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International Test Users' Conference: Assessing Intelligence, Emotion And Behaviour (Conference Proceedings), Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Jan 2004

International Test Users' Conference: Assessing Intelligence, Emotion And Behaviour (Conference Proceedings), Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

2004 - The International Test Users' Conference

World leaders in the assessment of intelligence, emotions and behaviour gathered in Melbourne this week to consider issues in assessing the whole person across the lifespan. They joined around 180 delegates including participants from the United States, Malaysia, Indonesia and New Zealand taking part in the International Test Users' Conference 2004 hosted by ACER. Keynote presentations were given by Professor Gale Roid, co-author of the Stanford Binet 5; Professor Thomas Achenbach, author of the Child Behaviour Checklist; Dr David Caruso, co-author of the Mayar, Salovey, Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test; and Dr Katherine Hirsch, co-author of a number of texts on …

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Measuring The Social Outcomes Of Schooling: What Does Acer Research Tell Us?, Margaret Forster Jan 2004

Measuring The Social Outcomes Of Schooling: What Does Acer Research Tell Us?, Margaret Forster

2004 - Supporting Student Wellbeing: what does the research tell us about social and emotional development of young people?

For the past eight years the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) has been at the forefront of work in Australia to refine reconceptualisations of the social outcomes of schooling, and to explore ways to measure the social and emotional development of young people. Contexts for ACER's work in this area include consultancies for individual schools, the development of questionnaire instruments as part of fee for services provisions for schools, assistance for state ministries of education, and development work for a variety of tertiary assessments. For example, in 1998, ACER worked with one school to formally assess and monitor the …

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Helping Teachers Help Students Act Responsibly, Ramon Lewis Jan 2004

Helping Teachers Help Students Act Responsibly, Ramon Lewis

2004 - Supporting Student Wellbeing: what does the research tell us about social and emotional development of young people?

This paper examines the relationship between Australian students responsibility in classrooms and their teachers discipline strategies.

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Supporting Student Wellbeing : What Does The Research Tell Us About The Social And Emotional Development Of Young People? (Conference Proceedings), Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Jan 2004

Supporting Student Wellbeing : What Does The Research Tell Us About The Social And Emotional Development Of Young People? (Conference Proceedings), Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

2004 - Supporting Student Wellbeing: what does the research tell us about social and emotional development of young people?

More than 500 researchers, policy makers and teachers from a broad range of educational contexts from Australia and overseas met Adelaide on 25 and 26 October 2004 to examine effective ways of supporting student wellbeing at ACER's Research Conference 2004.

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Iea Civic Education Study. Technical Report, Wolfram Schulz, Heiko Sibberns Jan 2004

Iea Civic Education Study. Technical Report, Wolfram Schulz, Heiko Sibberns

Civics and Citizenship Assessment

No abstract provided.

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The Quality Of Learners' Knowledge About Teaching And Learning, Helen Askell-Williams Jan 2004

The Quality Of Learners' Knowledge About Teaching And Learning, Helen Askell-Williams

Shannon Research Press

The aim of this monograph is to report the development and application of a framework for identifying quality in teachers' and learners' knowledge about teaching and learning.

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Retaining Knowledge Through Organizational Action, Paddy O'Toole Jan 2004

Retaining Knowledge Through Organizational Action, Paddy O'Toole

Shannon Research Press

The main goal of this study is to contribute to the understanding of knowledge retention in organisations. Knowledge retention relates to the storage of knowledge within organisations. The word 'storage', however, gives an erroneous impression of the active and dynamic way in which knowledge is manifested and retained within the organisation. Knowledge may be retained via documents, databases or within the culture and structure of the organisation. Knowledge can be held in one individual head, or be synthesised by groups. This book gives an account of research that investigated development of knowledge retention structures, the communication of knowledge and the …

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Individual And School Influences On Interdependence, John Ainley Jan 2004

Individual And School Influences On Interdependence, John Ainley

2004 - Supporting Student Wellbeing: what does the research tell us about social and emotional development of young people?

One of the major developmental purposes of schooling is that of independence which is seen as the outcome of competence and confidence. The capacities for independent thought, independent judgment and independent action are highly valued. However, a concern with developing independence needs to be balanced by a concern with interdependence. Schools and families have long recognised that they have a role in the development of interdependence. A sense of interdependence is at the heart of the social outcomes of schooling because it concerns relations with other individuals, groups and institutions. This paper examines individual and school influences on interdependence.

