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Factors Influencing Youth Unemployment In Australia: 1980- 1994., Gary Marks, Nicole Fleming

LSAY Research Reports

Examines unemployment amongst Australian youth between 1980 and 1994. Factors associated with employment levels are discussed including demographic factors, educational achievement and economic indicators.

Acer Newsletter No. 93 Spring 1998, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Newsletter archive 1969-1999

No abstract provided.

Products: Assessment Resource Kit, Margaret Forster, Geoff N. Masters

Assessment Resource Kit

Products are items which students make, usually in technology and the visual arts. Examples include items of food and clothing, pieces of artwork (drawings, paintings, sculptures) and articles made of wood, metal, plastics and ceramics. Product assessment is the assessment of students' mastery of the processes and tools required to make products (for example, design and production processes) and the assessment of the practical and/ or aesthetic qualities of the items students make. This is a guide to assessing student products in the technology and visual arts curriculum. It is an issue in the Assessment Resource Kit (ARK) magazine series …

Schools In Australia: 1973-1998 The 25 Years Since The Karmel Report (Conference Proceedings), Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

1998 - Schools in Australia: 1973-1998 The 25 years since the Karmel Report

The conference was organised by the Australian Council for Educational Research to honour Professor Peter Karmel in his concluding year as Chair of the ACER Council and Board of Directors. The Commonwealth Government became involved with school education in Australia in a new and major way with the establishment of the Australian Schools Commission in 1973. Professor Karmel was Chair of the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission which presented its influential report, Schools in Australia, in 1973. This conference examines developments in schooling in Australia since then.

The School To Work Transition Of Indigenous Australians: A Review Of The Literature And Statistical Analysis, Michael Long, Tracey Frigo, Margaret Batten

Indigenous Education Research

This report was commissioned by the Task Force on School to Work Transition for Indigenous Australians in the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs. The Task Force was established to examine issues of access to Departmental programs and services for young Indigenous people moving from school to work and to consider ways in which programs and polices could be enhanced to assist clients in overcoming barriers to education and employment. The report describes the current situation in terms of the pathways for Indigenous young people and their participation in relevant DEETYA programs. The report identifies barriers to successful …

Acer Newsletter No. 92 Winter 1998, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Newsletter archive 1969-1999

Investigating literacy and numeracy growth in the primary school years LLANS project - Barry McGaw leaves ACER for OECD - Who are our tertiary students? - Maths and science study repeat for lower secondary students - Third International Mathematics and Science Study-Repeat (TIMSS-R). Politicising the standards debate (McGaw).

What's The Point? Political Attitudes Of Victorian Year 11 Students, Suzanne Mellor

ACER Research Monographs

Examines the civic and political attitudes of young Australians. The study uses as its basis a study by the internationally recognised American researcher Caroline Hahn, who spent ten years investigating the political attitudes of students in the United States, England, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. The author examines students' attitudes on classroom climate, political experience and interest, political trust, efficacy and confidence as well as equal political rights for women, free expression and civic rights. By using a modified Hahn questionnaire, the author is able to compare Victorian and overseas students. The picture that emerges of our students' political attitudes …

Lifelong Learning As A Policy Response, Phillip Mckenzie

Centre for the Economics of Education & Training (CEET)

This paper attempts to identify the major elements of a lifelong learning framework, and the policy priorities if its aims are to be realised. In doing so, it comments on the progress that Australia has already made in this regard.

Acer 1997-1998, 68th Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

Contents: Valuing Educational Research, Research highlights, Benchmarking against the world, Social development, Indigenous education, Cambodia exams, Selecting tomorrow's doctors, Assessing reasoning skills, Celebrating language learning, Monitoring standards in education, Education index online

Codebook: The Lsay 1995 Year 9 Sample Wave 2 (1996), Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Acer Newsletter No. 88 Autumn 1997, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Newsletter archive 1969-1999

No abstract provided.

Overview Of The Longitudinal Surveys Of Australian Youth Program 1996, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Technical Reports

The Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) program brings together two existing, long-established projects, ACER’s Youth in Transition and DEETYA’s Australian Youth Survey. The origins and extent of these two projects are described in the following pages. While contact with the AYS cohort is due to finish in 1997, it is hoped to continue to survey members of the Youth in Transtion 1975 birth cohort up to at least age 25. In addition, a new program of surveys of students progressing through school and into postschool education and the labour force was established in 1995. New cohorts of Year 9 …

School Achievement And Initial Education And Labour Market Outcomes, Stephen Lamb

LSAY Research Reports

This report looks at the relationships between literacy and numeracy achievement in junior secondary school and a range of education, training and labour market outcomes at age nineteen. It pays particular attention to the education and labour market effects of differences in literacy and numeracy skills.

The 1965 Cohort Questionnaires: 1975, 1981-1995, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

The 1970 Cohort Questionnaires: 1980, 1985-1994, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

The 1975 Cohort Questionnaires: 1989-1996, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Acer Newsletter No. 90 Spring 1997, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Newsletter archive 1969-1999

No abstract provided.

