For Standards Monitoring, Siek Khoo, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
No abstract provided.
Improving Literacy And Numeracy Outcomes, Geoff Masters
Improving Literacy And Numeracy Outcomes, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
No abstract provided.
What Works? Researching Language And Literacy Learning, Geoff Masters
What Works? Researching Language And Literacy Learning, Geoff Masters
Prof Geoff Masters AO
This article reflects on the purpose and objectives of educational research. The author argues that the purpose of educational research is to find ways to improve student learning, and that research that does not have this as its ultimate motivation and objective is not educational research. The author also discusses the importance of research syntheses, the value of sharpening the focus of research and that better communication of research results to practitioners should be considered.