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Literacy And Numeracy Development For Indigenous Students : A Longitudinal Study, Nola Purdie Jan 2004

Literacy And Numeracy Development For Indigenous Students : A Longitudinal Study, Nola Purdie

Indigenous Education Research

No abstract provided.

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Summing It Up : Mathematics Achievement In Australian Schools In Timss 2002, Sue Thomson, Nicole Fleming Jan 2004

Summing It Up : Mathematics Achievement In Australian Schools In Timss 2002, Sue Thomson, Nicole Fleming

TIMSS Australia Monograph Series

This document analyses and interprets the Australian data collected as part of the TIMSS study for Year 4 and Year 8 students.

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Evaluation Of School-Based Arts Education Programmes In Australian Schools, Jennifer Bryce, Juliette Mendelovits, Adrian Beavis, Joy Mcqueen, Isabelle Adams Jan 2004

Evaluation Of School-Based Arts Education Programmes In Australian Schools, Jennifer Bryce, Juliette Mendelovits, Adrian Beavis, Joy Mcqueen, Isabelle Adams

Program monitoring and evaluation

This report presents evaluations of four Australian school-based arts programmes: Arts@Direk (SA), Boys’ Business (NT), Indigenous Music Education Programme (NT), and SCRAYP – Youth Arts with an Edge (Vic). Arts@Direk and SCRAYP provided a focus on drama, while Boys’ Business and Indigenous Music Education Programme (IMEP) concentrated on music. There was a range of ages from Year 4 to Year 10 and a diverse range of backgrounds amongst the participating students. The study investigated the impact of each arts programme on students’ academic progress, engagement with learning and school attendance. It also considered which attributes of arts programmes were of …

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The Measurement Of Adolescent Depression, Leigh Roeger Jan 2004

The Measurement Of Adolescent Depression, Leigh Roeger

Shannon Research Press

Very broadly the general aims of this study are: to examine whether the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) measures depressive symptomatology equivalently across adolescent boys and girls; and to examine whether schools exert effects on student levels of depressive symptomatology independently of individual level characteristics. In the course of this study quite a number of subsidiary questions are also addressed. Most of these questions centre around the psychometric properties of the CES-D scale when used with adolescent samples.

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Evaluating Australian Teachers, Lawrence Ingvarson, Elizabeth Kleinhenz Jan 2004

Evaluating Australian Teachers, Lawrence Ingvarson, Elizabeth Kleinhenz

Teaching standards and teacher evaluation

ACER researchers Lawrence Ingvarson and Elizabeth Kleinhenz have investigated current Australian policies and practices in teacher evaluation and their relation to the improvement of teaching and learning.

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'Literacy Behaviour' And Auditory Processing : Building 'Fences' At The Top Of The 'Cliff' In Preference To Ambulance Services At The Bottom, Kathy Rowe, Ken Rowe, Jan Pollard Jan 2004

'Literacy Behaviour' And Auditory Processing : Building 'Fences' At The Top Of The 'Cliff' In Preference To Ambulance Services At The Bottom, Kathy Rowe, Ken Rowe, Jan Pollard

2004 - Supporting Student Wellbeing: what does the research tell us about social and emotional development of young people?

Children who are inattentive or disruptive are at high risk of poor achievement progress, especially in literacy. Approximately nine percent of school children have both literacy and externalising behaviour problems, and the long term consequences of these are costly emotionally, socially, educationally and economically. Many of these children are referred to paediatricians and psychologists to assess whether learning difficulties or attention deficits are contributing factors to their behaviour problems at school. Similarly, many are referred to audiologists to test hearing in the event that their observed difficulties in listening and following instructions may be due to hearing impairment. However, following …

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Acer Enews 01 January 2004, Acer Jan 2004

Acer Enews 01 January 2004, Acer

ACER eNews Archive 2001-2013

No abstract provided.

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On Reflection, James Anthony Gibbons Jan 2004

On Reflection, James Anthony Gibbons

Shannon Research Press

This book commences with a criticism of constructivism as the basis for curriculum design followed by an attempt to argue an alternative. It is possible to proceed to criticise constructivism as the basis for curriculum design by illustrating the issues with references to extracts from curricula used by various countries and Departments of Education. This book takes a different route. The assumption is made that criticism will be clearer if related to a substantial part of a curriculum rather than extracts from a variety of curricula from a variety of countries. The focus is on the recently developed, and currently …

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Conceptualising And Researching Student Wellbeing, Geoff N. Masters Jan 2004

Conceptualising And Researching Student Wellbeing, Geoff N. Masters

2004 - Supporting Student Wellbeing: what does the research tell us about social and emotional development of young people?

