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Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research

1996

Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

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School Students And Part-Time Work, Lyn Robinson Oct 1996

School Students And Part-Time Work, Lyn Robinson

LSAY Research Reports

This report is about student-workers. The youthful part-time workers encountered in supermarket delicatessens, hot bread shops and fast food stores throughout Australia in the 1990s are very likely to also be full-time secondary school students. Over the past two to three decades, the increasing number of students who combine study at school with part-time employment outside of school hours has been widely observed, although estimates of how many school students have jobs vary greatly. Furthermore, while the trend has been well recognised, its implications have frequently been overlooked. Consideration of the student-worker phenomenon gives rise to a number of questions …


Acer Newsletter No. 85 Autumn 1996, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Oct 1996

Acer Newsletter No. 85 Autumn 1996, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

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No abstract provided.


Completing School In Australia: Trends In The 1990s, Stephen Lamb Aug 1996

Completing School In Australia: Trends In The 1990s, Stephen Lamb

LSAY Research Reports

To help examine the recent downturn in school completion rates in Australia this report makes use of two sources of data. The first is from the Schools Australia series published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The figures provided by this series are compiled from enrolment information collected from schools by individual state and territory departments of education as well as by the Commonwealth Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs. The figures provide aggregate information on school retention and participation by state and school system. The second set of data is from the Australian Youth Survey which …


Samples And Sampling For The Y95 Lsay Cohort Technical Paper No. 8, Michael Long Apr 1996

Samples And Sampling For The Y95 Lsay Cohort Technical Paper No. 8, Michael Long

LSAY Technical Reports

This paper outlines the intended and achieved samples for the first cohort in the program of Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth. Some earlier discussions that relate to the sample design are available in LSAY Technical Reports Numbers 2 and 7.


Acer Newsletter No. 87 Spring 1996, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Apr 1996

Acer Newsletter No. 87 Spring 1996, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

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No abstract provided.


Acer Newsletter No. 86 Winter 1996, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Jan 1996

Acer Newsletter No. 86 Winter 1996, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

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No abstract provided.