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Quest: The Interactive Test Analysis System, Ray Adams, Siek Khoo
Quest: The Interactive Test Analysis System, Ray Adams, Siek Khoo
Prof Ray Adams
This is a guide to using Quest. Quest offers a comprehensive test and questionnaire analysis environment by providing a data analyst with access to the most recent developments in Rasch measurement theory, as well as a range of traditional analysis procedures. It includes an easy to use control language with flexible and informative output. Quest can be used to construct and validate variables based on both dichotomous and polychotomous observations. It scores and analyses such instruments as multiple choice tests, Likert type rating scales, short answer items, and partial credit items.
Scale Economies In Australian Secondary Schools, Phil Mckenzie
Scale Economies In Australian Secondary Schools, Phil Mckenzie
Dr Phillip McKenzie
This paper reviews the evidence on the existence of scale economies in Australian secondary schools. The paper has three main sections: a description of the sizes of Australian secondary schools; an outline of the conceptual basis for estimations of scale economies; and a review of the empirical studies that have been conducted in Australia and overseas.
Educational Research And Development: Indicators Of Financial And Personnel Resources. Preliminary Guidelines For Data Collection And Analysis, Barry Mcgaw, Phil Mckenzie
Educational Research And Development: Indicators Of Financial And Personnel Resources. Preliminary Guidelines For Data Collection And Analysis, Barry Mcgaw, Phil Mckenzie
Dr Phillip McKenzie
No abstract provided.
The Economics Of Education 1992, Gerald Burke, Fran Ferrier, Leo Maglen, Phil Mckenzie, Chris Selby Smith
The Economics Of Education 1992, Gerald Burke, Fran Ferrier, Leo Maglen, Phil Mckenzie, Chris Selby Smith
Dr Phillip McKenzie
Papers presented at a symposium held as part of the joint AARE/NZARE Conference, at Deakin University, in November 1992. The symposium was organised by the Centre for Economics of Education and the Economics of Education Network
Beyond The Compulsory Years : Transitions In New South Wales High Schools, John Ainley, M Sheret
Beyond The Compulsory Years : Transitions In New South Wales High Schools, John Ainley, M Sheret
Dr John Ainley
No abstract provided.
The Indianapolis Division Of Housing Project: Opportunity For Empowerment Practice With Public Housing Resident, Lisa Mcguire
The Indianapolis Division Of Housing Project: Opportunity For Empowerment Practice With Public Housing Resident, Lisa Mcguire
Lisa E. McGuire
No abstract provided.
Australia: Country Report, Phil Mckenzie
Reporting Research For Teachers: Students In The Senior Secondary Years, John Ainley, Michael Sheret
Reporting Research For Teachers: Students In The Senior Secondary Years, John Ainley, Michael Sheret
Dr John Ainley
Traditionally, until the 1970s, senior secondary schooling in Australia was restricted to a minority of each age group. This was particularly pronounced in the case of government schools. From that time, however, the proportion of each cohort staying at school beyond the compulsory years began to increase rapidly and, by the 1980s, retention patterns in secondary schools had changed dramatically. These changes were most marked in government secondary schools. In this article the authors report on a study conducted on a sample of government high schools in New South Wales, which examined the post compulsory educational experiences of a group …
New Views Of Student Learning: Implications For Educational Measurement, Geoff Masters, R Mislevy
New Views Of Student Learning: Implications For Educational Measurement, Geoff Masters, R Mislevy
Prof Geoff Masters AO
Recent research in cognitive psychology has drawn attention to the important role that students' personal understandings and representations of subject matter play in the learning process. This chapter briefly reviews some of this research, and contrasts the kind of learning that results in an individual's changed conception or view of a phenomenon with the more passive, additive kind of learning assessed by most traditional achievement tests. To be consistent with a view of learning as an active, constructive process, educational tests are required that focus on key concepts in an area of learning, and that take into account the variety …
Phenomenographic Research And The Measurement Of Understanding: An Investigation Of Students' Conceptions Of Speed, Distance And Time, P Ramsden, Geoff Masters, Andrew Stephanou, E Walsh, E Martin
Phenomenographic Research And The Measurement Of Understanding: An Investigation Of Students' Conceptions Of Speed, Distance And Time, P Ramsden, Geoff Masters, Andrew Stephanou, E Walsh, E Martin
Prof Geoff Masters AO
No abstract provided.
Reflections On The Value Of Vce For Young People Not Intending To Go To University, Jennifer Bryce
Reflections On The Value Of Vce For Young People Not Intending To Go To University, Jennifer Bryce
Dr Jennifer Bryce
This thesis investigates the experiences of eighteen young people who completed the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) in 1991 without intending to proceed to university. It examines their reasons for staying at school to complete VCE and their perceptions of the VCE year and its usefulness to them. This study was prompted by current changes in perceptions of the purpose of post compulsory education shown by government drives for high retention rates in Year 12 and moves for vocationally oriented competency based curricula. Such moves have implied a broader definition of VCE than its traditional role as a means of …
Quest: The Interactive Test Analysis System, Ray Adams, Siek Khoo
Quest: The Interactive Test Analysis System, Ray Adams, Siek Khoo
Dr Siek Toon Khoo
This is a guide to using Quest. Quest offers a comprehensive test and questionnaire analysis environment by providing a data analyst with access to the most recent developments in Rasch measurement theory, as well as a range of traditional analysis procedures. It includes an easy to use control language with flexible and informative output. Quest can be used to construct and validate variables based on both dichotomous and polychotomous observations. It scores and analyses such instruments as multiple choice tests, Likert type rating scales, short answer items, and partial credit items.