Schools have always seen it as part of their role to support and encourage children's all-round development, including their cognitive, interpersonal, social, aesthetic, physical and moral/spiritual growth. Beyond the academic, schools have been committed to children's general wellbeing; in seeing children develop into well-rounded, healthy individuals who can take their place as informed, principled and engaged members of society. In fulfilling this role, schools have worked alongside and complemented families, churches and other institutions in the community. In recent years, Australian schools and education systems have made efforts to clarify the broad purposes of schooling and to introduce ways of …

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The Emotional Wellbeing Of Young People : School, Further Study, Work And Beyond, Julie Mcmillan, Kylie Hillman Jan 2004

The Emotional Wellbeing Of Young People : School, Further Study, Work And Beyond, Julie Mcmillan, Kylie Hillman

2004 - Supporting Student Wellbeing: what does the research tell us about social and emotional development of young people?

Educational and labour market pathways in the early post-school years are becoming increasingly diverse. A pertinent issue for those working with young people is how young people now navigate the transition from secondary school into post-school education, training and employment, and the impact of the different paths followed on their emotional wellbeing. This paper has two aims: to describe the cross-sectional relationship between emotional wellbeing and participation in a range of post-school education, training and labour market activities; and, to assess whether movement between activities in the early post-school years is associated with changes in emotional wellbeing.

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A School System Perspective On Strengthening Student Wellbeing, Peter Hamilton Jan 2004

A School System Perspective On Strengthening Student Wellbeing, Peter Hamilton

2004 - Supporting Student Wellbeing: what does the research tell us about social and emotional development of young people?

In the best tradition of education bureaucracies my title has changed since the conference program was printed! I now head up a new Directorate within the Western Australian Department of Education and Training called Student Behaviour and Wellbeing. The establishment of this new Directorate is symbolic of the profile the Department is giving to issues of student behaviour and wellbeing. It’s a sign of the times. The perspective I will be presenting this afternoon is that of a senior bureaucrat in a state system with all the messiness and the rough and tumble and the daily crises that characterize life …

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Sustainable School Improvement : Building A System-Wide Vision, David Jackson Jan 2004

Sustainable School Improvement : Building A System-Wide Vision, David Jackson

APC Monographs

Discusses the idea of networked learning communities, where groups of schools work together to solve the problems of one child - any child, in any classroom, in any school in the network.

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Highlights From Timss From Australia's Perspective: Highlights From The Full Australian Reports From The Trends In International Mathematics And Science Study 2002/03, Sue Thomson, Nicole Fleming Jan 2004

Highlights From Timss From Australia's Perspective: Highlights From The Full Australian Reports From The Trends In International Mathematics And Science Study 2002/03, Sue Thomson, Nicole Fleming

TIMSS Australia Monograph Series

No abstract provided.

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Examining The Evidence: Science Achievement In Australian Schools In Timss 2002, Sue Thomson, Nicole Fleming Jan 2004

Examining The Evidence: Science Achievement In Australian Schools In Timss 2002, Sue Thomson, Nicole Fleming

TIMSS Australia Monograph Series

In Australia, 10030 students in 414 schools participated in the main sample of TIMSS 2002/03. Results are reported as average scores with the standard error, as distributions of scores, and as percentages of students who attain the international benchmarks, for countries and specific groups of students within Australia.

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Australia's Indigenous Students In Pisa 2000 : Results From An International Study, Lisa De Bortoli, John Cresswell Jan 2004

Australia's Indigenous Students In Pisa 2000 : Results From An International Study, Lisa De Bortoli, John Cresswell

Indigenous Education Research

In the total PISA sample, the weighted percentage of Indigenous students was 2.4 percent. This figure consisted of 192 students who identified themselves as being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent in the main sample. An additional 301 Indigenous students, not selected for the main sample, accepted the offer to participate in PISA. This report is based on the results of this combined group of 493 Indigenous students. The distribution of the sample is representative of the Indigenous population in Australia.

