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Codebook: The Lsay 1998 Year 9 Sample Wave 5 (2002) Technical Report No. 29, Kylie Hillman Apr 2003

Codebook: The Lsay 1998 Year 9 Sample Wave 5 (2002) Technical Report No. 29, Kylie Hillman

LSAY Technical Reports

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 on the 1998 survey are provided …

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Leading Improvement In Schools By Embedding And Sustaining Change: It’S All About The Learning, Lorna Earl Mar 2003

Leading Improvement In Schools By Embedding And Sustaining Change: It’S All About The Learning, Lorna Earl

APC Monographs

Developing leadership, sustainable leadership is a huge issue in education and will become even more significant. All over the world, as the “baby boomers” near the ends of their careers, we have large numbers of senior, respected administrators retiring. A lot of us came in on that same wave several decades ago. They were exciting times. What benefitted us was mentoring, support and direction. It is now up to us to ensure that our younger successors develop the confidence and the competence to be able to sustain change in their schools.

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Codebook: The Lsay 1995 Year 9 Sample Wave 7 (2001) Technical Report No. 27, Kylie Hillman, Julie Mcmillan Mar 2003

Codebook: The Lsay 1995 Year 9 Sample Wave 7 (2001) Technical Report No. 27, Kylie Hillman, Julie Mcmillan

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 …

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Lsay Cohort Report The Year 9 Class Of 1995 In 2001: Education, Employment And Experiences, Sheldon Rothman, Kylie Hillman Feb 2003

Lsay Cohort Report The Year 9 Class Of 1995 In 2001: Education, Employment And Experiences, Sheldon Rothman, Kylie Hillman

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). 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 2001, when the modal age of respondents was 20 years.1 Nearly all of the cohort had completed secondary school, and more than one-half were undertaking some type of study.

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Student Workers In High School And Beyond : The Effects Of Part-Time Employment On Participation In Education, Training And Work, Margaret Vickers, Stephen Lamb, John Hinkley Feb 2003

Student Workers In High School And Beyond : The Effects Of Part-Time Employment On Participation In Education, Training And Work, Margaret Vickers, Stephen Lamb, John Hinkley

LSAY Research Reports

This report examines the effects of part-time student employment on participation and attrition in secondary school and in tertiary study, and on post-school activities of young people. The first part of the report begins with an examination of part-time work during Year 9, and looks at the possible effects of working during Year 9 on Year 12 completion, and the relationships between Year 9 employment and the main activity young people pursue in the first few years beyond school. The second part focuses on the part-time employment activities of full-time tertiary students. it asks whether involvement in part-time work might …

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Acer Enews 02 February 2003, Acer Feb 2003

Acer Enews 02 February 2003, Acer

ACER eNews Archive 2001-2013

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Entering Higher Education In Australia., Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Jan 2003

Entering Higher Education In Australia., Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Briefing Reports

This paper reports findings from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) into whether increased higher education enrolments has mean greater equity in participation. It considers participation in the final year of secondary schools, the transition from school to further study, who enters higher education, tertiary entrance performance and policy implications.

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The Apc Summer Institute, 2003 : A Two-Day Workshop With Professor Paul Bredeson, Paul Bredeson Jan 2003

The Apc Summer Institute, 2003 : A Two-Day Workshop With Professor Paul Bredeson, Paul Bredeson

APC Monographs

A shift is taking place, away from the idea of 'professional development' and towards a concept of 'professional learning'. This paper has been prepared in that context, looking at the intersection between professional learning and work, and taking into account the capacity of participants to engage with the acquisition of knowledge for personal growth and to meet the needs of their institutions. It addresses a number of themes including: professional development as part of leadership; learning, leadership and work; and the exploration of professional learning using the metaphor of architecture.

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Learning Centered Leadership : The Only Way To Go, Geoff Southworth Jan 2003

Learning Centered Leadership : The Only Way To Go, Geoff Southworth

APC Monographs

Three themes are the focus of this paper: change, leadership and learning organisations (in particular, learning schools). The author offers a synthesis of these three themes, so that each is considered in relation to the others, rather than as a discrete entity.