The 1961 Cohort Questionnaires: 1975, 1978-1994, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

The Australian Youth Survey Description Technical Paper No. 7, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Technical Reports

The Australian Youth Survey (AYS) is a major longitudinal survey of young Australians set up to provide policy-relevant information on young people's education and training pathways as well as their access to and success in the Australian labour market. The survey follows a nationally representative group of young people aged 16 to 19, with the initial cohort of approximately 5350 young people interviewed for the first time in 1989. Since then the sample has been interviewed annually on a wide range of topics including school experiences, school-to-work transition, labour market experiences, post-school education and training, income, health, housing and job …

Reading Comprehension And Numeracy Among Junior Secondary School Students In Australia, Gary Marks, John Ainley

LSAY Research Reports

This report examines the performance, and levels of mastery, on tests of reading comprehension and numeracy of Australian students in junior secondary school between 1975 and 1995. Data for the analyses reported were drawn from two national monitoring studies and other studies of representative samples of junior secondary school students designed to monitor the progress of young people through school into further education, training and work. In each of the studies students completed tests that are similar to those conducted in the Australian states and territories and overseas to monitor student performance. The tests focussed on reading skills (which correlate …

Codebook: The Lsay 1995 Year 9 Sample Wave 1 (1995) Technical Paper No. 9, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Technical Reports

The surveys focus on the education and labour market experiences of groups of young Australians, beginning from their middle years of secondary schooling. Data collected include basic demographic variables, as well as information about educational and labour force participation and experiences extending over a number of years. The present form of the LSAY program commenced in 1995 with a national sample of Year 9 students. The program also brings together earlier longitudinal studies conducted by ACER under the Youth in Transition (YIT) program, and by the Commonwealth under the Australian Longitudinal Survey (ALS) and Australian Youth Survey (AYS) programs. The …

Acer Newsletter No. 89 Winter 1997, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Newsletter archive 1969-1999

No abstract provided.

Mapping Literacy Achievement: Results Of The 1996 National School English Literacy Survey: Incorporating A Report On The Survey Principles, Procedures And Findings, Geoff N. Masters, Margaret Forster

Monitoring Learning

The national school English literacy survey conducted in 1996 provides the most comprehensive picture yet developed of the literacy achievements of Year 3 and Year 5 students in Australian schools. The most significant finding of the survey is the wide range of literacy achievement among Australian children. The top ten per cent of students in each year are working about five year levels ahead of the bottom ten per cent. This range indicates the complexity of the teacher's task in providing appropriate learning opportunities for all students, and the need for schools to reflect on the implications of this range …

Literacy Standards In Australia, Geoff N. Masters, Margaret Forster

Monitoring Learning

This publication reports the percentages of year 3 and year 5 students meeting clear performance standards in reading and writing based on the 1996 National School English Literacy Survey. The performance standards described and illustrated in this report are informed by work to develop 'benchmarks' in literacy and numeracy under the direction of the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs. Examples of survey assessment tasks and student work samples are provided to illustrate performance standards for year 3 and year 5 students.

Acer 1996-1997, 67th Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

This annual report for 1996-97 begins with ACER's Role and Structure, presenting ACER's guiding values, commitments, and goals, and discussing the origin and development of ACER, professional services, and organization and staffing. The report's other sections are: Highlights of the Year for ACER (Research and Development; Organizational Developments; Staff Activities); Director's Comment: Politicizing the Standards Debate; Measurement Division; Policy Research Division; International Development Division; ACER Press (Product Development; Publishing; Marketing and Customer Service); Corporate Services Division (The Cunningham Library; Computer Services; Personnel Services; Equal Opportunity Committee); Staff Publications and Professional Activities (Staff Publications; Staff Professional Activities outside ACER); Financial Report …

The Mayer Key Competencies And Arts Education, Jennifer Bryce, Adrian Harvey-Beavis, Joan Livermore, John O'Toole

Lifelong learning

This report Is the major outcome of the project Evaluating the Key Competencies In the Arts conducted by the National Affiliation of Arts Educators (NAAE) and the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) on behalf of the Commonwealth Department of Employment and Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DEETYA). The report uses the voices of arts teachers to show how the key competencies may have a generic function across the five arts areas and to explain how the construct of 'competency' makes sense In the arts field. Information on the use of the Mayer key competencies was collected from teachers in …

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)

ACER Newsletter archive 1969-1999

No abstract provided.

Reading And Numeracy Achievement Tests: 1975-1995 Technical Paper No. 1, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Technical Reports

This document contains the following tests:

Australian Studies in School Performance 1975 Reading Test

Australian Studies in School Performance 1975 Numeracy Test

Australian Studies in Student Performance 1980 Reading Test

Australian Studies in Student Performance 1980 Numeracy Test

Youth in Transition/ Australian Youth Survey 1989 Reading Test

Youth in Transition/ Australian Youth Survey 1989 Numeracy Test

Australian Youth Survey 1990 Reading Test

Australian Youth Survey 1990 Numeracy Test

Australian Youth Survey 1991 Reading Test

Australian Youth Survey 1991 Numeracy Test

Australian Youth Survey 1992 Reading Test

Australian Youth Survey 1992 Numeracy Test

Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth 1995 Reading Test …

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 …