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Australia As A Literate Nation: From Australia's Language To The National Literacy And Numeracy Plan, Perspectives On National Literacy Initiatives In The 1990s, Marion Meiers Dec 1996

Australia As A Literate Nation: From Australia's Language To The National Literacy And Numeracy Plan, Perspectives On National Literacy Initiatives In The 1990s, Marion Meiers

Marion Meiers

The author provides a sensitive and detailed analysis of policy initiatives stretching from Australia's Language to the National Literacy and Numeracy Plan. Given the richness of research and curriculum development over the past decade, the author argues that we are entitled to feel reasonably optimistic about Australia's future as a literate nation.

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Lifelong Learning And Employability, Phil Mckenzie, Gregory Wurzburg Dec 1996

Lifelong Learning And Employability, Phil Mckenzie, Gregory Wurzburg

Dr Phillip McKenzie

'Lifelong employability' — the capacity to be productive and to hold rewarding jobs over one's working life — is no longer guaranteed by the education and training received in childhoodand youth. The continuous structural changes affecting all OECD economies have increased the importance of up-to-dateskills and competences. Responding to this requirement calls for the development of effective strategies for lifelong learning.

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Multilevel Item Response Models: An Approach To Errors In Variables Regression, Ray Adams, M Wilson, Margaret Wu Dec 1996

Multilevel Item Response Models: An Approach To Errors In Variables Regression, Ray Adams, M Wilson, Margaret Wu

Prof Ray Adams

In this article the authors show how certain analytic problems that arise when one attempts to use latent variables as outcomes in regression analyses can be addressed by taking a multilevel perspective on item response modelling.

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A Study Of Principals' Interpersonal Behaviour And School Environment, John Cresswell Dec 1996

A Study Of Principals' Interpersonal Behaviour And School Environment, John Cresswell

Dr John Cresswell

This thesis describes a research study that investigated associations between teachers' perceptions of principals' interpersonal behaviour and psychosocial environments of secondary schools in Australia. In the past 25 years, much attention has been given to the development and use of instruments to assess the qualities of the classroom and school environment from the perspectives of students and teachers. A new instrument (the Principal Interaction Questionnaire) was developed and validated to measure principals' interpersonal behaviour as perceived by their teachers. The instrument was developed from the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction. The teachers' perceptions of the school environments are assessed by the …

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Country Note: Czech Republic: Report To The Czech Government And The Oecd Arising From The Transition Review Visit, May 1997, Phil Mckenzie, Marianne Durand-Drouhin, Niels Hummeluhr, Gregor Ramsey Dec 1996

Country Note: Czech Republic: Report To The Czech Government And The Oecd Arising From The Transition Review Visit, May 1997, Phil Mckenzie, Marianne Durand-Drouhin, Niels Hummeluhr, Gregor Ramsey

Dr Phillip McKenzie

No abstract provided.

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Ngf And Neurotrophin-3 Both Activate Trka On Sympathetic Neurons But Differentially Regulate Survival And Neuritogenesis, Daniel Belliveau, I. Krivko, C. Lachance, J. Kohn, D. Rusakov, D. Kaplan, F. Miller Dec 1996

Ngf And Neurotrophin-3 Both Activate Trka On Sympathetic Neurons But Differentially Regulate Survival And Neuritogenesis, Daniel Belliveau, I. Krivko, C. Lachance, J. Kohn, D. Rusakov, D. Kaplan, F. Miller

Daniel J. Belliveau

In this report we examine the biological and molecular basis of the control of sympathetic neuron differentiation and survival by NGF and neurotrophin-3 (NT-3). NT-3 is as efficient as NGF in mediating neuritogenesis and expression of growth-associated genes in NGF-dependent sympathetic neurons, but it is 20-40-fold less efficient in supporting their survival. Both NT-3 and NGF induce similar sustained, long-term activation of TrkA, while NGF is 10-fold more efficient than NT-3 in mediating acute, short-term TrkA activity. At similar acute levels of TrkA activation, NT-3 still mediates neuronal survival two- to threefold less well than NGF. However, a mutant NT-3 …

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Bias In Weighted Likelihood Estimation When Using The Rasch Model, D Roberts, Ray Adams Dec 1996

Bias In Weighted Likelihood Estimation When Using The Rasch Model, D Roberts, Ray Adams

Prof Ray Adams

There are three methods of maximum likelihood estimation that are commonly used with Rasch item response models: Joint maximum likelihood, which provides point estimates for both person and item parameters; conditional maximum likelihood, which produces estimates for the item parameters only, and marginal maximum likelihood, which produces estimates of the item parameters and parameters of the distribution from which it has been assumed that the persons have been sampled. A number of approaches have been suggested for obtaining ability estimates for subsequent use in reporting or analysis when either conditional or marginal methods have been used to obtain the item …

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Multilevel Latent Variable Modeling In Multiple Populations, Siek Khoo, B Muthén, J Gustafsson Dec 1996

Multilevel Latent Variable Modeling In Multiple Populations, Siek Khoo, B Muthén, J Gustafsson

Dr Siek Toon Khoo

Modeling is described for the simultaneous analysis of two-level data in several populations. A typical example is cluster sampling of students within schools, where schools of different types are represented, eg public and private schools. Multivariate measurements on each student are assumed to give rise to a latent variable model. Of interest is to study across-population differences and similarities with respect to the within- and between-group covariance matrices and with respect to the mean vector. The methodology is illustrated by a comparative analysis of achievement structures in Catholic and public schools.

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Lifelong Learning To Maintain Employability, Phil Mckenzie Dec 1996

Lifelong Learning To Maintain Employability, Phil Mckenzie

Dr Phillip McKenzie

The paper discusses (i) evidence on the importance of human capital and lifelong learning for labour market outcomes; (ii) the barriers to lifelong learning that can arise in the transition from initial education to work; (iii) major features of the situation of poorly qualified adults and the barriers to lifelong learning that they face; and (iv) the role that Labour Ministers and labour market policies can play in facilitating lifelong learning.

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