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Using Research To Advance Professional Practice, Geoff N. Masters Jan 2003

Using Research To Advance Professional Practice, Geoff N. Masters

2003 - Building Teacher Quality: What does the research tell us?

This paper discusses quality in professional practice - whether as an engineer, accountant or orthopaedic surgeon - and how it depends on expert knowledge of the field, a deep understanding of underlying principles, accumulated experience in the practice of the profession, a familiarity with recent advances in the professional knowledge base, and mastery of the best available techniques and tools. Teaching qualifies as a profession to the extent that it requires the application of specialised knowledge and skill developed through research and high-level education and training. Quality in teaching practice depends on familiarity with recent advances in the professional knowledge …

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Teachers Make A Difference, What Is The Research Evidence?, John Hattie Jan 2003

Teachers Make A Difference, What Is The Research Evidence?, John Hattie

2003 - Building Teacher Quality: What does the research tell us?

My journey this morning takes me from identifying the relative power of the teacher, to a reflection on the qualities of excellence among teachers, and dwells mainly on a study undertaken in the classroom of America’s very best teachers. My search is driven by the goal of ascertaining the attributes of excellence – because if we can discover the location of these goal posts, if we can understand the height of the bar of the goal posts, we then have the basis for developing appropriate professional development, the basis for teacher education programs to highlight that which truly makes the …

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Building Teacher Quality (Conference Proceedings), Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Jan 2003

Building Teacher Quality (Conference Proceedings), Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

2003 - Building Teacher Quality: What does the research tell us?

Research Conference 2003 brings together key researchers, policy makers and practitioners from a broad range of educational contexts from around Australia and overseas. The conference aims to enhance understanding of the significance of building teacher quality and strengthening the provision of learning opportunities for students, and identifying ways in which this work can best be informed by research. The conference will provide a ‘state-of-the-art’ review of: • research on improving teacher education, teacher quality and recruitment; • evidence of the effects of initial teacher education, induction and teacher professional development on teacher quality; • the major directions in which Australian …

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Pisa 2003 Australia Student, Achievement And School Data [Spss] [Data Set], Sue Thomson, Lisa De Bortoli, John Cresswell Jan 2003

Pisa 2003 Australia Student, Achievement And School Data [Spss] [Data Set], Sue Thomson, Lisa De Bortoli, John Cresswell

OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Australia

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Optimism And Pessimism In Children, Shirley M. Yates Jan 2003

Optimism And Pessimism In Children, Shirley M. Yates

Shannon Research Press

Areas of learning where performance is measured through systematic and responsible assessment can contribute to the conceptualisation and valuing of art education through the provision of evidence of learning and development of artistic skills. There is a need for measurement to be undertaken in assessment in art production, on the basis of a shared symbol system, that allows for detailed classifications of visual art works. The aim of this study was to improve validity, reliability and credibility in measuring student performance in art production, and thereby increase the positive impact of assessment in the visual arts discipline.

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The Importance Of Teacher Quality As A Key Determinant Of Students’ Experiences And Outcomes Of Schooling, Ken Rowe Jan 2003

The Importance Of Teacher Quality As A Key Determinant Of Students’ Experiences And Outcomes Of Schooling, Ken Rowe

2003 - Building Teacher Quality: What does the research tell us?

Much of the traditional and prevailing dogmas surrounding factors affecting students' experiences and outcomes of schooling throughout their primary and secondary years - especially socio-cultural and socio-economic factors - are now understood to be products of methodological and statistical artefact, and amount to little more than religious adherence to the moribund ideologies of biological and social determinism. In this paper, key findings are presented highlighting real effects from recent and emerging local and international research on educational effectiveness. For example, whereas students' literacy skills, general academic achievements, attitudes, behaviours and experiences of schooling are influenced by the background and intake …

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Lessons From The Third International Mathematics And Science Study, Sue Thomson, Jan Lokan, Lamb Stephen, John Ainley Jan 2003

Lessons From The Third International Mathematics And Science Study, Sue Thomson, Jan Lokan, Lamb Stephen, John Ainley

TIMSS Australia Monograph Series

TIMSS – the Third International Mathematics and Science Study – was a massive international project. Internationally, more than half a million students from over 30 000 classes in more than 15 000 schools in 45 countries participated. In Australia, the sample consisted of more than 29 000 students at three grade levels. This report is based on data obtained from the younger two cohorts: those at grade 4/5 (approximately 12 500 students) and those at grade 8/9 level (approximately 14 500 students). Its focus is on understanding the factors that influence achievement in mathematics and science.