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Life Values And Approaches To Learning: A Study Of University Students From Confucian Heritage Cultures, Bobbie Matthews Jan 2004

Life Values And Approaches To Learning: A Study Of University Students From Confucian Heritage Cultures, Bobbie Matthews

Shannon Research Press

This study seeks to examine the principles that guide the lives of students from East Asia who come to Australia to study. The more specific purpose is to investigate the values and approaches to learning that are important in the lives of Asian tertiary students and to examine changes that may occur when students come from East Asia in order to pursue their education in Australia.

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Alternative Education : An International Perspective, Yoshiyuki Nagata Jan 2004

Alternative Education : An International Perspective, Yoshiyuki Nagata

Shannon Research Press

Chapter 1 discusses how the characteristics of alternative education are to be understood, for the purposes of this research, in the contemporary context and in light of former interpretations. Chapters 2 to 8 take up cases of alternative education in practice in six countries and discuss the realities of the systems and mechanisms involved in practice and theory in alternative schools.

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Annual Report 2004 Australian College Of Educators, Australian College Of Educators Jan 2004

Annual Report 2004 Australian College Of Educators, Australian College Of Educators

Australian College of Educators - National

No abstract provided.

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Pre-Service Teacher Education In Australia : A Mapping Study Of Selection Processes, Course Structure And Content, And Accreditation Processes, Lawrence Ingvarson, Adrian Beavis, Elizabeth Kleinhenz, Alison Elliott Jan 2004

Pre-Service Teacher Education In Australia : A Mapping Study Of Selection Processes, Course Structure And Content, And Accreditation Processes, Lawrence Ingvarson, Adrian Beavis, Elizabeth Kleinhenz, Alison Elliott

Initial Teacher education

The main purpose of this study was to conduct a survey of Australian institutions that provide pre-service teacher education courses for primary and secondary teachers. The key elements of this mapping exercise included: Selection processes: The criteria and processes that teacher education institutions use to select students for courses. Course structure and content: The types of course content and structure that exist currently, including key components such as arrangements for the practicum and for ICT. Accreditation processes: The processes currently used, both internally and externally, for the accreditation and evaluation of teacher education courses. The survey instrument was sent to …

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Supporting English Literacy And Numeracy Learning For Indigenous Students In The Early Years, Tracey Frigo, Matthew Corrigan, Isabelle Adams, Paul Hughes, Maria Stephens, Davina Woods Jan 2004

Supporting English Literacy And Numeracy Learning For Indigenous Students In The Early Years, Tracey Frigo, Matthew Corrigan, Isabelle Adams, Paul Hughes, Maria Stephens, Davina Woods

Indigenous Education Research

A longitudinal study conducted by ACER has been monitoring the growth in English literacy and numeracy achievement of a group of 152 Indigenous students in 13 schools through the early years of primary school. Indigenous students' developing English literacy and numeracy skills were assessed at five points over the first three years of school using tasks developed for the ACER Longitudinal Literacy and Numeracy Survey (LLANS). In general, for both the English literacy and for numeracy the achievement of the Indigenous students began at a similar level to that of the main LLANS sample but by the time of the …

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Facing The Future: A Focus On Mathematical Literacy Among Australian 15-Year-Old Students In Pisa 2003, Sue Thomson, John Cresswell, Lisa De Bortoli Jan 2004

Facing The Future: A Focus On Mathematical Literacy Among Australian 15-Year-Old Students In Pisa 2003, Sue Thomson, John Cresswell, Lisa De Bortoli

OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Australia

No abstract provided.

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Evaluation Of The Middle Years Reform Program, Gerald Elsworth, Elizabeth Kleinhenz, Adrian Beavis Jan 2004

Evaluation Of The Middle Years Reform Program, Gerald Elsworth, Elizabeth Kleinhenz, Adrian Beavis

Shaping educational policy

The Middle Years Reform Program (MYRP) was conducted in all Victorian government secondary and P-12 schools over the period 2001-2003. The program was designed to provide these schools with financial support to employ additional classroom teaching capacity to develop and implement initiatives in the areas of literacy, attendance and the ‘thinking curriculum’ in Years 7-9. Data for the evaluation were taken from: a. Literature and document review; b. Three preliminary consultations with representative groups of regional office personnel, school principals, middle years co-ordinators and other teachers familiar with middle years issues; c. A questionnaire that was distributed by e-mail to …

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