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Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research

Selected Works

2009

Dr Siek Toon Khoo

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Full-Text Articles in Education

Growth In Receptive Vocabulary Among 4 To 8 Year-Olds: Using Growth Modelling With The Lsac K Cohort, Kylie Hillman, Siek Khoo, Clare Ozolins Nov 2009

Growth In Receptive Vocabulary Among 4 To 8 Year-Olds: Using Growth Modelling With The Lsac K Cohort, Kylie Hillman, Siek Khoo, Clare Ozolins

Dr Siek Toon Khoo

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The Vit Program For Supporting Provisionally Registered Teachers : Evaluation Of Implementation In 2005., Lawrence Ingvarson, Elizabeth Kleinhenz, Siek Toon Khoo, Jenny Wilkinson May 2009

The Vit Program For Supporting Provisionally Registered Teachers : Evaluation Of Implementation In 2005., Lawrence Ingvarson, Elizabeth Kleinhenz, Siek Toon Khoo, Jenny Wilkinson

Dr Siek Toon Khoo

The VIT’s Program for Supporting Provisionally Registered Teachers and its registration procedures are increasingly seen as valid and fair. The Program is generally perceived as leading to improvements in teaching practice. Principals and mentors were very positive about the program, and consistently reported high levels of satisfaction with its implementation. Research has repeatedly found that significant reforms are often accompanied by a degree of unease and resistance, and this has been the case with the introduction of the VIT standards and registration requirements. School leaders play a vital role in leading their schools through these changes. This study has found …


Attitudes, Intentions And Participation, Siek Toon Khoo, John Ainley May 2009

Attitudes, Intentions And Participation, Siek Toon Khoo, John Ainley

Dr Siek Toon Khoo

This report examines the relationship between students' attitudes to school and intentions to participate in education and training, and the influence of these attitudes and intentions on participation in Year 12 and in further education and training. Students' attitudes to school, educational intentions and attainments are considered in the context of earlier school achievement, social background, geographic location, language background and gender. These factors are related to attitudes, intentions and participation. [p.1]