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Lsay Cohort Report The Year 9 Class Of 1995 In 2000: Experiences In Education And Employment, Sheldon Rothman

LSAY Cohort Reports

This report provides details of the experiences of the 1995 cohort of the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (abbreviated to LSAY Y95) at a single point in time. Information on this cohort was first collected in 1995, when these young people were Year 9 students in Australian schools. The reference period for this report is 2000. Nearly all of the cohort had completed secondary school, and more than half were undertaking some type of study.

Vet In Schools : Participation And Pathways, Sue Fullarton

LSAY Research Reports

The introduction of vocational education and training (VET) programs into secondary schools is a significant development in Australian education. VET programs are intended to broaden the range of curriculum offerings and provide young people with another pathway to work and tertiary education. A key feature of the secondary VET programs in Australia is that they comply with the National Training Framework and also form part of students' senior secondary certificate. This report uses a substantial national data set to analyses the levels of participation in VET in Schools, the characteristics of the young people who take VET programs, and their …

Tertiary Entrance Performance : The Role Of Student Background And School Factors, Gary Marks, Julie Mcmillan, Kylie Hillman

LSAY Research Reports

This report examines the tertiary entrance performance of students in Year 12 in 1998 using data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) project to address a variety of issues relating to tertiary entrance performance. The first part of the report examines the relationship between tertiary entrance performance and a variety of demographic, socioeconomic, educational and psychological factors. The second part focuses on individual schools, examining the impact of schools on student performance. School effectiveness is also addressed in this report.

Participation And Achievement In Vet Of Non-Completers Of School, Katrina Ball, Stephen Lamb

LSAY Research Reports

This report examines the vocational and training (VET) activities and experiences of non-completers of Year 12 in the initial post- school years. It investigates differences between those who participate in VET after leaving school and those who do not. It also reviews VET achievement examining results in the VET courses undertaken by non-completers. The report provides information on the characteristics and success rates of non-completers who participated in VET, concentrating on the characteristics and achievement levels of those non-completers who participated in VET according to their specific study programs. The analyses were based on data from the Y95 cohort of …

Work Experience, Work Placements And Part-Time Work Among Australian Secondary School Students., Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Briefing Reports

This paper reports findings from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth, focusing on the labour force experiences of secondary school students.

Lsay Cohort Report The Year 9 Class Of 1998 In 2000: School And Non-School Experiences, Sheldon Rothman

LSAY Cohort Reports

This report provides details of the experiences of the 1998 cohort of the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth in 2000. Information on this cohort was first collected in 1998, when these young people were Year 9 students in Australian schools.

The Pathways From School To Further Study And Work For Australian Graduates, Stephen Lamb

LSAY Research Reports

This report examines the pathways of Australian graduates in their transition from school to further study and work. It focuses on the pathways for those who obtained a university degree or TAFE diploma or who were enrolled for such qualification in the seventh post- school year.

Lsay Cohort Report The Year 9 Class Of 1998 In 1999 : Activities And Aspirations, Sue Fullarton

LSAY Cohort Reports

This report examines in detail the activities and aspirations of one of the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Youth (LSAY) program’s longitudinal cohorts at a single point in time. In this case the cohort is the national sample of Year 9 students who were in Year 9 in Australian secondary schools in 1998, and the reference period is 1999.

Codebook: The Lsay 1998 Year 9 Sample Wave 3 (2000) Technical Report No. 24, Kylie Hillman

LSAY Technical Reports

The 1998 Year 9 Cohort (Y98) In 1998, a nationally representative sample of approximately 14,000 Year 9 students was selected to form the second cohort of the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth. The sample was constructed by randomly selecting two Year 9 classes from a sample of schools designed to represent state and sector. Reading and numeracy tests were administered to students in their schools to provide information on early school achievement for use in later analyses of educational and labour market participation. Students also completed a background questionnaire about their educational and vocational plans and attitudes to school. Details …

Classroom And School Factors Affecting Mathematics Achievement: A Comparative Study Of The Us And Australia Using Timss, Stephen Lamb, Sue Fullarton

TIMSS Australia Monograph Series

Recent work on differences in mathematics achievement has highlighted the importance of classroom, teacher and school factors. The present study used data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) to look at student, classroom and school factors influencing mathematics achievement in the United States (US) and Australia. It found that classroom differences account for about one-third of the variation in student achievement in the United States and over 0ne-quarter in Australia. Much of the classroom variation was due to compositional and organisational factors. This has important implications for policy regarding the improvement of mathematics achievement in schools.

Codebook: The Lsay 1995 Year 9 Sample Wave 6 (2000) Technical Report No. 25, Kylie Hillman

LSAY Technical Reports

The 1995 Year 9 Cohort (Y95) In 1995, a nationally representative sample of approximately 13,000 Year 9 students was selected to form the first cohort of the new Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth program. The sample was constructed by randomly selecting two Year 9 classes from a national sample of 300 schools designed to represent state and sector. Reading and numeracy tests were administered to students in their schools to provide information on early school achievement for use in later analyses of educational and labour market participation. Students also completed a background questionnaire about their educational and vocational plans and …

Contemporary Developments In The Law Relating To Personal Injury, Negligence And Compensation, Bernard D. Bongiorno

APC Monographs

Looks at contemporary developments in the law relating to personal injury, negligence and compensation, with a discussion of duty of care, and some examples of cases.