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Evaluating The Quality And Impact Of Professional Development Programs, Lawrence Ingvarson, Marion Meiers, Adrian Beavis Jan 2003

Evaluating The Quality And Impact Of Professional Development Programs, Lawrence Ingvarson, Marion Meiers, Adrian Beavis

Professional learning for teachers and school leaders

The purpose of this paper is to review recent work that ACER has been doing to improve the usefulness of evaluations of professional development programs. This work includes the development of research-based instruments to measure: the nature and quality of the processes used to promote teacher learning; the impact of programs on teacher knowledge, practice and student outcomes; the relationships between these process and impact measures. The paper is based on approaches developed as part of four recent evaluations of professional development programs. These include: three evaluations of the Commonwealth Government’s Quality Teacher Program, as implemented in three separate states: …

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Quality Of Professional Learning Index: Measure Of Outcomes Of Professional Development, Lawrence C. Ingvarson Jan 2003

Quality Of Professional Learning Index: Measure Of Outcomes Of Professional Development, Lawrence C. Ingvarson

Professional learning for teachers and school leaders

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Engaging Secondary School Students In Lifelong Learning, Jennifer Bryce, Graeme Withers Jan 2003

Engaging Secondary School Students In Lifelong Learning, Jennifer Bryce, Graeme Withers

Indigenous Education Research

A 'lifelong learning' orientation to education is seen as vital if young people are to thrive in the knowledge rich, constantly changing world of today and the immediate future. This study identifies ways that the foundations for lifelong learning can be built in secondary schools. 'Lifelong learning' is interpreted as engaging people with learning throughout all stages of their lives. Lifelong learning at secondary school level is concerned with keeping students engaged in learning, and developing in those students the characteristics that will make learning an integral and valued part of their lives when they leave school. Thus the report …

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Annual Report 2003 Australian College Of Educators, Australian College Of Educators Jan 2003

Annual Report 2003 Australian College Of Educators, Australian College Of Educators

Australian College of Educators - National

No abstract provided.

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Impact Of School Libraries On Student Achievement: A Review Of The Research, Michele Lonsdale Jan 2003

Impact Of School Libraries On Student Achievement: A Review Of The Research, Michele Lonsdale

School and system improvement

This literature review was undertaken on behalf of the Australian School Library Association (ASLA). It was conducted over a four-week period in November–December 2002. The main purpose of the review was to report on the nature and extent of the evidence that has linked school libraries to student achievement from 1990 - 2002, to identify the strengths and gaps in existing data as it might relate to an Australian setting, and to suggest some strategies for developing further research in Australia.

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Pisa 2003 Australia Student, Achievement And School Data [Sas] [Data Set], Sue Thomson, Lisa De Bortoli, John Cresswell Jan 2003

Pisa 2003 Australia Student, Achievement And School Data [Sas] [Data Set], Sue Thomson, Lisa De Bortoli, John Cresswell

OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Australia

No abstract provided.

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A Good Start To Numeracy : Effective Numeracy Strategies From Research And Practice In Early Childhood, Brian Doig, Barry Mcrae, Ken Rowe Jan 2003

A Good Start To Numeracy : Effective Numeracy Strategies From Research And Practice In Early Childhood, Brian Doig, Barry Mcrae, Ken Rowe

Student learning processes

The Commonwealth-funded Project Good Start was a longitudinal study of children during their year before school and the first year of school, involving preschool centres and schools across Australia. It considered the questions: how can effective numeracy programs be identified at both year-before-school and the early years of school; and what constitutes evidence of effectiveness. This report provides a review of the international and Australian research literature on numeracy in early childhood that complements the Department of Education, Science and Training’s major review of the numeracy literature undertaken by Deakin University. It is designed to provide early childhood professionals and …