Values In Educational Leadership : Do They Really Matter?, Paul Begley

APC Monographs

The author discusses values and their importance in decision-making in environments where value conflicts are common - for example in terms of racial, ethnic and religious diversity, and where there is a lack of consensus on the purposes of education.

Preparing To Face The Challenges Of Principalship : The 'Prism' Model, Bruce Barnett

APC Monographs

The author discusses challenges facing principals and identifies two of the major ones being isolation, which prevents principals from being exposed to new ideas, and the relentless pace of their jobs which inhibits the use of reflective practice to assist them in becoming more expert problem solvers.

Mentoring For Practising And Aspiring School Leaders : The 'Sage' Model, Bruce Barnett

APC Monographs

Discusses functions of mentoring, characteristics and roles of mentors, benefits and problems of mentoring, and the 'SAGE' mentoring program.

Contemporary Developments In The Law Relating To Children And The Children's Court, Jennifer Coate

APC Monographs

Outlines developments in the law relating to children and the Children's Court. Focuses on two topics: mandatory reporting, and children stalking children.

Developing Effective Learning Programs For Adults, Rosemary Cafarella

APC Monographs

Discusses the challenge of designing and delivering professional development that has an impact on the participants, not only at the time of the activity, but also transfers into their practice, and into that of others around them.

Does Vet In Schools Make A Difference To Post-School Pathways?, Sue Fullarton

2001 - Understanding Youth Pathways

This paper reports on research examining a number of ways in which participation in vocational education and training (VET) in schools might be associated with different post school pathways. The paper describes levels of participation, examines post-school destinations, and presents evidence that there are gender differences in these destinations that are associated with the level of participation in VET in schools.

Early School Leavers: Who Are They, Why Do They Leave, And What Are The Consequences?, Gary Marks, Julie Mcmillan

2001 - Understanding Youth Pathways

Changes in the youth labour market mean that that pathway from school to work is no longer so clearly defined. This paper addresses three broad issues: (1) In the late 1990s, who left school before the completion of Year 12? Are the sociodemographic factors which exerted an influence in the past still influencing the educational pathways of young people? (2) What are the reasons given by young people for leaving school early? (3) What are the consequences of school non-completion in the immediate post-school years?

Understanding Youth Pathways (Conference Proceedings), Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

2001 - Understanding Youth Pathways

Research Conference 2001 brings together key researchers, policy makers and practitioners from a broad range of social policy areas from around Australia and overseas to better understand the interactions between the intentions of pathways planners and the decisions of young people and their families, and how these can be strengthened and better informed.

Summing Up : Australian Numeracy Performances, Practices, Programs And Possibilities., Brian Doig

Literacy and Numeracy

Summing Up traces the history of the concept of numeracy and explores its place in current educational settings. It presents an up-to-date review of numeracy research and practices, as well as results of large-scale assessment studies.

Graduate Skills Assessment. Summary Report, The Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer

Higher education research

n 1999 the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) was commissioned by the Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DETYA) to develop a test of generic skills which could be administered at university entry and exit level. Following consultation with university representatives and other stakeholders, written communication, critical thinking, problem solving and interpersonal understandings were selected as the components of the initial Graduate Skills Assessment (GSA).

Pisa In Brief From Australia's Perspective: Highlights From The Full Australian Report: 15-Up And Counting, Reading, Writing, Reasoning... How Literate Are Australia's Students?, Acer

OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Australia

This pamphlet summarises results from PISA 2000. It tells us about how students performed and describes wider findings about what lies behind their results. The pamphlet focuses on Australia’s results, including how the Australian students performed in comparison with students from other countries. The full Australian report is called '15-Up and Counting, Reading, Writing, Reasoning … How Literate are Australia’s Students?' http://research.acer.edu.au/indigenous_education/7

PISA 2000 assessed students’ capacities to apply knowledge and skills in reading, mathematics and science. More assessment time was given to reading.

Codebook: The Lsay 1996 Teacher Survey Technical Paper No. 13, Stephen Lamb

LSAY Technical Reports

Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth is a program of surveys of young people conducted by ACER with funding from the Commonwealth Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs. The surveys focus on the education and labour market experiences of groups of young Australians, beginning from their middle years of secondary schooling. Data collected include basic demographic variables, as well as information about educational and labour force participation extending over a number of years. Students participating in LSAY were originally sampled in 1995 from 298 schools nationally. In 1996 the schools from which the original sample of students was drawn, …

Acer 2000-2001 Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

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A Policy Makers Guide To Systemwide Assessment Programs, Margaret Forster

Policy Maker's Guides

This guide provides policy makers with research-based information about systemwide assessment programs. Good decision making at all levels of an education system is facilitated by easily accessible, relevant, and reliable information. Many indicators provide useful input to educational decision making; but the most important indicators are those which address the central concern of education: the promotion of student learning. Education systems monitor student learning—with the fundamental intention of promoting learning—by collecting, analysing and reporting student achievement data. Given that state, national and international achievement studies are both time consuming and expensive, it seems prudent to reflect on this effort: What …