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Acer 2002-2003 Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Jan 2003

Acer 2002-2003 Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

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Evaluation Of The University Of Canberra Programme For Advanced Literacy Development Scaffolding Literacy Programme With Indigenous Children In School, John Cresswell, Catherine Underwood, Graeme Withers, Isabelle Adams Dec 2002

Evaluation Of The University Of Canberra Programme For Advanced Literacy Development Scaffolding Literacy Programme With Indigenous Children In School, John Cresswell, Catherine Underwood, Graeme Withers, Isabelle Adams

Indigenous Education Research

This evaluation was created from the records of interviews with the principals and teachers and others involved in the Scaffolding Literacy Programme and is, therefore, a summary document of all the data collected by the three researchers at ACER and the sub-contractor in Western Australia, with an interpretation of the observations in terms of the guidelines set out in the contract.

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Diversity And Learning In The Early Years Of School, Tracey Frigo, Isabelle Adams Dec 2002

Diversity And Learning In The Early Years Of School, Tracey Frigo, Isabelle Adams

Indigenous Education Research

This paper reports on a longitudinal study being conducted by Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and a team of Aboriginal consultants in thirteen schools across Australia, which is following the progress of a group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in their early years of schooling. The data collected includes measures of early literacy and numeracy, complemented by qualitative data gathered through interviews, questionnaires and observation. The paper describes the diverse learning environments experienced by this group of children, and the many ways that schools and teachers are attempting to maximise effective learning environments for these children in …

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The Estimation Of Polytomous Item Response Models With Many Dimensions, Nikolai Volodin, Ray J. Adams Dec 2002

The Estimation Of Polytomous Item Response Models With Many Dimensions, Nikolai Volodin, Ray J. Adams

Assessment and Reporting

Identification conditions and an improved estimation method for a D-dimensional mixed coefficients multinomial logit model are discussed. This model is a generalisation of the Adams and Wilson (1997) random coefficients multinomial logit and it can be used to fit multdimensional forms of a wide range of Rasch measurement models. The computational demands of the numerical integration required in fitting such models have limited previous implementations to three and perhaps four-dimensional problems (Glas, 1992; Adams, Wilson and Wang, 1997). This paper illustrates a Monte Carlo integration method that permits the estimation of models with much higher dimensionality. The example in …

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Lsay Cohort Report The Year 9 Class Of 1998 In 2001: Education, Employment And Interests, Sheldon Rothman Nov 2002

Lsay Cohort Report The Year 9 Class Of 1998 In 2001: Education, Employment And Interests, Sheldon Rothman

LSAY Cohort Reports

This is the third in a series of annual reports on the activities of the Year 9 class of 1998 in the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) project during the previous year. It provides details of the experiences of the cohort in 2001 and, when used with previous Cohort Reports for 1999 and 2000, can be used to monitor annual changes within the cohort.

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Achievement In Literacy And Numeracy By Australian 14 Year-Olds, 1975-1998, Sheldon Rothman Nov 2002

Achievement In Literacy And Numeracy By Australian 14 Year-Olds, 1975-1998, Sheldon Rothman

LSAY Research Reports

This LSAY research report examines student achievement scores on tests of reading comprehension and mathematics from five studies conducted between 1975 and 1998. The data are from five studies involving young people in Australian schools: the Australian Studies in School Performance in 1975, the Australian Studies of Student Performance in 1980, the 1989 Youth in Transition study and the 1995 and 1998 Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth studies. The report examines literacy and numeracy trends for all students and for smaller groups of students, with results reported by gender, language background, socioeconomic status and location. Multivariate analyses examine how influences …

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Vocational Education And Training : Participation, Achievement And Pathways., Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Sep 2002

Vocational Education And Training : Participation, Achievement And Pathways., Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Briefing Reports

This paper looks at some of the findings from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) on participation in vocational education and training (VET) in schools programs, pathways that are associated with these programs, and ways in which students who do not complete Year 12 can be helped by VET courses beyond the school.

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